Is it Sid Vicious?

I don’t know, are we?

Thanks to U2 i know that MLK was killed on an April morning. Er….

It’s not My Bloody Valentine, is it?

I’m not sure he ever did.

A fantastic typically understated version from the Sheffield sociopolitical musical meisters. Should go down a hit with the many ABBA-loving AWers.

Mornington Crescent

I thought of Main or another of those post-rock Loop offshoots, but they probably aren’t big enough to get the attention of a music mag after their heyday, as much as there was one. Someone bigger, probably.

First, Fitterstoke, Manhattan

No need to apologise. German architecture can be as terrible and as brilliant as anything in the UK. A large part of Bonn is dominated by a fuck-off massive concrete Stadthaus/City Hall, that nobody but the […]

Is that the one heavily featured in Wings of Desire?

Yes, there’s a certain Ossie charm to the design and interior decor though it’s (gulp) now 17 years since I was there for that experience (40th birthday). By the way, for the alternative fashion-conscious, […]

I endorse Skirky on the TV tower restaurant – it revolves 360° at a very sedate pace as you dine, so you get to see the whole of Berlin below you.

That’ll be them thar mirror neurons a’workin.

Anyone going to Green Man 2026? I have been given a last minute chance to join thanks to @callcopse. Looks like it will be fun.

Berlin? I’ve been there twice, but not for a long time. Zu weit weg. The AW, however, keeps on going there: 2015 2018 2019 2023(1) 2023(2) 2025 There may be a few tips in those posts. Viel Spass!

Disagree. Basil Rathbone is Sherlock Holmes. Those cheekbones, the coldness in his eyes, the calm measured authority in his voice.

Funny, that – or not as is usually the case.

Well, I can. The poll asks people if they think drug use should be treated as a criminal issue, to which the answer is overwhelming yes (or yes & health issue). It is an interesting question – if you break the […]

I had little knowledge of what Hadleigh was (apart from the birthplace of Cradle of Filth and home to controversial sculptor Maggi Hambling, but gawdelpus if the remaining trio represents all human life. Maybe […]