Another corker. Good to learn about Hovis Presley, just read his obituary here
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hovis-presley-752529.html
[beware the Indy's Google thingy that Chrome advised me against]
with great line "Physically reminiscent of Michael Moore after a night asleep in a hedge", and one of his poems (perhaps a Macca send-up ?)

I rely on you
like a handyman needs pliers
like an auctioneer needs buyers
like a laundromat needs driers
like The Good Life needed Richard Briers.

are just as good n well crafted as their other songs

but they've always written educational songs

and this classic cover

Ian McMillan I think should know that Byron only married once to Anne Isabelle Milbanke who left him because it was rumoured he was having an affair with his half sister Augusta Leigh which caused him to go into exile.
He did however have countless affairs with both men and women and could be deemed to be one of the first proper rebel poets and certainly lived an extreme rock star life. It was Caroline Lamb who labeled him 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know.'
So come on Ian lad thoust shouldst know thou Byron if th'art a poet.

making music for a children's market is just as unfairly derided as children's literature and television. It's seen as an easy number. David Hepworth's usual worldweary heard-it-all-before cynicism is the default journo reaction.

Its not just artists writing about their own kids which is often hideous (Liam's 'Little James' anyone?) but sometimes ace (I like 'Kooks' and Nick Cave's 'Papa Won't leave You Henry' is for his the newborn son - murders, fags in corsets and linoleum included). Its also an artistic endevour like any other.

They Might be Giants and Kathryn Williams don't make kids albums instead of their other material but alongside it. TMBG are playing two gigs at the RFH next week - a matinee for kids and a rock show in the evening for their parents. And no doubt there will be some crossover between the two.

All this bullshine about 'putting away childish things' - some of my favourite music holds on to that childish sense of wonder, imagination, fun, invention and outlook. It doesn't all have to be about sex, divorce and death.

This is gloriously fun, strange and stupid for anyone of any age

he or she will listen to Rush. No debate. No argument. Rush.

And peas *will* be eaten.

that Ian McMillan's description of his dad singing 'Donald Where's Your Troosers' and 'Puppet on a String' mostly in his head had me crying tears of laughter on the way in to work.

Comedy gold.

I'm always happy to answer this question, because my answer is Jenny Agutter.

female goods, is it like to do with... y'kna sex n'stuff?