I’m a northern boy, I drink, I like cars (but would be pushed to have a conversation about them), I like football, lots of other sports and I have many of the obsessive collecting traits associated with the […]

Update: I just listened to it on Spotify and have to confess I rather enjoyed it, such a vast improvement on his recent output and to these ears his best since The Delivery Man. Faith restored a little!

I decided after the book promotion tour that I didn’t need to see EC play live any more. I hated Look Now on release and have tried several times to give it another chance, my initial verdict of Costello by n […]

Here you go, fill your boots! Like Steve I’m a massive fan and I have a huge collection of him on 7”, 10” and 12” vinyl, cassette, cd and mp3 but no way will I be parting with £250 for this.

First Sweaty Ken entry at 17, one of many, the only Leonard Cohen record (an excellent one but not his best) at 195.

I think that just about sums up the value of this list. It can gtf.

No date yet for physical product release – means I’ll probably have to buy it twice.

Yep, me too. You only have to spend time in other English speaking countries, notably USA, Australia and New Zealand, sample their TV offerings and you realise just how lucky we are to have the BBC.

That tyre…

I’m still enjoying Wishbone Ash, it may be pretty standard blues rock but Andy Powell is still putting out new material that’s well worth a listen.

Ray Wilson was also Speedway’s British Champion in 1974. Busy guy.

Phil Collins wasn’t the same but I’d wager that Genesis sold quite a few more units with his voice than with Gabriel singing. I suppose it depends how you define success.

I’ll have a red 1988 Fiat Panda 1000cl. I bloody loved that car.

“Happenstance” – as in You Are My Face by Wilco. Can’t recall hearing that anywhere else in song land.

Hiphopopotamus?

As a Yorkshireman I heartily concur.

Worcestershire sauce

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I have a petrol/electric hybrid, the electric range is about 32miles but such is the nature of my driving that in 18 months I’ve filled up with petrol maybe half a dozen times. Lots of solar panels means that t […]