Macavity: The Mystery Cat (almost) fits perfectly with Cool for Cats.

I think you started this thread in order to make this very joke.

I’ll get to both Bring Up The Bodies and The Mirror and the Light at some point. I have them sitting on my bookshelf, courtesy of my father-in-law.

Just Read:

I always try and have book on the go. I’ve recently finished reading Simon Heffer’s Victorian/Edwardian history, THE AGE OF DECANDANCE. Before that I read ONE TWO THREE FOUR – THE BEATLES IN TIME, […]

Mrs Japanese and I had a daughter in January 2020. It turns out there are some things more important than music.

Since Tiny Japanese was born at the beginning of the year, we have referred to hers as ‘explosions’.

Sadly, that’s the only five minutes of the band getting on that they could find in all 56 hours of footage.

Anybody else looking forward to what Peter Jackson manages to do with the 56 hours of EU/UK Brexit negotiation footage that are no doubt around somewhere? Boris and Barnier dancing around the table etc

I’m obviously in the minority here, because I enjoyed it. I’m not sure why people were expecting McCartney to be interrogated, or if they were expecting him to suddenly reveal something he hasn’t mentioned in the […]

Interesting that you say The Beatles were considered passé. During one of his interviews (possibly for the Nothing is Real Podcast, though I can’t be sure) Lewisohn told a brief story about how during the first […]

Instead of a mince pie, we’ll leave a bottle of hand-sanitiser on the table for him.

Well if Bob Dylan headlines…

Question for those who were around in 1980. Was it the manner of his death that shocked, or his age, or the (perhaps sudden) realisation that even The Beatles weren’t immortal?

As I’ve not got the Spotify Wrapped. I will list the 7 albums I’ve listened to most* between 2016 and 2020.

1. God Help The Girl – God Help The Girl
2. The Beatles – Please Please Me (2009 Stereo)
3. Can – […]

I’m young enough that ‘Three Lions’ was the first single I ever bought. Mainly due to Covid-19 related reasons, I’ve not set foot in HMV all year. I’ll no doubt look at the Best of 2020 lists and they’ll be […]

No votes for the Shakin’ Stevens box set that’s just come out?

I stopped subscribing to Spotify earlier in the year because I rarely use it. I’ve got enough music (said no music fan ever) to listen to and enjoy without trying to discover new genres or whether or not Quitetus […]

There are some bands I’d love to have heard new albums by, but it’s been so longs since their last album that if they did release something I’d probably not even realise.

I’m still at an age where I should have my finger on the pulse, rather than at the age where I need to check for a pulse. I have heard of 15 of these bands/artists, but none of the albums.

RE: Green Wing.

I’d argue Mark Heap was relatively well known before Green Wing. He’d already starred in Brass Eye, Big Train and Spaced before 2004.

Olivia Colman had appeared alongside Mitchell and Webb […]