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SouthernExile commented on the post, Musicians’ Witticisms 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Richard Hawley: “I read the other day the drinking is bad for you. Sod that I thought. So I’m giving up reading”
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Come in, sit down, my you’re looking well. 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Can’t help but feel Billy Preston added something to this one from the HJHs.
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Musicians’ Witticisms 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Didn’t someone (possible also George Melly) also say of the similarly wrinkled W H Auden ‘Imagine the state of his b**ls’ or words to that effect
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SouthernExile commented on the post, The perennial appeal of a prim, Belgian pedant: Hats off to Hercule! 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Have you read this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Age-Murder-Martin-Edwards/dp/0008105987/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=golden+age+of+murder&qid=1564489290&s=gateway&sr=8-1
It is a history of the Detection Club and the […]
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Dismal Lyrics in Pop Music 4 months, 2 weeks ago
No bonds could ever tempt me from she
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Genuinely Good Christmas Songs – another list 8 months ago
It’s an oldie, but it is a googie:
Davitt Sigerson – It’s a big Country
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Family game suggestions 9 months, 1 week ago
Bananagrams is a favourite chez Exile
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Encounters with Civilians #2 9 months, 2 weeks ago
And of course Audlem was a victim of the ever charming Dr Beeching. As remembered in this beauty
Flanders and Swann – The Slow Train
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SouthernExile commented on the post, White album preview 10 months, 1 week ago
The Esher Demo is lovely. And I’d say, given George’s love of the uke, he might have been listening to George Formby. And that, in my book, is no bad thing
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SouthernExile commented on the post, That thing you wish you’d said 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Isn’t there a (probably apocryphal) tale of Kelvin McKenzie sacking the psychic on the S** by sending them a letter beginning “as you will already know”
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Best Opening Lines Of Everything, Ever 12 months ago
The past is a foreign county; they do things differently there. LP Hartley, The GoBetween
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SouthernExile commented on the post, All That Reckoning 1 year, 1 month ago
I was always quite pleased with our version of To Live Is To Fly:
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SouthernExile wrote a new post, The Rolling Stones – every album ranked! 1 year, 3 months ago
I’m not going to argue with the top two, except maybe for the order. But I would perhaps make a case for the inclusion of Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Beatles or Stones; both or neither? 1 year, 3 months ago
…and the answer would be Pulp.
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Famous Misspellings 1 year, 4 months ago
A friend once referred to the Arctic Mondays.
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Greatest female vocalists 1 year, 4 months ago
I’d like to mention Kate Rusby. And here she is from the Cambridge Folk Festival.
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SouthernExile commented on the post, An elephant walks into a room 1 year, 4 months ago
I’ve never seen an elephant in a cherry tree
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Obituaries 2018 1 year, 5 months ago
This was a nice piece about her:
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Yeah, sure, we might need one of those…luxury session musicians 1 year, 7 months ago
Or perhaps Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode, who must be one of the very few band members who have the role of “Accountant”
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SouthernExile commented on the post, Forgotten Bands 1 year, 7 months ago
I fondly remember a Mod Revival band called Mood Six. I wonder if Im the only one. This was my favourite:
(Hanging Around by Mood Six) - Load More
