As I mentioned elsewhere prince’s Sign o the Times is only £1.99 on iTunes.
I’ve been playing that and Stop Making Sense last two days while “working”.

And living in Grimsby, you’d welcome it I suppose?
(40 years out of Hull and the local prejudices are live and kicking)

Not quite a kindle bargain, but Prince’s concert film Sign O’ the Times is £1.99 on Itunes. Not sure if this is permanent.
80s as anything.

Its what you get when you come from Hull (and that was a good decision), study in Leeds, live in Manchester then Bradford and support Liverpool.
No, its not my original accent. But have you heard a Hull accent?

But the BBC radio adoption of Night Watch with Philip Jackson as Vimes is brilliant.
As has been said before “the pictures are better on radio”.

I believe City Watch has now been downgraded to “inspired by” […]

My wife is from “the industrial bit south of Glasgow” (as she always puts it). After 25 years in the north of England her accent is still the first thing people notice. Its only when she goes back to visit her […]

I take it everyone has seen the awful “Geordie” in the detective series Castle?

How on earth did we not have Carry on up the Star Wars?
Now you mention it, it practically casts and writes itself.

Can I suggest Jim Dale as Luke?

Sorry to be negative, but I assume you want people to be honest. I don’t think I’d pay anything.
Going to a gig was always a lot about the experience (I am sure a lot of people think the same) and I don’t find […]

I’m not a LZ fan, but loved Raising Sand and Band of Joy.

They do indeed give splendid live gig – particularly now that they have realised that their position is headling minor festivals. I saw them down the bill at Latitude and they looked miserable. (They were […]

Fragments is a masterpiece.

Reamde is his attempt at an airport blockbuster I feel. You can notice the set pieces for if it was adapted as a movie or miniseries. I rather enjoyed it.
Anathem is superb, but not for the uncommitted.
About […]

The Ghost Brigades is the second in Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series – which is a modern riff on Heinlein in the vein of Starship Troopers (the book NOT the movie). Personally I think his recent Collapsing Empire […]

Seconded. Funnier too

So is there such a thing as a good Charlie Parker introductory CD?
I am aware that his recording history is a mess, and that he did a lot in a short time, and do already like the bits I know (Camarillo, riff, few […]

Shoes, and a whole load of fillings.
So, yup – posh.
Still used the 6 vowel all the time though.

Microdisney and the Go-Betweens for me.

I’m 58 and used to live round the corner from the Sisters. Between 48 and 62 I’d say.
Be Bop Deluxe add a few years on. They were just about before my time.60 to 64?

I’m from Hull and had a mum, but my friend had a mam. Is that why they called me posh at school? Or just because I didn’t have any criminal convictions?