Sydney pubs are like McDonalds these days. Always being asked if you want to up-size from a schooner to a pint. Really,? You have to ask?

Thanks Junior. Actually it was my son’s idea this time around. Wife and daughter went because friends had to drop out. The kids are usually happy to go along to anything I suggest, they’re motto is ‘a gig’s a […]

I took the family to see The Lip’s second night at the Sydney Opera House. Two nights were obviously a stretch as the cheap tickets starting coming through a good week or two before the gig. Not being a massive […]

a) Queen 1979 at the Lyceum in London. This was their crazy Tour of relatively small venues. Freddie came out on Superman’s shoulders. What more could a 12 year old want? (Although I would have preferred Darth […]

A pair of Cerwin Vega XD-3’s attached to the PC

and their slightly larger brethren the XD-4’s in the garage.

Both have great sound and are solidly built.

The tracks weren’t tagged when I downloaded them, had to go through and add track, artist, album etc.
Only a quick flick through the tracks, but sounds good so far.

Harking back to your cartridge thread. I bought the Ortofon Blue and had to swap my felt mat (on a Rega Planar 3) for a thinner cork mat due to the height of the cartridge. No idea if it sounds any […]

Yeah it’s a cracker. Just Kennedy on this one. He’s done a remix album of it too called Subspace. Space was my introduction to AIR, thanks to their Bandcamp site I’ve filled in a lot of gaps.

A paltry 11

1. Paul Weller – True Meanings
2. Suede – The Blue Hour
3. All India Radio – Space
4. Belly – Dove
5. Riverside – Wasteland
6. Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers
7. Steven Wilson – Home Invasion
8. […]

A combination of an injury from a misspent youth and 30 odd years working in an office means I’ve had back problems most of my life. The chiropractor takes care of the injury (that resulted in Scheurmann’s […]

Gender – Male
Age (within 5 yr range) – 51-ish
Job/Profession – Information Analyst (no, I don’t know either)
Country of residence – Australia
Country of Birth – England

The ICC’s of the ‘pack em in, charge em lots’ breed of venues. Small uncomfortable seats, with leg room comparable to cattle class on a 747. We were in the nosebleed section for Stevie Nicks/The Pretenders, and […]

The Record Revirginizer http://recordrevirginizer.com/video.html is not only great for smut-based humour, but also works well on those deep gunk-filled grooves. If you can wait about 24 hours per record that is.

Saw The Pretenders supporting Stevie Nicks last. Can’t imagine a Pretenders world without Chrissie Hynde.

something like this?

Fire by Arthur Brown. In particular, the performance on Top of the Pops.

Of course being a mature and level-headed adult these days, I just find it amusing.

Actually, just watched it on youtube. Nope, […]

Mojo is now The Mojo Record Bar and is in York St. Pick up a slab of vinyl and a sup on some fine micro brews.

Egg records in Newtown is great, particularly when they get several crates of goodies all at […]

1. Outside
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Station to Station
4. Hunky Dory
5. Aladdin Sane