Category Archives: UK

Music Monday – “It’s cold out there/But it’s warm in bed/They can dance/We’ll stay home instead”

“Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go!” – Wham!

Music Monday – “We watched our friends grow up together/And we saw them as they fell/Some of them fell into Heaven/Some of them fell into Hell” (RIP Shane MacGowan: 1957-2023)

RIP to the only performer that ever scared the shit out of me when he appeared on SNL in the early to mid 1990’s.  And what a performer he was! “A Rainy Night in Soho” – The Pogues And at this time of year, I have to mention the greatest Christmas song of all-time… “Fairytale […]

Music Monday – “I know it’s true/It’s all because of you/And if I make it through/It’s all because of you”

“Now and Then” – Beatles

Music Monday – “Problem, problem/Problem, the problem is you/What you gonna do with your problem?/I’ll leave it to you”

“Problems” – Sex Pistols

Secular Sunday – Least Religious Countries Are…

…the most peaceful for some reason.

Music Monday – “All last autumn did my time shovelling the shit/On a Kremlin backed twitter-posting troll farm/I get in, I get in, I get in, I get in on time”

“Kremlin Backed Twitter Posting Troll Farm” – James Hargreaves (cover) (Sorry, couldn’t find a version by the original artist but this song title alone makes it too good not to post!)

Music Monday – Video For “Let It Be”-Era Rare Beatles Track Uncovered

New Beatles Video Unearthed!

Music Monday – “We’ve come so far and we’ve reached so high/And we’ve looked each day and night in the eye/And we’re still so young and we hope for more/But remember this…”

Howard Donald (55) is the oldest member of Take That who performed as a trio at the Coronation Concert yet with his shaggy haircut and grey beard, he is the one I resemble the most. Hell, even their slow-mo dance steps are a far cry from their energetic boy band routines in the mid-1990s in […]

The Day John Lennon Met Paul McCartney

Music Monday – “I get eaten by the worms/And weird fishes/Picked over by the worms/And weird fishes/Weird fishes/Weird fishes”

“Weird Fishes/Arperggi” – Radiohead