Speedway rider Shawn Moran released a 7” single of Chris Spedding’s ‘Motorbiking’, fortunately I can’t find it on YouTube but I must admit I didn’t look very hard.

Links don’t work in the lead post, here you go. Sad news but not a massive surprise, he’d been ill forever.

To be fair Difford has form with this type of thing; “I’m at the car park, the airport, the baggage carousel” No, that’s arrivals not departures!

I saw Mark Ellen & his GLW at an Eagles gig at Wembley, they also were in the same carriage on the tube going back into London, they never stopped talking to each other so I never butted in to say hello.

The GLW is pleased that Only Connect has reached the end of its current season as I cannot hear a contestant choose the “eye of Horus” without saying “the whore of eyerus”, likewise if the captain pronoun […]

Following the late FIL’s wife’s move to a care home we’ve been clearing out their house and I’ve spent the last couple of weeks digitising standard 8 cine film and colour slides, both make you realise how easy we […]

Could not agree more, bored with both and over the past month my Facebook feed has been full of right wing Americans gloating and being generally obnoxious, thinking seriously of taking a long break from all of them.

My sister has spent quite a bit of time there, initially she went to have affordable cosmetic dental work but she raves about the place now.

Essential reading on the 45 minute bus ride to Art College 80/81, I was studying graphic design and the magazine taught me more about style, typography and layout than any of the lecturers did.

Supervixen by Garbage – less of a pause, more of a stutter.

Fine dining for me. When I sit down for a meal I expect to be fed, not presented with a tiny bit of meat/fish, a smear of some sauce or other and a couple of hot raw vegetables that rack up a three figure bill […]

Is it Tell Us The Truth by Sham 69?

Many many years ago a very drunken man in a Rotherham nightclub gents insisted that I was Martin Fry and wouldn’t let me go until I’d given him my autograph – I sometimes wonder if he still has the piece of pap […]

1. What’s the best sandwich? – butchers Cumberland sausage on buttered white farmhouse bread with fried onions and HP sauce 2. What’s one thing you own that you really should throw out? – lots of landfill 7” […]

I’m surprised it took until now for Recurring Dream to get a mention, advertised with the tagline “You know more Crowded House than you think”, it certainly was true for many people.

I’ve spent most of the year listening to audiobooks and a pile of old jazz albums I acquired so I haven’t really kept abreast of new music. I see the Decemberists are riding high on many lists, I listened to it […]

Age and arthritic knees have put an end to standing gigs for me, if I can’t get a good seat – facing the stage not side on, and not too far back, then I won’t go. This does mean I’ve had to pay ridiculous price […]

I have a collection of photographs of positive Covid tests, “I’d love to come but see attached photo”. It also works well for stopping unwanted guests who invite themselves to visit.

Whisky, I’m partial to a nice malt but find it gives me harsher hangovers than blended so I tend to stick to Famous Grouse. Having said that the organic single malt NcNean is pretty bloody special!

Im there as @spoodledude.bsky.social