Billy

A few more nice things this week, not least the new Chris Forsyth album, which features some assistance from various bits of the Helix/Hans Chew axis. I think I might tackle them both for my next magazine column, but bear with me.

Hard shell, soft centre: the Motörhead man laid bare in warts’n’all doc… well almost...

Thanks, once again, to all of you who submitted your Top Tens of 2010 to the blog at the end of the year. I’ve now applied the dark mathematics and come up with a Top 50 from them, which provides an interesting - healthy, to be honest - contrast to my own list. The winner was ahead of the pack by a mile, incidentally…

'Baker Street' singer passes away aged 63

Self-raising sand! Staggering 16-disc time capsule, featuring 72 complete radio shows, all sponsored by the local flour mill...

Damon Albarn calls the album a 'diary' of the bands recent tour

Last blog of the year, I suspect, so I thought it’d be useful to post my whole hundred in one place: apologies for the half-arsed obligation to get extra traffic which compelled me to post it in chunks, at least initially.

Previously: 100-76, 75-51, 50-26.

The Kinks frontman will helm the event next June.

Comprising The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964: four dozen publisher’s demos from Dylan’s breakout prime. ..