If this isn't the iPlayer choice on the next newsletter, I'll be very disappointed. It's the history of Monty Python's records (boring, there's too much MP documentary stuff around now), but it's the Mighty Boosh doing it. Quality, honest. And it's only Part One!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p718t/Monty_Pythons_Wonderful_Wo...

The new series of Chain Reaction, which started tonight on Radio 4, reminded me of a previous series where Alan Moore interviewed Brian Eno. If you haven't heard it, get it somehow.

Anyway, and apologies if this has been raised before somewhere in the massive archive of trivial nonsense, the end of the programme had Eno confessing that, whenever he and David Bowie meet, "90%" of their conversation is performed in Pete and Dud voices.

Blimey! Why has no sketch show leapt on this? Big Train should have done the 'Brian and Dave Dialogues' when it was on. If Little Britain is fed up with 'Lou and Andy', this is the next thing to do. Harry and Paul could probably do a mean approximation.

I'm going to add to this thread ad infinitum, so long as I escape death under the wheels of a four by four-wheeling git on the phone to his bank manager/drug dealer.

Anyway, No. 1:

You can't pose for a photo on Abbey Road without getting run over by gits in cars who feel they have a far greater need to get to some unspecified destination, which they've already been to twice that day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5996009/Iconic-Beatles-ze...

And I'm not asking for contributions to this thread. I can feed it perfectly well by myself.

Er, it's not what you think, honest.

But I know this for a fact, from extensive research (talking to a few women I know), that all females - no matter what their age - still love the music they heard when they were 15. And I mean ALL the music. I know a woman who's got some pretty nifto tastes these days, who is unfortunately saddled with a deep love of Rick Astley. Because that's who was wowing the pop charts when she was 15.

I know another who will despise just about any new music if she's not in the mood for it and likes nothing better than some extreme industrial, but whose eyes will still go all misty over Duran Duran and Culture Club.

So it got me thinking, do us blokes do the same thing? I think we do, deep down, we just won't admit it. (Remember I'm talking proper chart music here, not what John Peel was playing at the time). So when I was 15, I admit to liking the Cure, say, or the Bunnymen. But I also really liked Dire Straits. Brothers In Arms era. And Sting. And Level 42. Cos they were the big acts in 1985/6 when I was 15.

Yowch, it took a lot to admit that. Come on, be honest.

Went to see The Sound Collective the other night and they were awful, mostly because the sound was so terrible.

So how many gigs have been ruined by the following:

The sound guy, basically in charge of the whole listening experience, really wants the bass to be massive, at the expense of all other elements of the sound spectrum. I mean these guys were playing guitar (which couldn't be heard) and stand-up drums (which also couldn't be heard). But we could hear that bass/bass drum. That's pretty much all we could hear.

This is not the first time I've noticed this recently.

Am I alone?