Particularly as Bella Emberg was tagged in as a late sub for Eddi

I was just thrilled to see Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim in there!

While I’ll trot along dutifully to the local fleapit next year, I can’t evince any great enthusiasm at this stage. I believe the problem with the series is that new installments come out far too infrequently and […]

Twang, I saw the DBs supporting a sadly depleted Steely Dan in Dublin in 2017 (thin guitar sound, poorly miked drums, general post-Walter malaise – God, I hate the 3 Arena). Much, much better than the headliners […]

@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 […]