Bruce Hornsby & The Range / The Way It Is Garbage / No 1 Crush Lulu & David Bowie / The Man Who Sold The World FONTAINES D.C. / Hurricane Laughter Eddie Cochran / C’MonContinue reading
Fake Pandemic, Fake News!
It was gone ten this morning before I got an opportunity to say more than “would you like a coffee?” to my wife; and by that time she’d already been in a couple of remoteContinue reading
Playlist from Sunday 17th January 2021
The Style Council / Walls Come Tumbling Down The Courteeners / Kings Of The New Road Go Betty Go / C’mon Charlie Rich / Mohair Sam Blood Sweat & Tears / Lucretia MacEvil Courtney BarnettContinue reading
R.I.P. 2020
Ain’t Hurtin’ Nobody / John Prine October 10th 1946 – April 7th 2020 Tutti Frutti / Little Richard December 5th 1932 – May 9th 2020 Five Minutes / Stranglers ~ Dave Greenfield, keyboards March 29th 1949 – May 3rd 2020 IContinue reading
Me & Mick (Mick & Me)
“Fond Memories of Kentish Town” is an interesting example. I started it myself because I had very fond memories of the area I grew up in, but the group I’d originally joined, where I’d enjoyedContinue reading
Humanity or Hypocrisy?
If you’ve spent any time on social media recently (and frankly who hasn’t in these locked down days?), you can’t have failed to notice a rash of posts complaining about how cruel people are beingContinue reading
PhD In Life Anyone?
There’s little doubt that a number of you will have been to University, or that some of you will have gone the distance and are now entitled to stick a few choice letters after yourContinue reading
A Reflection On Connection
I remember the 1975 referendum to stay in the common market. I was nine years old I didn’t understand what was going on but I remember the sense that something important was happening, something thatContinue reading
A last minute plea!
On Tuesday I posted some wise words Dan Walsh had written about the Labour manifesto on Facebook and last night I sat up late trying to find something from my own experience that I couldContinue reading
The Labour manifesto
With an introduction by Dan Walsh This is a terrific manifesto. The naysayers, the sneerers, the tutters, those decrying it as too utopian, too expensive, too extreme, too leftwing, are relying on one crucial thing –Continue reading