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Paddy McAloon

13th February 202414th February 2024General

How do you start with someone like Paddy McAloon? He is a proper artist, as I would call ‘pop stars’ who simply refuse to fit the mould, like Kate Bush. The band is Prefab Sprout

The Captain is in

30th November 20231st December 2023General

“A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?“ This has become a much loved quote in our house, repeated by offspring who were not even a glimmer in my

Maths!

24th September 202225th September 2022General

In a transparent (and very much appreciated) effort to elicit a post from me, my co-contributor to OME challenged me to list my top ten maths songs. Over a month ago. Possibly inspired by the

Bless the Weather – John Martyn [Album]

16th February 202216th February 2022General

This, his fifth album, recorded in 1971, was unknowingly to me the start of a lifelong obsession with John Martyn. Unknowingly because one night in 1973 John Peel played Glistening Glyndebourne, and I nearly fell

Free live

24th October 202011th October 2022General, Video

“We considered ourselves a live band that did records every now and then” Andy Fraser. “We really tore up the place, but we were around for less than three years. By the time Fire and

Top 10 singles – Teh Jayhawk

6th June 20206th June 2020General

This was provoked by the Guardian’s clickbait top 100 No 1s of all time, which was so contentious that it sparked off another 100 lists. This is something which changes as you go along and

Lost in music

3rd March 20203rd March 2020General

The old cliche about rock stars being self destructive is kind of true. The problem is that we’ve moved out of the age of rock into the age of hiphop. The old stars are few

So you want old?

14th January 202015th January 2020General

The OME started as a joke because at one time I used to read the only sane music weekly, the NME, which was a weekly obsession for all music fans in the 70s, having been

About time there was another one of these…

13th January 202014th January 2020General

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