Author: Alan Ashworth

Following on from yesterday’s Graham Parker clip, here are the Rumour on their own with a song from their awesomely politically correct 1979 LP Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs and Krauts. A … Continue readingThe Rumour: Frozen Years

Graham Parker was never one of my favourite singers but the Rumour included the great Brinsley Schwarz on guitar and Bob Andrews on keyboards. This is a live clip from … Continue readingGraham Parker and the Rumour: Hold Back The Night

Can 19million YouTube viewers be wrong? Give the first 2.50 a miss though.

Irresistible. Whoever created this video is a genius,

A preview of his next album Foreverandevernomore, released in October. I am used to hearing Brian’s voice on his pop/rock records but here it combines with his ambient work. Not … Continue readingBrian Eno: There Were Bells

I would have preferred an ode to Lancashire county but this is very sweet all the same.

Ah, those twin lead guitars. Live on German TV, 1976. Feel a bout of head shaking coming on.

Always loved Apache; here it gets the special Beck treatment. The original Sleepwalk was by Santo and Johnny in 1959; the Shads did it the following year. And here the … Continue readingJeff Beck: Apache / Sleepwalk

A nice bit of Canterbury Scene noodling from 1975.