Huge JM fan, by the way, met him a few times,drove him home once, not a bad word to say about him.

My grandfather alluded to it being Bonemian musical types (despite being a musician himself) so that close was never renovated until it caught fire in about 1986-7 or so? I'm assuming it was them. Not the fire, the reluctance to renovate.

Yes, they were in number 10, we were number 4. In the early 1980s there was a family in number 10 resisting the whole renovation, stone cleaning, windows, electrics plumbing thing.

One good thing I learned from you was that I used to live next door to John Martyn's dad. I knew I went to the same school as John Martyn (and Jerry Sadowitz, and Ian Brady), but yeah - every day is a school day!

I did not diss Jools, BTW. I pointed out his TV career trajectory, vs the pure music trajectory. Loyal to his friends to a fault, you have to give him that. R.I.P. Gilson Lavis #Gilson #Lavis #GilsonLavis #Squeeze #JoolsHollandRnBOrchestra #Drummer

Much like Ringo, Gilson did not showboat or drive the songs - he played the song, including the quiet bits where he would just shut up entirely. I learned from him, and in later years other musos noticed those lessons in me. He once told me off in a Facebook group, where he thought I dissed Jools.

The Pool Hall had a jukebox, but nobody used it because in the absence of paying customers it would just play Squeeze's Greatest Hits. Squeeze's Greatest Hits had nearly as profound an impact on this teenage drummer as the entire Led Zeppelin back catalogue did. Gilson was a genius drummer.

She walks every day,
Through the streets of New Orleans,
She is innocent and sweet, From a family of means,
(Moon Over Bourbon Street, Sting, Dream Of The Blue Turtles, 1985)

The valves don't work without the heater, silly!

Oh my GAAHHHDDD! youtu.be/R5Q1yVLSR3I?...

Hello Reform! UK Drill is a distinctly British musical genre, and should therefore be considered part of British culture. I could ask them to discuss, critically analyse, compare and contrast, but at the end of the day they will probably just take their shirts off and throw plastic lawn chairs.

I wonder if she's out on licence? (Sorry if that's not the correct term in England, I am in Scotland.) Can you criticise your conviction when you are out on licence?

Evening Marcus, there are a lot of people in your comments who just don't get it. I get it. We both come from a country where socialism worked for a little while. It wasn't perfect, but it kind-of worked. Moral purity doesn't work, but caring about other people does. Wish we could get back to that.

Every once in a while all the EDM on 6 Music gets too much for me, so I switch over to a 'serious' radio station. Then I remember how un-serious Radio 4 has become. I'll tolerate the techno.