Hmmm, well no one came forward with a suggestion how I could put pix up around here. Possibily I can't, and that's why I haven't heard. At well. Not to worry. Like to say a kind word about Fraser L. and the digital word which is quite wonderful, really. It is the way ahead for newspapers in general on the internet ... and all they need is, like the word, to persuade people to subscribe. Easy. Make the 'product' (sorry about that word, word) worth having and you succeed. I once upon a time in my youth was a regular reader of Melody Maker and the New Music Express (it got to being called NME much later). Both papers were good to read; they had good writers, too, who often got to the soul of a story about some singer or other. I remember Chris Welch, whom I rated; Ray Coleman, of course, Alan Jones, Mike Watts, Max Jones and there was also a Bob Dawborn* (sic) who wrote a really dreadful (I mean badly written) review of Like a Rolling Stone which he predicted would not be a hit. I mean, was he listening to the song I was listening to on my Dansette. The best for me at any rate was Richard Williams. He was knowledgeable, accurate, funny at times but he seemed to have an affection for what he wrote about. And that applied to Bob Dylan in aces, I seem to remember. I still have a bunch of his cuttings in a folder in the attic. Sad, really. There was another knowledgeable writer on music: Geoffrey Cannon. He wrote for the Guardian when it was worth buying and reading; think he went on to edit the Radio Times and after that disappeared. Pity. Maybe I've written enough for now. *Sad footnote: having slagged off Mr D, I went onto google and typed his name it brought up his obituary. He died in 2000 at the age of 72. As well as being a noted journo, he was also a jazz trombonist, edited football mags and was the man behind the MM's rather tasty back page column, the Raver. Tribute paid, I feel a bit better. Cheers.