Easter egg!

it’s dreamlike feel? That is hardly a crime these days – if so, it’s one many AWers commit and go unpunished for. Pedantry is like swordplay – too many slashes and it’s an attack, but a delicate slice here a […]

Typically detailed and evocative description of their music and its effect on you, tig – thank you. Like a good biopic that captures the essence of somebody and shows why it was making the film, thoughtful writing […]

That’s much, much more like it, BC – quality prose as I know and have enjoyed over the years from you. Thank you. A small typo – (with leads = which leads), but otherwise a great effort. Why have I turned into […]

Sounds intriguing. Songs that typically soundtrack gothic landscapes transposed to sunnier climes. It puts me in mind of travelling back to Venice in my 30s after being there in my teens. The first visit was a […]

It’s good to have the contrarian view – nobody should be afraid of being the boy pointing at the naked emperor.

Fantastic descriptions – they change how I hear the songs I think I know so well, help me hear them in new ways. Thank you.

Thank you Bamber. For a spur of the moment reactive post in reaction to an off the cuff remark from freddy, I was probably a bit cheeky demanding more from the AW massive than I was prepared to put in myself, but […]

Thanks for your lists, everyone. I might put them into a blender and see which three come out on top. Oh and Nick L wins the Attentive AW Award for answering the OP question in full. I asked for reasons and he […]

You probably don’t need reminding. But here they are, to prompt people looking at the column on the right

I told him Joy Division (he’s a big fan) only had 3 good songs. I feel a thread idea emerging…

I think he will be around another week or so, don’t you?

My tongue was in my cheek.

I am sure I will. My fear is that they are a droll comedy duo in the style of They Might Be Giants, Ben Folds 5, Randy Newman or Flight of Conchords (alienating even more people with my musical ignorance there). A […]

Names I know (apart from The Bug Club, Knats, Panic Shack). I will give them a spin. Anna Calvi sounded good as well, when I listened to her. Wolf Alice as well. Tamikrest I forgot to mention as one I have on […]

It’s the start of the summer school holidays, I took my daughters to the UK, we did some charity shopping in Witham (surprisingly good haul of books (including the Alan Bennett autobiography in the free section […]

I think you had more consistent time in Switzerland than I did, dai – I was only really there during the school holidays. That probably accounts for your more reasonable and fair-minded view of the Swiss Germans’ […]

In my experience, attempting to speak Hochdeutsch in Zürich got an immediate response in fluid and fluent English. One might as well have dressed up in an SS costume.