So in your CD collection, are they all filed under P, W, J or S?

or, for that matter, your herb garden?

oooh, is that ex-Magic Band Gary Lucas? After seeing him live a few years ago, I thought that was an avenue I should explore.

Reassure me that you don’t have a whole section for New Age. Good grief, I have shared whisky with you!

But dontcha just love filing Bjork under G?

but I definitely think of that as an African blues album rather than a Ry. To put it under C would, whisper it soft, put it under a different genre.

Don’t you mean ‘di Sagree’; file under S.

Mais non. As someone with quite a few francophone albums, I can instruct you to ignore the article. Le Vent du Nord are definitely filed under V.

My love for Breton music and dance presents another issue. By […]

You missed the bit about ‘rugby tackling it to the ground’. What an utter ars*wipe.

How very reassuring. Good to know we have a world class system.

Possibly too close to the ‘Artists whose large, rich and storied back catalogue has now been reduced to a single album’ thread.

Hadn’t heard of Sean Conway before, and it sounds like I should have done. That has really piqued my interest. I did LEJOG in 2002, and I remember exactly that feeling of seeing a thin strip of grey pointing […]

Yes, that’s how I feel about my local regulars. I actually think the lack of commitment to each other is one of the advantages – take it or leave it, no obligation to be there. It also means I can enjoy their […]

Social distancing at urinals is my favourite part of the new normal.

I did indeed.

If I am free of a Saturday lunchtime, as will inevitably be the case tomorrow, I like to cycle the three miles to one of the three pubs in the next village. It’s a very horsey village – the ex council houses are […]

Having loads of extra spare time to listen and read remains an illusion, but I am grateful for being one of those still full time employed. That said, over the last three months, there has been just enough […]

You’d be right to expect garden imagery to abound in folk music. It’s always a pleasure to meet and hear Julia sing at festivals around the country; here she is in a caravan at Upton Folk Festival performing A […]

In folk terms, Chris Wood is one of my favourite hitmakers. He recently did a lockdown gig while sitting in his wheelbarrow. On his Handmade Life album, he manages to get the word ‘allotment’ into not one, but […]

A screensaver, you say? I suspect that that …er… obelisk, in the middle of the lawn might make it NSFW.