Born and brought up in Bolton. Hindsight tells me that Bolton was in decline thanks to the death of the cotton industry but my young self was oblivious to all that. After school, I’d go round to a friend’s house […]

I didn’t have any problems when I was there a few weeks ago. It all seemed pretty clear and the machines were working fine. Entirely consistent with the pleasant in-store experience. Booths is so much better than Waitrose.

Don’t be alarmed by the backdrop picture of a lawnmower. I know what I like and I like Richard Thompson

This is the key point. ITV have tried to make this point but journalists aren’t interested in printing common sense. They prefer the click-bait about viewers shouting at their tv sets.

Reducing the number of replacements would be a brilliant change, @dai. Apart from reducing the number of overly bulky props – a massive benefit – it would also be helpful to teams with smaller pools of players. […]

Welsh rockers

This is a lot of fun! For no apparent reason, these three came to my mind

That’s tremendous. Made me want to listen to this too

I used to love those BBC sound effects records

He also co-wrote I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass. I saw The Rumour a couple of times, once back in the day and once on the comeback tour. Stupendous live act. All of them good musicians, none of them […]

Glad it wasn’t just me!

Compiling a list wouldn’t be too tricky for me as my Desert Island Discs haven’t changed for at least 15 years and probably wouldn’t change even now since the song choices all fit with particular memories. I’d […]

Interesting. Thanks. I saw Moving Pictures a couple of years ago and didn’t rate them. Maybe they’ve improved.

If she thinks the tribute act does a good job, please let us know the name of the band. I’d like to see a good Rush tribute act – though I’m still hoping that Geddy and Alex will bring the Rush Fifty Something […]

I’m surprised no-one has pointed out yet that one of the worst tribute bands doing the rounds nowadays is Fairport Convention.

I saw The Analogues and was surprised that I didn’t enjoy it. I think the reason was that their whole schtick is that they sound as close as possible to the originals and there is no real sense of show so that […]

I agree re Musical Box. I’ve seen them loads of times. Always excellent. Re-Genesis were good 15+ years ago. Not going to name the bad ones – they may have improved.

So much depends on the quality of the band – and possibly also on how well you know the original music. I’ve seen Genesis tribute bands be superb, very good and quite poor. The last example had a drummer who […]

That’s marvellous, Colin. Thank you!

Agreed, Max. Three days is a picnic. For about a decade, I cycled to work every day past the end of a road bearing the prominently signposted name, Willow Farm Lane. It was all but impossible to ignore and […]