@Whisht     Oh, I didn’t know.   🙁   Thanks for those tracks.

I’ve listened to your last few without giving back. Bad, bad Arbutus. Here’s one to make up for it. I’ve been listening to Music From Big Pink pretty much non-stop for the last 48 hours (not sure why, it has just engaged me this week!).

No one has died (not recently at least…[Read more]

@puroandson      Also, Son of Puro, I have to second @Whisht‘s comments about your cousin. She has a great voice, very rich and soulful. I’ll bet she’s great on the blues/soul repertoire. And kudos to her on that gig. Way, way back in the day when I aspired to a career of that sort, I played a few times in those kind of pub-places where you were…[Read more]

@ichabod @missy @thedentistofdavros @whisht @janetteb (I hope I’m not forgetting someone)

Thank you all so much for your welcome! It’s a long wait for the new episodes, I kind of wish I hadn’t been hooked with the series until later in the year, but I think time will pass swiftly with you guys!

@janetteb
I absolutely adore Douglas Adams – althou…[Read more]

Ah wine and cheese. That’s just what I need now after and exhausting weekend. I have been involved in running a local writer’s festival. Into it’s second year now. We have over fifty people at the launch of an anthology we put out on Friday night, (which is a lot of people for such a small event as ours). Attendance yesterday and today was modest…[Read more]

@whisht   thanks!  Feeling pretty good today —

@Whisht  @puroandson

I did it!  I walked into the city and back, a round trip of just over two miles, towing a laden wheeled shopping bag on the way back.  I tucked a folding walking stick into the bag in case of need, but it wasn’t required, My legs felt very slightly unsteady to begin with but  … freedom, and no pain 🙂

@lisa   I looked…[Read more]

@Whisht

I’m responding here to your post on the Music forum, since this seems a more appropriate place

Johnson didn’t expect to win the Referendum.  For Johnson it would be an honourable loss, alignment to an influential bas of the party and then…power!

And his face the day following the Referendum spoke volumes – a man on whom had dawned the…[Read more]

@Whisht

I think we’re rapidly approaching the ‘Everybody Hurts’ stage. 😕

@Arbutus

Like the mad Newfie Celtic style!

@Whisht

Song to console:

@Whisht    I’m of the opinion that it’s our intentions that make all the difference. I don’t think we can ever entirely escape our cultural history, our upbringing, our generation, whatever it is that governs how we respond to things and people. Sometimes, it’s enough to understand that our instant assumptions aren’t always justified (while so…[Read more]

@Kharis

Love the conspiracy theories about  River and Clara and ravens and what not!  Like you I also

always felt River was Tasha.  Sorry about your online bank incident too. Can I ask which bank was it?

@puroandson                @Bluesqueakpip       @Mersey       @Mudlark            @Whisht

My sincere condolences to all of you on the outcome…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

And I live and work in an area that is by some measures one of the top five deprived areas in the country. I don’t commute into it for work, I live here

Where I lived for many years (as well as its south London counterpart).

Please tell me whether you would?

I did all sorts of lowly work when I was that age (engineering comp…[Read more]

@Whisht

Yup, contentious. And I really was trying to stay calm. Oh, well. Apologies.

On the bright side, it’s a good turnout, with a lot of people who don’t normally vote getting engaged.

The other bright side is that a lot of the talking heads are saying ‘the message is that we haven’t been listening’. If they actually believe that, rather…[Read more]

@Whisht and @pedant

Aaaand …. breathe!

Whatever happens, whichever way the majority votes tomorrow, we will all have to work together on Friday. The worst thing about this damnable campaign is the way both sides have started spitting sheer hatred at the other side.

This song has a Doctor Who connection: it was considered as a possible…[Read more]

@Whisht

Absolutely. This white son of a truck driver is heartily sick of the keening, whining hatred from the wailing white boys.

There is no group as adept as the English working classes at finding someone else to blame for their indolence, and no group better at exploiting that than the English elite.

We are on the verge of kicking the door…[Read more]

@Whisht

Ah, yes, referendum music. My favourite:

@arbutus @whisht @puroandson

@puroandson I will look forward to your birthday, please remind me when it does reach your birthday (I’m rubbish at remembering dates!) and what else could you want for your birthday when you have all of us giving you songs!

@whisht Even if you deny it I would still pick you on my quiz team, I bet you’d be good at…[Read more]

@Whisht   I’m sure lots of us have a story at least a bit like that. Back in the day, we all heard at least one great “new” song that was actually thirty years old or whatever. In fact, it still happens. A couple of years ago, my son was very keen on this song. He didn’t believe us when we told him that it was using a theme from something 30+ y…[Read more]

@puroandson

I’ve never really had a taste in music which is a shame I just know that I don’t like much of that pop nonsense nowadays (doesn’t mean I don’t like change!) especially the bloody beaver (good name). I suppose I like old rock songs and yeah guitars are probably my favourite instrument. Most songs I hear now though are electronic which…[Read more]

@Whisht      OMG, Jimmy Smith. You’ve just pushed at least four of my buttons– jazz, organ, Hammond B3, Jimmy Smith. I hadn’t heard that before. 🙂 🙂 🙂

And Tito Puente. That’s funny, because I was just last night reading some stuff about Latin jazz while listening to Stan Kenton. Tito came up in several places. That’s a great track.…[Read more]