Didn’t you get Van Halen as support on that tour though?

That was from a Dutch TV programme called Wonderland and broadcast on 22 June 1977 from Vara Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands.

Van Morrison: Lead vocals, piano
Dr. John: Piano, organ, back-up vocals
Mick […]

Age catches up with all of us in the end.

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From the RS website:

Voters were asked to submit ranked ballots listing their 50 favorite albums of all time. Votes were tabulated, with the highest-ranked album on each list receiving 300 points, the second […]

Oof, just saw that date on this one.

Seeing as I’m here though, if anyone still cares and with particular reference to the original post, my mate’s flat was used as Johnny Vegas’s gaff in Happiness.

Is there still a colony of scorpions (not the WoCHMs, I hasten to add) at Ongar station?

That looks fantastic, Colin – just wish it was a bit closer to home and I’d be there!

Yep. I wasn’t even particularly a fan but somehow saw them twice in 1994, including at young Oakes’ first gig, and they were glorious.

Or Orson Welles’ Don Quixote project, which he never quite round to finishing, despite working on it for the best part of thirty years.

And thirded!

Ooh, I didn’t know about that. I used to love The Nightingales.

Curve. Ride. Lush. Not just one word bands, but one syllable bands. And I don’t think I can recall now a single tune by any one of them.

I loved that track Toni Halliday did with Leftfield though.

That’s the one!

I remember them as one-“hit” wonders too – but with an entirely different song which got a lot of play on John Peel and which I always assumed was also called One Thousand Violins, as the only bit of it that I can […]

And it’s hardly manga either.

I saw it at Marble Arch when it was restored in the late Eighties and the sheer scale of it was just astonishing. The screen was so big that you couldn’t keep the whole thing in your vision so you had to a […]

I’m the exact opposite – I’m otherwise righty but play guitar lefty, purely because the first guitar I ever picked up was my lefty uncle’s.

1 – A Matter of Life and Death – 1946
2 – The 39 Steps – 1935
3 – Rear Window – 1954
4 – Kind Hearts and Coronets – 1949
5 – Brief Encounter – 1945
6 – The Big Sleep – 1946
7 – Radio Days – 1987
8 – Billy […]

1 – Diamond Mine – King Creosote and Jon Hopkins
2 – Hand. Cannot. Erase. – Steven Wilson
3 – Essence – Lucinda Williams
4 – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
5 – W […]

In a former life as a very junior civil servant in the Department for Trade and Industry in the late 80s/early 90s, I remember drafting a response for our Secretary of State, Nicholas Ridley, stating that he’d […]