It isn’t a solo, but it does have a cardboard box/spoon-based rhythm section.

I was coming up to my second year of redundancy and running out of money when a temp agency offered me six weeks’ work at one of these new-fangled drive-through testing stations the army were setting up. It turned […]

He is enormously clever. I’ve been lucky enough to write with him a couple of times and he’s always been a lovely presence in the studio.

My friend TT co-wrote A Plague of Ghosts and was apparently in the audience and heartfully credited when they played Liverpool. Thankfully Mr. Fish’s selling of his rights (hence the closing of the shop) should p […]

When I saw Jenny Eclair her opening line was “What’s pink, fluffy and never moves?” “Barbara Cartland’s clitoris”.

Two chimps in the bath – one says “Ooooh, oooh, ooooh, ooh!” The other says “Well put some cold in, then”.

Infallibly, to my friend Wendell; “Did you come on your bike?” “Nearly!”

“Whale meat again!?”

Every other Sunday: “Do you want stuffing?” “Not ‘alf!”

Literally at my first job interview “I didn’t think I needed one!” See also “Well, I used to have ‘Roxanne’…”

The Eric Morecambe hip convulse when somebody walks behind you, as if they have goosed you on the way past. We were at a party, coincidentally with an ex of some years’ standing, when I felt the urge to perform. S […]

It’s probably down to what I’ve been clicking and/or re-posting, but there are a lot of stories about dogs and some cracking Dad Jokes, neither of which I’m averse to. I only use it on my phone, which is rarely in […]

Bore Da!

*applauds*

National Treasure; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Treasure_(film)

[Spoilers] My knowledge of the two films revolves mostly around a lengthy and solemn exegesis by my friend Geoff of the scene wherein Ugolin finds Manon’s ribbon and literally sews it into his skin, delivered with […]

A whole dinner time? You spoil that girl.

In a @fentonsteve -esque twist of fate, your friend and mine Mr. Steve ‘Wendell’ Constable did their first demo on his portastudio.

Welcome to Ipswich, home of the least successful chart act ever* The Adicts, sheep-bothering KFLmongers Extreme Noise Terror, Road to V2009 winners Underline the Sky, Hardcore skate-punkers The Stupids, and the […]

Conversely, I know people who almost religiously put the packaging/booklet/boxset away and hardly ever play the actual material!