@Moose: a rock of sense, as always.

@Twang: heh heh!

Suggested upgrading the wardrobe palette to navy or midnight blue? ‘Black is dreadfully aging for us over-50s, dear boy’, I’d intone before hobbling the bejaysus away. I suspect that Mr Gilmour is wealthy enough […]

%Retro: Aye, The Victim is super and a nice, short series to boot.

@Tiggerlion – it is incredibly tense. Yeah, there’ll have to be some laurels dished out for this one, I think.

@Tiggerlion: not just me then. MotherFatherSon is fairly gruelling.

I suspect the more committed Hengeophile will eschew the horseless carriage in favour of astral projection.

@Vulpes: I must insist that you start – I’m always in the market for one of your tightly focused counterblasts.

@Harry Tufnell: come now, even Barnsley must have a few Lancastrians sequestered away somewhere.

@Twang: Jacko wrote some belting tunes for sure. The Bibbster is no slouch himself but the song above vexes me fierce!

@Dave: Lydon’s ornery nature is very much on brand but I don’t believe it’s entirely out of character to chide the heartless. He is a hoor for winding people up, no doubt about that!

@Mooche: it’s a great slice of British Gothic for sure.

Cheers, Mooche – that’s an earworm I can heartily endorse.

If it’s one bullet, then it has to be Lou Reed. Yes, I’m aware it will probably shatter the urn.

@Twang: fiercely impressive person.

I’ve long believed that John Lydon is a genuine artist: maintaining a consistency and purity of vision at no little financial or personal cost. He’s also fearless in his opinions. I remember his distaste for the […]

@Bamber: Mainstream or Easy Pieces tour? If the former, November 1987 in the Stade Nationale. The black polo neck eluded me for years thanks to incessant weight gain but as I’m back to an hour’s commuting by […]

I always assumed that Idol was shrewd enough to hire a good money manager. It didn’t hurt that he sold a lot of brilliantly produced, radio-friendly records in the US through the 80s when CD sales were starting […]

‘Be Mine Tonight’ by Grady Tate and Grover Washington Jr wouldn’t quite meet the strictures laid down in the Antioch rules, either. It’s still a beltin’ smooth jazz/soul track though.