There are two music journalists that I sort of know a bit, they both released books last year I think it was so I thought that I ought to buy them. I got my parents to buy them and send them to me in Portugal but they never showed up and I forgot all about them. However, when I went to my parents' house the other day they had the package as it turned out that - another brexit bonus - it kinda hung around in no-man's land for a few months and then finally bounced back to theirs. So I finally have it at last; I guess at some point I will start on Bass, Mids, Tops by Joe Muggs (I guess everyone here will be reading that one) but first I decided to embark on Mars by 1980 by David Stubbs. It's... fine I guess, but so far it really sort of divides into two parts - stuff I'm interested in and know most of anyhow, and stuff I don't know so much about cos I'm not that interested in it. That seems a slightly harsh summary, I dunno, there isn't anything particularly wrong with it... he writes well, he has a passion for the subject. Somehow there is some spark or something lacking, something to really get it airborne, never mind to Mars. Has anyone read it? Do you know what I'm getting at here? I can't really put my finger on it, and that feels rather churlish or mean to complain about something while being unable to say what is wrong with it... but there it is.