Introducing C 's guest post yesterday, we had David MacCallum, a one-time Invisible Man. Today, C sent me a lovely photo of Pauline Murr...

Thirty years ago, Damon and the Blur lads won that silly battle for Number One with the Neanderthal Brothers... but lost the battle in the a...

Following on from Monday's post about the hilarious AI eBay bot's attempts to write reviews of famous albums, I have been inspired t...

The Hives - The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime Another conversation query from Richard Herring's book Emergency Questions... If you could ...

I was always quite musical in my youth... Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie Not quite that musical, but I did play piano and tenor horn. I h...

Another one of Richard Herring's Emergency Questions to arm yourself with the next time you're forced to make dinner party small tal...

A few more musical equations left over from this weekend's Maths test... We start with the lead singer of the Quireboys. No - wait - com...

John Noakes has a camera on his head purely so that I can use the line "get down, Shape!" Here are ten shapes you can get down to....

Ten tunes named after different types of trees. Did any remain a mys-tree? 10. French Maid caught in defensive dealings. Joan was the Maid o...

Ryan Adams - To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) Last week we looked at how our addiction to digital media, in particular but not limi...

Today's edition of Namesakes coincides with my 52nd birthday. I now have as many years as a pack has cards and a year has weeks. I'm...