Marillionboy

Can't really go wrong, I'll have The Web pouring out before I've even blown the froth off my pint. Is Moshulu worth checking out on a Thursday, I hear its good? MAy go on there afterwards...

Stuart wuill you be about at the end of the month when I'm up? PS Would love to have seen Jo M!

This is tremendous! Which Marillion dare I ask? Not that there's a bad album pre-95!

Just walked past the Shepherd's Bush Empire and found they are playing there tonight and its sold out!!!!

They're all stunning. Fave track so far is Take It On, it's superb. Whole album is very strong though!

I'll say, it was the cover of Spend the Night that drew me in! Great when you take a risk and it pays off. I ALWAYS judge an album by its cover when i'm impulse buying and i've not been wrong yet!

Any specific recommendations? Am liking all of Spend the Night so far. Fabulous cover too. And best of all I got it on vinyl...EVERYTHING sounds better on vinyl!

Just picked up a copy of Spend The Night out of curiousity...was rather impressed with this! What's the general consensus?

Tattoo man is for me in a seperate league as he's the only one who is devoid of any comic or sympathy factor. Anyone mind that woman from Torry who used to walk about yelling and swearing? Also does anyone remember gluesniffer Dave who hung about up by the University and freely quoted Coleridge at folk?

Will be up on the 27th November folks, will probably have a session in the moorings on that night, its a Saturday, but also highly likely I'll be in the following Thursday too! See yous all then! Pye xx

What is Mono?

Mono???? Explain!

Do you know I have never heard a Wishbone Ash track. Which album is a good place to start? My local second hand record shop has a copy of the album with the yellowy colour and the treebranches on. Any suggestions? I recall IQ supported them on their 1985 tour so assumed they were in a similar vein?

Currently listening to the new IQ album but it's not matching up so far, Electric 6, and just got Songs to Learn and Sing by Echo and the Bunnymen and a little Judee Sill. The Tenderfoot and Mew and my big "new" bands and both about to release new albums....anyone yet to discover them I'd recommend a look!

If there's a chance of even one being reintroduced, I'll vote for Deuchars IPA! Students would drink it cos it looks like lager.

Kenny Morris, that's the face. The Cure for me were never as good after Pornography. Three Imaginary Boys is still for me the best.

Is there any reasons she should have any less or more than anyone else?

Blimey I'm impressed. Can never remember the name of that scary looking drummer who quit thatg night. The biography of the band that came out last year was very good by the way, well worth a read.

Blimey Good Time Love by Ray and Amanda? What an inspired choice! I remember Ray Wilson being in Smart Alex one night in about 1991 and thinking what a cool name Stiltskin was when he mentioned it. Was mighty surprised when the next I know they're on TOTP! Still love Inside but to this day haven't heard a single other track from that album.

What the hell was going on with Mark E Smith??? What a twat!

They're just jealous cos they're English. I still have framed on my wall the SOUNDS cover that boasts "IN ABERDEEN NO-ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM" which reported on the Siouxsie and the Banshees gig at the Capitol where two of the band quit an hour before the gig. Think it was the first and last time the city ever got mentioned in Sounds.

This might not be a popular opinion, but I don't happen to think the current situation regarding coverage of music is that bad. Radio One is a million times more serious about music than it was in the Seventies, even if it is rather elitist and very ageist, and has been ever since the Bannister era. But wheras in the Seventies all we had was endless DLT and Simon Bates, and in the 80s Gary Davies. Bruno Brooks/ Pat Sharpe etc with just Vance/ Freeman and Peel getting one slot each a week, now we have many many more outlets. Digital radio and the internet mean 1Xtra, 6Music and such like, meaning that whatever the genre you're into, there are a hundred ways of knowing what's new in it. Email lists, wesbites etc mean a band can make itself know to those who are looking even though the live scene etc is not what it was. The one really sad omission from it all is The Old Grey Whistle Test, as there is nothing today that comes close, not even Jools. What we will lose with Peel is that one particular show which, to a new band, getting played on it was like getting their first Marquee support.

Well obviously he can never be replaced but there must be someone who can continue the tradition of championing new and "difficult" bands. Andy kershaw said tonight that if you were a new band in some obscure corner of England you had just lost your cheerleader. Actually Kershaw has EXACTLY the sensibilities of Peel. He says on the first Whistle Test DVD that what he always looks for in music is to hear something he hasn't heard before. (Which is what first drew him to the Talking Heads in 1982)

Frankie could make even an average song sound brethtaking though, although Good Time Love is for me the favourite.

I know they were amazing live and all that, but then so were Marillion, ELP and Genesis and yet they are less credible than B.A. Robertson these days.