Damian Green said on Sky News that Boris Johnson contracting CV just shows that intelligent people who are doing the right thing can catch it.

If that doesn’t show you the contempt that the parliamentary Tory […]

Alabama 3
Breeders
Elvis Costello
Decemberists
Elbow
Felice Brothers
Grinderman
Handsome Family
I Am Kloot
James
King Creosote
Lambchop
Mogwai
National
Oh […]

Facebook friends will know that 4 weeks ago today my 20 month old dog impaled himself on a branch while we were out walking. Thankfully after major surgery at Dick White Referrals (one of the biggest and best […]

Billy Bragg – Talking With The Taxman About Poetry. The Billster went from angry busker to a more soulful songwriter and storyteller. It’s still his (joint) highest chart place in the UK.

Well although I’ve never tried it I’ve heard that crack cocaine can be a bit moreish, but there’s no way it can be better than Marmite peanut butter – go crunchy!

August 1976, league cup 0-0, my first away game without parental supervision. Football special train from Bolton on Dearne!

On an organised birding trip to India a few years back and our group was one person short. He caught up with us a week into the trip, a rich American who had turned up on time at the airport and, as he was […]

The definitive answer is obviously Jazz Police on Len’s “I’m Your Man”.

This was a man who could agonise over a line in a song for months, a man whose quality control was exact, and then Jazz Police…

Arcade fire and In Rainbows, both reasons why I won’t be bothering going past page 1.

Wow, reading some of the mountains people have climbed in 2019 makes me feel very humble, very lucky and very grateful in my comfortable shell. Not really anything to report here, GLW turned 60 , a couple of nice […]

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I think it’s been quite a mediocre year for music, I still managed to find 15

Wilco – Ode To Joy
Sam Cohen – The Future’s Still Ringing In My Ears
Billy Bragg – The Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC
Jeff T […]

I worked in hospitals and care homes for many years, if there was an outbreak of scabies you couldn’t avoid it, over the years my skin has absorbed quite a lot of Derbac (Malathion).

Pretty sure the Elvis Costello compilation”Girls, Girls, Girls” had it’s very own foam pad.

I’ve used the Elvis Costello guitar picks. They weren’t very good though, I soon went back to Jim Dunlops.

It’s like 2016 all over again, RIP to all three, sad losses all.

Friend of mine interviewed him for a radio show, says he’s the rudest and most unpleasant man he’s ever met.

Def Leppard at Wombwell Reform WMC, twice, and I got paid to see them, I worked behind the bar.

Yep, me too, at Sheffield Poly. They came out into the audience after their set to watch Hazel.

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