Are we blaming Tom or The Art of Noise?

Not actually a fan but we saw them at Dreamland, Margate a few weeks ago and quite enjoyed them. My wife really wanted to see Peter Hook and the Light who were third on the bill. Surprise hit of the evening was Ex […]

Good to see your name after so long. Glad you’re doing well.

Our previous printer was a Canon which drank ink like Shane MacGowan at last orders and replacement cartridges were extortionate. We’ve had a monochrome Brother laser ever since which is much cheaper to run and j […]

Island in the Rain by The Men They Couldn’t Hang. Paul Simmonds and Swill were from the Southampton area.

Written about the Isle of Wight

If Bamber doesn’t have one, I do. It hasn’t been powered up for years but you’d be welcome to it if it still works

My daughter has just finished her degree in Bournmouth, she signed her lease on the student house in January for the September.

Life imitating art from what I remember of what passed for a plot.

I’ve never taken much interest in clothes and I’ve always worked jobs that were either grubby or that damaged clothing. Now I’m more or less retired, I’m banned from wearing black, unless I’m going on one of my […]

Blimey, it’s in the Arena, I wondered if it would be in the much smaller Indigo. Edit: looks like they’re not using the top level of seats. Still a big space though.

My daughter worked at Waitrose while at college. She would have considered biscuits Easy Pieces. compared to the chilled aisles. She didn’t like it that much, considered her time spent there as a Lost Weekend.

I did a projection job in May and the tech rider asked for 40k lumens brightness, 4k resolution. On further investigation, the source material was only 1080p but I knew that the projector I quoted would upscale […]

Swill posted the At The Barriers review on FB yesterday

Thanks Steve. I’ve started selling kit (32 channel LS9 anyone?) and I plan on keeping a pair of laptops and doing a few days a month of PowerPoint at a couple of sites where the kit is permenantly installed […]

Having, as of friday, pretty much retired, learning conversational Spanish is on my list of things to do, as I want to travel a bit and it seems the most useful language for where I want to go. I bought a basic […]

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Graham Parker is the guest on the Strange Brew podcast this week. He seems to have excellent recall of his career, I enjoyed it a lot. Is he worth going to see without the Rumour I wonder?

North Lanes, although it’s much busier than the streets south of North Street. We usually just say The Lanes, meaning both areas. I think parking signs say North Lanes for the area around Theatre Royal.

I haven’t heard this yet but Swill covered Flower Lady on his solo album, The Ghost of Rock and Roll with Long Ryder Sid Griffin.