Mark Lanegan

Very much this! It was rationed for you already whether you wanted to carry on watching or not. On holiday a few years back and had basic tv, no streaming. Kids could not understand not being able to watch exactly what they wanted whenever.

I feel like you could do a decent thread just with Christopher Lee facts

Magnificent! Always have a massive soft spot for stuff that just goes as metal as it possibly can. Life’s too short for irony

My 8 year old is loving the Ottoline books by Chris Ridell at the moment. Ottoline and the Yellow Cat is the first in the series. Crimes solved, bears in cupboards, small hairy men from Norwegian bogs. All you need really!

You could have given me a hundred guesses as to the track list for an intro to VU and a I would have not guessed that

Artists pour their hearts and souls into an album. The idea that you can ‘get it’ on a single listen is an absurdity.

Was listening to the reissue of the first Slomo album

Like a happier alternative to Ian Sinclair’s map of Hawksmoor churches

Checked out a nearby record shop while I was there. Specialises in 50s American rock and roll and Finnish rockabilly. Based on the scale of the collection Finnish rockabilly is a surprisingly fertile genre

Yeah, they had to cut chunks out of the story to make it less bleak