That’s number one in my wants list!

It’s what I like most about this place. People disagree, but it tends to be done in good spirit. There’s often going to be things taken the wrong way, when it’s written down, but we don’t seem to see big rows li […]

I went to see Joe Brown a couple of years ago, and he was accompanied by Henry Gross (formerly of Sha Na Na and the youngest performer at Woodstock we were told). He played his biggest (only?) hit Shannon. It was […]

The first four series of Arrested Development probably had the highest quota of brilliant absurd jokes outside of cartoons like Family Guy or The Simpsons when it was funny. But series 5 went something like, […]

I have far too much time on my hands, so I have a very well curated iTunes library, plus spreadsheets galore, as I’m doing my album ranking project. So some stats…

CD – 3,614
Downloaded albums – 4 […]

It’s funny this thread started, because I was going to post something about the magazine. I’ve just moved house and have been unpacking for about 4 weeks. I left my bedroom till last, cos it resembles a lib […]

Having recently moved house and added an extra shelving unit on my CD wall, allowing me to have almost all my CDs out and easy to find (apart from the ones in thin cardboard sleeves that sometimes take an age to […]

I did exactly the same when I started getting into jazz last year. I went from having about 6 jazz albums on CD to several hundred very quickly, mainly by buying a shedload of those boxes. Some of the boxes have […]

I think Joe Brown could make a fantastic record, just him and his guitar or ukulele. He has done a few solo tracks on his albums, but I saw his one man show (even though there were two of them on stage!) and he […]

I listen to a lot of new music, although my focus has slipped over the past 5-6 weeks with moving house (I am NEVER moving again!), but I just had to Google who BTS were, as I’ve never heard of them. I w […]

That’s one of my very favourite songs. I much prefer his solo albums to the Specials’ albums. A big disappointment for me, around that time, was when I was supposed to be seeing him in Portsmouth, but the show (to […]

There have been rumours that they were planning to release Cocksure, which was the original version of the album that became Because We Love You. It’s a great album anyway, but crazily has never been released on C […]

This slice of pop perfection got to number 131 in the charts, but I wouldn’t want it any other way, as I’ve spent 35 years as a Duffy fanatic and much prefer being in an audience of a dozen people listening to him […]

The Price of Coal is required viewing round these parts, and is on YouTube with a great quality picture.

P’tang Yang Kipperbang is another I watched on DVD recently and it’s every bit as good as I remember from watching it about 20 times in the 80s

I was on nights in A&E that night. I was on triage and it was pretty quiet, and I remember calling a mate round to watch Portillo get his comeuppance on the TV in the waiting room.

I know what you mean about shows like Frazier and Friends and can’t watch them myself, but the US Office and Schitts Creek are nothing like those kind of shows and are both excellent, although the Office lost i […]

A few of them were on YouTube last time I looked. I watched a couple and I have to agree. Loved it when I was a kid, but I ended up just flicking to the musical segments.

I watched the DVD again a couple of months ago. I think it’s excellent and very well cast.

When I was about 6 I had a little Bay City Rollers suit. A white number with tartan trim. My mum might even have made it for me.

And then when I was 16 I saw Chris Lowe as the man to copy, albeit on a far lower […]