Doing the West Highland Way a few years back, you walk the wrong side of Loch Lomond from civilisation, but there is one spot where, if you ring a bell, a ferry comes across from the hotel on the opposite shore. A […]

Her run of 80s albums were superb and saw her several times. Saw her a year or 2 back and she was shite, full of self-reverence and over-abundant ego.

Second vote for Lich; moved here in 2003 from Solihull, which is of no merit, beyond handy for the ever improving Brum. But as downsizing and stopping work returns to the horizon, we are constantly admiring places […]

Hope to be on the Windermere ferry in about 3 weeks time. Possibly at Broughty Ferry the week before but uncertain whether there is still one since they bridged the Tay. Funny wee toun tho’

Less about you, please, @stevet 😍

Another good reason why we must TAKE BACK CONTROL Bloody European experts. At least there will be no cars post brexit

My old fiat panda turned itself off every time I stopped. Indeed, so eco conscious was it that it did it also during gear changes.

i Love covers, me, discovering the movement a couple of years back. Fine stuff and a good idea.

I share your disappointment with the Skye bridge, even tho it is now free. However handy it is, I still prefer the 2 ferry options that exist to get across. I spent a memorable summer visiting as many of the […]

That bridge is astonishing, mind, starting a a tunnel, deep in Malmo train station, and diving under the sea, before popping up again, half way across, finishing the trip to Copenhagen as a bridge. The Danes also […]

So, in full circle, back to Michael Marra

Did anyone (else) read this as a doco by the R2 midmorning PopQuizmaster?

The Weight has to be amongst the most covered of songs in popular music, as in decent covers

Arf, and the first prize is always a ticket for next week, the second prize 2 tickets for next week…..

Unless…..

Furthest south?

Another irish island, Clare Island…
Saw Doctors.

Chamber jazz is perhaps the term, and can be delightful. (Can, it’s true, be dull as well.)
Gwilym Simcock has form here.

(Minds me a bit of Keith Emerson, mind. (What you say, @mousey ?)

Fiachra Tench (Pogues, Sinead etc) and Dickson Hinchcliffe (Tindersticks) are two of my favourites .

How about this one, then? Ivan Drever

(OK, I know, it is his dad, erstwhile singer of the estimable Wolfstone)