W is for Women’s football, a subject that’s certainly topical as I post this, with England’s Lionesses poised for the semi-finals of Euro 2025. One of the characters in Foul and Fair has some dismissive remarks to make about women’s football (which certainly don’t repre...

If you judge a man by the company he keeps, Dave Mason deserves to be a household name. He was someone who I was vaguely aware of, but no more than that until I was researching Dead Man Singing. I was aware of his in-out tenure with Traffic in the late 60s, an early exemplar of the ‘musical di...

Maria McKee (1989), the eponymous solo debut of the former Lone Justice lead singer, is an album that Dave discovers during the course of Dead Man Singing, and it’s one that found me while I was a student at around the same time.

Opening track I’ve Forgotten What it Was in You (That Put ...