Crotchety Man

Snoopy and Woodstock go travelling

I have always found travelling stressful. As a schoolboy I felt I could walk forever, although a 20-mile charity walk in my late teens, sadly, dispelled that notion. Public tran...

A soirée at the Beat Hotel, Paris, late 50s or early 60s.

Although he has never been a household name, Allan Taylor has been writing, performing and recording folk songs ever since he turned professional 60 years a...

Beauty beyond words

What was I supposed to make of a band called Kolm, and an album called

squeezing in squeezing out

‘Przecisk’ seems to be the Polish for “pipe jacking”, “moling” or “ramming” ...

The most famous tummy of the western world?

If your streaming service thinks you might like a track with a funny name, by a band you have never heard of, you have to listen to it, don’t you? And if it turns out to tickle the senses, i...