Huh, Clive James also crashed into me dashing between his Taxi and Fortnum and Mason.

I used to use this program https://www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html to unlock the DVD, then rip it with Handbrake.

Caveat – the program did disappear for a few years, but now seems to be back and supported again […]

“He was keen, off down the High Street like Barry Sheene”

Damn, you’re right.

Looks like mine have already been featured – Fish-era Marillion, with Clutching at Straws in my personal Top 5 greatest albums; Hazel O’Connor’s Breaking Glass, Sarah MacLaghlan – I was dragged kicking and […]

Although I haven’t heard them in 40 years, I can still remember far too many of their lyrics and I really used to look forward to seeing them piss around on TOTP.

– “There’s a dentist in Birmingham, he fixed […]

Breaking Glass is a fantastic album with some excellent lyrics. Shame she got glossed over in the “important females in rock”.

Trivia fact. Will You? is supposedly about MIdge Ure

The rise and fall of Psy was pretty brutal.

Phil Collins was in there with a really weird icon.

Fair play to her for recognizing two people who aren’t Chris Martin from Coldplay

This one provokes a memory in me of being in a clothes shop in Weston Super Mare of all places and hearing a deconstructed tune that was naggingly familiar. I remember kicking it around in my head for the walk […]

Richard Thompson – Beeswing is about Anne Briggs as is Sandy Denny’s The Pond and the Stream. Thommo also has a few throwaways like I Agree With Pat Metheny (About Kenny G).

The girl in Going to California who […]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Echoes both make you wait an extraordinary length of time for their last verses. The former even has three different songs in between.

For my money, the build and release of […]

I’m very, very jealous!

Yes, as I said he was hard to hear in the mix and from what I could see of his hands, he was no Ox. I’m guessing that with the Orchestra, that style would have been too busy, but when they played Can You See the […]

Yes! Just saw this yesterday on the Steve Hoffman forums – what a powerhouse band, and I though Moon was “a spent force” by this time, he’s certainly giving it his all here. There’s more 4k footage on the official […]

It’s weird – I looked it up – it does fully cover, but it’s more of an umbrella – there’s a huge gap between the roof and the tops of the stadium. From my vantage point, this made it look like it was half open. It […]

Yes, they fell out after that. I think Thommo was being a bit harsh, as Clive said that he would take the worst RT over the best REM (and someone else, can’t remember), but apparently it did cause a rift.

I can just about buy David Bowie playing in an Outback bar (Australia, not Steakhouse), but not only is his electric guitar unplugged, he’s got white gloves on….Later on (3:45ish), even he looks slightly […]

Going to Polytechnic as a somewhat novice drinker now beyond the gaze of my parents, my first party presented a dilemma – what to bring to ensure I got reasonably tipsy? For some reason I settled on a crate of […]