Burning Up Time - The Stranglers and Hugh Cornwell Unofficial Forums

Life - Inspiral Carpets The Raven - by you know who The Black Album - Metallica Darklands - The Jesus & Mary Chain Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses Powerslave - Iron Maiden The Kinks are the village preservation society - The Kinks International Velvet - Catatonia Generation Terrorists - ...

Went to see Tom Hingley - ex Inspirals frontman in Glasgow last Friday night. He was doing an acoustic set and was very good, mainly his solo stuff but did his own take on a few of the better known Inspirals songs. He was in good voice and I was surprised at how accomplished he was on guitar. Also g...

Both The Damned and Stiff Little Fingers were excellent last time I saw them.
Off to see They Might Be Giants in Edinburgh next Friday at the Queen's Hall.

All Hell Let Loose - Max Hastings account of WW2 - good overview of the conflict.
Before that I was reading F Scott Fitzgerald collection on kindle, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night both excellent, if a little bleak, especially the latter story.

Vicious, Satellite of Love, Walk on the Wild Side, Perfect Day, How Do you think it feels, great songwriter and very influential. R.I.P.

Fraoch, heather ale, now that is a pleasant tipple.

Petrochemical owners and management at Grangemouth.

The real losers in all this are going to be cash strapped local authorities, though as someone who works for a local authority I guess I would say that lol. In terms of PR it would be a nightmare for councils to go for evictions for rent arrears so the likely upshot of this ill thought out policy wi...

Big blow for Cameron and a bigger blow for Hague. His strident warmongering now looks even more foolish than that time he was filmed in a baseball cap looking like a right tit. Apparently Gove didn't take the Commons defeat too well, verbally roasting the Tory rebels and accusing everyone who voted ...

Tubular bells cos it's hard not to associate the song with The Exorcist.
The Mary Chain's cover version of Bo Diddley's Who do you love.

Always thought Arctic Monkeys sound like they've only got one or possibly two songs tops and they just jam on those basic tunes and add lyrics, hey presto, its the same old song but with a different meaning. Great thing about music is everyone has their own opinion, Personally I really like The Clas...

RIP - great author, enjoyed both his straight novels like Crow Road and his sci-fi stuff.