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Oh now you say it, yeah, he did didn't he? Along with Sasha Gray, Nick Cave, Shirley Collins, Cannon and Ball etc Gavin Friday's another one I struggle with.

Yes, it's an affected voice. I can cope with his contributions to the first Hercules & Love Affair LP because that was a good album, but I don't think I'll check out any more. It's like how I just can't get past David Tibet's voice to give Current 93 a fair listen.

Somewhere in Tokyo, right now, a drunk salaryman in a flat filled with toys is making SCHMMMCK GRRRUMMMSCHHHHH NAWWWWWWWOWOWWOW noises with his mouth as Genesis P-Orridge gives Princess Leia a backhander

Looked up the tune "Alienation" by Crisis and got this - surely this is a Limmy character?

Fairly low on incident (though you get to see undercover drug squad in their 'covert' jean jacket and Che Guevara outfits), but this is a decent reminder of just how filthy metal fans used to look (take it as a compliment) - makes the average crowd down The Black Hart look like a Persil ad...

Also, beware using the office internet. A former IT manager came down the pub one evening with a couple of print-outs and said "This is what xxxx is googling" (some guy in sales) - it was a list of searches like "how approach hot woman on train", "how approach hot woman in shop", "are asian...

Prescient...got an email yesterday saying I've got an HR meeting next week as I might be laid off. Best - probably the past 25 years of B2B and contract publishing. Highs: getting to travel around the world for free while doing nothing more strenuous than bashing out words on a keyboard. Lows...

The 1970s saw one of the most heated subcultural conflicts ever – the civil war between RASTAS and BARBERS. I KILLED THE BARBER Dr Alimantado bragged, kicking off a spate of crimper-killings. You’ve got to kill dem dead, before dem spread…KILL THE BARBER DEAD, YAH! Jah Stitch echoed. It was a...

At least they were kids...I've since known 40+s who've wandered into similar traps in Cyprus, Japan, etc. I worked with a creepy married bloke in the 2000s (who liked The Fall, incidentally - Fall fans really turned me off that band) who went on a press junket to Cape Town and had to ring the...

Just struck me, it's probably 30 years this week since I left the 'parental nest' in Luton to start my DTP course in London. A similar thing happened to some home counties rubes on my course...a very friendly, fit girl with a ring through her nose approached them in Soho and assured them they...

Sarah Helm – “Ravensbruck” About as harrowing as you’d expect, with an overwhelming roster of guards/prisoners to keep track of (though Helm reintroduces each character when she returns to them, which soon becomes essential). Always feels weird ‘recommending’ books like this, but it was an...

Not me. But I went to TOKYO ROBOT EXPO in 2016: The stand girl introduced me to the SERVOTRON unit, which simpered, "HELLO, MY NAME IS HARUTO...HUMANS AND ROBOTO ARE BEST OF FRIENDS!" I said, "What a clever little fellow!", just to impress her - then, when she went to get me some brochures, I...

My dad's mate Johnny Cronin emigrated to Western Australia...he used to send us these irregular letters with polaroid pics of himself in an open shirt and Speedos, with his gut hanging out, groping his latest Asian wife. Loads of great tunes:

Feels more 'Boozer Jukebox' thread than 'COTD', but anyway...

Is my memory playing tricks on me, or didn't the bloke from Kula Shaker get in trouble for saying disabled people were reaping bad karma from a previous life, and that he was pro-eugenics?

The first song on Loveless sounds interesting and all over the place. Ten minutes in, you realise Alan McGee thought whammy bars were some sort of fairy magic.

Years ago, I used to have Sid Vicious' Sid Sings LP. It wasn't very good, but was made even worse by some wanker in the New York audience yelling along and shouting EHHHHHH-EHHHH-EHHHH!!! over the music. Turns out the cunt went to Suicide gigs too! :mad: I'm sure this is the same irritating...

They're worn by selfish weirdos who think that just because they want to sleep, the whole plane needs to shut up and lights-out. The same people who pull the window flap down even though it's a lovely, sunny afternoon with a fantastic view of the Bosphorus. I was in the window seat on a flight...

77: V/A - CYBERNETIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM TOP 100 (2004) No. 77 is possibly the greatest thing that ever happened on the internet, and still on my list of fantasy boxsets - I’d cross the Straits of Johor on a space hopper to bag a copy should anyone care to put it together. Streamed live...

I wouldn't worry, I knew someone who got Sylvester The Cat smoking a cigarette tattooed on his arm (can't lie, it looked good, though he severely regretted it). And it can't be as bad as weirdos who get footballers' faces tatted on their calves and backs.