Stop it! You’re making me think in pictures.

King of America – Elvis Costello
I’m Your Man – Leonard Cohen
New Adventures in Hi-Fi – R.E.M.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
Grand Prix – Teenage Fanclub

Probably – I dare say you could quote 3 consecutive […]

I suppose the Mermaid Avenue songs with Billy Bragg are adaptations rather than covers so yes. I have a live recording of a full set of covers though.

Had a hot-pot meal with friends in Chengdu, one of the specialities was deep fried goose intestines which are seen as quite a delicacy in the area.

To replicate both taste and texture, deep fry some knicker elastic.

Jeez that’s a beautiful sound…

That’s a bit more VAT dodged! Ta.

And they weren’t full of bloody kids…

In the northern coalfields in the 70’s many lads got their apprenticeships in industry not by direct application but by Dad putting their names down at their own place of work. It’s how my elder brother became a […]

My dogs enjoy a pig’s trotter every now and then, the following day is definitely white dog poo day.

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Elvis Costello at the London Palladium May 2016. I’ve seen EC many times but this was Elvis at his most smug. He was touring to promote his book so having re-invented himself as a crooner a couple of years p […]

Me and Mrs T are off to Brussels next week, Wilco on Thursday, Kevin Morby on Friday then hop on the train to Amsterdam to see Wilco again on Sunday followed by Kevin Morby on Monday. Really looking forward to it.

This is a better version

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Since the Thermomix arrived chez Tufnell I make all our sauces. Tomato ketchup and chilli ketchup made with home grown toms & chillis, brown sauce needs shop bought lemon and still needs some perfecting but the […]

HP sauce on a Cumberland sausage sandwich is the only thing that ever makes me doubt my atheism because divine intervention must have influenced its creation.

Very good sir!

Swag