I agree with your view of QT. TBH I doubt it’ll make much difference who they have fronting the show – and it IS a show: to mistake QT for a serious political discussion programme would be like mistaking […]

That link didn’t quite work the way I intended. Second time lucky…

What? No Van der Graaf Generator yet? Here they are, in their Noughties reformation, with the mighty Dave Jackson doing his dual-sax thing on Killer. https://youtu.be/ump0-RiGSlM

I’d go one subtractive step further, and go for the Red “power trio” lineup.

Heh! Not being able to get a decent ride cymbal sound on a real (presumably ride) cymbal reminded me of the old tale about Charlie Chaplin failing to even get through the qualifying round of a Charlie Chaplin […]

I’m not a massive Black Sabbath fan, but conventional wisdom seems to be that their first FIVE albums were equally strong.

Though solo artists are of course somewhat, er, immune to line up changes.

Great review – pity news of the gig passed me by, as I live just a couple of miles away. I always find it a bit frustrating when primarily instrumental bands chuck in a couple of vocal numbers per album (Red Queen […]

Thanks for posting this. It’s all too tempting, as a music fan, to aurally wallpaper the day with non-stop music. But, like you, I prefer to soak up the sounds of my environment most of the time, and only listen t […]

To my frustration, I only “discovered” them this year, many years too late, but I’ve pretty much handed my bank account to the Alphabet Business Concern in order to gorge on their entire back catalogue. I parti […]

Ah, now, Beenz. I remember that one well. Got loads of freebies from that system, before they cottoned on and tightened up the number you could collect per day!

There are far easier ways of acquiring huge lists of valid email addresses. Whatever the heck this is, it’s not a pyramid scheme. Anyway, whatever…

Thought for a minute there that I might have to do it. I rather like them, but already have the first 3 albums, and wasn’t too keen on the fourth. So I didn’t need the duplication. Glad you stepped up! First two […]

You’re dead right about Hugh Banton – he’s too often overlooked; yet he’s the one who not only played but BUILT organs. He’s the one who once built an organ capable of playing notes sufficiently deep to physically […]

Oddly, they were massive in Italy. Pawn Hearts, and the Theme One single, both got to number 1 in the Italian charts, and their sold-out concerts were near-riots. At one point the military were called in to sort […]

Yup!

Just one breath and it’s instant death.

Hell, there’s never a “tears of laughter” emoji around when you need one.