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Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers - ...er...ZZ Top originally wasn't it...?

Really wish New Order had recruited a new singer and left Barney to his guitar...

For whatever reason I never got into Whitesnake back in the day...when I moved to a new flat back in the summer some very kind friends bought me an Alexa dot thing, which somehow brings out bass better than my DAB radio ever could (don't ask me how, it just came like that lol) I find myself with a rather better appreciation of them now...

Always thought Tony Hadley has one of the finest voices I ever heard and "Journeys To Glory" will always be in my top ten albums of all time. How did they go from that to a cabaret act 😞

beat me to it lol...my all time favourite singer

...sounds like one of those annoying adverts sorry...!

My introduction to Hawkwind was on my one and only Donington, 1982... aged 16 thought they were cr*p on the day. Asked a 6th form mate for a recommendation, he lent me Live 79... even bl@*dy worse to my ears. Several years later finally had a (very cheap) pair of proper stereo headphones, plugged them into the family music centre to listen to Janice Long one Saturday and about the first thing I heard was "Master Of The Universe" from Space Ritual... yoy! Decades on, now having a couple of mates one of whom has been a huge fan for ages and one who has seen them 380+ times (mostly tagging along with his brother who was some part of their crew) I have learned that a) they aren't a band to see at an outdoor festival; and b) they are actually rather better than my initial impression!

Wild Flowers - All About Eve

Disco 2000 - Pulp

So - Soft Cell

The first time I saw Editors (about 15 years ago now lol) one of the supports was somebody called Brakes, who apparently had an album out with 16 tracks that was 29 minutes long in total... one they actually did play consisted literally of the singer shouting "comma comma comma comma full stop!" over a couple of chords, roughly 9 seconds from beginning to end

That's it lol.... I honestly keep forgetting!

The WonderStuff headlined in Brum at the place I can never remember the flipping name of (top of Hurst St turned into a roller disco) and played a shorter set than when I saw them supporting All About Eve in the same place a few months earlier. Also saw New Order there some years previously who played a very short set as well but apparently came back for encores to prevent a riot... by which time I was on the bus home...

If you pass through my soul tonight Gather all his troubles Tomorrow's long eternal night Gather for tomorrow "Love Under Will" Fields Of the Nephilim...their definitive track lyrically and musically to me

Thanks for reminding me of another one I do have 🙂 was lucky enough to catch him on that tour, pretty awesome

Bizarrely I think the only non-live non-compilation multi-disc albums I have are London Calling (but only on CD!) and Sandinista... which I do have on original vinyl, was actually one of the first albums I ever owned 🙂 apart from side 1 which does have a couple of decent tracks I'm not sure any of the rest of it has seen the turntable more than twice in 40 years!

A bit of Quo or CCR...?

Love Under Will - Fields of The Nephilim

The only good thing about having had to work in my living room for seven months is that I can have the radio on all day...usually Planet Rock, with little detours into Classic FM when certain people come on... I've heard a few things by assorted artists that I might not have otherwise done when I was only catching PR for the odd 20 minutes here and there; Yes being a prime example, to the extent I might just go and grab an album or two of theirs at some point

If I wasn't such a Poor Old Man I'd be interested, does it come with the Spare Parts?

In A Big Country - guess who... 🙂

My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan

I learned recorder at primary school, learned to read music (very soon forgotten...) and actually got reasonably good at it, even wrote a few little tunes of my own 🙂 Moved to grammar school in 1977, music teacher in the first year was old enough to have been around when Mozart and co were writing and was more concerned with making sure we listed all the parts in Peter And The Wolf in two columns in our exercise books instead of in a line etc, taught us nothing useful; second year we had a much younger teacher who would explain things to us using "examples" like Gordon Is A Moron* and Friggin' In The Rigging...! Also recall him doing things like spending lunchtimes showing some of the older kids how to play Are 'Friends' Electric on whatever the organ-type thing in the music room was. Unfortunately I was far more academic than artistic and didn't carry on with it after the second year. *yes I know it isn't actually called that!

not sure when he would have moved but I grew up round the corner from where Steve Winwood used to live

Caught the original lineup several times, am on the Earth Inferno bits/b-sides from Wolves and the (apparently McCoy-approved) bootleg from Brum a few weeks after... last saw them at a festival at the NEC in 2009, with Prodigy guitarist etc.. OK they could play the stuff but no real feeling. Did see a couple of things never before witnessed though: a *five* person high flower-tower and... McCoy smiled (for a second)!