Week of 23 October – 30 October 2020

Rank	Avatar	Artist name	Scrobbles
1		Clint Mansell	52 scrobbles
2		Roy Harper	23
3		John Martyn	8
4		Queen	8
5		Tim Buckley	6
6		Fairport Convention	5
7		Richard Thompson	5
8		John Cale	4
9		Kevin Ayers	4
10		Scott Walker	4

I listened to an episode of the Soundtracking podcast with Edith Bowman, episode 217 with Ben Wheatley, director of the new Rebecca movie that just hit Neflix. Clint Mansell did the score for the movie and so I listened to it a few times while doing knowledge work at home. It’s really good.

I actually met Clint once at a gig at the Glasgow Barrowlands. It was when I was recovering from my climbing accident and I’d gone to see PWEI. Given the state of my leg, the Barrowlands bouncers sent me to the artists’ entrance to avoid the crowds and I met Clint on the stairs. He asked the obvious question: ‘what happened to your leg?’. I can’t remember if I told him the truth or not. In those days I used to make up different stories because I was so tired of the question. Well, I was 19 and probably stoned, so…