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"The Bone Season"   by   Samantha Shannon ,  is a brilliant read. I said I thought it was two chapters, but it is two books,...

Into the last hundred pages of  "Copendium"  the  700-page treatise on music by  Julian Cope ,  and the album reviews fin...

 For the first time in a long time the temperature was negative this morning, according to my Google Pixel -4˚ Centigrade , there was ice ...

I am now 63 and will be reminded of that every time I see a Stagecoach 63 bus, which is not something that overly bothers me.  One of my bir...

September has been my sparsest month so far for posting , although there is still over a week left, so we shall see how much more I write. ...

Several times over the last year or two or maybe even longer I've been hit by a weird hunger. Normally when you are hungry you need...

I keep toying with the idea of doing a one or two word blog post just to see if anyone notices or not as they are all robots (I know th...

After "Apricot Brandy" by Rhinoceros in #Oktoberfest that prompted me to remember "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)"...

Well I've finished chapter one of "The Secret Commonwealth" and there's already been a murder, and I doubt that will ...

Yesterday I decided I had a motherlode for #Oktoberfest in the songs of Tom Waits , which is obviously true enough, but I don't thi...

I was not sure which version of this I was going to share, for me the definitive version in the Thin Lizzy one but for others it's ...

I bought my dad a laptop for his 80th birthday. He virtually never used it, so I bought him a tablet and he gave me the laptop back. H...

This morning I bougght some water from Tesco and for once used one of the auto checkouts. For weeks the echoey voice on many of them ...

I'd got into Horslips through "The Tain" an album based on a story from Irish mythology which Michael Moorcock had lift...

Nick Lowe was the producer to have during the punk years 1976-79, he'd cut his musical teeth with the excellent Country Rocker Bri...

Yesterday I really didn't want to get up. I feel the same today, I would love to lie in but at 6:30 AM I am showered, dressed, tak...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Just currently reading "The Olivetti Chronicles" a compilation of John Peel's articles over the year...

Just seen a couple of tributes listed coming to thw O2 Academy in Newcastle , Cash (Johnny Cash) and The Rising (Bruce Springsteen). It...