They really were special weren’t they? We used to put the first album on loud almost every evening before we all piled down the road to the Cadbury for beer and fags. Ace memories.

Iraq was being run like a private fiefdom by a nutcase sociopath, and the USA rode in to make everything all right again. And here we are again. Wait for the vacuum to fill with lots of cuddly democratic liberals […]

As always happens when these results come out, I’ve already spotted three albums* in the list so far that I should have voted for but didn’t, mostly through having not realised that they’ve only been with us for […]

A quick whizz through this thread has probably saved me a lot of VPN time, thanks folks!

Strewth, that’s a find! Somewhere in that sweaty pool of darkness is a much younger version of myself, hoping that it isn’t freezing outside when I emerge from the Uni building into a foul February night.

I enjoyed the gig when I saw them play, but it was roughly 45 years ago… ‘Rock Goes To College’ at Bristol Uni if I recall correctly; not sure if I can conjure up quite the same level of enthusiastic dancing these days.

Well, like you I’m not a Canadian, though a friend is married to one who doesn’t like much in the way of shouty rock bands, but I do own a ‘Limited Edition’* promo cassette the band put out in the UK many years […]

01. The Necks – Disquiet 02. Robert Plant with Suzi Dian – Saving Grace

See above!

That’s a fascinating read – I’m so glad to have found it through the brilliant inter-connectedness of the Afterword. I was a student in Bristol at the time of the first WOMAD in 1982, and as consequence of that I […]

I loathe any software that claims to synchronise digital assets. I will not tolerate a piece of code mucking about with the distribution of files over which only I should have control. Files live within my […]

Six sevens?

Not sure whose quote that is, but any suggestion that he’s just a boomer ranting is just lazy ageist nonsense of course. Here’s an example of a recent video of his to prove it. Great appreciation of the Rosalia […]

Love the faintest of giggles right at the close!

I have hundreds of In Our Times episodes in mp3 format burnt onto a CD-R and kept in the car. If I’m not listening to an audio book while driving, Radio 4 is too depressing for ears, and there’s no specific music […]

Merry Christmas fellow travellers! Here’s a jaunty little number to swing along to this Crimble morning:

I started the year working on a project from hell, which made me ill. I dropped my working week to four days and pressed on. It made me ill again. I dropped my working week to three days and told work to shove the […]