I thought it was “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” It sort f makes sense to rest merry.

I will never forget that day. It was school sports day and no-one, teachers included, was paying any attention to the 100 metres or the tug o war. Everyone who could get near to a radio was glued to TMS.

What […]

I don’t think I’d heard the annihilation Mix for 30years and I can actually remember every word.

well ‘ard

First Single – Back Of My Hand – The Jags
First Album – Smash and Grab – Racey
First CD – Disco -Pet Shop Boys
First Gig The Jam – Wembley Arena Dec 1982. Their last London gig, supported by Big […]

The Jam – Going Underground / Dreams of Children

Wasn’t Mr Pooter PM from 1990 to 1997?

Perhaps weed counted as one (all) of your five a day

Thanks for this suggestion. Was there today and had a very nice sandwich and, as you say, no chips. Very friendly staff

I understand that the problem was that he failed to sign the release form before he died, so they don’t show them. I suspect it was more of an oversight than a deliberate act

Richard Hawley: “I read the other day the drinking is bad for you. Sod that I thought. So I’m giving up reading”

Can’t help but feel Billy Preston added something to this one from the HJHs.

https://youtu.be/od5JD5t41uA

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

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 […]

No bonds could ever tempt me from she

It’s an oldie, but it is a googie:

Davitt Sigerson – It’s a big Country

Bananagrams is a favourite chez Exile

And of course Audlem was a victim of the ever charming Dr Beeching. As remembered in this beauty

Flanders and Swann – The Slow Train

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

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”

The past is a foreign county; they do things differently there. LP Hartley, The GoBetween