Inconceivable.

As I understand it, The Waterboys’ “A Girl Called Johnny” is about Patti Smith.
Richard Thompson’s “That’s All, Amen, Close the Door” is about Sandy Denny.
And Robyn Hitchcock’s “Listening to The Higsons” is ( […]

Thanks Colin, that’s a great read. I’ve maintained for a while now that things are sometimes easier and more convenient for The Man without the meddling of those pesky artists. I mean I liked the Rory Gal […]

Nice Tele, if a bit road-worn. I see he (Gilmour) kept that one, then?

More admiration and respect for Mr. Gregson over this way. I think I may be one of the few people who has everything from the Any Trouble discography (including two different coloured vinyl versions of the second […]

Condensed milk, and dripping on toast. Two separate entries there. Jesus, if I tried feeding my offspring lard on toast with a sprinkling of salt to pep it up these days they’d lock me up.

There was a good version of Dylan’s ‘Sweetheart Like You’. If he flew in that day, she (Amanda Kramer) did an even better job than I thought she had.

I used to live on corned beef bolognaise. Then I learned to cook.

I think it’s fair to say that Kilbey’s ‘jetlag’ had been shifted fairly comprehensively by the time the gig started.

We didn’t get into our nearest school, and indeed have to walk past it – and the pupils and parents going to and from it – on our walk there and back. It’s about a mile. We don’t drive because it takes exact […]

Isn’t that the point made above, though? “I take a good look at who it is before I start abusing anyone…”.
So if it’s (say) a smaller man, a woman or a child, that’s okay..?

Splendid work, Sir!

Upon seeking to preserve images of one of our sessions for posterity we discovered that the digital camera’s start-up tone was in the same key as the song we were recording and so duly incorporated it. And this o […]

Oh, well played!

Honourable mentions for The Rails, Hothouse Flowers (I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anything more Irish in my life), and the Laurel and Hardy cabaret.

I have heard tell of such things, but have never experienced them personally in seven years of BD’ing, that time a drunk tried clambering over the fence and was thoroughly laughed at before being escorted away b […]

Surely the lodestone of rightness in this thread is Neil Young’s A Man Needs a Maid?

‘In the last verse, Young describes watching a movie and falling in love with the actress. This is an autobiographical ref […]

See you there. Just part of my continuing series of gigs featuring members of The Church with a far better-looking sidekick. Just Peter Koppes with a harp player to go after this.

Just as I was thinking “That drummer’s just pure Ringo” he threw in a bit of the Abbey Road drum solo. Good work, masked batteriste!