Can I just pin my colours to the mast by stating that I unequivocably agree with everything Danny Baker said in the first paragraph of his letter in the current The Word.

Being a polite chap, I wouldn't have said it in his terms myself, and certainly not in this public house.

The gig was brilliant - but then, Bruce always is. We got three hours plus of greatest hits, a handful off the new album (including the world premiere of Surprise, Surprise, one of my favourites from ‘Working On A Dream’) and a few rarities, including a rave-up version of Mony Mony and Fade Away, off ‘The River’ - Steve Van Zandt’s favourite, apparently. The Swedish crowd (who’d been drenched and frozen, respectively, on the previous nights) were highly appreciative.

For a full review, try http://www.backstreets.com/setlists.html

the ridge of infinity, past the meadow of flowers, straight over the galleon of insignificance then left at the cornucopia of mystery.

It's on google directions.

there's a Simply Red album upon which Mick Hucknall co-wrote a song with Lamont Dozier. The credits, of course, read Hucknall-Dozier-Hucknall