I saw John Cooper Clarke in Berlin this week. I would therefore nominate the amphetamine Maserati drone of Evidently Chickentown

There’s a version of I’m A King Bee, very early on, dunno if it was ever officially released

Maybe one night she fell into conversation with a curmudgeonly old git at a bar and they planned a collaboration of words and music, but both got too battered to remember the next day and the world was denied a […]

Bit of Spacemen 3 for Raab and Leadsom, for a start.

I remember my dad telling me about his days as a house doctor at Ashford hospital in the mid-late 1970s. He was an orthopaedic surgeon and had his fair share of “I’d rather not have the Paki doctor please” from […]

“The front-runner’s team is actively trying to keep him out of it for now”

On what – ketamine? a line or two of Gove? A puff or three of Leadsom? A drag of Stewart?

A really good writer and a frequent Word contributor, IIRC.

I think they’ll be competing with Glenn Medeiros, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlotte Church and Shabba Ranks doing ‘She’s The Boss: Redux’

I just met him this evening! He was a very good egg. Friendly and happy to critique my George impression (“No, that’s too Scouse”).

It’s the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, “I shall never be PM”.

It is at that moment that all ambition ceases to exist.

Luckily, RS means to have the […]

Yeah but its Arwa Mahdawi, that’s what she does, fuelling the Twitterati at their most sanctimonious.

^^^^^^^^^

@Dai, yes – I read his autobiography recently and felt that there is no shortage of self-laceration and loathing more or less throughout and indeed, his account doesn’t exactly paint Portman as an unwilling […]

That Quo performance is tremendous, where, when? And I have a crush on that gorgeous violin player who grins at the camera at the end

goodfellas. gets better with age

Add a smidgen of Marmite to that sandwich and I am there. I don’t like Gentleman’s Relish. What on earth do they put in there?

Looking forward to this!

And father of Jemima Kirke, from ‘Girls’

One of my favourite drummers is the eternally ‘busy’ Stewart Copeland. This Beat Club performance is a case in point

And another master, the ‘perfitz’ Charlie Watts…

Question 3: I’m right, you’re wrong