music – Gruts

Steve ‘the Colonel’ Cropper (1941–2025)

Cousin Chris

My music-streaming service (Tidal) just recommended some hip-hop to me. The only reason I can conceive it might do this is if the algorithm decided some chap named ‘Chris Carter’ might be my cousin. (Links are not endorsements.)

Hey, hey, hey… Vanity and presumption

Ten years ago this week, I tweeted my first ever #FallFriday link to a video by the Fall. Gruts aside, my ongoing #FallFriday tweets are the closest thing I have to a body of work. #waa!

Moonage outrage

…Two hours and ten minutes of footage, and NOT ONCE does Bowie sing The Laughing Gnome!

Listen to Thommo, everyone!

Well, he certainly picked a fine time to leave us!

BBC: Kenny Rogers: Country music legend dies aged 81

The Boss turns 70

To mark the 70th birthday of Bruce Springsteen, who was born in the USA on this day in 1949, a timely reminder of the time I duetted with him (sort of) at a packed Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, way back in 2008. Happy birthday, Boss!