On a group on another social media outlet, a folk club organiser posted about whether concert venues should be doing more to stop the spread of corona-virus. He suggested "deep cleaning" before

Trying something different... ! Belka, Why Don't You Bark? by Hideo Furukawa (translated by Michael Emmerich) Synopsis "Belka, Why Don’t You Bark? begins in 1943, when Japanese troops retreat from

I was walking to the supermarket on Friday, as the sun set on Britain's last day in the European Union, mulling the nature of xenophobia and the stupidity of labelling people 'foreigners'. "Go back

Half a percent, that is! Yesterday, we were in a big Tesco's store far from home and they had a selection of low- and no-alcohol beers. Health and budget are on our minds this year in the Hockney household,

The Isle of Cats was a ridiculously successful Kickstarter campaign last year, driven by the internet’s core feature of distributing pictures of cats. Of course I bought a copy. The plot involves the imminent

The ever-rocking @verhp11 has started this challenge and @steevc nominaterised me in his post, so here goes... First concert: Gillan - Reading Top Rank, 16th December 1981, supported by Budgie Last concert:

Once upon a time, The Swan was the best pub in Staines. But that was when we first moved into the area nearly 20 years ago. Every few years it suffers a facelift and loses a little more of what made it

The other day,@katharsisdrill wrote a post recommending we do many things, including back a comic on IndieGoGo. I followed the link and was impressed enough to put some money in. Yesterday they announced

I blame @gibic. Their 'My Top Ten Favorites Music Albums of The Decade' was at the top of my feed when I didn't know what music to listen to. It's a damn fine selection, but not even close to what I've

My December began with two Frank Zappa tribute concerts. First, the Zappadan Zappajam, wherein various West London Zappa fans perform in a community hall in Acton, and then this - Hot Rats performed by

T-shirts from my collection Today is the end of 'Zappadan' - stretching from 4th December, the day Frank Zappa died in 1993, to today, his birthday. FZ was famous for many things, but mostly the poster

I’ve been drinking real ale for about 35 years, and been a member of CAMRA for nearly as long. The Campaign for Real Ale was founded in 1971 and is the UK’s largest consumer organisation on a single topic,

I'm in the UK, so today I have voted, but with little expectation of changing the party in power in my electorate. It was tough to decide who to vote for, so I acted as though we were a sensible democracy,

Late autumn in 1979, after school one day, Nigel said we should go to his house because his dad had a copy of the new Pink Floyd album. I wasn’t a Floyd fan - I was just starting to explore heavy metal

In the previous shirt I went through the main stage bands at Hard Rock Hell. The main stage room was low-ceilinged, with a stage that came too far forward and had the ‘VIP’ seating area right in front,

Two weeks after HRH Prog I was off to my next HRH event, this time in their new holiday camp location on the edge of Great Yarmouth. When I did a holiday camp festival, this at the start of this year,

When you're fighting Aliens on the Nostromo, it's essential to have the assistance of a stroppy tabby cat. Humphrey and me playing 'Legendary Encounters: ALIEN', one of the finest deck building games out

“Once upon a time there was a guy who thought that music was important and that rock 'n' roll songs ought to say something different in their lyrics. So he wrote a few hundred of these items, trying to

I’ve been to a few HRH events over the last couple of years, but this was different for two reasons - It was in London at Shepherds Bush Empire, meaning we could commute, and Janet came along as well!

As part of our driving holiday up the Mississippi, we stopped for a couple of nights in Clarksdale, one of the more well-known crossroads and an excellent base to explore the delta blues region. One of