Ped (‘a natural soil aggregate’). And before that, admonishment (or rather whether admonishment is a proper word – it is, apparently, and not the same as admonition).

Contains spoilers.

I was there yesterday too – through from Edinburgh by train with a friend, we rented bikes from near Queen Street station and cycled along the Clyde, stopping off at the Riverside (transport) Museum and Tall Ship […]

First gig: Queen at Glasgow Apollo, 30th May 1977.

Went with: John Park, aka Pecker. I was 14. We lived about 20 miles outside Glasgow and it was a condition of my being allowed to go that I found somebody to […]

In the 1970s, Glasgow Queen Street station used to boast ‘Al Jolson’ and ‘Ride the range with Tex Ritter’.

Masquerade Masquerade – The Skids Live. I’m ‘on’ tracks 17-22 which were recorded at Glasgow Apollo on the 16th June 1979.

And

Meredith Brooks’s Bitch – frequently misattributed (see below) to Alanis Morissette:

Jason Falkner – Author Unknown

Appears not on Jason Falkner Presents Author Unknown but on the next album, Can you Still Feel?

I struggled a lot with the first two episodes, to the point of nearly giving up, but began slowly to warm to it in the latter part of the third. After Wally Brando appeared in the fourth I was completely on board. […]

Ditto Tracy Jacks by Blur –

(Tracy Jacks) got stopped by the PO-lice
(Tracy Jacks) and ES-corted back home

The lyrics on the Promenade album are consistently great, but musically it’s pretty wonderful too, as he’s channelling Michael Nyman throughout, as on this track (Geronimo). I love the way the initial sibilant in […]

Like Donald and Davey Stott formed a post-rock outfit:

Yesssss!

I’m not sure how much of this is falsetto and how much is just ‘high voice’, but it’s ace.

It’s good, but it’s not right.

Exhibit 2 (Big Audio Dynamite: E=MC2)

Thanks, Nogbad – will definitely be giving this a listen. I’m a big fan of Jason Falkner (and The Grays), and I’m pleased to see Van Duren’s Oh Babe on the playlist.

Like you, KFD, I’ve read and enjoyed The Crying of Lot 49, but I’ve also read/enjoyed Gravity’s Rainbow and V. These are, as you suggest, not the easiest of reads – the periodic breaking into song can take a bit […]