Right here goes..
I’m currently soaking up sun and cerveza in Valencia and have an audio accompaniment of a Pete Atkin playlist, although Beware of the Beautiful Stranger is a pretty good selection of Clive […]

Just seen this whilst coincidentally enjoying BWP, Man the Lifeboat.
We all need the Lifeboat occasionally and can only hope there’s one there for us.
I think you’ve got several mate !
See you soon
Steve

We don’t agree about much… actually we do agree about nearly everything..but yes,it has to be done.

Plus did the Arlenes do Stuck on Love ?
I remember big Steve opening a number of Come down and Meet the […]

I’m bare jealous fam !
I caught their second gig,but just as a trio at Daylight Music and spent an age exhausting Tony’s patience with my reminiscences of the Starry Eyed shows with Kevin Coyne in 1473.

Their […]

Had one of these Music meets mum moments with the opening lines of Plaistow Patricia, by Lord Upminster.

It wasn’t well-received..

Haircut.
The Guardian

Vinly re-issue of John Butler – Diesel Park West frontperson, The Loyal Serpent., which by the way is fab.

Beer indeed will be consumed and quite possibly spilt.

The rest of the action over that weekend can be found here.

My other recommend from this list is Hanging Stars

Hello NB
I thought you’d be keen on these.
Tony Poole of Starry Eyed and Laughing,Danny Wilson of Danny and the Champions ,Robin Bennett of Dreaming Spires and more strings than you can shake some action at […]

The Ducks were fab and have reformed over recent years and the internet bears the scars…

Paul Shuttleworth of the Kursaals will be appearing this week in Leytonstone at What’s Cooking, with his latest […]

Wasn’t it a great soundtrack ?
Plenty of Edwyn Collins, Wedding Present, Wreckless Eric etc…

I have to confess to finding the first series slightly underwhelming, with the parents – esp the mum, being […]

I agree…..he’s terrible !
The only problem is that everyone else is much worse !

Seriously, who else would you rather listen to on this stuff ?

Theatre advice looks sound enough…

In terms of gigs I’m sure there will be stuff nearer the time.
Without knowing where you’ll be and what floats your boat, it’s a bit of a shot in the dark….

The […]

Hi Dan……….

Not sure if this fits your schedule BUT if you do the Rough Trade East jaunt you might find all or some of these stalls.

It’s a bit of “Blimey, whoever died and left all of this had good […]

I was fortunate to be amongst the audience at Word-Lovin’ The Islington on Satyrday last to see Comrade Walsh not only knock out the great majority of this splendid new album, but incorporate a How to play the […]

Was indeed.
Huw compering ..no motorbike as lots of acts to squash in, but did the 3 recorders routine..
Two in hiw mouth and one which disappeared inside his cloting and which he asked us to remind him to clean […]

Have managed to acquire tickets at the local comedy joint which has an evening for Sean Hughes’ Charities…
Stellar guest list including Miles Jupp, Arthur Smith , Carl Donnelly , Owen O’Neill ,Geoff Boyz , […]

Hi NB,

This looks / sounds great and I’m G with E, apart from the fact that I chose not to go because it’s at the vile O2, the Galaxy’s worst available entertainment experience….
hard to get to / from, lousy […]

When your 16 year old son says to your 20 year old son ” Your generation uses Facebook, my generation uses Snapchat.”

When you wonder “Which bastard has stuck a photo of Samuel Beckett on the bathroom […]