Unthought of, though, somehow

You find me momentarily pausing in my attempts to chuck every permutation of clothing into a bag while simultaneously rummaging through cupb...

After notching up 73 entries of the Version City series by early December 2019, I somehow failed to add to that tally at all in 2020 and the...

It's Clacton-On-Sea in 1966. The two kids in the front are a blur of larkingaboutness, much as you'd expect. The one on the right...

JC, our mutual friend and Blogfather of this little corner of t'internet, has once again done me the great honour of featuring an Ima...

The 208th entry into JC's never-ending Imaginary Compilation Album series featured a guest posting from Martin, head honcho at New Am...

In the precious few moments that I've had to sit down and listen to any music at all since Brian posted this at the weekend, I dug o...

To celebrate Terry Hall's 59th birthday, here's a great clip of him covering 'Sorrow' in 2014, with the assistance of fri...

I'm somewhat surprised to find that I haven't featured anything from 'Micah P. Hinson Presents The Holy Strangers' on these ...

The last time I saw Mark Lanegan treading the boards was 21 years ago, as front man of The Screaming Trees. His output over the interveni...

Though we all knew the day was coming, the death of Glen Campbell on Tuesday was still a painful blow. In the days since the announcement...

'Secret Love' was composed by Sammy Fain & Paul Webster for the 1953 film 'Calamity Jane', Doris Day's performanc...

I received a letter from the DVLA recently, informing me that my driving license was about to expire, so I diligently filled in the renew...

Come Together, A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music, took place at Radio City Hall in New York on October 2nd 2001. The concert ...

It was good to see so many acknowledgements of Ella Fitzgerald's centenary on April 25th, online and elsewhere. I had intended to pos...

For their first full length LP, 1995's 'Down by the Old Mainstream', Golden Smog's fluid all-star line-up consisted of Kr...

A newsflash guaranteed to make a few of us shuffle a little uncomfortably in our seats.........the debut LP by The Clash is 40 years old ...

Gene Clark released a steady stream of great music throughout his post-Byrds career, sometimes in cahoots with one of a succession of col...

My first guitar, April 1963. Regrets, I've had a few...and aside from all the many thoughtless things I've said and done throug...

Talking as we were about The Beat, I'm reminded of Pete Townshend's admirable cover of 'Save It For Later', which was origin...

Initially only briefly available as a download back in 2010, Damien Jurado & Richard Swift's informal album of covers, 'Other...