Thank you one and all. I shall Google Spotify Connect and turn the volume up for Who Can Kill A Child…

As a native of Leicestershire, home of Walkers, I avow that it is the rest of the world which is out of step. Green is salt & vinegar, red is plain, blue is cheese ‘n’ onion; them’s the rules. Smoky bacon flavour […]

There’s a Spooky Crossing The Bar live performance filmed in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral on YouTube which is where I first came across this. It made I weep.

Can’t post a clip, but the the track Jesse on the Janis Ian album Stars features very mellow whistling courtesy of, if memory serves, one V. Martin Fink.

At last! I don’t know how to do this, so I’m glad you do.

Full marks to the BBC online news reporter who headlined this story ‘Sound at Dublin Spice Girls gig-a-big-nah’.

A Jackson interview states that there simply isn’t any contemporary front line footage in existence – large, hand-cranked cameras would have made easy targets. Such images you may have seen of Tommies going over […]

Should I ever find myself hob-nobbing among Edinburgh’s fictional criminals, how should I pronounce the ‘G’ in Ger? As in German, or as in Gorilla?

I’m a sixty-year-old bloke born and living in England.

And I’m a copywriter, so there’s two of us on here wickedly separating the public from its hard-earned with our advertising wordsmith necromancy…

When they’re on form, Radcliffe and Maconie are an extremely inventive and genuinely funny duo. Their ability to take an off-the-cuff comment and extrapolate from it often has me grinning from ear to ear – we’re […]

You may like to know that the exhibition is ‘After’ Caravaggio – i.e. largely other artists inspired by him. I saw it, and I dearly wished for more of the man himself.

Caitlin Moran co-wrote Raised By Wolves, and I love her writing for The Times. But the script was like every RBW character reading out a Caitlin column – lots of words, cleverly put-together, often funny but never […]

Excellent stuff. Can anyone shed any light on the provenance of the monocular chap on the drum kits? He looks like a Cyclopian Alfred E Neuman from Mad magazine.

Ta ever so.

Where is that Tee from, please and thank you?

Anyone else do that Twang thang and fit their own pick-up? It has to be a reliable gigging guitar – any pitfalls to look out for?

History, knowledge and thinly-veiled incitement to engage the services of a prostitute – that’s everything The Afterword stands for. Thank you everyone: names noted, visit to follow.

I live North Yorkshire – which is why I’m aiming at a day-long odyssey to somewhere with lots of choice. Quite taken with Bob’s suggestion of staircases up the side of other shops. I believe the sign I’m looking […]