Seven Days In

This weekend I have listened to Jack White's "Lazaretto" on CD and the "Ultra" vinyl version. Side one of the ...

I have finished "The Outsider" and while , for me, it's hardly an "essential" novel, despite being so short it leav...

The weather has curtailed my walking. It is cold . It has snowed and turned to slush and them frozen , then rained and then frozen again , ...

Just at the moment that is my preferred place. Outside is dark and cold and wet. The recent snow was actually pleasant to go out in and mak...

Seems like a fair question. I once said that CDs were the McDonaldisation of music, MP3 and digital music even more so. All of a sudden alb...

This is post number 2332 , so a numerical palindrome, there will be a few of these coming up  (every 110 posts) and there's also post n...

I was looking at all the books I have,  and was thinking "Will I ever read all of these?" . The same goes for DVDs and CDs . ...

I don't need any more vinyl, bet deciding on coffee at Meli Cafe near Haymarket, I had to drop into Stay Free Records . I had no in...

This week I bought three 12" vinyl singles from Skipton Sound Bar. I don't need any more vinyl but one was a blue vinyl take ...

I am not a fan of Strictly Come Dancing but caught a bit of it tonight in which Kelvin Fletcher and Oti Mabuse danced to a cover of ...

My intention this morning was to walk into work, but I awoke to a deluge, it's dark and cold, so I think it may be a bus journey. L...

Just a note that one of the things that has kept me on Facebook is playing Scrabble however I am not down to two people who will still ...

One of the benefits of listening to vinyl is that you listen to a whole side with no option for a remote break, and on a normal well pl...

I do like wordplay and it's amazing how much you can rearrange the letters in the name "ELVIS" , so "Elvis Lives...

Continuing on in this sequence I've done the first week without being too obvious, and today is "Sunday Evening" by The ...

I have to say Settle is a lovely place to say, although not a place to drive round. The people are friendly and everything is in walki...

There was a homeless guy in th epassage down the side of the Tyneside Cinema asking for spare change. I said I had none (which was tru...

Three years back I wrote a history of music media in a post here , and at the weekend I nipped into Vinyl Guru and got talking with ...

This shows just how easily I am distracted. I switched on the radio this morning and Mary Ann Hobbs was playing Bob Marley's ...