Exactly what the country thinks: could have been a breakthrough moment for quality swearing. Humorless cnuts.

Never got Joan B’s caterwauling or janis joplin’s shrieking. Glad I never had to pretend to like it.

A world where they can’t organise anything, and have to get rescued by the Army and the National Guard, ie, ‘the man’. A year after a ‘revolutionary’ 1968 and during Vietnam. Frank Zappa got hippies right.

That and The Who, and you’ve got all that’s worth bothering with at this most over-rated of festivals. Strummy wet nonsense was most of the fare, and even if tripping off my nut, in a sewage and mud splattered […]

Interesting idea. I reckon caravan pop has to be pop which has no context or musical hinterland, so if you say to someone ‘Trevor Horn started as keyboard player and bassist for Tina Charles’, the reply is to […]

Loved it but not watched series 5, so no spoilers. The weakest character, I think, is the sincere boy Bruce wayne. He needs to be ‘stranger thing’ Ed so he is rounder in personality. But thrn I never saw the […]

Oh I know. I was up there 9 years, then another 6. Many of my dearest pals are from up there, and some of my loveliest ex’s. I can’t walk around Edinburgh without a tear in my eye and a wonder as to what would […]

THEY SHALL NOT PASS! I was in Edinburgh 1984 to 1993. I did my PhD and post doc there. Moving up from 3 years of left-going-on-anarchist squat culture in 1984, how surprised I was to be accused of supporting […]

Reading the above, I find it depressing how many of the spots I would go to in New York have gone. (Admittedly, the is the same for London.). NYC used to be hip central for me, and I heard talk that THe Strand is […]

The tragedy of Simple Minds is in their wannabe efforts. Thry were not happy in themselves, and got more and more overblown (possibly in every way, given claims about Jim Kerr). I saw them in 1989 in Germany, and […]

Totally. Almost every gig had brilliant sardonic observations. At Knebworth 1978 he observed, pre- encore: “you’re a professional kind of audience. You’ve been to things like this before. Some of you might even […]

Almost all Frank Zappa interviews and stage comments have great examples of wit.

I’m a big fan of “You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a […]

Ripping YouTube clips of their audio is easy enough. Listening to all that stuff we haven’t got round to (and reading and watching likewise) will, in my case, probably never be possible in the next 20 years i […]

‘scuse. Bevvy. It helps.

I never quite got why it was ironic to have that sewer of shit leaking into one’s environment in the first place. Better to ignore the cnut.

I’ve seen many dressing as for an AW con: socks and sandals, ancient tour t shirt failing to conceal having gained 50 0lb, spiking gel failing to conceal the convergence of tonsure and receding hairline… Though […]

“The Cleopatra Grip”? COR!

I snogged Paul Young’s girlfriend when he was performing in “The Street Band” (supporting Albertos Y Los Trios paranoias), and was advised by a witness that if he found me, i’d get a shoeing. I also had a […]

Very droll. But consider that Bozza is a Tory libertarian who terrifies the Hitchens types, the Brexit Party think he will sabotage leave, and he appeals to working class tories, undermining Labour (who […]

My mate who has played keyboards for The Damned for 25 years is a psychogeriatric nurse who still does bank work. The band have played the royal Albert Hall, supporting motor head, Alice cooper, and headlining the […]