I once got in trouble on a BBC radio programme for describing The Beatles as ‘just a psychedelic Abba’. I had a knack for saying the completely right wrong thing as a broadcaster at the time… Witness ‘Daniel O’Donnell is so middle of the road he should be run over…’ It was all just too… Continue reading ABBA-HEART, I’M A HAIRY ROCKER WITH A SECRET ADDICTION… Oh, I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO… I DO!

My man is not for changing, says Mrs Zelensky PICTURE: Olena Zelenska/Instagram Volodymr Zelensky and his wife Olena are spending time together with their children in a major show of defiance to Monster of War Vladimir Putin. Out of the blue a confetti of incendiary bombs and a congregation of mindless murderous uniformed morons left… Continue reading FACE PAINT AND PRIDE… A FAMILY AT WAR

Very sad to report this, Bob Neuwirth, one of Bob Dylan’s sidekicks died aged 82 a few days ago. We would have reported this sooner but we’ve had ‘techy’ problems. To many Dylan fans Bob Neuwirth was a dignified, often zany (to use an old fashioned word) but ‘ruthless’ part of Bob’s madcap world of… Continue reading Bob Neuwirth dead at the age of 82… watch him perform inside

A compendium of reviews of the last few months of Bob Dylan’s never-ending career After Bob’s latest leg of his never-ending tour was brought to an abrupt halt by Covid, here at The Society we began curating thoughts, writing, reviews, vids and comments showing how, at 80 he is still refusing to look back. He’s… Continue reading DO LOOK BACK!

EE-k! The truth behind the internet and Britain’s rural life … The internet zooms if, like Putin, you want to nuke the world – but not if you call granny from your English country garden… Years ago now British governments clicked on the potent idea of super-fast broadband across the countryside from Ambridge to Middleton… Continue reading BROAD-BANNED IN VILLAGE OF DAMNED!

SEE VIDEO INSIDE: SHADES of the mindless consumerism of the hedonistic Sixties have hit the virtual streets of Dylan’s latest anniversary. Yep, a cyber-world ‘toy’ is our modern times equivalent of flesh-coloured Christs that glow in the dark… In his dotage Bob has faced up to the dawning of the New Age and flicked the… Continue reading DON’T LOOK BACK AS DYLAN’S RAY-BANS BECOME ANNIVERSARY’S 10 SECOND TREAT

Tough guys don’t dance when PA punches their lights out I am a Manc, a back street boy born to be tough. Moston was my teenage hunting ground. That’s North Manchester where footpaths were either made out of cobbles or broken bricks and windows. Suburbs of terraced houses, urban regeneration, mud holes and smoking guns.… Continue reading From back streets of Manchester to the glittering prizes, how parental alienation destroyed love and then dad…

Connaught boss Paddy brings Dylan’s work to his Chateau Kingdom in Provence Moston, Manchester 10, for whatever reason, was my life’s hometown. Grimy, dark, dreary and rainy. I don’t remember too much about it really, it was such a long time ago… I can still see though rundown cottages on Moston Lane, they were crumbing… Continue reading FAUX TRAIN COMING FROM BOB’S DREAMS OF IRON AND STEEL

How Minder star changed a bouffanted Manchester hard-man’s life When Dennis Waterman first punched his way on to our television screens, my mate Brian found a new lease of life. It was 1979 and Brian and I were fashion victims in hard-man ‘town’ Manchester… I was six feet five inches tall, but stack heels pushed… Continue reading Dennis WHAT-A-MAN

Dylan’s Hurricane is a song which, while factually a bit lacking, took on pomp, cruelty, American society, iniquity, the judiciary, justice, social conditions – and yes, RACISM I have been a professional writer all my working life – and one of the greatest writers today still has to be Bob Dylan, a chronicler of the… Continue reading Dark day in malice… dial ‘N’ for Nerds as BBC censors Dylan’s anti-racism anthem