That’s a role I covet too, except I’d probably use my own trusty red Epiphone SG. I also have a Green Burns Steer, same model as 1984 vintage Billy Bragg, for those moments when I come over all political and feel […]

As I may have said on here before, I was at the first night of last year’s gigs, at a tiny arts centre in Swindon. Many men (and a few women) old enough to know better found they had something in their eye that […]

The Courteeners…I wanted to like them, as my 18 year old daughter is such a fan. I tried. But really, how on earth are this very dull band so popular? I had previously just assumed they were one of those totally […]

The Kelly Marie song is actually very helpful in that respect isn’t it? Maybe there’s a whole new thread in there about helpful noises made in songs…

Absolutely 100% agree with this Rigid. How people manage to tolerate their pure rancid disgustingness is completely beyond me. Especially on a fried breakfast where they look like slugs. Evil, just evil.

Weren’t these programmes regionalised, as in different areas featured different clubs? In Greater London we always used to get Orient, Millwall, Brentford and Charlton as well as Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs etc. I […]

I’m hardly a metalhead @Gatz but I’ll admit a soft spot for 747 as well!

I’d totally agree about the Phill Savidge book, it is definitely a bit of a Suede love in isn’t it? Nothing against Suede particularly, who I thought were alright, especially their first album, but do they really […]

I live in Sunbury, just across the river from Walton on Thames, where many outside Monty Python sketches were filmed. In Sunbury itself, various street scenes from The Inbetweeners (very popular with the young […]

Your comments about starting an angry thread about this mess may have hit the nail on the head there Paul. What you say really strikes a chord with me.
With increasing age I have tended to steer away from […]

Very interesting to hear that Arthur. In all my work in education since, I have been so mindful of what I say to kids, as you never know what will end up having quite a significant effect on them. Generally if I […]

Exactly the same thing happened to me at school Salty, having to repeat the last year of primary school. God it was boring. I think that may have had an influence on me as well.

Oh I feel that pain Steve, yeah I can still hear my Dad’s comment of “well I’m extremely disappointed to read that” and the expression that went with it even now all these years later!

At school I was in the top groups for pretty much everything but was always “prone to bouts of silly behaviour” as my school report often said, but I managed to get by and succeed. However, when I formed a band, […]

They were, it has to be said, a bit obscure even at the time Rigid. I saw them a couple of times at Hammersmith’s long gone Clarendon and a re-union this year at the 100 Club. A lot of their recent publicity blurb […]

Apparently Michael Apted, the Director and Interviewer, is now 78. I hope he manages to make at least one more. If he is ever replaced it really needs to be thought about properly.

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Rocket Man. Was dragged by the family to see this but ended up quite enjoying it. Elton’s not really my cuppa but he did do some good tunes in the early days didn’t he?
Years and Years on TV started off […]

Cards on the table from the outset, I love this programme. I first saw it at around the age of 14 in a Sociology lesson at school (I’m now 51) when we were studying the class system and have watched every […]

It’s a very difficult task pinning it down to 3 but here goes…

Echo and The Bunnymen, Guildford Civic Hall, 1984. Having left school about 3 months before, I was there with loads of mates. With lots of Mac […]