Exactly. JG has the sparkly 50s stomp required for thumbs in belt torso twisting glam boogie.

This thread prompted me to visit ebay where I’ve just ordered a second hand vinyl copy for around 20 quid. You’re right – it is simply one of the greatest live albums there is. I still remember that hairs on the […]

One of the many albums that has mysteriously vanished from my collection – loaned, ‘borrowed” etc – over the years was a copy of ‘Dream Letter: Live In London 1969’ which I bought in the late 80s after a 5 star […]

And when the deputy speaker of the Knesset calls for the killing of all men in Gaza, it’;s of course perfectly understandable when the governments of all civilised nations express their deep concern and revulsion […]

Yes, I can see the crassness and offensiveness of Vylan’s crowd chants and like I said, it’s totally stupid and counterproductive. I just find it astonishing that the Govt seems to have woken up and got themselves […]

While I don’t think yelling “Death to the IDF!” as a singalong chant is particularly clever, helpful or positive, it’s heartening to see that – despite even more misery in Gaza overnight as aid supply chains break […]

It would feel odd, the Roses reuniting to do Glastonbury- feels like their time has passed. Personally holding out for a Hooky-augmented NO but well, that;’s about as likely as the Roses.

Reading that bilious screed I just felt that Brendan O’Neill is a man in need of a hug. Or a medical intervention.

I had a similar Cale epiphany when I saw him play Close Watch in an old church on the coast in Bari, many many many years ago. Likewise “The Thoughtless Kind”

Excellent, many thanks for this primer – I am off to investigate some Rockin’ Dopsie…

My Zydeco knowledge is woefully poor so I kept expecting it to turn into “That Was Your Mother” off Graceland but I really like it

I remember reading an REM interview back in the day when Peter Buck was asked what was his one touring essential. Bottle of Tabasco.

The last train back to Pinner has left me stranded on not a few occasions 😉

A fellow cheese-dodger. Thank God. I was at a lunch this afternoon where I had the usual conversation when this comes up “What, all cheese? Even [insert name of some obscure variant of the rancid […]

Of course there is this

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?