Big Muff is back with a totally new design that was developed from the ground up. Navigation has changed considerably and so has the Home page.
Main reason for doing so is that I got bored with the theme I chose seven years ago.
Main goal is to provide a better user experience on mobile devices and tablets. Printing support has also improved.
In the first half of this year a LOT of new information has been added to this site from newspaper archives. Until now Dutch, Italian, Irish and Australian vaults have been raided. More to follow, of course.

BBC2 radio host Johnnie Walker puts two classic albums in the spotlight on his show 'Long Player'. The first one is Solid Air, and the second one Bryter Layter by Nick Drake.
The show is broadcast Thursday 30 Jan 2014; it starts at 22:00 hours and last 57 minutes. More info here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03s6jmt

Happy John Martyn day first of all. John would have turned 65 today.
There are plenty of presents available this year. The sampler Sweet Little Mystery; serving as a warming up for the massive Island Years box set. And as a byproduct the vinyl edition of the 1972 concert Live At The Hanging Lamp.
I have lots of thoughts about these releases but I the main thing is that John's legacy remains available.
The box set contains a lot of interesting material but also quite a bit more of albums we already own in several versions.
We will give it a spin when the ship comes running up the harbour.

The recent massive site upgrade enabled me to incorporate the old guestbook into the website. For visitors this offers considerable improvements.

1. Privacy. Personal e-mail addresses are no longer displayed in public pages.
2. Accessibility. All comments are indexed and have become searchable. With the internal search engine and through external services, too.
3. Usability. It is easier to reply to a comment and both are displayed next to each other.
4. Built-in spam protection. The process of posting comments is moderated. It's the only reliable way, unfortunately.
5. Improved security. The guestbook no longer depends on a script dating from 1995 (first activated here April 2001), but on state of the art CMS-code.

You can find the brand new guestbook here and through the All In Your Favour menu.

Dear God,

It's been four years now and the world nor the music business have become any better.
So please would You give us Big John back. We know You don't like music anyway and the man never meant any harm to anybody.

Over the past years this site has seen many engine upgrades. This time it got a new car... In the background there is a new platform running that is more flexible and future proof than the old one. One thing you might notice is the new location of the search bar. There might be the odd image not being visible any more but on the whole functionality has been preserved. Enjoy and contribute, as always.