The Undertones regularly play Teenage Kicks in the middle of the main set AND as an encore. Funnily enough the audience sometimes would rather have Get over you…

Tom Robinson in Leeds came on with the band and said “everyone prefers encores, dont they? so we are just playing one song”. Played it. Went off. Came back on to do the whole set. Well, I enjoyed it.

I think we can forgive new bands – first time I saw Everything But the Girl (Leeds Uni) they apologised and said they had played everything they knew, so would have to play something for a second time.

Yup, Johnson/ABC/17 appearing at the Piece Hall in August. ABC must have to work hard to pay for all the people on stage. I counted 11. They were fine. Human League were great. A 2 Keytar attack – never seen […]

I went to the AO (or MEN as we call it) with my wife, son and his girlfriend. We loved it. (son and girlfriend are at My Chemical Romance tonight so they are maybe not what you would expect). The “hits” element […]

There is apparently a german band called Rämouns – who do just that… surf songs in the style of The Ramones. Only heard one track so far but it works.

Another site report – but somewhat shorter. We only arrived on the Friday afternoon. Sabres of Paradise were indeed very good, but not my actual favourite. Los Bitchos lost something by being in the tent – they […]

What is ridiculous is that you can get that whole estate for the price of an end terrace in London…

Apologies for the late delivery from Avalon… 1. The Tubs – Cotton Crown 2. Lily Allen – West End Girl 3. Robert Plant – Saving Grace 4. Stereolab – instant Holograms on Metal Film 5. Warrington Runcorn […]

Not really got much to add but… 1. The Beatles Anthology 4 – I dont play any of the Anthology records much but they are very interesting. 2. Husker Du – The Miracle Year. I saw them in Leeds in 1986, and they […]

Which is only fair, given them nicking the intro to Ricki dont lose that number from Horace Silver’s Song for my father (apparently) and Gaucho from Keith Jarrett…

Seen: the Diplomat ahead od Season 3, and Andor ahead of Season 2 (yes I know i am behind the times). Had never seen Knives out till just now, and they were great fun so off to the premier on Wednesday (the […]

GLW listened to the audiobook fairly obsessively – she loved it. Robert Glenister is superb. I was listening to the new Slow Horses (Clown Town) and Sean Barrett is also superb. The choice of narrator is so […]

Read: Finished a re-read of V by Pynchon which started before we went to Malta in May and finished this month. Currently read a History of the Bible (for light relief) before starting Nick Harkaway’s Sleeper […]

It’s not a huge regret but my mates saying “oh god not another bloody Irish band you are trying to drag us along to” is why I never saw U2 at Leeds Uni…

I regret missing Nirvana at the Riverside. And Oasis (when they famously had a fight with the audience). God I loved that place.

Saw The Cure on their last tour from the last row of the First Direct Arena in Leeds – and it was surprisingly good sound and visuals. Not a great fan of enormodomes either, but they can work.

Most expensive ticket I ever bought (MCR) but worth it.

1. First Concert – The Pirates in a nightclub in Hull 2. Last Concert – Rag n Bone man – I was basically the driver for the night but better than I expected 3. Worst Concert- a recent one. Ian Brown live and […]

And surely this is all rather time limited – they have to make their money NOW. I’m not sure my 23 year old have ever heard of Bruce. (they HAVE heard of the Beatles). Soon us olds will be gone, or broke (or […]