Just sent it again now. Thank you! :)

I can confirm that in Maggie’s case, it’s pretty accurate.

Saw Echobelly on their first tour in 1994 at Coventry Uni when I was 16 and they took the place apart. Still one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to.

Saw Oasis the following week at the same venue and they were (and there’s no polite way of saying this) fucking shite.

See also: a Precision is the perfect bass on which to learn and the Musicman Stingray is the perfect pro instrument.

Hard agree. A Telecaster is basically the perfect electric guitar and all subsequent iterations of the instrument are basically redundant.

Judging from the picture that's only half a concertina, right..?

The Lion, The Witch and The Garderobe..

The Old Windmill in Coventry city centre is still known exclusively as Ma Brown’s to its clientele. She ceased to be the licensee in 1932. But there’s a good chance if you ask directions to the Old Windmill, most Coventrians won’t know where you mean.

“Honorarium”. I love that they always think “derisory tip” will sound more appealing if they say it in Latin.

My standard response when someone asks me me to do something for free and that it will be good exposure is "but what if I die of exposure..?"

Slept in my Wonder Stuff t-shirt and woke up The Size of a Cow..

It’s an interesting article for all sorts of reasons. But the main thing that struck me is how long and well-argued it is compared with anything else in any newspaper today. Not in any way a complaint btw..