Exactly! Maybe slightly more PC. Slightly…

I saw it yesterday and it’s a very odd film indeed. Despite this, it is doing excellent business and seems to be an international hit. As a wonky history of Queen, as others have commented, it plays fast and loose […]

I think the preferred nomenclature is “food non-averse” or even “curvy” friends. I could be wrong…

I’m pretty sure that in the days before downloads (and cover mounted free CDs) I would have played everything I bought as soon as I got home. I’ve specified several cars with in dash CD players (as well as the […]

Ha ha!

If the Jeff Buckley twofer is Mystery White Boy, I’d keep it unplayed if I were you. I really love Grace and Sketches for my Sweetheart…, but can’t bear his live recorded extemporisations.

Is that the same Bill Nighy who delivers the exact same flat, emotionless, “will this do?” performance in everything he does? Can’t bear him!

Snowflakes are Dancing – Tomita (or even, Tomato).

I attended a reception at the Italian embassy in London a couple of years ago. There were huge bowls of Ferrero Rocher chocolates all over the place.

PHANTOM THREAD. Boring, with a ridiculous plot, irritating characters and possibly the worst performance of Daniel Day Lewis’s very patchy career. I should really have learned my lesson after his collaboration […]

Floating in an isolation tank is similar. At first the racket from your body functions is intrusive and alarming, but after a while it seems to recede and the silence and calmness becomes almost total. Eventually […]

The problem with biopics is that there’s never a satisfactory third act. That and the wigs.

Given so many advances in CGI and the rest, wig technology is severely lagging – and lacking. I’m guessing the high […]

I think that might be “Less Than You Think” on A Ghost is Born. I may have endured it once, but never again. And never in the bath.

You’re welcome!

It does indeed! I’ve only ever listened to the radio while taking a bath – although I recall being able to listen to the TV while in the bathroom of a former palace in Vienna (now a vast hotel). But should I […]

Oh God, yes, All Request Friday may have been the straw that really broke this particular camel’s back. A couple of hours where the Great British Public demonstrated (demonstrates?) what they really really want to […]

Seconded (for both). Cosey FT’s book is exceptional. Although I kept wondering why she persevered with such ugly, confrontational and mostly uncommercial art (my opinion). Her dedication to that art and the […]

“It works better if you switch it on”. Applies to most electronic items.

Never say “watch this” when showing off in a car (may not apply to the mature AW demographic).

Actually, “avoid showing off in a […]

They completely crucified (sorry) Harvest for the World, which was odd as they seemed to be able to sing and harmonise pretty effectively on their own material Maybe that was the tipping point.

For me, “Tusk” is one of the few rock doubles that remains compelling from start to finish. And that’s been the case since its release almost 40 years ago. Two albums on the ECM label that once on remain on (chez […]