Really sad news. Like many above I met Phil at a couple of mingles, and he was a lovely fellow, easy to talk to, funny and really good company. RIP.

This for me. Remember watching it when it was first shown on tv (probably a bit too young) – the whole title sequence is simple but brilliant, and it’s made by the music.

Not my favourite on the album – but I put that down to my tape (yes, I bought it on tape) being a bit wonky, so it always sounded like it was about to be chewed up by my tape player. I used to skip through it […]

Severed Seat of Bri

Ha ha! I’ve always wanted to phone up the Madrid branch of a well known insurance company, the UK arm of which was Norfolk based just to see if the phone is answered with

“Aviva Espana?”

(sorry, couldn’t […]

Well there’s this, which is absolutely marvellous (and probably very well known, but sometimes the better known tracks need to be posted). Probably more R&B than plain old hip-hop, but worthy of a place here nonetheless:

“British Standards” reminds me of doing an Engineering degree. Part of the first year course was technical drawing which was great fun, but it was all assessed by a tutor who was a stickler for the British […]

Manics are a bit marmitey on here – but the Holy Bible is a hell of a third album.

Just in case, I’ll put this here…

“Hi I’m Johnny Knoxville, and I’m exposing myself to Coronavirus…”

Em-purr-or Rosko?

The male/female thing is the other way round this year, but next year they should make T “Thorgerson”

Take it you’ve seen the rehearsal footage too?

One of the places I’ve heard quite a few records without the vocal (although I suspect they’re just mixes of the instrumental parts of each song rather than a complete recorded version) is on the goal packages on […]

Pop fact – Shirley Bassey sang the theme to Moonraker, but it was originally offered to Johnny Mathis (and was written with Frank Sinatra in mind). As terrific a voice as the WACIBHM has (and certainly had) I’m […]

I think the difference is you can cook a Fray Bentos pie from when the oven is cold. For a Frey Bentos you have to wait till the Heat is On.

How about a discussion of the best detective dramas – a plodcast? Or the works of the great Derek Griffiths- a Bodcast?

A podcast on podcasts would be excellent – there are so many out there (I listen to 4 or 5 regularly and that’s about all I can manage!) that it can be overwhelming.

I’ve just started listening to one of the AW […]

Is it a new phenomenon though? The cover below popped up on a 1988 TOTP I watched the other day, and it’s as limp and uninspiring as any of the stuff JL use on their Christmas adverts. Bomb the Bass have done […]

That’s the second thing I’ve seen in as many days that can be sung to the music from “Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles”. There’s a Twitter feed that sends these out from Wikipedia…