Excellent news!
May he liberate his typing fingers from those driving gloves soon..

Yes, Van.
I’m quoting from Uc**t, @Jaygee. I have not listened and don’t expect I will.
(Just pointing out that 8 is almost universal, 7 just about competent and you’ve got to drop a real turd to only get a 6 if […]

“His most visceral album in years”. Any “most .. in years” will drag you up from an utter cack 6 or a poor and frankly avoidable 7..

Amateur-ripped mp3s they might be, but the 3 Feet High ones still sound better than the f*ckin’ record!
The wee Scotty inside me record player has never forgiven me for pushing the volume so far up into the red f […]

A Valentine’s Day gift, no less ♥️

Seemed like a fun geezer and the Nighhawks programme (briefly) dragged RTE kicking and screaming into the contemporary world.
Also fixed a certain hard-to-like athlete’s record time in my mind forever with h […]

I read the first line too quickly and thought you wrote Ian Brown. The picture in my head of him barking like a seal while picking …one …note …at …a …time on a wee ukelele with his clumsy chimp paws did […]

Ha! Pre-COVID, when I visited my sister, it was roughly 50% about visiting my dead Mum’s dog..

Can’t open the page anymore, dude..

I always find it fascinating how disproportionate the hatred for IJCTSILY is to the the degree with which it deviates from the mean. You can see how folk who love guitar anthem Radiohead find their subsequent […]

Gobfiller v Schlong

Cleo Laine could only “Oop be boop” in her twenties. She was in her thirties before inspiration struck and she thought to add the “de doop doop”

“Bands!”. “Guitar solos!”. I believe this is the sort of thing that prompted the coining of the expression “Okay, Boomer..”

Oh, très drôle, hedgepig. The great thing about science is the golden age is always now – to be the one stood atop the human pyramid of giants.
And for a POS like me to be able to both witness and benefit from w […]

Very informative, fortuneight. Your third paragraph above sounds like a field day for the world’s worst criminals, mind..

To be fair to the ‘E, it balanced out a lot of its not-so-dope pushing with that “Would you pay £4 million for this crap?” Sigue Sigue Sputnik cover..

I’m getting a chubby..

I remember the review of the Whatever single, (which came out just before Christmas) in the NME said something like “From Love Me Do to Hey Jude in less than a year”.
We should note that this is knowing, ton […]

Always a concern when names drop out of the conversation. Very sad to hear and sorry for you retro.

“Expect nothing” is a great policy for all situations.
That’s the whole problem with Christmas: you know it’s coming on December 25th and you know you’re going to get something. So the whole of November […]