(From L-R): Martin, Willow, Emma, James. Only one of these existed when this blog began.

Journalists are notorious for leaving deadlines to the very last moment, and that is how, having set myself the target in 2002 of “have your own Movable Type server up and running with your own blog by Christmas” I ended…

Ingrid Bergman in Notorious

Another new series, mainly for my benefit not yours. I’ve never really been a movies person as they generally last too long and I always want to go the bar and the toilet after about twenty minutes like it is…

Suede at Electric Ballroom, Camden

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Marillion at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Thoughts on … finally seeing Tom Bailey playing the whole Into The Gap album live

At the weekend I went to a very special gig in Aylesbury, where Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins was performing the whole of their 1984 Into The Gap album live for the first time. He rarely does solo shows…

My view of Robin Vincent at the Rumsey Wells while I was setting up

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Tears For Fears at Shepherd's Bush Empire

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

You probably figured that this season of Friday Reading has crashed and burned out. It will be back at some point, in some format. In the meantime, yesterday was my last day of work this month as I go off…

A one-line review of every #TimsTwitterListeningParty I joined in July 2022

It is different for me at the moment. I am on a Twitter break. So I just play the albums at the right time and then idly scroll through what people are saying without adding anything. It’s much more boring…

It’s only gone and bloody come home, ain’t it?

The fact of the matter is that unless you support one of the oligarch sports-washing projects – or Germany – you hardly ever actually see your team win anything at all. So I feel tremendously lucky that in recent years…