The Plastic Mancunian

Today’s song is a beautiful and unusually short song from Dream Theater, a band who are infamous for writing epic long songs.  A lot of...

You will be pleased to know that this is the last post in the current series mirroring Karl Pilkington’s “The Moaning of Life” . I t...

If Mrs PM had her way, she would clear our house of a lot of my stuff. To her, I am a hoarder and my stuff is surplus to requirements...

When I think back to the period of my life between 1981 and 1984, I feel a deep sense of fierce nostalgia and excitement. It was the pe...

My eldest son Stephen graduated on Friday. At the same time, my youngest son, Michael,  is about to embark on the same journey, starting...

The 80’s made me the man I am today, which some of you may think is a bad thing. I entered the decade as a spotty little 17 year old with wi...