Some really great moments there but now and then Bob’s singing is horrendously off.

I used to often cycle to my secondary school in the warmer, lighter, drier months. More scope for getting up to things on the way home with my cyclist fellow-pupils.

If it’s someone who’s done something worthy of abuse I will give it if I feel safe. i.e. won’t get stabbed or beaten up. Because there appear to be more uptight violent cunts behind steering wheels these days, I […]

I’ve visited Sheffield a few times. Not posh parts but not rough either. I liked what I saw of it. People I met were friendly, more so than where I live probably, just north of That London.

I’m pretty happy where […]

Suprisingly, I’ve read 9 of them. From the more populist selections. In that list is one I’ve been meaning for ages to get a copy of but keep forgetting. At least one of my selections probably shouldn’t be in […]

Songs of Separation was an album project from 2016 where 10 British female folk musicians got together on the isle of Eigg off the western coast of Scotland and recorded some songs over the course of a week.
This […]

Maybe we should adopt that as a general AW greeting.

Svalbard, my friends!

A friend plays bass in a four-piece ’60s-’70s cover band. At their pub gig on Friday night a teenage girl was dancing like a loon and singing along to “Gimme Some Lovin'”, “Brown-Eyed Girl”, “I’m A Believer”, “You […]

He wasn’t required to project much in the way of personality during his playing career, so he didn’t.
Since retirement he’s proven to be a pleasant rather droll chap. I think I’d rather go for a beer with him […]

The latest Uncut cover CD is all Wilco covers, recorded by their friends at their invitation in their studio. Haven’t played it yet.

Jimmy Page’s scowly mug is on the mag’s cover, mind.

The fact that the families who have the wherewithal to choose shun the “substandard” schools for their kids education tends to reinforce and perpetuate the low standing of those schools.
Having said that, I’m […]

Around here they tend to blitz particular schools where it is worst for about a week at a time or maybe two. It gets the desired result for a while, but it’s never very long till they start doing it again.
Never […]

A guy was stabbed to death after a car crash a few miles from here, three weeks ago. Four young guys charged with murder.

I take a good look at who it is before I start abusing anyone these days.
About 5 years […]

I found the Welsh mostly OK when I lived there (West Wales) in the ’70s-’80s. Of course there are a minority who are just plain hostile but you need to accept that with a language and existing culture of their own […]

When I lived in West Wales, it was common in some villages for the 2nd generation of long-term residents who’d moved from elsewhere to still be regarded as incomers. Especially English-origin people of course, but […]

Having a discussion about this with an old friend last night. He owns a ground-floor flat in Harrow, mortgage completely paid, and was thinking, now that he’s retired (apart from his musical endeavours), about […]

Is that the retail price too?
Ding! It’s a hit!

15 shillings for “The Rock Machine Turns You On” if memory serves.
{reverie}Those were the days.{/reverie}

This is a bit of it from the filmed footage.

(Dupree’s Paradise)

“Piquantique” is a particularly good one from the “Beat the Boots” series. Frank Zappa, George Duke, Jean-Luc Ponty, Ian Underwood, Ruth Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler & Ralph Humphrey.
An all-instrumental […]