Gig review: Thomas Dolby

Carling Academy Birmingham, October 8th 2007 On an autumn Monday night a colleague and I saw Thomas Dolby in concert at the Academy in Birmingham. Not so long ago I would have had this on the “this would never happen list” but since so many things that I thought would never happen keep happening, I’ve […]

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Soon it will be 20 years from when I started a diary. I don’t think I was ever imagining what it might be like to be 36 years old when I began all that. I am really into Lolcats, Kenny Everett and daydreaming. ———————————–

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Goodbye Tony Wilson

I was upset to hear yesterday of the news of the death of Tony Wilson (obituary here on the BBC News website, though Blogdial says it nicely too). I got the chance to meet and chat with him in 2005 and I’m glad that I was able to let him know how much his TV […]

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From the land of Oz

Earlier this year it was my birthday, and a good friend who lives in Australia sent me over three Scritti Politti 12″ singles. The parcel was sent via sea-mail and arrived yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised but not, however, expecting the records to be padded and packaged with all manner of exotic (to these eyes […]

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An Igloo’s Not The Place I Wanna Be

So, in the early 80’s I got my first reel to reel tape recorder from a jumble sale. Me and my mate were really into reel to reels. A relative gave me a reel of the Beatle’s Red 62-66 LP that they’d taped for me. When you got to the end of side two there […]

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