Lovely review. Never heard of them before but have been listening to this and Lighthouse as a result of this post – really enjoying it. Thanks for the heads up!

I think it’s something to do with the ICC regulations that require a specific number of days between Test matches – so if one is due to finish on a Tuesday, the next cannot begin until the Sunday. I agree that it […]

I, too, would have loved to have been there but couldn’t make the date. And now I see that Where I Go was on the setlist – my single favorite Natalie Merchant song, with or without the other Maniacs

I think it unlikely that any team would expect either Nacho or the “narcissistic nobhead” (thanks Rotherhithe Hack) to score with their respective strikes – however poorly positioned De Gea may have been – so find […]

Saw him at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham in November twenty five years since I last saw him. I was so high up in the gods I could see why he wears the hat these days – any bald patch would have been glaringly […]

Back in the late 80s/early 90s a group of us went ski-ing to a little Austrian village called Niederau. One of the ski-school instructors was Dave Lambert, once of The Strawbs. Most evenings he could be heard […]

The modern day Supremes and Vandellas? (Modern day clearly means “within the last twenty years” in this instance

Bryan Adams is another to have written a “Heaven”

I love this (amongst others, including The Downeaster Alexa as posted above by Bargepole):

I seem to remember a review (maybe from Q magazine) which raved about the descent from the falsetto in the line “Even […]

Criticising the lyrics of a “pop” record is shooting fish in a barrel. Especially lyrics written (and sung) in your second language

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark?

Funnily enough I have this week completed a sponsored “walk to work” – sixty miles from my home in the Staffordshire Moorlands to Birmingham City Centre (no surprise that I, too, love walking given my “nom de […]

The Wombles is clearly the correct answer. Gettable if you know Tobermory is on Mull, Orinoco is the river, Wellington is the capital of NZ, or SW19 is the postcode for Wimbledon Common (amongst other locations).

Noooooooooooo

I’d echo Baron Harkonnen’s advice above – a question that nobody can answer is not a good question. People want to enjoy themselves, not made to feel stupid. An answer that elicits an “of course” or a feeling that […]

Arsenal, Scunthorpe and Manchester f@#!:ing United

One of The Boss’s lesser known works according to the photo!

If there is a more annoying commentator than Mr Green, please never let me listen to him. The single positive I took from Sam Allardyce’s appointment as England manager was that it appeared to precipitate Mr […]

This – Carlton Palmer in particular – is the perceived wisdom. However I well remember a respected football journalist in The Observer (can’t remember which one) calling for Palmer to be picked for the next […]