Hah, not heard that one.

Back in the day, boy + guitar was catnip to me but I have learnt my lesson. Trouble. #notallguitarists

I did think about this for quite a while, and teenage me would have drawn up a list (Weller, Drake, Johnny McElhone from Altered Images).

Now I think they’re all TOO MUCH BLOODY TROUBLE.

If you’re twisting […]

Yes, I suspect I will spend the rest of my life doing the pride/worry swerve. My mistake was thinking that life would get easier as I got older; I think the trick is to lower one’s expectations. 🙂

Same to you- […]

Thanks, Twang, appreciated. There’s an ongoing hum of anxiety broken with the occasional crisis but this is how it will be for quite a while, I guess. I just have to find bites of time and small things for myself, […]

An odd year where a lot seems to have happened, yet (perhaps because of those events) it has flown by.

My partner has a long-term serious health condition which means that relapses are always round the corner. […]

Thanks @Bargepole, trying (slowly) to get back into the swing of things. 🙂

Sorry @Twang, just seen this. Thank you! Will try and be around more in the NY.

Right, off to read about Michael Flynn’s sentencing……

Yeah my pod addiction is very bad. I had to go through and unsubscribe to a few, not through lack of interest but just not enough time.

It’s really good-he is a bit more unleashed. Report back!

Hi Dave,

PSA is amazing. You should try Lovett or Leave it: more ‘fun’ but with a serious bite. (Lovett is my favourite.) Crooked Conversations is OK (very good on occasion) but a little bit too niche, […]

Thanks, Lodey. Am around but have little to say re: music. I am still interested in new releases (and reissues) on an intellectual level but it feels a bit pointless as I know damn well that even if I buy them, I […]

Tell a lie- bought the ‘Maniac’ soundtrack but that was Netflix-fuelled.

I’m quite comforted to read these comments. I haven’t bought one album this year, and if you’d have told me that two years ago, or even last year, I would have been incredulous.

My immediate reaction was that I […]

So glad to hear this. Very pleased for you. It must be very reassurring and heartening to have so many supportive people around you.

Yes, that’s it- they weren’t what I expected, at all. At the same time, at the same club I think, I heard ‘Alone Again Or’ and I was off. (Totally different, of course, but I went off at another musical tangent. […]

I think a couple of misjudged threads and/or posts has definitely had an effect on people posting.

From my own perspective, I am more interested in new music these days and there isn’t much of it discussed […]

I heard Vitamin C aged about 18 and it changed my muscial landscape. Enter (predictably) Neu, and so on.

So yes, women can like Can.

[GENERALISATION ALERT] I suspect more men than women are interested in the […]

I don’t. I do like tea though.

@mousey Yeah, that takes things to a slightly more…. stalkery plane.

@Wilson_Wilson Noooo! Z all the way.

I was named after The Hollies’ ‘Sorry Suzanne’. I would love to think I was named after Leonard Cohen’s song, although that would be a hell of a lyric to live up to.

(Lou Reed’s ‘Suzanne’ is surely one of his […]

I find the repetition of my comment awkward and uninsightful.