How, in all my complaining about being away from the house and about living in a crappy little short let basement flat, did I omit this song? What a buffoon. If ever a song title encapsulated our current situation perfectly, it’s this. This is an excellent version too, an acoustic one from [...]
This is so late a post on these lads as to be almost entirely pointless. But this blog isn’t just about news or being at the most cutting of edges, it’s just me rambling about stuff when it occurs to me, so apologies to the news chas… actually, there’s no news chasers reading this in [...]
The wench is away and I am here by myself, managing the last few days of our house project. You can imagine what fun that must be, I’m sure. Still, we move back in this weekend, so it may be a crap couple of days but it’ll all be over soon and then you’ll [...]
Some quiet music needs to be played really, really loud. Nick Cave’s masterpiece The Boatman’s Call springs most obviously to mind, and I might include Leonard Cohen in that, as well as some Lamchop and Bonnie Prince Billy (fuck off with your quotation marks). You could have the stereo at full volume [...]
Yes, they are indeed called Gossamer Albatross. It’s a bloody silly name, but for some reason I rather like it. For an obscure bunch from Hereford, where not much has happened since they dumped Newcastle out of the FA Cup with that goal all those years ago as far as I can tell, [...]
Sometimes promo people send me stuff so mismatched to my tastes I really shake my head at the waste of plastic, packaging and postage. Save yourselves the time and just sling it straight in the trash yourselves, for fuck’s sake. Sometimes, instead of just to me, this happens to the whole world at [...]
