The cover of Depeche Mode's Master and Servant 12" single

It was forty years ago today …

It isn’t every day that you realise you know exactly what you were doing forty years ago, but today I do. It is forty years to the very day since Depeche Mode released their 11th single, Master and Servant. And…

Rats Tails at the Shackwell Arms

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in July 2024

This monthly series is probably more for my benefit than yours, but maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll straight past. Maybe you’ll unsubscribe thinking what did I see in this blog in…

Mia Goth in MaXXXine

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in July 2024

I have never really been a movies person. They last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as…

Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in June 2024

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as often…

Neil Arthur at Islington Assembly Hall

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in June 2024

This monthly series is probably more for my benefit than yours, but maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll straight past. Maybe you’ll unsubscribe thinking what did I see in this blog in…

Thoughts on … Doctor Who: Season one (2024)

Thoughts on … Doctor Who: Season one (2024)

[This is part of an occasional series where I ramble without much focus about an old episode/episodes of Doctor Who what I have just watched on my tellybox or a new audio one I listened to on my pocket computer…

Lovely Ladybird books exhibition in St Albans

Lovely Ladybird books exhibition in St Albans

I thoroughly recommend the current exhibition in the St Albans museum about the design and illustration of Ladybird books called The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists. It is free and runs until September. There is lots of original artwork…

Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in April and May 2024

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as often…

Notably not the Look Back Bores

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in April and May 2024

This monthly series is probably more for my benefit than yours, but maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll straight past. Maybe you’ll unsubscribe thinking what did I see in this blog in…

One of West Essex's three goalkeepers that day and the Stanway Rovers drum guy.

A review of my football season 2023-24

I have resisted the temptation to start adding one-line reviews of every football match I go to, alongside the existing series of one-line gig reviews and one-line movie reviews, but as part of this blog having morphed into my outside…