Philip K Wrigley – son of the company’s founder. No idea what the K stood for. I rather like the idea of being immortalised (or maybe not entirely immortalised…) in a food (kind of) product.

Yes, the endless trudging through the Steppes can be a tough sell to the lads, but the ones who haven’t left / lapsed into unconsciousness / confiscated the remote from me perk up for the raid on Vladimir and the […]

1 – Bonnie and Clyde – 1967
2 – Lamerica – 1994
3 – Heat – 1995
4 – Andrei Rublev – 1966
5 – Live Flesh / Carne Tremula – 1997
6 – Calvary – 2014
7 – Senna – 2010
8 – Three Colours: Red – 1994
9 – The […]

It’s a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World

An excellent list, with one exception. I went to a screening of “Life is Beautiful” at whatever London Film Festival it first showed at. Having endured Mr Benigni in “Johnny Stecchino”, I had intended to avoid him […]

Me too. I wish they would come up with some new material.

1 – If you Wait – London Grammar
2 – Lost in the Dream – The War on Drugs
3 – De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta
4 – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
5 – The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
6 – Queen of […]

Baerwald’s 1990 album Bedtime Stories is also worth investigating, although the Larry Klein production is quite dated. With David Ricketts – the other David – he was heavily involved in Sheryl Crow’s breakthrough […]

1 – Grace – Jeff Buckley
2 – Boom Town – David and David
3 – Soro – Salif Keita
4 – The Colour of Spring – Talk Talk
5 – Maria McKee – Maria McKee
6 – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy – Sarah McLachlan
7 – New Gold […]

28. The Scream, Siouxsie and the Banshees?

I thought it could be the Outlaws, but I still enjoy their first album. And I’ve always preferred “Green Grass and High Tides” over “Free Bird” in the niche category of “Southern rock songs with multiple lead […]

16. Cheap Trick
18. Gordon LIghtfoot?
22. The Allman Brothers?

Is number 3 “Metal Machine Music” by Lou Reed?

Is number 5 “Autobahn” by Kraftwerk?

Good point, although when I did this a few months ago it came up with something completely different!

Goggles loaning appeal, which I rather like. I may stand forlornly outside the local lido and see how I do.

Many years ago, while living in L.A., I dated a Chalice. She had a sister named Casel and a brother named Galen.

Damn! I paid full (Kindle) price. But it is worth it. One of the best coming of age (with music) books I’ve read in ages. Funny and moving too. I love his lack of awareness and he has pinpointed how it feels to […]

Until the lockdown started, I had been trying to do or experience something new every week and Trout Mask Replica was on my list*. Nope. Didn’t get it at all I’m afraid – and I like challenging music (Sunn O))), […]

Oh, and stick a lightbulb where the sun don’t shine (slight paraphrase). Whenever he hits a new low, he manages to sink even deeper. Appalling.