Thank you!

Thank you @lunaman I remember this thread with fondness and it’s a proper who knows where the time goes moment reading it now… wow. Long live fray bentos!

That was it – a Backwards masterpiece

Oh please do post it! Blame me if Hepworth shows up in the middle of the night flinging coconuts at your front door

That reminds me – moon sausage?

This, exactly. Being of Muslim origin yet non-religious, I’m used to people asking “what do you lot want?” with varying degrees of sensitivity, whenever there’s an Islamist atrocity. It would be equally moronic […]

The Israeli narrative is one of perpetual victimhood. Talk to anyone who has lived in Gaza and you’ll see a different picture emerge (Mandatory declaration for avoidance of doubt: I am not anti semitic).

Fray Bentos

Well, my Spartan mono switch arrived and I set it up – took a couple minutes and it works like a dream. It’s definitely made a difference – I had a pretty good phono stage in my Leak amp and the phono stage in the […]

How about we have regime change in Israel?

Splendid haul! I also found that CSN+Y album in a flea market in Berlin recently. I also found a mint copy of ‘Beyond The Fringe’ from 1961, a gold Parlophone label, in a second hand record store here the other […]

The trouble with producers who push him (and genius or not, he’s always needed a tough producer/collaborator) is they tend to get handed their marching orders pretty quick. That said, true, ‘Chaos’ is a brilliant album.

Forget imminent World War Three, this is what I’m calling the UN in to referee

Here’s one of those occasions when the genius card was deployed post 73

Thanks for clarifying @jaygee – OK, I see what you mean

“Doubt the Iranians are worried. They seem to care as little for themselves and their own kids as they do about anyone else’s” Well having Iranian heritage and having visited the Tehran a few times to visit r […]

Apparently there’s a remake of Threads in the works, by Warp Films, who did Adolescence, This Is England, Little Birds etc.

The War Game is terrifying. I saw it once, I felt it made Threads look like Jackanory.

I think Vlad, Bibi, Ali, hell even Donny love their children and firmly believe they are building the world they dream of for them. If that involves killing innocent Ukrainians/Gazans/Iranians/Israelis, that is […]