Well I just listened to the first 3 tracks (in the middle of the night admittedly) and I thought they were brilliant. Kind of Young Americans for the 21st century.

Probably the rest of the album is full on […]

I liked his poems though…

I really like it, can’t quite work out how it’s a musical palindrome from one listen but it’s curious. Ronald Binge just has the best name anyway. I too love all that music and have written a couple of pieces in […]

Watching it now. The miming thing is so strange. How did the musicians do it? It’s not like all the songs are a strict tempo and they’re playing repeated riffs and parts. Lots of it is out of time and I keep […]

ELP was def Wembley, maybe late ‘73 rather than ‘74

I remember they were the Next Big Thing according to the NME in about 1974. They opened for ELP at Wembley

Here’s a bit of punkish noise from New Zealand with one of the best band names ever – Life In The Fridge Exists.

Seeing you asked…

“Sitting on the kitchen bench…”

@SteveT – come on then, what was your question?

“Avoid scratching unsightly holes in your head”

Fred must be the only music journalist who was still writing in recent years who was also in the NME (or was it MM) back in the – er, halcyon days of 1973-76

You can have War Child of you want…

I stand corrected sir!

No Frank Zappa

Cocker Monster – hmmm

It says he died of organ failure

Surely there could have been a whip-round for a new Hammond

About ten years ago when I was visiting my mother in law in her rest home I heard the unexpected sound of Elvis Presley from a nearby room. I went down the corridor and peeked in the open door. The guy had […]

All the post – Punch The Clock Elvis Costello albums I bought – the first one of which was the self-admitted “worst album” Goodbye Cruel World

The first 3.25 of this, which looks like it really belongs on a @Kaisfatdad post

More Steely Dan. Larry Carlton whips it out –