Well James Booker wasn’t noted for his pp.

Me too. Wikipedia agrees with you, though it’s quite hard to hear a piano.

I was working with him on his book in the 90s when he went off to Sarajevo on one of his regular conflict gynie trips, which involved arriving precipitously in a Hercules for fear of missiles..
‘Keep your head […]

Harry Connick Jr was taught piano by the man Dr John called “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced”, James Booker. Booker came to the attention of Harry Connick Sr, the […]

Upbeat and comforting without being completely brainless is rare enough these days to make it stand out without any other virtues it may or may not have.

Have you seen The Hunt for a Killer? Jeez…

This is good advice, I knocked off Ted Lasso in 3 evenings. Although if you’re like me you’ll probably forget to cancel.

I gave Foundation a whirl last night, and after about 10 minutes it began to seem like a life sentence.

Excellent! Would have loved to be there. I’ve never seen Albert solo, but I was at the Everly Brothers reunion, which was a pretty memorable night.

I’ve just finished bingeing on both seasons, having been late to the party. Absolutely loved it. But I did get a bit restless in Season 2 at the lack of actual football, without ever feeling remotely like bailing. […]

The New Economic Model. I’ve been a regular member of the misunderstood, but never the Misunderstood.

Unusually, it wasn’t Moose who woke this thread up but Fitterstoke, who asked Moose how he was getting on with his VDGG project. Not well, apparently.

He was already extremely good back in 1966 – more than made up for the shortcoming of everybody else in the band…

I’d like to apologise to everybody for kicking off this umlaut sub-thread. It was just a whimsical riff on @slug‘s comment, that’s all…

Can’t believe I let this whole thread go by without mentioning that I was in a band with Guy Evans at Warwick, although I’ve no doubt mentioned it elsewhere. On the strength of that I bought the first single (went […]

I’m listening to Feet Start Dancin’ (no.20), which hasn’t stuck in my mind as much as some of the others. I know I owned it, but don’t remember ever listening to it. Amazing collection of absolute bangers! Eg…

He had the grace to leave the umlaut off.

Let us absolutely not.

Ritter Sport dark choc and marzipan used to be a fave, but I got into the habit of eating the whole thing in one go, so no more…

I don’t eat much chocolate, but when I do I like it to be Lindt Dark Chilli or Sea Salt. That does me nicely. Aldi dark is ok too.

What I do object to, however, is the sort of right-on solid cacao lumps you […]

Yes they are…brilliant! 🙂