Me: “I can’t seem to keep a steady girlfriend”
Counsellor: “Do you know the symptoms of relationship phobia?”
Me: “Can’t say I do”
Yer man: “That’s one of them”

The elephant in the room is that just over 2 months more than 70m US Citizens voted for him

The death was announced yesterday of Steve Brown, producer of records by The Manic Street Preachers and The Cult, amongst others. He was 65

How did Rachel Newton’s To The Awe not win this poll? This is VOTE-RIGGING on a MASSIVE scale. A lot of people are saying that. Many many people
In all seriosity, top work on the compiling Lodey. Good man yerself

Another vote for Rachel Newton’s To The Awe. We’re on a roll here!!

I’ve been in a few. For someone who is not overly accomplished I did alright, particularly in the right place at the right time department. Favourite band name was at college in 1976 when I was bassist / singer […]

Without going into a full-on hissy fit I am beginning to wonder what the point of the Obituaries 2020 thread is. I suppose my case is not helped by the fact that it never seems to refresh on the main forum page.

I woke this morning to the Twitter news that bluegrass guitar maestro Tony Rice left us on Christmas Day, aged 69. I saw him a few times over the years at Merlefest. He had by then lost the ability to sing but I […]

People just seemed older then, didn’t they? 2 good examples would be avuncular TV Magician David Nixon who was a few weeks sort of his 59th birthday when he died, and TV mainstay Eric Morecambe who was likewise 58.

They get mentioned in Joe Boyd’s autobiography White Bicycle. He says that when he was UK rep for a big US Record company, anytime they sent someone over he’d try and take them to see The Move who had a weekly […]

Last time I was at The Sage in Gateshead they were selling coasters with Gig posters printed on them. One was Eric Clapton at Newcastle City Hall in Nov 1978. “I was at that” I tell my better half. Then on a […]

This is the title track from a corking CD released in the last few months. She’s a real talent, I think

I bought 19 this year that qualify as 2020 releases. One was rather dreadful. Of the rest here we go in order of likeyness:-

1 Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot
2 A Girl Called Eddy – Been […]

Great post Bingo. Also I think my first encounter with the word depuration. I had to look it up

I don’t think anyone has mentioned this one yet; To the Awe by Rachel Newton is a very good record IMHO. Vocals recorded in her bedroom cupboard

I put this under the obituaries thread 11 days ago. I saw him in front of a tiny crowd at CHADS theatre in Cheadle Hulme, Manchester in July 2010. He was playing with Elizabeth Cook and her husband, and they were […]

I occasionally do family research. I had done a fair on my maternal grandmother’s line and had established that they emanated from Halesworth in Suffolk. There were lots of them and they either lived and died […]

My old firm worked there a few times in the early noughties and I ventured there occasionally. I remember the first time discovering a mass of eateries that were really cheap. Big portions, everything bundled with […]

I bought this on Bandcamp Friday and downloaded the mp3 while waiting for the CD to arrive. All good, but Blimey! That CD, received today is a proper work of art. It comes in a hard backed booklet with over 20 […]

He had 2 top-10 UK hits. As was very much the fashion in those days, the second one (Like a Baby) sounded remarkably like the first one