Q: What do Grateful Dead fans say when they run out of dope?
A: What IS this awful music?

Q: What’s the definition of perfect pitch?
A: Throwing an accordion into a skip without hitting the sides.

Pretty much what I think. I regularly watch Back and Forth, the doc that follows FF up to the Wasting Light album (their last good effort by a long way). It does a good job of showing the unpleasant man management […]

Oh man. Feared this coming, what with recent news. Let’s hope that the Stones do the decent thing and knock it on the head after they fulfil their dates in the book. Pretty sure they won’t, though.

This […]

If you like the Connecting Walls, this is good, if a way to lose track of time.

Here’s one I did:

“If it’s me and yer Gran on bongos, mate, it’s the f**kin’ Wiggles”

For fans of modern power pop, Jez Ashurst of Farrah has written some great middle eights – right up there with the late great Fountains of Wayne. Fear of Flying’s M8 starts at 2:20.

It won’t surprise me to hear that it’s going to the wall. There have been some great issues, and memorable cover CDs, but not for some time. When you have yet another Bob Dylan/Beatles/Stones cover, you wonder […]

The pair of them haven’t been great adverts for the old firm, have they? I have from first hand that she had to have a gasper between each course at big dinners, again holding up everything pretty much for […]

I have it on decent authority that the vain, sexually obsessed character of ‘Prince Mark of Bath’, played by Tom Hollander in the David Mitchell sitcom Ambassadors, is based very closely on HRH, right down to […]

They were. It’s mentioned in the Song Stories book – [inbetween Nonsuch and Apple Venus] “Dave Gregory bought several guitars and a new but modest house and fell in and out of love with Aimee Mann”. And they go […]

My vinyl/CD combo of the new EP arrived in the post yesterday. Slightly annoyingly, because the vinyl pressing was delayed, Burning Shed stated they were delaying the whole package as to send each item separately […]

What with the new Andy Partridge EP, this has been a great week for me. It did give me pause that this video has been released, heralding the new album… out in November. November! There’s drumming up interest, […]

I remember there being a certain amount of hype about the Strokes but, by then no longer reading the inkies, most of it passed me by. I did, however, remember thinking they looked like a proper gang from their […]

What IS true is that Mike Myers made his start on Timmy Mallett’s Wide Awake Club, and befriended comedian Neil Mullarkey around the same time. Mullarkey makes a number of cameos in Myers films (as a customs agent […]

If you’re not happy with the conduct of the police involved, it can be helpful to contact the IOPC. It’s a long process but can stop police officers acting like this in the future, and the dog officers in this cas […]

Very nice chap, I guessed in his mid 20s, sold me a car the other week. Charming, knew his stuff, happy to do business with him etc. As he filled in the paperwork, we got to talking about insurance premiums. His […]

Not my joke, just a favourite:

Q: What does a Grateful Dead fan say when they run out of drugs?

A: What is this awful music?

Or there’s the Nines, which involves XTC/ex-Jellyfish alumni and is very McCartney:

This one is an Andy Partridge co-write:

It’s not up-to-the-minute new, but I always recommend The Davenports:

Or for a more Jellyfish/MOR vibe, The Sonic Executive Sessions: