I use messenger quite a lot and I’ve noticed lately that the thumbs up emoji has become shorthand for “enough now, stop messaging me”.

Never forget…

What do you call a magician that’s lost his magic?

Ian

Arthur Smith liked my reply to one oh his tweets yesterday, then he followed me, made my day.

I think only me and thee voted for it.

Agree about beating Wednesday. I went to college and lived in Rotherham for about 7 years late 70s – early 80s and there were some cracking matches at Oakwell and particularly at Millmor. I got a good kicking in […]

As a 15 year old me, Oughty and Westie were punk icons “The Thrifty Shoppers”,

We are the Thrifty Shoppers
We like the offers
From down the store
We go to Serengeti
For cheap spaghetti
And tins of […]

I really have to mention Uncut’s “Wilcovered” because that’s in my 2020 top 20 submitted a couple of weeks ago.

Like many before I struggled compared to previous years but I did manage 20.

1. Jeff Tweedy – Love Is The King
2. Kevin Morby – Sundowner
3. Throwing Muses – Sun Racket
4. Elvis Costello – Hey […]

1. Wilco – Summerteeth
2. Tom Petty – Wildflowers, etc.
3. PJ Harvey – Dry demos

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.