As far as I can recall, at the time everyone just thought it was all a laff. The Pop Group used to live just up the road from me, and a scruffy bunch of likeable chancers is what they were. They didn’t hang out in […]

Sinead seems to be making stout progress ticking off every possible philosophical position or religious inclination from a very long bucket list.

Cnoc nan Sionnach Ruadh.

Swallows and Amazons forever!

I’m in.

It occurs to me that @pencilsqueezer would possibly find them suitable for aural decoration whilst pencilling.

That’s the title track on the Esoteric compilation I have; it’s a really good selection from what are otherwise relatively difficult to find CDs. Their newest album, from a few years back now, (which has the track […]

Indeed, there’s a great double CD comp avilable from Esoteric which I bought some while back. It doesn’t have this track, but plenty of fine other stuff. They were one of those bands I was only dimly aware of back […]

I’m in two minds about this lot.

They tick a lot of boxes for me; jazzy, improvy, wear their splendidly obvious influences on their sleeves, have the musical chops to deliver in spades.

But……. there’s a […]

ISWYDT

Shout from here for the Upstart Crow too – wonderfully mischievous stuff.

It’s a boxed set anyway – a set of things that have been put together in a box.

It boils my piss that the term “box set” has somehow mustered approval simply because the snowflake generation can’t be bothered […]

I recall that our own Fraser of this parish recommended a splendid read called “Bury Me Standing Up”, which I promptly bought and greatly enjoyed until I reached page 197 (or whichever it was), whereupon I […]

Sir Slithy Tove. How to debase the honours system in two words. John Redwood.

I haven’t even taken the shrink-wrap off yet. I was setting aside at least two weeks in spring to dive into this and WALLOW. The fuckwits need a good kicking for being so careless as to introduce any kind of […]

Effortlessly brilliant. Thanks for this shout Twang!

Who are they, these ‘people’? We crossed this bridge a long time ago, and we developed a representative democracy as a result; one that doesn’t slavishly abrogate responsibility to a notional ‘people’ who will not […]

“self interested corrupt scumbags” a.k.a. “captains of industry”

Half Life 3.

Still waiting.