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Pixies, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Placebo - marvellous; 4 of my fave bands If only you'd included Psychedelic Furs, your list would have been perfect :)

M - Manic Street Preachers, Mott the Hoople, Metallica, Mitski, Monochrome Set, Morrissey (love his music, hate his middle-aged racism and Right-wingery), (The) Mission, Marc Almond, Muse, Mark Lanegan :rock:

Ah, I haven't read Bring Up The Bodies yet - it's on my ever-lengthening 'want to read' list. I will definitely read it fairly soon, in spite of my criticisms of The Mirror and The Light - if nothing else, it's considerably shorter! I would never say to anyone "Don't read a book because I...

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You suggest it is either/or - it is quite possible to donate to overseas causes or charities and donate to charities in the UK to 'help our own'. I do both - and get slagged-off as 'do-gooder'! If someone objects to foreign aid when so many people here in the UK are 'in need', they can simply...

Half-way through Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light; nearly 900 pages, a 5½-pages list of characters before its starts, and about 15 of them are called Thomas! I feel about Mantel the same way as I do about Dickens: on the one hand, a brilliant writer with a fantastic way with words, and...

Have read the two Hookie books - very informative and entertaining. He has also been one of my favourite bass guitarists, and along with Simon Gallup, the master of the cool-looking low-slung bass! The other two are also on my 'want to read' list.

Michael Caine, Bruce Willis - I've always found them wooden and one-dimensional. Jim Carrey, Steve Martin - American comedy actors who I find as puerile, childish and pathetic as Mrs Brown's Boys.

Keira Knightley's husband is one of my ex-students :)

Yeah, they were known as 'Townies' in Leeds too, or 'Tetley Bittermen' (after the Leeds-based Tetley brewery). Like you in Sheffield, we soon learnt which pubs to avoid at weekends!

Yeah, that used to boil my p*** too - the clubs with the 'smart dress only' policy and gorilla-looking bouncers on the door were precisely the places where you'd get fights, stabbings and glassings on a Friday/Saturday night. Hardly ever any trouble among the 'scruffy' clientele of The Hungry...

8 minutes and 57 seconds less than the did :)

Some people are too stupid to have any idea just how stupid they are :mad:

Following on from yesterday's thread of recordings of the 'best ever' gigs, the worst. This was a Finnish death-metal band who were too drunk to play; the guitarist fell over at the begnning and later jumped off the stage and couldn't get back up without assistance, the singer literally p*ssed...

That version of Kashmir is the best ever - far more energy and intensity than the Physical Graffiti version of 1975!

Saw them on that tour, promoting their Hippopotamus album (one of their best). One of the best gigs I've ever been to; they didn't play a single duff track or bum note. The single (Self-Effacing) off their forthcoming album is also brilliant; really catchy and quirky. Got tickets to see them...

End it now, give Liverpool the title, promote all teams in automatic promotion places, don't relegate anyone, but then relegate an extra team over the next couple of seasons to return leagues to their normal size.

A lyrically sad song remixed with a great, really joyful, tune

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