It's I Feel Alright, of course
*slaps head*
10.03.2026 12:31
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It's I Feel Alright, of course
*slaps head*
Indeed!
It's Alright by Steve Earle
30 years this week since the release of Steve Earle's It's Alright. Post jail and rehab, he made one of his best records; its title is equal parts hope & defiance.
Reminds me of telling a 19-year-old work colleague in the late 1990s that I was off to see Elvis Costello that night. "The magician?" they replied.
Very weird.
New Adventures is properly great.
Oh God, yeah. Wanderlust sounds like The Wonder Stuff.
Not a bad idea to forget at least one of them...
5 albums post BB. Up and Collapse into Now probably the best.
It's nice seeing the footage of Stipe singing These Days last night, but my overriding takeaway is...man, Bill Berry was a great great drummer.
14 tracks, but well over an hour long, and mostly pretty slow-paced. But lots of beautiful music and I like it a lot.
Love Up, though it's overlong and struggles, often quite appealingly, to know how to fill that Berry-shaped space.
Very!
*Stares out of the window moodily as BBC 4 doc cameras roll* 'Does anyone really know Bill Berry...'
No, not at all! Just observing and appreciating from a distance his more public return to the fold.
I think they're fine. All done with the best intentions.
Just love Bill. Seeing him gently re-entering the REM orbit in recent years has been beautiful and, yes, just a little heartbreaking.
Oh indeed. Labour historically hugely culpable in this mess.
It's nice seeing the footage of Stipe singing These Days last night, but my overriding takeaway is...man, Bill Berry was a great great drummer.
It's just one thread in the ongoing degradation of Glasgow as a city of the arts, as this piece outlines www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I was also reminded that the last time I saw DB, in June 2018, he finished (as he did last night) with 'Burning Down The House'. We then exited the Royal Concert Hall to the news that the Glasgow School of Art was in flames. Shamefully, that beautiful building is still a wreck, nearly 8 years later.
Ah. Commiserations.
I kind of needed what David Byrne and his gang were offering tonight.
That's how it usually works, sadly
River Kelvin view with bridge and church
Kelvin stroll before heading off to see Dumbarton's finest
Getz/Gilberto album
Too soon? 🌞
Nice
Getz/Gilberto album
Too soon? 🌞
A black cat sits in a patch of sunlight and casts a long batman esque shadow
Bat cat
A black cat sits in a patch of sunlight and casts a long batman esque shadow
Bat cat
Thank you 🙏