I quite liked DB’s Tinydesk performance above, but faint praise is the best I can offer really. “Quite Liked” is just not enough for me. The material seems a bit weak in comparison to TH’s glory days. Those […]

Bernard Manning was a pretty horrible individual but I don’t recall him ever taunting jews about concentration camps and making hissing gas noises.

Whoever replaces her will be just as nasty and useless and will strike a deal with Reform if it gets them into government. Return of Boris, anyone? I suppose it’s possible that Farage will quit before the next GE. […]

Eurovision is a song contest, so yes it is a music story.

Both Spotify and Tidal subscriptions are no more chez Mike but I still have free accounts if I choose to log onto them. I’ve probably only logged onto Tidal a couple of times this year. To see if music I couldn’t […]

I haven’t watched Eurovision for many a year, so I don’t think that’s going to change for this next one. If I WAS interested in the contest and the kind of music performed in it, I’d be strongly in favour of […]

It’s blindingly obvious that if either of Kemi Badenoch’s Tories or Nigel Farage’s Reform can’t form a government by themselves at the next general election, they will either formally become a coalition or they’ll […]

OK. Tigger’s List for the unreleased oldies and Paul’s list for the freshly-minted. I have enough contenders for both.

A question: What’s the verdict on never-before-released historic recordings? In this here 2025 Releases list or in Tiggs’s forthcoming Archive & Historical list?

Sorry to say in that pic he looks like a garden gnome who’s lost his hat.

Not all Reform voters/Brexiteers are oldies. Plenty of building tradesmen, man-with-white-van traders, small shopkeepers and café proprietors, pub licensees, garage mechanics etc. -and the wives/partners of all […]

When ALL of the next generation down either have grey hair or have gone as bald as you have.

The hard Left are certainly as anti-EU as the hard Right, it’s true. TBF, there were things about the EU that I disliked when we were in it. Not enough to want us to leave, though.

Don’t agree it would be a good manifesto item. They should certainly move towards doing it, but antagonising the remaining Brexiteers will only encourage them to vote against it. I also think embarrassing the […]

Nah.. Heroin and Cocaine were the ’80s.

There is no good reason, it seems to me, that the state pension shouldn’t be treated as taxable income, if you’re in employment or deriving sufficient income from investments or savings. And yes, if you’re […]

As a retired person (I ceased work in 2016) reliant on state pension plus pension credit, housing benefit and full council tax exemption, this budget doesn’t appear to affect me at all. I’m glad the pension […]

The Cramps – Human Fly

There are some artists that, for some indefinable reason, never seem to come across as well in the studio as they do live. She’s definitely much more engaging live than on record, although the Silly Sisters duet […]

Very unsurprising AV+ didn’t take with the voting public. A very bad fudge that pleased nobody. The problem with current politics is that the centre has been obliterated. All the actors have become extreme in […]