“Sent me home with some aspirin and a reduced vocabulary” – you’ve not lost your sense of humour anyway, @badartdog. A vivid description of the whole experience – it might benefit someone else reading. And, I too […]

The notorious OMD elves – they sneak in during the night and clock up repeat plays of History Of Modern on your phone. It’s a nuisance, but I put up with it cos they save me a bundle on shoes..

Bandcamp seems to be the only site that recognises that once the Afterworder has listened to, for example, Depeche Mode’s Violator album all (s)he wants to is enjoy the silence of completion. (*Yes – put down y […]

..Er a bit of an outlier here: my listening age is 16! Apparently I wasted 17 days listening to Spotify (and I was on Tidal for two months back in Spring).

This year’s Quietus 100 is up. I can see how sampling it all might test your nut, but if you read the little snippets of reviews you can be guided to some real treats. So far I am extremely grateful to them for d […]

Her album will feature on my end of year list. And, yes, there were some real bangers on the first one too. It’s not that long ago we were trying to claim her on account of her Irish Da..

-> ..sold a lot of t shirts though (how does that money get sliced up?)

*Boom Tish*

DeramdA.I.ze?

That you, of all people, “Retro” (if that is your real name), should be asking for some new in this, of all years… 2025: the year the glossies put records by Pulp and Suede at, or near, the top of their pile […]

Ever so slightly off topic, but I’ve just watched Sunday Best on Netflix, which is about Ed Sullivan who was a mainstay of late night tv in the U.S. for a couple of decades. He selected all the live acts for his s […]

Begs the question: who’s the biggest Willie in pop? Maybe the one who wrote Crazy?

Yeah, cos the start of Call It What You Want when people think it’s going to be Smells Like Teen Spirit is seven seconds..

I was under the impression that, owing to a lack of funds, BBC 4 don’t make new docs anymore? Could this be something I’ve seen before?

Loveable pop music doesn’t date, ya prannock!

Watched the first episode of The Persuaders thanks to @chrisf‘s tip over on the Thunderbirds thread.. .. wait a second – is that the prototype of the Sportsnight theme from 3.50 onward..?

Four volumes from one so fresh-faced? ->

Yes, it was a 3pm kick off for us. Fortunately no football of note to compete. Actually, in these episodes you notice how Scott gets himself ensconced in a nice warm control room, while urging Virgil and Gordon […]

Quality info @chrisf. I did wonder whether this review belonged in “Films” or “Nights Out”, as it appears there was only one single showing over here (and the small audience suggests they got that right), so I do […]

“Cushioned by prosperity”… sounds positively lovely. I will be adopting that in future..