Andy Lewis

This was one of those 45s I picked up on spec because I needed to make up three for a quid in Carmarthen Market. I'd never heard it before but I liked a few Lulu tunes so gave it a go. Back at my digs, I gave it a spin. Needle hits the groove, a few crackles then... -

- When I told her it was Lulu, and it was probably older than both of us, she couldn't believe it. So that was one of the three I'd bought for a quid in Carmarthen Market. I'd all but forgotten the other two. I picked the next one up. Another interesting looking record I'd never heard of-

This was one of those 45s I picked up on spec because I needed to make up three for a quid in Carmarthen Market. I'd never heard it before but I liked a few Lulu tunes so gave it a go. Back at my digs, I gave it a spin. Needle hits the groove, a few crackles then... -

- Right there, right then, I caught a glimpse of the future. I just *knew* that whatever happened to me academically I could fall back on playing daft records in bars and clubs to people who'd dance their faces off to this sort of stuff. What an absolute stormer. I played it six times in a row -

Happy 40th Birthday to this absolute masterpiece of an album. I don't think XTC made a better album than this. Oh yes, they made albums that were amazingly good with songs that are peerless after Skylarking. But this is, as they say, all bangers & no clangers. Yesterday I waxed lyrical about-

Kenneth Williams asked "What's the bloody point?" and I know exactly how he feels this morning. What is the bloody point?

Yet again I wake up from dreams that have left me feeling like I've already done a full day's work, already exhausted.

The weirdest thing happened to me today. I went up to the room I'm sleeping in doing this job this afternoon to get something to discover one, just one, of my boots was full of water. Like it had caught a leak from a burst pipe. Nothing else was damaged or damp. There were no leaks or burst pipes-

It's the 38th anniversary of the day I sprung out of bed, bright eyed and bushy tailed and looking forward to breakfast at SDUC's refectory, only to find myself feeling like Number Six in Many Happy Returns, wandering through a deserted campus with no sign of life.

AI slop video on Facebook just now was telling me about The UK’s Most Dangerous Island. It zoomed in on the Isle of Man which is a) not technically in the UK but is part of the British Isles and b) a bit harsh on the people who live there who are in my experience very nice. They meant Gruinard-

If I was lucky enough to have created something that earned me JKR's billions, the world's superyacht and superyacht support vessel fleets would each be depleted to the tune of one. Meanwhile, St David's University College Lampeter would still be open. -

Surprisingly, this doesn't appear on the new Barbara Moore retrospective Bedazzled (out now in all good record shops), but she's on this as a member of The Ladybirds. Barbara Moore is a name more people should know about. An incredibly versatile and talented vocalist, she was also a gifted arranger-

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Surprisingly, this doesn't appear on the new Barbara Moore retrospective Bedazzled (out now in all good record shops), but she's on this as a member of The Ladybirds. Barbara Moore is a name more people should know about. An incredibly versatile and talented vocalist, she was also a gifted arranger-

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Surprisingly, this doesn't appear on the new Barbara Moore retrospective Bedazzled (out now in all good record shops), but she's on this as a member of The Ladybirds. Barbara Moore is a name more people should know about. An incredibly versatile and talented vocalist, she was also a gifted arranger-