One thing (amongst many) that I really like about Bruce is that he is a huge music fan and is quite happy to acknowledge and celebrate other’s work. He was (maybe still is) in the habit of performing a song from a […]

Talk of Swarb reminds me that we saw Simon Swarbrick (Dave’s nephew) with Feast of Fiddles a couple of weeks ago – blimey, he is some player!

‘ The fanzine site We Heart Music calculates that over the course of his career – including his time with the Smiths before going solo – the singer has cancelled more than 400 shows, including almost half of the l […]

I think Q gave Dire Straits On Every Street a 5* review too – I knew then they were wrong and am even more sure of it now.

There are people on here who are great reviewers and actually do it professionally I think, so I would be fascinated to hear what happens. Presumably there are some terrible records released….or are there? Is e […]

More info here. SDE say that Amazon seem to have mispriced the LP set, but they haven’t corrected it yet…! I agree with the comments above about this album, although I have a fondness for On the Border too. Ber […]

Well….you clearly DO have a problem with it..!! I did think twice, but recall many have used this in the past….and I don’t like prog much.

The CD/Blu Ray version has the whole lot in Dolby Atmos and Hi Res audio on the 4th disc.

A couple of very interesting selections from @Mousey and @MyOldman ! As with my selections, I’m sure many of these tracks were chosen for their fit into the theme rather than for being particular favourites, a […]

I’m happy to do the Audacity malarkey for you @SteveT if that helps.

As I suggested above, I think it’s more to do with the material, but surely it is the arrangements, approach, and the overall sound..?

I first encountered Bellowhead at Beautiful Days years ago and they blew me away. Much better live than on record…

So….a prerequisite of a folk/rock band is to have electric guitar..?

A long winded way is to use a music editing application (I use Audacity) – set it recording and play the tracks. Obviously it does this this in real time, so go and make a cup of tea while it is chugging along. […]

This is where defining genres can get tricky. I’ve never considered SoH a folk group as such as they never did much ‘Trad Arr’ material, although their instrumentation, at least live, was acoustic based which […]

Show of Hands never quite made it to wide appreciation, but this is a fave of mine. It even includes Michael Wood in Anglo Saxon..!

Well, I’m going with the obvious. This was Fairport at Cropredy in 2017 when they had pretty much all the still living former members come back for the 50th anniversary. They opened with this, including almost a […]

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It’s really not true that other countries hate us that much – we do love to play the victim. A couple of years ago we put in a good entry with an engaging singer and came second – we would have won too if it h […]

Sorry, one of them was me! I was confused by the OP which talked about ‘us’ and your name is mentioned there!

I have never cleaned a record in over 60 years of buying and playing them, other than a careful wipe with a cleaning cloth before lowering the tone arm. For many years I used a dust bug which was brilliant, but my […]