I’ll tell you what might stir things up again; recession, anger, boredom, and the right sort of recreational substances (brain stimulants that don’t get you too blootered), plus getting off their bloody phones and […]

I saw Wayne County at that Reading festival, and it was not deserved at all. I met him on the Gloucester Road shortly after and commiserated with him at the idiots who didn’t appreciate quality sleaze […]

The Clash (really, Joe Strummer, as Mick was more into Mott the Hoople, Paul into art, Topper just being in a successful band) get far too easy a ride on their knee-jerk leftism, esp “Brigade Rossi” t-shirts. […]

I don’t trust the cloud. The content can be sometimes deleted from your machine ( Amazon deleted electronic copies of 1984 from peoples machines when it didn’t have proper copyright ). I buy content, not rent it. […]

School for scoundrels

Two way stretch

I’m all right jack

Early St trinians movies

Guys and dolls

On the town

Cutting edge, I am.

Normally I find smug leftie comics a pain in the arse, but he was genuinely funny, and I was always pleased when I heard he was on a panel, and he was clearly a model of discretion about his illness.

I was discussing this with my youngest, as I no longer see any tribes going into school – not even a token school hippie or goth. She said they are emo if ‘alternative”; not much call for a grime look in leafy […]

Precisely, Nick L; though paddy McAloon doesn’t know me, I also like to know he is OK, despite his circumstances.

That Jerry is DJing and not much else remains something of a concern to me, as I doubt there is […]

Hackett leaving Genesis left them as a largely mediocre act. They cried all the way to the bank – but the dissatisfaction is palpable, IMHO.

I saw the clash play ‘should I stay or should I go’ 9 months before ‘combat rock’ : it brought the house down. Likewise The Police doing ‘Message in a Bottle’. If the new is good, it is well received.

wasn’t beanie our resident expert on this genre?

I have this deliciously awful compilation: https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Are-Awful-But-Like/dp/B00004GM3P

COR! Pictures or it didn’t happen.

Esperanza, we’ve had our time. it was wonderful. But it’s over. It’s not you, it’s me. I couldn’t keep up.

Not THAT unlikely, but did see Donald Fagen solo in the USA in 2006, Pete Townshend jam with The Clash at the Brighton Top Rank, Tom petty and the heartbreakers at the marquee, dire straits support the talking […]

I was about to post this. Robbie Williams is lucky Peter Grant is not still alive. Maybe Jimmy will put a curse on him.

That said, RW does seem to be behaving like a bit of a cnut. If he wants his vulgar pop […]

I agree about a lot above; post-punk was much more interesting musically than punk. I simply think I have a problem with skronk, just as I have a problem with shredding and screaming in rawk. The NME cassette […]

The mighty PiL are in a different class, and Bauhaus were modish dressed-up rockism (smoke, lights, leather trousers, loud guitars, etc is pretty rockist in my book). Some of this post-punk stuff I like, […]