A Water-Washed Diamond
I was an avid comic book collector when I was a kid^ and my favourite line for years was a DC one which featured team-ups between two heroes, I’m pretty sure one was always Batman and the other was...
View ArticleBoth Barrels: No Irony, No Distance
Here’s one that’s got me properly fired up again, Neil Young Freedom, out in ’89, picked up by me in ’91 after I’d already fallen hard for Ragged Glory (but that’s another story). There are indigenous...
View ArticleCrust Never Sleeps
Listen folks, I’m here to do you a favour – right here, right now. You wanna hear about a classic LP that every home should have at least one copy of, but probably doesn’t? Yeah, that’s why you tune...
View ArticleThose Old Spud Blues
Way back in the mists of time, October 1990 I left my farm in a little hidden away valley in West Wales and headed for the big city. Amongst all the glam rock cassettes loaded into a specially...
View ArticleLife Ain’t Nothing But Beaches And Money
What’s a beach all about then? a holiday, somewhere to shrug aside the daily grind and have fun – not this one; somewhere the sand, the sky and the sea converge reminding you how insignificant you are...
View ArticleFun Out On The Mainline
We’re doing okay in the seventies, history is coming back, everything’s okay, Spiro says it’s alright … This is a special one folks. Neil Young Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live. Picture the scene, late...
View ArticleBarn Howl
A small series in which I try to sidestep my January blues by any means necessary, Part 5: Neil Young (not Satan, they were probably both in same school year though). Ah, old Neil. At his best he’s...
View Article