Thanks for that!

And also Martin Newell’s Oddcaste on mixcloud as well

Jim Irvin’s podcast you’re not on the list. People discuss their favourite albums, usually ones that sit outside the “greatest albums” lists.

We Buy Records is also good. Pretty self-explanitary.

Als […]

I put all my stuff on Discogs a few years back in the evenings of a cold (and wet) winter fortnight in New Zealand.
Once you get the bulk of it done it’s quite easy to just keep adding the bits you buy as you b […]

No. I won’t be buying the vinyl, but I’ll look at getting the CD if there’s enough extra stuff that I didn’t have
. I did get I Love My Friends as it had different tracks and also a full CD of songs that never i […]

Looking forward to this. I’ve got a Japanese CD of it called Astronauts+ which has got a bunch of extra tracks on it

Spot on. And well done on the reissue, especially the extra tracks (two of which I didn’t have)

I’m thinking the book shop would have along that strip of shops on Station Road next door to what is now a Wetherspoons. It might well have closed by 1984. Solihull is a difficult one to remember stuff like t […]

I used to go upstairs to the books when I was a little kid.
By the other one, do you mean Discovery Records? I spent tons of my spare time in there as a teenager. And Easy Listening in Acocks Green as well. I […]

That’s it. I had Nights In White Satin as well. Thanks for the link

There’s one in the lower floor of Dubai Mall and it’s laid out like one of those small ones you find in older UK airports (like Birmingham). Sells more bottled drinks and LEGO than anything else. Terrible mag […]

A personal favourite of mine is Oddfellow’s Casino. He put out The Cult of Water about two months ago, he’s promised another album is coming out in a couple of months. And his album Burning!Burning! came out in […]

Expanded reissues of The Gift, Sound Affects and the unedited version of Snap! are all I need really. Covers the lot for me. The version of That’s Entertainment on Snap! is always my favourite version and the o […]

That’s the one

A pal of mine loaned me The Secret Service a few years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed it, it’s a little odd and doesn’t always work but if you enjoy Gerry Anderson it’s well worth a look

Heard this on the radio the other day for the first time in an age. Top whistling !

They were younger and slightly hipper version of Modern Romance.
That’s said, it’d be a boring world if we all liked the same thing!

I’ve listened to it as well and still remain utterly unconvinced by the guy. Although I am looking forward to the upcoming show where they have Marti Pellow discussing his Josef K singles collection and his f […]

Each to his own Dai.
I thought they were horrible at the time and still do.

And the Rollers? Like a tartan and even-worse version of Slik. I was probably their target age group of about 7 years old when they came out and even at that tender age I could still see them for the rubbish […]