I worked with Alan McNeill, who was their manager at one point (and brother of the other McNeill). By my time he was an experimental cognitive psychologist. Give him a drink and he’d deny any rock n’roll gos […]

Huh, GIRLS! I think I went out with one (actually, several), who were like that. When I realised that hippie girls were not for me, even if I thought I was a post-punk head, my relationships greatly improved. What […]

Zopp are superb!

“Not seeing that progressive means music after 1974, too”.

Thumbs up, BP. Marillion often produce generous box-sets, whereas others are a bleeding over-priced disgrace. No wonder they are so well-regarded by those who appreciate them. Pissy prog fans who rely on the […]

My idea of a set if NM’s SFOS is not doing the rounds.

Is this true? Evidence?

“Lessons have been learned” always really boils my piss. It’s up there with “thoughts and prayers” in the evasive BS of public life.

Bodie and Doyle? Aren’t they a bit old now?

A twat who clearly can’t read the room, but – unless more indiscretions exposed – not quite Brandian, who pushed the boundaries that enabled a variety of wannabes to get in on the fun. Life is not a “Carry On” […]

Better than more corporate soulful caterwauling or earnest strumming, IMHO. They do a very enjoyable gig, and the lead singer has, er, “a good set of lungs” for all the Holderesque singing.

This is the right answer, till they say “you calling me a bell end, bruv? You want some?”

But the gigs were excellent. A very good setlist, and no show the same. The last, in Brighton, was the best of the 8 shows I saw him do from 78 to 88, and all had their charms.

I saw a literal Todd Rundgren “jive bunny” encore of “I saw the light/ can we still be friends/ Hello, it’s me”. He was doing an “EDM” set, and desperately trying to rebrand. it had some moments. But, as they […]

Good when a band has this possibility, rather than performing the codified greatest hits again. There are a number of acts I’ve stopped going to see, as there is no real change to the set. You want to see a band […]

It’s a dimension, and there is also the level of functioning to consider. Thus, though they share a label, A music completist with a science degree is not the same as a non-verbal adult who freaks when the w […]

Quite a run in the past 3 months, really: Henge (in about 3 hours), Crawfurd Arms, Wolverton Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Birmingham NEC The Cult – Leicester de Montfort hall Steve Hackett – Bristol Beacon The […]

this is a band which produced magical music in it’s time, but the bottom-of-the-barrel re-releases (the umpteenth, and many of us can acquire bootlegs if we want easily enough) reduce that magic. Seeing Steve […]

I am sure I had a Chinese with the mingle in Lichfield once, also. I do know another time I turned up to the same Chinese a week early, such was my enthusiasm. Th following week I was indisposed.