Designer Beatnik by Dr. Calculus is the one I’ve been patiently waiting for years for. It’s Stephen Duffy and Roger Freeman from Pigbag’s 1986 experimental ode to ecstasy. I’ve got a very good quality bootleg […]

CNN taken Wreckless Eric on as a sports writer?

Could I ask what ages your kids are? I wish I could draw a similar Venn diagram with me and the kids, but neither of them are really into music. Certainly not in a way I was at their age. The 11 year old son is […]

But the worst thing of all about the made up claims about the MMR vaccine causing autism was that the percentage of people who have contracted measles that die as a result of it is higher than the percentage of […]

Agreed, the Eddie Chacon album from last year is brill.

I’ve recently moved back to pretty close to where I grew up, in the middle of Barnsley. In fact, I live a few hundred yards away from the hospital that I was born in. I was very much a tarn lad and growing up in t […]

Yes, very good. I cringed at that stage of his career, but I guess it made him the money to let him do his own records. And Duffy never thought he’d be on stage in front of the size of crowds the dancing monkey u […]

I didn’t realise that he was to be sneered at, to be honest. To me he’s a classic British grown up pop singer-songwriter with a debt to the (mainly Paul side of the) Beatles and a side helping of funk. I put his […]

Really enjoyed that @dave-amitri and glad you found room for Take That Situation.

You mentioned his love of The Beatles. The first time I saw him, about 30 years ago at the Liverpool Empire (supporting Squeeze, […]

I was considering submitting a Duffy one to Toppermost a while back. Might get round to it.

I saw Heyward at Dingwalls in Camden on the Tangled tour. The others must have wandered up from the Mixer to see how it’s done.

Stuff and nonsense, he’s fab

Excellent, as another fan of the criminally underrated Nick Heyward I shall read that in a bit. Interesting song choices too, but it’s difficult to go wrong with his records.

I think the idea of Depeche Mode taking on someone who doesn’t even know their music, who presumably rarely attends their recording sessions and just stands around on stage, doing nothing, is absolutely preposterous…

My advice came from much closer to home. In my home, in fact. I was about 11 or 12, had recently left my Nan’s house with her copy of the Beatles red album, which had started my Beatles obsession, and when we w […]

Don’t watch much boxing then?

Difference is, up until our generation parents wouldn’t like their kids music/Radio 1 cos it was a bit too loud or edgy for them, but now we don’t like our kids’ music/Radio 1 cos it’s too bland and not edgy enough.

Compilations??? He doesn’t even know the rules.

Talking of volleys…

This was a Friday night game, live on Sky. I decided a home match against Huddersfield wasn’t worth taking a day off and travelling all the way from London for, not when I could just rol […]

I was sat behind the goal when that sodding Trevor Sinclair goal went in too. Not often all the Barnsley fans applaud a goal against us. I grew to hate going to QPR. In the umpteen visits I have made to that […]