Another one: Neil Diamond at the Last Waltz gig (he was only there as a mate of Robbie Robertson’s and, it would seem, not generally liked by the rest of the assembled stars). Following his overblown, fuck-awful […]

Another Noel one. A much better raconteur than songwriter:

“I heard Mick Hucknall said our last album sounded average to him. Now that scared the shit out of me, because if anyone’s an expert on average music, […]

Although the Firebird X is possibly the ugliest guitar I’ve ever seen, and has awful appointments no-one wanted (those horrible Robot tuners!) I still fail to see why Gibson couldn’t have stripped out a lot of […]

Alien for me. Absolutely top-notch cast, doesn’t let up on the suspense, unfolds at an ever-increasing pace.

FWIW, I think I’m the only person I know who rates Alien 3. Again, it’s the great, mostly British […]

Hi LH.

Unless you’re the writer for the Daily Mash, it would be the decent thing to attribute their stories:

Pretty sure it was Liam who said that, though Noel didn’t go out of his way to be nice. They don’t call cocaine ‘powdered arsehole’ for nothing.

NG has a nice turn of phrase on occasion, but his interview with […]

I’d always read young Reg took his stage name from a combination of Elton Dean and Long John Baldry, both whom he’d worked with. But Elton put his name to this film, so the Lennon pic story is either true or yet […]

I saw Macca at the Millennium Stadium about ten years ago on a balmy summer’s night. The sound was a bit boomy, and the roof was open, by me ears tuned into it pretty quickly. We could certainly hear his […]

You beat me to it DFB! I was finishing writing this one up when you posted your (better) review.

I think the whole supporting cast (apart from possibly Jamie Bell and Bryce Dallas Howard as Elton’s mum) were […]

*Buffs fingernails on lapel* I was on it, many years ago.

I was the emergency fourth member for my sister, brother in law and their friend. When the latter dropped out, I found myself in a concrete bunker of a […]

Hi FSteve – I like the sound of the FiiO, but I’m a simple soul. If I plug it into my iMac, will it appear on my desktop and I can drag and drop? And will it take podcasts from iTunes?

Thanks to all for your advice, btw.

Thanks Mike, but downloaded the three day trial of AnyTrans and it didn’t recognise the iPod. Maybe the old thing is just knackered. But I’ve downloaded a few podcasts using WiFi, so that’ll do for now.

Thanks for the info Mike. Buggers! I just wiped the iPod in order to create a new library, so only have a handful of tunes – it’s like the old days of tape collections. Good point about wiFi and the podcasts. […]

Too right. I have a fancy Yamaha ‘put it in the slit’ CD/Radio/dock by my bed which is ace, but for the fact that it is so picky, and frequently spits out/keeps hold of without playing my various CDs from the […]

That was my first thought. Performers who had big-selling albums in the 90s, who also wrote or co-wrote the tunes, have quite a nest egg. New CD albums were £12.99 at the time, plus those CD singles at up to […]

Never done the official rock’n’roll M&G, but with most of the level of acts I like, I get to chat with them before/after if I can summon up the courage and have something to sign. I’d pay a little for Neil Finn, […]

From ‘Porridge’:

Fletch: Ahh, Pan’s People! I always liked the blonde one. Beautiful Babs. Can’t remember her name…

Have met Leo and seen his show – he’s the uncle of a good friend of mine. Having only known the two biggest hits before I saw him, I went with arms folded. Have to say, he put on a great show and had quite a few […]