Today is Friday. Friday means rockabilly and today Friday means payday as well. And as Carl Belew sang when covering Radney Foster, '...

It's been the 60th anniversary of Tenzing and Hillary's ascent of Everest this week. There have been a load of previousl...

The Soundcloud hour long dj mix is one of the wonders of the internet age- yes, even better than clips of cats falling off pianos. An hou...

Pushing the boundaries of this blog a little bit further than usual, this evening is the 100th anniversary of the first performance of St...

I've read a couple of unconnected references to Northside recently and I don't ignore things like that when thinking about stuff to ...

I love this picture of Diego Maradona in his Boca Juniors shirt and carpet slippers. I saw Diego Maradona play once. In the 1983-4 season...

Back from camping- I took this photo on Saturday morning. The weather was lovely all the way through to Sunday night. Some members of our...

I'm off camping after work tonight, three nights in a field with the family and three other families in the Lake District. Weather fo...

I found this somewhat unrehearsed but very endearing version of The Pogues with Joe doing I Fought The Law live on Irish TV back in 1987. Po...

Posting that Death In Vegas song on Monday night prompted me to think that it's been ages since I posted any One Dove. So, plucking a...

I suppose part of the appeal of writing a song called Tomorrow is it will never be old will it, it will always sound like tomorrow. And t...

You gonna love this- Richard Burton reading Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood over a King Tubby dub track (all put together by The Dubwo...

Justin Robertson and his Deadstock 33s are on a roll at the moment with remixes, an album, and dj sets all over the place. In this mix h...

I missed a comment left a month or so ago from a reader called J who was looking for this- Death In Vegas's Dirge (with the lovely Do...

Devendra Banhart, nu-hippy supremo, cropped up at Acid Ted on Friday- a most unexpected Acid Ted artist. I'm not a huge fan of Mr Ba...

It's my forty-third birthday today - I haven't got much to say about that really, it's just forty three- but I'm celebrating...

Today, from 11 til 2, I shall be manning the book stall at Park Road Nursery's summer fair. Not exactly breaking rocks I know. And t...

I said to Drew in the pub on Tuesday night (during our top level blog summit) that I didn't know how much longer I can keep this Frid...

Tom Courtenay has just said to Pattie Boyd, while walking Thameside in the rain in 1966, 'Yeah, so actually my favourite way of getti...

There's a grebo reunion package tour about to do the rounds- Jesus Jones, The Wonderstuff and Pop Will Eat Itself. Steady, don't...