Leave that Welsh tart alone!

Comedian, writer, librettist and historian Terry Jones has run up the curtain and joined the choir invisible at 77, after a long degenerative illness.

Anyone who, like me, was weened on Python and went to school […]

Meh. Quite enjoyed it as a straightforward war movie, but its by no means a cinematic masterpiece. The script is pretty limp and predictable and the character development is poor; I found I really didn’t much […]

When I read or hear the term ‘genderqueer’ , my first association is always Orwell’s Newspeak. Probably doubleplus age catching up with me.

I certainly don’t think English Rose requires repeated listening but it has an awkward, embarrassing, clunky fourth form poetry character which is strangely endearing.

A “handful” is a still more than me. Heard twice. Must have been interesting at the time of release. But don’t need to listen to it again.

Anthemic? Hmm. Let us be honest. The theme for Flash Gordon is just ear-grindingly terrible in every respect.

It sounds very marginally better now it has been altered for use in those floor cleaner adverts.

Adele’s ‘Skyfall’ is by no means bollox, nor does it sound out of sync with much of her other output.

The fan’s perception of the role and art of the rock star is (almost) always at odds with the rock star’s own perception of themselves. For so many fans, the object of their admiration is often inflated to […]

Ace were on the short lived Anchor Records (who also released the immortal Gary Gilmore’s Eyes by The Adverts).

Colosseum were on Vertigo.

3. Chiswick Records, who are now part of Ace. The next line of that Thin Lizzy song is “Teddy Boy’s got ’em all” and refers to stall owner and label founder Ted Carroll – who was also Lizzy’s manager).

8. “1917 […]

Ahem. Just a cotton pickin’ moment there, Wolfie. I refer you to the Obituaries 2020 thread, specifically my post of 10.51 am yesterday.

My solicitor, who has been known to leave orphans homeless on Christmas […]

Instead she used to say this. Not really.

To my eternal regret, my Gran never once said “Beechwood 45789” when answering her phone.

She lived in Putney, so that’d explain it.

The RNLI is the Royal National Lifeboat Institute , the folk who staff the rescue lifeboats stationed around the UK’s coastline. Long history of ridiculous bravery in very scary conditions.

Question for Aussie AWers.

I was surprised to learn that the firefighters tackling these blazes are volunteers. Bit like the RNLI in the UK, these are ordinary but very brave people choosing to place their […]

Didn’t see that coming.

I wouldn’t know what a scrobble was if it hit me in the face, but well done on achieving so many of them. You are knocking them scrobbles out of the park, dude!

I ran for a bus last year, but missed it. Never again.

There’s a copper at the door asking us to turn down the trombones.

One for all those with the sniffles