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It’s really something. Hope you are seeing it on a huge screen with the volume up loud

Epic lives up to its name and, lawdy, are Ronnie Tutt and James Burton just phenomenal in the TCB Band. Not often you can say “worth seeing for the drumming” about a film

Just a note to say that if you're ever approached by a @mojomagazine.bsky.social writer on Facebook/X promising to cover your music/band/record label for "a modest fee" THIS IS A SCAM. MOJO and its writers would never do this but many a clever scam account does.

@mojomagazine.bsky.social is compiling a guide to buying Analog Africa albums. I don’t want to get the result wrong, and only one vote currently separates first and second places - so send me your what and a few words why and let’s make this definitive …

Thank you!

I love the story but I don’t know if I believe a word of it … I have no evidence to suggest it’s not true though, so I may as well print the legend

Yes! I’m finding it tough to narrow this down to a Top 10. So if you had to persuade me to pick just one of those two, how would you do it?

Both have got to be contenders for the Top 10 - so if I got tough and demanded you persuade me to choose one or the other, how would you do it?

The Analog Africa label has spent 20 years bringing us African scream contests, cosmic sounds of Cape Verde, Brazilian western soundtracks and Beninese vodou, now @mojomagazine.bsky.social wants to know your pick of their releases. Hit me with the what and the why and let's make this definitive.

You know my instructions for these situations - one person in the cast must have been vaguely believable, focus on them and ignore everything else. If that's not possible, there is always the theme tune

Fabulous - opened with Hearbroken, closed with Lost Weekend and I think he had a wee tear in his eye during Happy Birthdays

Went to see Annie & The Caldwells last night, they are on fire - Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol to come this week; Deborah C says you’d be a fool to miss them

I think you'll need a scarf if you're going out - stay toastie and have a grand weekend, Bruce.

“He has his offices on Boulevard Haussmann and he hired me as a door-to-door salesman.”
I do read other writers, but today you caught me conforming to type

And to you Anne - hope 25 treated you kindly, and here’s to nothing but fun and laughter through 26. Hx

A guid new year to all. Here’s hoping there’s a load of good stuff coming your way.
Hx

But definitely worth it for the songs.

!!!

Apparently, I’d said 2015 and that threw them - but I was writing it after the match. Thanks for spotting

It’s not often anybody gets a game of that drama with so much at stake. And it’s really not very often a Scotland game has highlights I want to watch again and again. Best night out ever

It was the last big weekend of the year, but it was the best and this was a highlight.

I’m not going to say Bob Dylan is as good as Scott McTominay, that would be crazy - but he could definitely lob Schmeichel from the halfway line.

Excellent - very loud and garagey, Bob playing some wild piano (reminded me of Ruben Gonzalez … see, I’ll never make it as a music critic).

Went to Dylan in Glasgow last night. On the train there, sitting next to a wee wifie who starts telling me all about the time she saw him at the Odeon cinema in 1966. “He played a solo set, then the band came on …” Oh, to have been a wee Glasgow wifie watching Bob go electric

That’s odd, the RFH crowd were totally into it. Mulatu still the coolest, too

Magic news, congratulations to the both of you. Hx

Well, that’s just fabulous. Looking forward to catching up with the pair of you sometime soon. Hx

Remember Rachel from the ST, 30+ years ago. I wonder if her appreciation of the subs’ white magic came from her own time editing AA Gill. Now there was a job for only the bravest

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Mavis doing what Mavis has always done, on perhaps her greatest album. The message is simple: Be more like Mavis and we may just make it