To my own amazement I really liked Love as an album. Thought it mostly worked really well. I can’t say it’s a regular go to album but it has a lot going for it.

They have done some great songs here and there but when they turned very suddenly from slightly cute, innocent looking popsters to leather, whip wielding, industrial lite I think quite a few couldn’t take it […]

I like English Rose as well. It has a certain charm and if you think of the kind of geezerish company The Jam were surrounded by it’s actually quite a brave thing to have gone ahead with.

I always thought The Queen Is Dead was one of their best songs…thunderous drums, loud driving bass and Marr completely wigging out on guitar. Possibly even better when I saw them play it live though, where the d […]

The Cathal Smyth album is indeed fantastic but it’s not all for the faint hearted as it’s devastatingly sad in places…

Very cool though Steve…

When a band or artist I like announce a new album by saying how diverse they think it is I am always a bit concerned.

Dai, I’ll never like Act Naturally but I think you may have a point there, What Goes On is pretty awful and just doesn’t fit on Rubber Soul. “Give it to Ringo…” actually, don’t.

Absolutely agree with that. Nowhere near as strong as the rest.

Just for starters…

REM, Shiny Happy People, on Out of Time…too forced, too ubiquitous.
The Beatles, Act Naturally, on Help. Simply nowhere near as good as the rest of the album and ruins the flow.
Echo and […]

If Andy Partridge had got his way there would have been an entire album of “bubblegum” type music in the style of a compilation album under different names as well. Herbert Fountain and Sopwith Caramels were just […]

To dig a little deeper into the Dukes of Stratospheare, we have Sir John Johns, (Andy Partridge) The Red Curtain, (Colin Moulding) Lord Cornelius Plum (Dave Gregory) and E.I.E.I. Owen (Ian Gregory) and of course […]

That throwaway comment about who the young female guest in Fawlty Towers was sums up why I like this site and has made my evening! Thanks.

7…Might the “John” artist be John Dowie instead of John The Postman?

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Continuing to watch The Crown at the insistence of Mrs L. I’ve never really had any interest in the Royals but this is OK and quite watchable. Matt Smith is excellent as Prince Phillip, just as you might i […]

At home with my wife and son. Daughter out and staying at boyfriend’s. Suspect this will be the last NYE with either of the kids at home so we’re making the most of it and it is going nicely. Just finished steak […]

I’ve voted Labour my whole life, except for one local election about a decade ago where I voted Green instead for local reasons.
I am still reeling from last week and will have to switch off from it for a while […]

Yes, it’s exactly that kind of thing that does him no favours at all. Probably doesn’t help that although I still like a lot of the music, he went down in my estimation after I read his book.

Ha, great minds think alike Freddy! Quite honestly I think McNabb is a bit lazy in his approach to live shows. I think if he did it properly, with all the subtleties intact, or at least attempted, he would have […]