Not at my comprehensive. The few skinheads there were alright; only kids. I was a skin by 1982 meself. Bullies, pervs and rotten PE teachers made school a bad place. It was the fifth year herberts in 1977 who […]

Did you know Turning Japanese by The Vapors was about a restaurant in Takamatsu installing their first Lazy Susans?

Eric always had a chip on his shoulder over Costello after being described in the music press as “Stiff’s Norman Wisdom to Elvis’s Woody Allen”.
Ouch.

Oh hang on, Joe 90? I meant The Milky Bar Kid. Not because I had blond hair and big glasses, I didn’t.

It was because I was a total c…

At school, I was always compared to Joe 90. Not because I had blond hair and big glasses, I didn’t.
I worked as a special agent for the World Intelligence Network utilising my father’s Brain Impulse Galvanoscope […]

Maybe Kate Bush could record Two Little Boys? I always loved that tune. She could put it out as an EP with Sun Arise, Tie Me Kangeroo Down Sport and Army Dreamers (Stylophone Mix)

Ooo, thanks for the tip Steve

If anyone now wryly links a YouTube clip of a certain Nineties Acid Jazz band’s cover of Motorhead, I will scream

Saw them perform many times in the eighties. Some the best gigs I have ever experienced. Thanks for linking and for making me cry like a baby in my delicate Sunday evening state.

Wow! I really like this. Proper old school EC tunes again.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I grew to appreciate those early singles after.

Heres another mid-sixties MM gem.

Too early for Britpop by seven years.

Manfred Mann.

For years, I thought they were the cheesy Do Wah Diddy Diddy/ Pretty Flamingo Pontins Embassy Ballroom music until I watched on the telly the film, Up The Junction (1966) one night in the late […]

I gather founder member, Hardy Fox is not long for this world. Sad.

Buddy? Returning to the Americanisation of terms referring to people

Something very puffed up chest about ‘not on my watch’.

The guv’nor!

R.I.P.

Gangway. The Danish Pet Shop Boys meets Madness?

Slight tangent. Here is the CND concert/riot scene from Lewis Collins S.A.S. film, Who Dares Wins (1982). Discerning London gig-goers will recognise the venue as the Union Chapel at Highbury & Islington.

Eight copies of Paul Young’s No Parlez LP.

Oh. Game over.