It's the moment you've all been waiting for... My long-promised MP3/ YouTube blog focussing on forgotten curios and obscurities is now online. It will focus on both the sublime and ridiculous moments in pop music, so you can expect to read about dire flop novelty singles of yore (I have some treats lined up, I assure you, including a country rock single about Spanish holidays) as much as you can lost gems which were wrongfully ignored.

There will also be an irregular feature on there which will involve me pulling out a charity shop or second hand shop find for everyone's delight - I would reveal my plans for the future now, but I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise or show my hand at this early stage. For openers, though, please find Bernard Manning and Ronnie Barker's failed 1970s bids to enter the Top 40, and I reckon I can easily top even that in the near future.

http://left-and-to-the-back.blogspot.com/

If you presently link to this blog from a website of your own, I would be quite grateful if you could update to the one shown above. Obviously, I'll understand if you don't want to or are not as keen on the content of the new blog as you were on this one, but it would certainly help me to get over the usual problems with generating traffic in the tricky first few months.

(*And yep, I know that two of the existing entries on there are rewritten versions of old ones on this livejournal. I don't intend to make a habit of recycling old material, but it seemed like a good way of sticking a reasonable amount of content up as quickly and as painlessly as possible so visitors could have something more than one entry to look at).