TMR has been done – on Jack White’s Third Man Records

I too always knew it was going to be a good News Quiz when he was announced on the panel.

Half the time I had no idea what they were talking about (being on the other side of the world) but he and Sandy Toksvig […]

Peter Jackson is a control freak

So is Paul McCartney

Presumably they have sorted out some kind of agreement now, and I hope it ends up happily

“Fed into…” – you mean this was the source for the Lewishon book?

Peter Jackson making the new Let It Be film is pretty exciting IMHO. He’s a Beatles fanatic – when I worked with him all those years ago he had an impressive collection of bootleg LPs (including a couple of […]

Junior I can always tell your posts from the title!

What’s going on in the West Indies? Have they rediscovered their 80s mojo?

Meanwhile in Australia they finally picked a couple of younger players, including a promising bowler Jhye Richardson who took 3 wickets […]

Actually I, ahem, played with Chad in 1993 at a Zappa 10th anniversary since he died gig. Chad was living in Sydney then; he’s since relocated back to the US. and mainly does clinics and teaching

This lovely instrumental was (I think) the B side of Albatross

That is a wonderful record. A band at their peak. Listen to it!

They were the cats pyjamas when they started, hip as they come, but turned into a grinding Aussie pub band a la Cold Chisel and all the others.

Fun fact – lead singer Mark Seymour has a brother called Nick who […]

If you’re not familiar with Australia you’ll miss a few of the gags here but there’s enough totally obvious ones to make it worth a look. The visuals help too.

This was a deserved massive hit in the early 80s. […]

I think Nigel probably keeps the rent paid at Colin’s place

You win The Afterword

What he said. My first thought too!

“Duran Duran, Wham, Princess Diana, Phil Collins, Live Aid, big hair, crap production, Yuppies and “Greed Is Good.”

Yep, all shit, but there was also XTC, Prince, Talking Heads, some good Elvis Costello alb […]

Huggins

Yep @ivan – I think one of Beverly Cleary’s books was called “Henry and Ribsy”. I’d forgotten about Ribsy, not being a dog person. Henry Higgins, yep, maybe he was embarrassed by his surname? Can’t remember. […]

Because he needs the fans to love him