We have a camper van and although google maps is usually pretty good we also have a “large van and lorry” satnav thing that Mrs L bought. This avoids any small roads or country lanes until you get close to your […]

Is that the one with Pass That Whiskey and Glad I’m Not Young? It’s loud and fab.

Don’t forget the Beavers Mike. Oh yes.

Noticed this on Saturday following Hampton’s away game at Cheshunt. We got in the car put the radio on and Sports Report went straight into one of the crushingly dull post premier league game interviews they seem […]

Weren’t The Prisoners fantastic? Graham Day is an extremely underrated guitarist and is still worth seeing now in whatever band he’s currently playing with, be it the Forefathers, Gaolers or even The Prisoners who […]

I think Pete Molinari went to America and is still there. Still makes music but I’m not sure if there are any releases since. The last thing I brought was the Andy Weatherall produced album.

Agree with the Archive From 1959 comp, it’s a great place to start. The recent Dylan related albums aren’t bad either. But The Milkshakes were my entry point in the mid eighties. I saw them quite a few times […]

Wow, if you get time, please do a write up of your Route 66 trip and put it on here @SteveT … it’s a trip I have long been wanting to do and in your hands I’m sure it would make a great read.

We’ve been enjoying the new Jamie T album in our house too. My 19 year old son is quite a big fan-Jamie at. Brixton Academy was his first gig when he was 14, which I took him to. There’s a lot to like about Jamie […]

School was indeed very tough. On my very first day at secondary school (a bit later, in 1980) I was punched so hard the kid who did it broke his wrist and had to go to hospital. I was similar to you Dave…once […]

That summer of 76 playlist is just great isn’t it! Plus it just reminds me how much I love 70’s disco, just as much as I love The Clash, Pistols, Jam, Smiths etc…

Who gives a shit how dirty the game was, and about the gamesmanship at the end, where you can bet your life that every single team would have done exactly the same as us…how fantastic to see an England side […]

Yes, exactly the same for me. Thursday’s Child was a great single, a real pop tune and not a cop out tuneless “art statement” type of thing, designed to impress rather than touch. But the album? Only played it […]

Crazy that Michael Head wasn’t even nominated. And Wet Leg airplay already appears to have stopped in our house at least, so maybe that album might not stand the test of time. Will try some of the others via […]

As you say, what a nice surprise. Great sound, well filmed, and the set list is pretty hard to beat as well.

The Bodysnatchers Let’s Do Rocksteady has a lovely excited “One, two, three, FOUR!!” at the start where the higher pitched “FOUR!!” sounds truly gleeful.

Not at all, I can definitely handle people disliking bands/artists I like…I can’t cope with listening to Queen, Joni Mitchell, Yes, Eric Clapton, Take That or Ed Sheerin. But “hate everything they stand for” is […]

You hate The Smiths and all they stand for? I can understand dislike, but why hate? And what do you mean everything they stood for? Even the superb guitar playing? Is it because of what a cock Mozzer is these […]

Yes, fair point about Everyday I Write The Book, which is great single and one of his best. But for me the rest of the album just seems a bit, well, summer 83. You could make the point that it’s pop music, it’s […]

Good point about Punch The Clock. Goodbye Cruel World hasn’t aged well either, although Costello himself admits that.