Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat The Factory
Posted in SHOFT on 23rd January 2012
It's strange to be sitting here, in 2012, reviewing a Guided By Voices record - and it brings back all kinds of memories for me. To begin at the beginning, there's no reason that anyone reading should remember Revolver Records in Bristol. The shop was tucked away in a doorway...
The Concrete Cow #1
Posted in Railways on 21st January 2012
Less than a month into the year and I'm writing about my second railtour - this is far from the usual course which January takes. However, years back when I had a lot less ink in the atlas I used to see start the year by how many weeks I...
Benjamin Shaw - There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabernet
Posted in SHOFT on 20th January 2012
This blog doesn't generate huge amounts of feedback, at least not much that the spam filter doesn't happily discard for me because it involves enlarging at least one body part. However the two issues it does generate some occasional heat around are its unremitting praise for things, and its geographical...