all very well having no cash until the taxi drivers little square box won’t work – as happened to me at midnight a few weeks ago. Had to be driven to a cash point on the high st to get some funds

Sadly just can’t watch this year

Private Eye is read pretty religiously by all members of the household here. My mum was a lifelong subscriber – she used to say as a tax inspector she could find evidence for many of her cases in the back […]

Will be appearing on my end-of-year list.

Wonder Stuff replacing her at the folk festival

Son is doing a few Weeks as an invigilator at a local college – any tips for a first timer @ernietothecentreoftheearth ?

Looking forward to a culture weekend in the NW in July with friends: Fri the ai wei wei performance at factory (2 hrs of the 24); sat psbs at Lytham st Anne’s; Sun hiroshige prints at the Whitworth. Banging.

The Jam another famously ‘small in America’ band. I say this as a massive Jam fan, but the Americans were impervious to their charms.

Interesting to think who in 25 years who is a UK artist who is active now could be inducted. Harry Styles Sam Fender Olivia Dean Charli XCX Ed Sheeran ( a shoe-in) Coldpay (ditto) Arctic Monkeys Pulp? – I would […]

Tennis: Your feet should be in a line when you hit the ball facing up the court. Rafa Nadal could have his feet parallel to the baseline but the margin of error in this stance is way smaller than with the feet in […]

As part of our lower-league odyssey @bejesus we were at Chelts on Tuesday night for the 17th v 19th derby. The 90th largest league ground in the country. we learnt. Very entertaining match with a home turnaround […]

goddamn it, yes.

There was an excellent article about this on the pitchfork newsletter, prompting me today to have a dive back into their catalogue today. Yes, great to see them releasing music again.

At the risk of thread killing…. Richard Brautigan the sixties hippie literary star takes pretty much this approach in ‘Trout Fishing In America’. As well as several chapters covering, well exactly that, […]

Absolutely. Photos for me are a diary. But also – as my parents snaps were for me – a legacy for the kids. I get that family does change lots of things. They won’t look at them now, but they may want to when I’m […]

Better late than never @timtunes @salwarpe here is the full menu – apologies for the delay. Dead Can Dance – Return of the She-King Wailing woman, vaguely ethnic instruments, slow doomy rhythm section – the […]

Ah as an organiser have failed to do this. Physician heal thyself! Or at Least do your track listing.

similarly conflicted about the price vs want to see!

Never thought of Levi Stubbs as a contortionist before. Multitalented.