YES!

Another vote here for Waiting For Columbus Sadly that akcbum never got the covfefe it deserved…

HEARD I’ve been listening to a couple of extraordinary albums by pianist Jon Batiste, Monk Movements and Monk Meditations. He takes Monk compositions and re-invents them in a refreshing and often extraordinary […]

Didn’t Shirley Bassey collapse after recording her vocal for Goldfinger?

Exactly the same for me. My sister died in 1990, 36 years ago FFS and if ever her dying so young comes up in conversation my voice falters and tears well up.

Frank Zappa’s “Inca Roads” at 100. It never feels quite right to describe Zappa as “prog”. I mean his music is complex – all the requisite time and tempo changes as decreed by the Prog 101 template. And ridiculous […]

@chiz It’s a worry. I think if you asked the players they’d all tell you how Test Cricket is important to them but then the batters go and get themselves out playing T20 shots. Also, how can Bangladesh play proper […]

This…

I rather hope so. Cutlery and serviettes will be provided and I expect everyone to EAT PROPERLY!

Australia have dropped opening batsman Jake Weatherald for the Mackay test. Poor bugger. He opened for all 5 Ashes tests last Australian summer, and apart from one score of 70-odd didn’t impress. You gotta feel […]

Thanks for this dai!

Seen Apple TV series called Silo – yet another “dystopian future” – in this version everyone lives in a 140 level silo beneath the earth and what’s really outside is the subject of much conjecture. It’s very […]

Inevitable No 1. 3 and 4 should be 2 and 3. Dead End Street, at 16 should be higher for me. It was the second single I ever bought, along with I’m A Believer, with a 15s record token from my late Aunty Hazel

The Dan can actually get boring (there, I said it) on these slow plonkers like HAL. See also Third World Man.

Great story

Just watched The Commitments. GH has a relatively minor role, but the film is as hilarious as I remember. You couldn’t make that script these days which is half the joy.

What’s wrong with Giles’ mix of SSSS is that George’s descending guitar line after “when I was a boy” is mixed way too low. The genius of that line is that it mirrors the ascending vocal line and so really sh […]