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1.Bluebells/Sisters, expanded deluxe version 2.Blue Rose Code/Curios 3.The Legends of Tomorrow/The Weather at the Words End 4.Stone Foundation/Standing in the Light; 25 Years of Stone Foundation 5.Brinsley […]

Hmm, a chum of mine, elsewhere, is a GP in ‘Ull……. If your GP has long hair. is riddled in tatts, and has a beard, we “know” someone in common.

He’s still on the artist formerly known as Twitter.

Intrigued that Gillen was amongst the group of mainly musicians discussing Shane MacGowan on RTE’s Late Late Show

Saturday night at the Cambridge Folk fesival culminating in a triumphant performance from Niteworks.

Sad news. I remember him as the quiet and polite dread who accompanied his mother to GP appointments, early 2000s

I brain this post!

It isn’t her best, to be fair. Not a patch on her debut or the trio album with Ross Ainslie and a guitarist, name unremembered.

Sage comments, @hedgepig . I think you are a teacher and must be similarly deluged as I by parents wanting a diagnosis for their kids, whether a spectrum or just plain old “mental health”. The spectra, btw, I […]

Well I confess to not knowing of that, fellas. Which is fascinating and interesting, not least as my wife has EDS.

In defence of their list, those who like the Lankum might probably like the ØXN album, being not too dissimilar, and a whole lot better than the 70 odd places between them. Also contains Radie Peat, whose eerie […]

A myth? Nonsense, I have it on good authority he only got the job down to Aubrey Shields unavailability.

Good to see the Irish making a strong showing in the top 3. Not since the 1970s has there been such a surge of music from the island, folk derived and otherwise, laurels belatedly brushed after a few intervening […]

In other news, StornOway doesn’t have 2 a’s in it, which is my bloody spellcheck’s fault, denoting, likely, it has sassenach origins. But let’s have a tune that mentions the bonny borough, anyway:

I guess that the only reason to seek a “late” diagnosis of any of the “spectra” disorders is if there is an advantage in putting a name to it. I am near deluged by folk seeking adult diagnoses of ADHD, ASD and oth […]

I love how spellcheck offers advice when you are seeking an opinion.

Stornaway band Oxford are much better. in fact, any Stornaway band are better. A pox on ’em. (Sorry, I should have just scrolled past, but they make just as ghastly a racket this time around as half a decade ago. […]

(“Use the box”. yeah, right……)