Tag Archives: Wales

Essential Listening: White Light/White Heat – The Velvet Underground (1968)

Posted on 31/08/2026 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

All the peaks of legendary acts from the sixties and seventies that you could mention – The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin – constituted a succession of flawless albums in short order. For the Beatles their … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 60's, Altamont 1969, Andy Warhol, Beggars Banquet, Berlin, Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Coney Island Baby, Essential Listening, Exile On Main St., Extremadura, Gen Z, Greenwich Village, Highway 61 Revisited, I Heard Her Call My Name, JFK, John Cale, John Wesley Harding, Lady Govina’s Operation, Led Zeppelin, Let It Be, Let It Bleed, Lord Lucan, Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, Millennials, New York, No fifth VU album exists - got that?, Punk, Robert Shelton, Rubber Soul, Sandwich album, Serrano Ham, Sister Ray, Socialism, Songs for Drella, Sourdough, Sterling Morrison, Sticky Fingers, The Beatles, The Gift, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Transformer, Tupac, Wales, White Light/White Heat, William S. Burroughs | Leave a comment

How to play the long game in 2019, just wait

Posted on 30/01/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Last spring I wanted the SNP to agitate for another independence referendum then and there. It would’ve been as catastrophically ill-judged as Brexit’s turning out to be. Can you keep the heid while your opponent loses theirs and parse things … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Alex Salmond, Brexit, Britishness, EU, Good Friday Agreement, Hitler, Jeremy Corbyn is a useless twat, Keep the Heid, No Deal, Northern Ireland, Omnishambles is a great word, People’s Vote, Pink Elephant, Rab C Nesbitt, Scotland, SNP, The Heebie Jeebie, Waiting, Wales | 1 Comment

We’ve lost the plot, haven’t we?

Posted on 27/06/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It’s a thought that I’ve been slowly coming around to for a while, and then the already tiresome, nauseating EU referendum intensified with tribal, polarised ‘debates’, a batshit crazy, cynical and malicious Orwellian photo-op and an American style political assassination. Then … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged 'Are we crazy' - a crazy fascist foreigner once said, England, EU, Jimmy Saville is dead and Rolf's in the nonce wing, Leave, Lecter mask!, Madness were at Glasto this year?, Nigel Farage, Northern Ireland, Remain, Scotland, Wales | Leave a comment

The EU apathy

Posted on 04/03/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Why do so many people loathe politics? Let’s start with its forms of disingenuous repetition. You know that feeling you get when you see a bunch of junk mail lying at your front door every morning? David Cameron’s series of … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Adam Johnson is not related to Jimmy Saville, Apathy, Boris Johnson just won't go away, Brussels, David Cameron delivering junk mail, Do you give a fuck?, England, EU, Europe, Immigration, In or Out?, Making Plans For Nigel Farage?, Melanomas, Michael Gove, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Scottish Independence, The eye socket scene from 'A Serbian Film', UK, Wales, What if David Cameron was from Cameroon? | 3 Comments

What the fuck just happened?

Posted on 11/05/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. There was supposed to be post-election confusion with a hung parliament, and we were just getting used to that idea. Other than the SNP, the number of seats won by each party won … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged 56, Alastair Campbell, BBC Scotland, Blairism, Call-Me-Dave wins again, Cartman, Charlie Brooker, Clement Attlee, Devo Max?, Ed Miliband as a gastric band, England, EU Referendum, Eurozone, Federialism, Good riddance Dougie Alexander, Gordon Brown, Greens, Jeremy Clarkson, Jim Murphy, Katie Hopkins, Labour are fucked, Lib Dems, Lynton Crosby, Mahiri Black, Nicholas Cage laughing gif is a winner, Plaid Cymru, Scotland, Scottish Labour are fucked, Silent Tories, SNP, Thatcherism, The Defenders of the Faith, Tony Benn again, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP, Wales | Leave a comment