My friend Russ sent me this with the optimistic, but wholly misleading comment 'It's a British On Any Sunday'. It most definitely isn't but it is a charming snapshot of, I'd say, a simpler, less macho, less corporate, far less image conscious time. I'm not sure where the track is, but one of the interviewees says the East Midlands, so too not far from Sideburn HQ, but in cosmic and style terms Leicestershire 1981 seems like a different universe. The absolute highlight is the

Off-topic Sunday on a Tuesday. I'm back from a day job gig, so I missed the opportunity to post this over the weekend. This nugget was burning a hole in my pocket like a cricket ball-sized lump of Etna's own magma. I've written about the former Mr and Mrs Turner on this blog before, back in 2017, click Ike & Tina to have a look, but I was listening to a dirt cheap greatest hits CD the other day and this song grabbed me by the neck tie and pinned me against the office wall, so

Do you know how to make a small fortune from magazine publishing? Start with a large one. It's an old joke, but it's a goodie. Still it hasn't stopped my friend, and Sideburn supporter, Nik Ellwood from jumping into the fray of indie moto mags with both feet to produce the impressive Retro RR. What is it? 132-page, A4, made in the UK magazine about the 'golden age' of supersport bikes, the 1980s and '90s. Think Schwantz, Rainey, '92 Fireblades, the RC30, Fogarty on the 916, N

Off-topic Sunday. Regular visitors might recall a recent post on Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs frat rock favourite, Woolly Bully. and my failure to decipher the lyrics, despite loving the song. Well, another example popped back onto my radar the other day. When Geno by Dexys Midnight Runners was released one of my older brothers bought it on 7in. I must have played his copy 50 times, as a nine-year-old, and heard it well over 100 times later. I loved, still love, the whole so