On the recent ‘album to album’s podcast Nicholas Pegg mentions that the dame makes self reference on three of his songs. Chronologically the last of these was his cover of cactus. Sadly, it was not on his eponymous album.

Never seen that before, really good. I’m only aware of his kraftwerk stuff.

We’ve had this on in the office a few times recently. I assume it’s a comedy record-

Meanwhile in response to the original post, wasn’t the 2018 UK Christmas number one a novelty hit?

I’ve only got their self titled second album, which I think has quite a different vibe to it. Not sure why I never went back for a listen, but I shall do a bit later on.

I was at that gig. Support came from Drugstore, if I remember correctly. Jeff did a cover of kick out the jams and his debut album in full. My only trip to the Shepherds Bush empire.

Town and Country Club gig was the hottest/sweatiest gig I ever went to. Great times!

In the eighties football stadiums didn’t pay for themselves. Watford FC are probably very thankful for Nikita, I’m still standing et al.

If you’re doing the crossing regularly you could probably set up a direct debit.

That’s a great video, isn’t it?

I feel for my work colleague- not only is his wife insisting upon hairuary, or whatever it’s called, but she’s also got them both on dry January. I would’ve thought that the alcohol would have helped soften the […]

Just out of interest, is that a new (re-released) copy of the Spectrum album? I remember when it came out that we all thought the goo in the sleeve would escape amongst the rest of our record collection, or just […]

Thank you for asking, Blue Boy. Had a good year (I think). Work’s tough as we deal with cuts in the NHS- Because of financial cuts we get to deal with problems we otherwise wouldn’t deal with, which leads to […]

Great podcast. I do have an idea for a new year’s podcast, whom should I pm?

I thought it was a bit sad that they clearly didn’t have the rights to use any of their (well, I assume their) music from 30 years ago. Watching it also made me reflect that you (thankfully) don’t hear their […]

Merry Christmas, one and all. Here’s my top 20, which I fear is pretty much white blokes with electric guitars. As most new music comes to me via the medium of 6music or one of the usual music magazines, then this […]

Sorry Lodey. I’ll get my arse in gear. It won’t be worth the wait

I’ve put in for the Ireland test at Lord’s. Here’s hoping.

Quite a few gigs (well, for me) with Sleaford Mods and Corduroy coming to town. A trip to London to see Plastic Mermaids (who have an album out soon) and a possible trip to see HMHB too. No big gigs or festival […]

That is good!