As the first comment on this story points out, the question in the ‘Analysis’ section has kind of got overtaken by events…

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John Angliss is plugging this band at the moment.  Good find!  But having listened to a few of their cover versions on MySpace I don’t know why John prefers The lunatics have taken over the asylum to the stunning version of Once in a lifetime.
I never realised how much the song could be improved by [...]

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I already thought that Manu Chao was brilliant, and then I came across an interview in Word magazine this month in which he was talking about his early years when kids in the neighbourhood were all getting their music via home-taping.  He was asked whose records he was copying and said:
Doctor Feelgood, the only band [...]

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I am looking forward to tomorrow: Jayne is back at work, Chrystal is back at school and Charlie is back at college.  I went back to work on Jan 2nd and it has been really annoying getting up and going out while everyone else is still snoozing.

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Only I couple of weeks ago I was pouring scorn on a set of meaningless statistics, and now there is another set which is not as bad but which says the opposite.

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This week’s Crawley News cleared up a little confusion I had about the previous week’s editorial.

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