All the best, Andy

I like Andy Kershaw – superb taste in music, great manner on the radio and a very compassionate and human guy.
He’s in trouble again though, which I find very sad.
The guy’s obviously a very troubled soul and I hope that he gets himself together again for his own sake, regardless of his professional life.
All the [...]

RIP Davey Graham

I was deeply saddened today to hear of the death of Davey Graham.
I’m not ashamed to say that I cried and that’s something Davey only shares with Alex Harvey and Jimi.
I first heard him when I was about 16. I was heavily into Cream and Hendrix by then and already gigging and playing guitar too [...]

Stickin’ it to Da Man

The issue of non-geographical phone numbers has hit the headlines again.
In brief, many places such as government departments, company enquiry lines, banks, hospital departments and doctors’ surgeries have 0845 or 0870 numbers which cost you to call. So, many people, myself included, who have phone calling plans giving unlimited ‘free’ calls to geographical numbers have [...]