Definitely want to see this one. I only found out about Mr Rogers a few years ago and have been blown away by what a force for good he has been to generations of Americans. The second clip has me blubbing like a […]

Quite. In the early days of the Who he’d be smashing Rickenbackers which a) should carry a capital sentence and b) are ‘neck through body design’ ie it’s all one bit of wood from top to bottom, so very hard to […]

There’s an apocryphal story about Mariah Carey doing a promotional appearance who, on seeing the ten or so steps to the stage, turned to the organiser and said ” I don’t do stairs”.

The entitled rich kids of […]

I think Jodie Whittaker is doing a pretty good job as Doctor, a couple of annoying tics aside, she can really act. The stories are better this series than last year’s lot, most of which were along the lines of […]

Great review NE1. I saw the Crowes in about 1993, touring Southern Harmony, and they were utterly fantastic. A few years later I saw them at the Albert Hall and they were almost completely flat and uninvolved. […]

I got shown Subway in French lessons too (thanks, Mrs Bolger). I, too, love undemanding fare sometimes – my freelance job involves people wringing every last bit out of my working day.
Films I know backwards […]

In toothpaste/toothbrush adverts, a woman (and it’s always a woman) brushing her already-frighteningly-white teeth in a slow, mad, grinning, Stepford Wife style that nobody has EVER DONE in the real world.

A […]

I always thought Timothy Dalton was the best Bond, but in the worst films. I know I’m probably in a minority of one here. But I DO know Bond should come across like he can kill someone with his bare hands. And […]

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.