So the phrase goes 'If you are tired of London, you are tired of life'. I guess that stands quite true of many cities. There are many quirky and unexpected places in the UK capital, I am sure if you live to get really old there will always be something you miss. A myriad of roads you have never been down, art work on street corners and tunnels, pubs and bars unvisited, museums and gardens waiting to be explored. I…

Sadly I seem to have missed this band back in the day, but what a good band they were, Dif Juz (a play evidently on the words 'different jazz'). They were an instrumental quartet who actually worked with some great names in the post punk scene, e.g. Wolfgang Press, This Mortal Coil and The Cocteau Twins as well as Dub innovator Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Catch the following tracks by them: 'Hu' ...followed by 'Re' ...then 'Mi' ...and finally... 'Cs' ...all…

Well, it's that time of year again, comes round fast doesn't it! This is the last post for 2022 and getting it in early. To be honest this year in quite a few ways has been a bit of a repeat sh*t-show💩 much the same as previous years in recent times, partly thanks to some wonderful government mismanagement, strikes everywhere, cost of living crisis, people who are having to decide the choice to be able to afford to eat or…

Something dear to my heart alcoholically 🥃 and musically 🎵, especially over the Christmas period, something that gets played in chez AKickIndieNutz whist sorting Christmas Dinner, songs that just lift the spirits (don't offend the old 'uns too much as long as they don't listen too carefully to some of the lyrics!). Just to get into the festive 'spirit'..... The Pogues, Streams of Whiskey released on the Stiff Records Label in 1984 on the bands debut album 'Red Roses For…

Cold! ❄️🥶 So cold that we have polar bears in the living room and I bumped into a couple of penguins on the landing this morning!🐧❄️ The weather this week has been more than a touch chilly, I know certainly not as cold as some places, but nonetheless still cold enough to make you not want to get up from hibernating under a duvet in the morning.🦔 With weather so cold the song title itself seemed reasonably apt and enough…