I just finished listening to this and enjoyed it very much. The bit near the end where Pencil describes how he decides what a commissioning client wants describes my experience exactly. I met him and the lovely […]

A long month I think. I managed to pack a fair bit in
Live: Court & Spark – The Joni Mitchell Songbook at Darwen Library Theatre. I was intrigued by the idea of this as the Joni songbook is both wide-ranging […]

My mate and I were active participants in the Bury Times League about 20 years ago. We were good at it too as he had an excellent general knowledge and I just knew lots of random stuff. At my wife’s suggestion […]

Fab fact about Mothership; 3 of them (guitar, bass and keyboards) play in a very good Joni Mitchell Tribute act that I saw in early March. The guitarist had about 10 guitars on stage, which was a bit of a […]

That Fish article paints a brutal picture. I would think the David Hepworth line of “either a lot less than you think, or more than you could possibly imagine” still applies to musicians’ earning. But mostly the […]

Like several people on here I’ve been listening to my Talk Talk CDs since the news of Mark’s death. I was listening to The Colour of Spring on Sunday Morning and thinking what a great album that is. I came down […]

I noticed recently a RT mail-out mentioning that Nancy would be Camp Mom at the Frets & Refrains camp. I believe that’s where RT and new lady met

I just listened via Spotify to Venom & Faith by Larkin Poe, on your one measly point list. Blimey! They didn’t sound like that when I saw them back in 2009! Sounds a corking album to me

That might stop other people playing them! On 2 separate occasions this year when I’ve been playing harmonica in a seated jam an onlooker has picked up one of my spare harps and attempted to blow along. In both […]

If you go back say 5 years Sonos just worked. Nowadays that’s no longer a given. This latest app update is the worst in my experience. I was at the breakfast table this morning and it failed to recognise that […]

I had my best gigging year for decades. I think I saw 51. My top 3 were:-

The Unthanks / Young ‘Un / Wilsons gig at The Sage, Gateshead as part of the Great Exhibition of that there North. Apart from anything […]

Those are both operated by Sixthman. We went on the first 4 Cayamo cruises, 2008-2011 and also the second and sadly last Mountain Music at Sea cruise in 2014, all operated by Sixthman. They are very good music […]

Hey DuCool

A word to the wise re your #9. Don’t mention a couple of top drawer drones. Probably a touchy subject at the moment

This is a gloriously happy piece of music

I made her grandma’s Christmas Gingerbread recipe that featured in GP’s most recent monthly mailout. Absolutely lovely!

There was an interesting BBC4 programme voiced by Mark Radcliffe called The Richest Songs in the World which featured the top 10 earners. Many had made big money from being used in films or adverts. Several were […]

Fillums: I saw Peterloo which was a tad wordy, but the action scene at the end was well done. To anyone who says “Typical Mike Leigh leftie bollocks” I’d have to ask “which bit is not true?”. It’s quite shocking […]