Absolutely not how am I going to get to sleep?

It is my go to for insomnia and love it to bits. I cue up 3 or 4 and Melvyn and guests sonorous tones gently through the pillow on behavioural ecology or the diet of worms send me off. Like Andrew Hickey IOT […]

Much tho I love the songs, if only Full Moon Fever had not been produced by Jeff Lynne… only Running Down A Dream really escapes his dead hand.

I have managed at last to get off the Weller train, suspect I have overbought and that Kind Revolution is the last one I will do, despite his importance to how I got into music 45 years ago. Mid-solo career […]

I have definitely overbought artists in the past. Nanci Griffith for example, recently saw a shrinkage: her very best is as good as anyone’s, but I have fallen out of love with a lot of the later part of her […]

Not sure I can narrow it down to specific albums but the following Teenage Fanclub Prefab Sprout Pet Shop Boys

Joni Mitchell is the immediate one that springs to mind. Having invested in the CDs I have persevered and each time I listen new ideas and moments are revealed. Not sure I would have done the same with streaming. […]

Sometimes the simplest are the ones people fall for. At work someone got my name off the company website and sent accounts ‘can you pay this today’ – my name on the email but a scam address. Accounts fell for it.

I had some underwhelming scam spam recently… Beloved Dear, You have been listed as a beneficiary for 2.5 EU

I will be in a minority in preferring flop 2nd album travelogue to Dare, inc the aforementioned Black Hit of Space

Just googled to check my memories, and the Hacienda gig was three weeks after This Charming Man came out. Still absolutely amazing.

First Concert The Jam at the Manchester Apollo 1980. 2. Last Concert Doves, Mercury Rev and err Fishermans Friends at Moseley Folk Fest yesterday 3. Worst Concert Hmmm split decision between Primal Scream in […]

in awe of @bingo-little. I manage parkrun and usually one other run a week, and an hour of fairly intense singles tennis. Building exercise into your everyday life is a great piece of advice – in my case cycling […]

You do have to start at the start as soon as many key writers producers and musicians recur.

Up to ep 46 here so still on 30-minute ones. Strictly rationed to one or two a week as the thought of catching up with him and having to wait for one to be made is terrible.

Have we got this far without cats?

oh go on another one

a true classic @black-type though over the 2 min bar, practically a mini play for today.

One more for now ‘Bibotelli’ – as a lifelong City fan always time for Mario: