I never saw them with Jay B, but live they are incredible and I agree that Nels has made a huge difference. Current best band in the world? They must be up there.

I’m not so sure (about Wilco). The last few albums have been disappointing (Star Wars, Schmilco barely registered chez Firefly). I’m beginning to think the Jay Bennett years were the best. But hope springs […]

and scraping…

Folk dancing isn’t without its charms.

Todd Rundgren (and Utopia for Ra)

Broooooce!

PoP due a reappraisal, I reckon…

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.