I watched a bit of The 1975 early on. Then they did an intro that was pure Coldplay and I was out of there, man. But I get it, they are about as good as any really popular modern band is.

Enjoyed Supergrass. They pretty much played their debut album track by track in order then threw in some later bangers to finish with. Did the ironing watching…[Read more]

St Vincent , yes.

Neil Young, Wet Leg, Beth Gibbons, Roy Harper, Supergrass, Amyl and the Sniffers (why not?).

Wild card?  Beans on Toast.

Back to where it all started. At the time the main evening DJ on Capital Radio was “Little” Nicky Horne. In response to New Rose he gave a pompous and arrogant sermon about how awful it was and pledged that no punk music would ever be played on his show. 50 years on, which of the two are the national treasures? At some point much humble pie was…[Read more]

The Adverts were not just punk. I really like this one.

Gill said he would have bowled too.

Anyway, I will take up the FIFA bashing theme happily @brianN. Matches played in totally unsuitable conditions, 40-41 degrees, two hour breaks for thunderstorms and…restricting water for spectators (who understandably just went home). You couldn’t make it up etc. etc.

Come back next year for more of this. If…[Read more]

Wow, I can’t believe @brianN‘s sophistication might be deterring some people from the BP.

But be very very careful with the juke box.

Hi @bikeborb1, that’s a good clarification thanks. I didn’t mean to appear to be making a comment about all this behind your back – I earlier sent you a very similar message in the comments thread of the Challenge page but it seems to have disappeared into thin air. I certainly knew nothing about all this but I’ll stick to my assertion that this…[Read more]

I think we should big it up for @leggy who has just qualified for her UltraSharpshooters badge for the Moon of Endor episode of Star Wars. This is an ultra rare achievement so big congratulations.

On the PE 3-1 subject, I have obviously gone back to earlier versions to see if they were better but I don’t think I ever got anything as early as…[Read more]

And… they have reappeared.

This reminds me of a front page headline in (I think) the News of the World many years ago which was “World War Two bomber found on surface of the Moon”

The next week there was a headline reading “World War Two bomber on Moon disappears”

Two sensational stories for the price of none.

Nah, couldn’t be, could it?

Now that’s very odd. The message that I posted today and the Doc’s nice reply have both now vanished. They were on the comments section of the Challenge page. Strange things have been happening on the Challenge page and maybe it has now extended to the comments. There was nothing dodgy, in fact I just asked a question about whether there were…[Read more]

We’re cool. He even complimented me today.

I guess we can’t be 100% sure about Google Plus because if @murash joined the Nest in 2012 and registered his platform then, 13 years later if he is genuinely active (rather than entering old scores) that might not be the case. However, you are probably correct. This level has been an absolute brute for…[Read more]

Thanks @vuelva. It didn’t really have the fingerprints of a cheat. I really want to know how he got top score in 3-1. It’s one of my list of 11 levels outside top 50 in ABo and not one for which there is a credible reason (e.g. level has been changed).

Maybe he’s just re-entering scores from years ago.

Her Twiggyship yomped up and down Snowdon today and having got home, tore round and round the garden in circles for about half an hour. I need to get her wired up to the National Grid.

I guess I should ask him but with no comment footprint anywhere it’s probably not going to be any use. The overall distribution of scores across Poached Eggs doesn’t look particularly odd and he could well have beaten one of my top scores using the same approach as others. But 3-1 is a bit of a mystery to me, I’d really like to know what happened…[Read more]

There’s a guy called @murash who has just posted a couple of top scores in Poached Eggs. Not using Classics. No other episodes have scores. I’m keeping a watch for now…