“Americana encompasses authentic American roots music of all colours..” ..but not blues or soul or jazz, which are a bit too black. There are some exceptions, but not very many. Americana is very predominately a […]

It’s a significant part of their business model to try and get you to pay for extra cloud storage. Google and Microsoft do it too. Emails and documents don’t take up all that much space, unless they have loads […]

Macca has form on both “Helter Skelter” and “Oh Darling”.

Some things I was thinking about just now. Does someone recording a gig from the audience and then making the recording available gratis affect an artist’s income? In almost all cases I think not. Can audience […]

It was Dolly’s TV production company Sandollar that was responsible (with partner companies) for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer film, TV series and spinoff series “Angel”.

None of the above observations mean necessarily that it is an unauthorized recording. I disagree that the Internet Archive “is pretty much Napster dressed up in library clothing”. Napster used to serve up […]

I have a fair few CDs that, last time I played them, had become bronzed. All of them still played, although that was a few years back. I stopped buying CDs from shops or online a few years back and recently […]

It’s not the product itself, it’s the Revival which is the fad. In my opinion.

Crumpets and Crumhorns. A winner if ever I saw (dreamed up) one.

I’m still of the opinion that the Vinyl revival is a fad. A long-lasting fad, mind you. This current CD revival is probably also a fad, though potentially one with more legs than the Vinyl one due to needing far […]

Surely there’d be a (vegan, artisanal) crumpet stall somewhere on site? Perhaps even a Crumpet Field.

Yes. I think for a lot of people of AW’s demographic, myself included, Glasto is not something they’d want to experience. Back in the ’80s our gang used to go every year. There were some bad things starting to […]

Need some woogie with your boogie, sir?

Great article/review, Tigger. A minor error nitpick: The “Barefootin'” original was by Robert Parker, not (not that one) Robert Palmer.

Are you implying that black and brown people don’t go to pubs, ernie? Not where I live. Most low/mid-wage working people I know pretty rarely go to cafes and restaurants. It used to be a thing for building trade […]

There’s a persistent Rick Bleato YouTube clip I don’t seem able to avoid, where Rick is griping about the state of modern music. Put a sock in it, I say. Given a good talkative subject, his clips can be […]

I’ve never watched “Live At The Apollo” but it’s obviously not a good thing that comedians will henceforth be more limited in their Television exposure opportunities. As for the other two shows in the OP […]

English expat percussionist, vibraphonist and pianist Victor Feldman is all over this album, as he is in quite a few ‘Dan album tracks from their debut and over the subsequent years. A very favoured ‘Dan […]