Off-topic Sunday by guest blogger - DJ Dave Taylor. The summer of ’76, rural Lincolnshire was not a hotbed of cultural diversity, but certainly bloody hot. I was nine. I vividly remember my dad hauling me out of bed one summer eve and running me down the garden to a small beck (stream) that was absolutely rammed with eels swimming/wriggling along the beck to get to another deeper water source due to the drought. I was packed off to my Aunty Olive/Uncle Lenny in Leicester for

Off-topic Sunday on a Wednesday. This morning I was listening to a Marc Maron WTF podcast with his guest T Bone Burnett. I knew the name, but had no idea what kind of musician he was. Anyway, Burnett is explaining the roots of post-war jazz and The Beats (Ginsberg, Kerouac et al); how Charles Manson ruined everything; about war music and sex music. Rock 'n' roll is sex music, but rock is war music Riverdance is war music too, he explains. He spoke about Indian (native America

Described on US eBay as an Extremely Rare Rokon 340 Automatic Flat Track Racer, we understand this bike was part of Dan Rouit's Flat Track museum, before he passed away. Now it's in Wisconsin. The advert states it's '1 of 33 Factory Built Flat Track Machines' built by Rokon, who were better known for their huntin', shootin', fishin' two-wheel-drive utility bikes. The advert also adds the bike hasn't run since being restored and is powered by a 'Sachs 340cc 2-Stoke Engine and

Italian cinema of the '70s seems to have much that overlaps with the entertainment interests of Sideburn enthusiasts, and Deodato Ruggero's completely mad 'Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man' from 1976 definitely fits the profile. It's a pretty classic Poliziotteschi - basically a crime drama with a heavily anti-establishment angle. In this particular gem we meet two cops, Fred and Tony, who it turns out are members of a special squad that basically saves time and expense for th