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'Everybody want arms'
'Serious'
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Thanks to Nath

Listen Again

For a while now BBC Radio have been doing the Listen Again feature. It lasts for a week after the original transmission. Great if you just catch the end of a show and want to hear the whole thing like I did last night on the way back from teaching. Just heard Mike Harding saying something like "Wow, that was Fairport Convention performing the last track from Liege and Lief live..." What? I've got to hear that. So got up today and went to Listen Again. Check it out.

Also of course it would be remiss of me not to mention Dylan. To tie in with his new Greatest Hits album, last Saturday they broadcast an hour of live stuff. Check it out.
You are, of course, already listening to Bob Dylan's Theme Time Hour. If not, why not?

Good news everybody!

Futurama is back! Back! BACK!

'Go back to India' says Jodie

She's not really helping matters. Actually Jodie was trying to be supportive. Yes its Celebrity Big Brother. Rating are pretty low this year. All those people that say they don't watch it might not have been lying this year. Until now. Nothing like a bit of old-fashioned racism to get the show on the 6 o'clock news. The first thing out of Jackiey's (sic) mouth after she was evicted was 'the Indian's jarring me head.' Or some such. I do like the use of jarring though. Maybe it'll catch on. I digress. In some of the most uncomfortable TV I've seen since... I can't actually remember such car crash TV. A bunch of thick z-list celebs and a beautiful, intelligent Bollywood star are put together in a house. There's a debate whether it's racism or just bullying. Either way its not pretty.

Oh dear.

Perhaps even more shocking is Germaine Greer's article about the whole debacle. Apparently Shilpa wants everyone to hate her. Errr... right.

In related news the BNP have moved into ballet apparently.

If all this makes you feel embarrassed about being English why not read Billy Bragg's new book? Sometimes its nice to be reminded that there are some thoughtful people out there who do actually appreciate Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the multicultural place it is.

2 off a hundred

Quite hard to believe but 98 people have viewed my attempt to sing 'Beautiful Day' by U2.
Just goes to show - people will watch any old crap.
Come on - you can make it 100.

Lisa Bonet ate no basil

One of Weird Al's better pastiches.
Check out coaster dude in the comments - quite clearly doesn't get it.

Re: Genesis

I was wondering why Phil Collins kept popping up on TV again.
Well, OK I only actually saw him on Room 101. He put Oasis in there which must make him slightly cool... or does it make him a bitter grumpy old man? 'I like the Beatles, they like the Beatles, I like cocaine, they like cocaine, I did a couple of decent albums and then went a bit shit, they did a ...' well you get the idea.
Anyhow... evidently Disney have stopped calling, he fell out with Clapton a while ago, the solo albums aren't selling, that big band jazz type thing - let's just try and forget all about that.
So what else can the poor old millionaire do?
That's right Genesis are touring again.
It's quite tempting actually. I've heard 'Trick of the Tail' twice recently on Radio 2. Apparently 'Al Murray:Pub Landlord' is a fan. David Baddiel too... but you can't have everything.
Surely it's the ultimate 'Guilty Pleasure.' Forget ELO, Pink Floyd, the Eagles etc. Genesis are back.
PS. I've also heard a rumour that a year later they are going to do a Peter Gabriel era tour with the human flower himself!

Don't ever ask dad to help you with your homework...

Well, he's got a new album out so check out this classic interview with Letterman.

This could be crap...

No disagreement here...
Bono makes a fool of himself - for a change.

The Beatles for sale... again

Well, it wouldn't be Christmas without some more Beatles product. What was it George Harrison said around the time of Anthology? 'If we release any more stuff we'll have to call the album "Scraping the Barrel"'
Consider that barrel truly scraped.
Yes, it's what the kids call a 'mash-up.' Actually some of it's quite good and I guess if George Martin didn't do it somebody else would... what's that you say? 'The Grey Album?' Never heard of it.
Anyhoo. I put it on my wish list for about a minute until I realised that you can listen to it on-line. Which I did. Then I thought 'will I ever want/need to listen to it again?' Probably not.
I'm sure in the context of the show it's wonderful. But let's face it, most, if not all the decent stuff the Beatles recorded during their career was released at the time on the albums... and quite a lot of crap too. So buy the original albums if you don't have them already... and let's never speak of LOVE again.

Kramer vs... everybody

Or, how to kill the last remnants of your career in one easy step.
Seinfeld suddenly got a lot less funny.
Of course Michael Richards is really sorry...

Bird and Bastard Success

Yes, the 'Little Baby Cheeses' debut gig went well. Arrived at the Eagle and Child around 6 o'clock to set up. Many people were already there, people who had quite clearly been drinking all day... on a Wednesday. Ah, well - that's the Eagle for ya. Anyhow, finally went on shortly after 9:30pm - after locating my drumsticks, which I had hidden from the punters/pissheads to stop them playing my kit.
The band sounded great - despite early problems in hearing/miking the melodica. It really makes a big difference being able to turn up a bit. Some bits sounded very 'dub' indeed. There were no major mistakes that I was aware of. We ended the night with an encore/jam of 'Legalize It' by Peter Tosh, which is virtually the theme song for the Eagle. We got really good feedback from the punters. Apparently someone has phoned Matt about doing a bigger gig at the Camelot's nightclub in Doncaster so... next stop 'world domination.'