That was my favourite for a few years. It felt quite raw and stripped back compared to everything after the first album

Strides isn’t such a Sweeney-thing you know. Was quite a commonly used word growing up in Brum in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. I still say it now occasionally

Thanks, you are correct. It was Complete Madness

Planet Earth 12” – Duran Duran
No shame in that for me, as an 11 year old the first time I saw them on the telly the looked like they’d been beamed down from another planet (see also Prince and The Rev […]

I lived in New Zealand for a few years and everything was “awesome”. Quite often people were “stoked” as well

Leedsboy, your avatar thingy is the great Jimmy Rimmer isn’t it?

There’s a lovely compilation of Kirby’s stuff on Ace

The Impressions Complete A & B Sides 1961-1968 is a very nice compilation

Didn’t Pump up The Bitter go something like:-

16 pints and what do you get
You wake up in the morning and your bed is wet

I lost mine years ago but needed them for immigration paperwork. I’ve moved countries a fair bit. The best I could do was email the school I went to and send my brother’s mother-in-law with cash down there a wee […]

I’ll probably end up going to see this.

I haven’t really enjoyed anything much that he’s done since Jackie Brown but weirdly still ended up going to see everything since then (apart from Death Proof). Proba […]

Great podcast and sounds like it could have gone on easily for another hour. I imagine into the next hour there would have been mention of Soul Jazz’s fabulous series of Studio One compilations, their 100% to 6 […]

Yes it can feel very like “WTF” here some of the time!

Here in Baku it’s early 20’s when I get up rising to early to mid 30s, and staying like that for most of the summer. Always windy which takes the edge off it a bit thankfully!

When George Michael died I was on a coach trip in Australia, four hours of Wham! and George on the radio on seemingly endless repeat.

The version on the 2 disc reissue of Low-Life is longer than the Substance version. Even that’s still a bit short of the vinyl 12” though

Pretenders – The Singles
Best of Blondie

Well that’s solved a 36 year old mystery for me, thanks!

Great sparky piece of pop and an endearingly silly video. It’s got the line in it “I’m free and easy and I’m feelin’ Jake”. Anyone got any idea what feeling Jake means? It’s always bothered me since I heard […]

I remember about 20 years ago walking into the Bradbury building in Los Angeles and having it suddenly dawn on me that it was the same building as the one used in the closing stages of Blade Runner.
Also when I […]