He still performs, in possibly the same stage garb as were the singles videoed in, if now threadbare and held together with patches and dragging yarns. as his guitar, a more battered acoustic than even willie […]

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Yup!

Better late than never…..

I must dig out my old yellow cover eponymous Focus sampler, put out by polydor in 1974.

Just in today, the AOTY by an old guy still performing, Cyril Neville’s Don’t Wait Til I’ve Gone. OK, most of the riffs and rhythms are recycled N’Awlins staples, but a stellar family cast make it entirely fresh a […]

Little mention of the album’s producer?

As ever, Clarkson confounds. How such an unlikeable man can write so well; having me wanting always more, and to buy his newspaper from time to time appals me. The content here, however, is, as he says himself, in […]

Yikes, sounds awful, @izzy, and I don’t mean the music. (Although….) Are there no other options?

It was; my mistake. I quite like Mark Radcliffe, at least by comparison.

It’s a good album. But you know that.

Just fast/slow/fast forwarded thru it. By and large pretty insipid fare. Like Feedback, I thought Peter Hamill did himself most credit, and I thought the orchestration worked well. By and large, however, the […]

It really is, @MC-Escher, . Sure, the songs are broadly the same construction but it is as if the architect is completely different. Works equally stand alone as complementary; I prefer it.

There have actually been a few crackers this year. JAZZ AOTY: Stramash 2 by Colin Steele SOUL/R’N’B AOTY: Real Life Evolution by Joan as Police Woman SINGER/SONGWRITER AOTY: Doing This For Love by Kris […]

Featuring Matt (son of Dave) on bass.

Just back from Jim Moray. So convinced he was that he wouldn’t be doing an encore he didn’t even put one on his on floor setlist. Played the last song, pre-announced it as such and said goodnight, hot footing it […]

All killer, no Miller.

Don’t forget Natalie Merchant and Eliza Carthy were on the Mermaid Ave collab.

Blackbushe good, Phoenix festival awful. That’ll do for me.

Chumbawamba & Black Lace famously covered each others songs, through a mutual link to producer and studio. I think Black Lace actually appear on one of the Chumbawamba albums too, unable to remember which.