A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
WOMEN who were executed after being accused of witchcraft are no doubt sighing with relief after receiving an official apology from Nicola Sturgeon. The Scottish First Minister climbed off her own … Continue readingDead Witches’ Lives Matter
No apologies for sticking with the Hunnish groove. From their excellent 1972 debut album.
More hypnotic Krautism, this time from Faust’s 1972 album So Far. Very strange pictures from Roman Polanski.
ON September 13, 1944, Captain George Wordingham Scarf of the Royal Artillery was on manoeuvres in a Jeep near Cattolica, on Italy’s Adriatic coast, when he was killed by a … Continue readingA war grave in Italy
What a hypnotic band they were. I saw them in Newcastle in 1974 and must confess that I did not get it. But since then I have learned to love … Continue readingCan: Mother Sky
A live version from 2000, 25 years after the original. Does he remind you of that bloke out of Shameless?
Watch the head-high tackles fly in as Chelsea face Leeds in the two-part 1970 FA Cup final. Proper men. It makes you wonder how Paul Pogba would have coped in … Continue readingNot for sissies
Another grungy pick, this time from the mighty Bob Mould.
Nice, grungy little instrumental from 2002.
A bit modern for me but I like its simplicity. Youth and Valor is Courtney Saunders, from Texas.