Just caught my first blast of The Fondas' Coming Now on Sympathy and it's a wee belter. And what taste with covers of Mose Allison and Don Covay songs in the stew. I'm not sure how new this is but it's right up the ol' NBT street.

Woah, Gene Sculatti's bible The Catalog Of Cool is now on-line so here's another place to spend your leisure time when you really oughtta be attending to the domestic repairs.

Just up and running is a site dedicated to the Glasgow Apollo. Originally known as Green's Playhouse, The Apollo became one of the best places to play on earth and although Barrowlands was a heck of a place in its day, it hardly ever saw the heady heights of its Renfield Street cousin. Following it's closure, it was torn down and has since been replaced with a building that looks like a computer graphic on the city skyline. As this archive builds, it'll become an important portal for those of us who were there and anybody who wasn't. Steeped in rock history, there are many, many stories to be shared so you'd do well to pay a regular visit. I spent a lot of my formative years there and recall having to run a bouncer gauntlet at a WHO show in 1973(?). They were up for giving me a kicking for standing on my seat (I wis only wee) but I escaped. Still got chucked out though. I broke a seat at a Thin Lizzy/BTO double header but that went by un-noticed. Here's a photo from backstage on November 14th 1974, cut off at the extreme RH side you'll catch a pre-Cocteaus Robin Guthrie plotting to hijack Freebird.