David Hepworth's blog

Came home this afternoon listening to "The Lusty Sounds Of Diddy Wah", another inimitable podcast by Adam Weatherhead. Adam appear...

Ysabella Brave is a unique YouTube find. She just gets on her webcam and sings. Everything from "Proud Mary" to "I Loves You...

Jonny Wilkinson got through half a game with the Newcastle Falcons, which is such good news they're now talking about putting him in for...

The fuss about Prince Charles's carbon footprint in the light of his visit to the USA to pick up an environmental award makes me wonde...

I'm not surprised that England lost to Australia. I am surprised that they lost as badly as they did. But what I find profoundly dispir...

Spoke to Neil Tennant today for a Radio Four programme I'm doing about things you can learn from pop music. He worked with Dusty Springf...

I'm delighted Neil Finn has decided to get together with Nick Seymour under the name Crowded House. He wanted to tell me when I spoke to...

Caught a bit of BBC1's Trawlermen last night. It's an old fashioned straight documentary about trawlers operating out of Peterhead. ...

This afternoon the Channel 4 board have been in conclave trying to work out whether Goodygate really has damaged: a) their brand and: b) the...

Bobby Gillespie was just being honest when he told Word he didn't give a fuck about global warming. When it come to this issue we'r...

From An Underworld At War by Donald Thomas: "In the City of London in the thirties, the tired businessman, on his way home, could pur...

I've just woken up to another of those "is - isn't" conversations that have been clogging up the airwaves post-Jade Goody....

I was standing in line in a shop the other day and found myself reading one of those signs that said "our staff have a right to do thei...

On Simon Mayo's Five Live show yesterday talking about the future for record shops in the light of the feature in the current issue of W...

Last night's Front Row on Radio Four included a piece by me about the 40th anniversary of the original news item about 4,000 holes in ...

Nine months ago I was contacted by somebody from Universal DVD who was putting together a DVD of John Martyn at the BBC. They wanted to use ...

Somebody should think of a name for the increasing number of home-edited montages from new generation sitcoms that are starting to appear on...

Tonight's Timewatch Beatlemania film wasn't up to much. The producers tried to pass off their collection of home movie footage and p...

Last night I happened to catch the last few numbers of a BBC In Concert recording of Joni Mitchell from 1970. There she was in a long frock ...

All this talk of a revolution taking place in the charts now that downloads are included in the calculations overlooks the larger question ...