Sick on You: The Disastrous story of The Hollywood Brats , The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard of – By Andrew Matheson, is a great read.

Giving this a wee bump for tomorrow night – and here’s a taste of what we sound like – dodgy lip synching at no extra charge.

‘I’m standing winding staircase, seven eagles long
Misty planet creature how could I kiss you wrong?’ – T Rex, I’m a fool for you girl – Nonsense, but lovely.
‘Pick a card, any card, wrong.’ Blue Aeroplanes, Jacket Hangs

Two chords, unrequited love, twangy guitar bit and under 3 minutes. Perfect.

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Tele

The Honeycombs

Salmon Fishing in New York by The Orange Juice

Hmm – but the rest of side 1 is fantastic as well.

And Cat People

I come awake with a gift for womankind

I remember it was always Moondance that was played when a Van Morrison track was on the radio – that was up until Brown Eyed Girl appeared on the soundtrack to Born on the 4th July – at which point BEG became the […]

Born to do dishes

That’s just not true, is it? I realise the Clash may be lionised a little too often but to say they were unadventurous, is just, well, bollocks.

As it was by Oasis – sludged to death.

The Stranglers without Hugh Cornwell.

These seem fair enough to me, as they were ‘& The ……’

And say hello to the speccy singer too, I’ve even got some new shoes, specially.

The Archies – Sugar Sugar

Nick Thorp. Who? The bass player out of Curiosity Killed The Cat – This was 1986.
More hopefully (optimistically) Edwyn Collins, though this was also a while ago while my quiff was still in existence.