Whither the Big Figure?

If you’re in Birmingham then the big question is whether the (scab/private contractor etc.) bin men will turn up this week or not.

I’m getting someone coming through Bonnie….a John or….Jim…did you know a Jim? You did. He says he’s fine and the royalties are…..no he’s gone again.

The Wiim Pro (Xmas present for – cough – the whole family) is a fantastic piece of kit @pencilsqueezer, putting Spotify, Amazon Music, Soundcloud etc. and BBC radio onto my very much analogue JBL Control Ones […]

Sadly @pencilsqueezer the family sub on Spotify is massively used by all moles. I also do use the audiobooks on the commute. Thus preventing any switching on quality/ethics grounds. Son will also not hear about […]

Xmas present was a wiim pro and that supports Spotify lossless

Saw them at the H and H – excellent.

And here are those that for many many reasons I listened to but did not make the list. Absolutely not Album of the Year Can we have a 2026 free of the Swift Industrial Zone please. Life of A Showgirl by […]

Always amazed by those who have their twenty ready to go. After exhaustive re-listening I am finally confident these are, for me, the best twenty albums of the year. Less confident that the Mogwai album is one […]

For those of a certain age she will however be remembered more for ushering in the nineties and one of the all time great TOTP ‘shock of the new’ appearances.

I am slowly, very slowly, turning my thoughts on my stuff – books and music – away from ‘this is all the music I will ever like or need’ (to which the answer is always just one more) to ‘this is all the music I […]

I think that if you say to a charity shop ‘ would you like a thousand books?’ the answer can be no, but if you bring them in 50 at a time they are much more ready to accept. Absolutely the time/reward equation of […]

Here’s every cliche about the Floyd in some vaguely rhythmical lines – will this do?

I passed on my parents sizeable library to the local Oxfam in about twenty rucksack loads. Many no doubt pulped but they always took them. I did a pre sort but the vast majority they took.

Private Eye had a spoof of this and like the end of animal farm I looked from one to the other and it was hard to tell the difference. I’m hoping Armitage got a truckload of cash for this as what other e […]

Only one from me: 1. Sharp Pins – Radio DDR. This was first released as a home cassette in 2024 I have just found out and thus its first widespread release this year is technically a re-release? There’s a […]

@tiggerlion Remember seeing Martin Fry and Morrissey in The Gay Traitor. What a bizarre place it was. There was a baked beans and potato cafe at One point.

The Commitments was massive in bringing soul classics back to a younger audience. The first soundtrack album went triple platinum.

Why would that be exactly? We generally thread anytime there’s a music story in the wider news. Eurovision is an annual Aword staple. Clearly there’ll be some wanting Israel in, some out etc and we usually hol […]

Factual correction: currently out are Slovenia, Spain, Netherlands and Ireland.