If you don’t post, you know what you are going to get. Apparently this “begins with an elastic reggae beat before becoming consumed by sheets of guitars, wispy harmonies, and stabs of brass”. What’s not to like.

Think we had a dead heat two weeks in a row on UC @hunnybunny. I’m missing OC. The replacement chess programme is mildly entertaining but who knew that there were so many double entendres in the game.

And this as well on Stiff in 1977! An unknown record label just exploded with talent.

And the Nick Lowe produced this, also coming out on Stiff, widely regarded to be the first charting UK punk single. Written by Brian James, who died 2 weeks ago.

@vuelva, the story of the Appalachian Trail is that in mid January 2024 my friend Jenn said that her Fitbit (or equivalent) had congratulated her on completing a challenge walk of some description (can’t remember which) and that now she was beginning the Appalachian Trail, 2198 miles.  I said that Twiggy and I would race her to the end and that…[Read more]

Time to chill out on a rainy Sunday morning.

Need to get your daily dose of flugelhorn.

Funny thing @hunnybunny, Atticus Finch was a very famous mountaineering mini-Schnauzer in the States, about 15 years ago. Twiggy has some of the same characteristics, for example stands and stares at views.

Right, just for that I will have to unleash the full force of the great Boo Radleys onto you. This is just for starters.

Nah, didn’t work.

I guess this is what is required. Out of the incredible Stiff Records stable.

Not popular on the ABo scene. Remains a terrible tosser. We must be up to close to a month now.

I am getting a tad suspicious. There are 699 ABo levels out of 2934 that could possibly end up in the Challenge, i.e. 23.8%

On that basis we might expect an ABo level to come up every 4-5 days.

The chance of not getting any ABo levels for almost 4 weeks is less than 1 in 1000.

The obvious conclusion is that Rohit Sharma* is choosing the…[Read more]

Surely the twist is…he really was dead.