My submission to the Beermat Show. Thanks to EAP and those that told me their favourite drunk euphemisms.
Category Archives: music
One Sunday, and Saturday, with Sidie
22 June 2010 – 1:27 am
I really can’t put my finger on where I first came across Frank Sidebottom, logic would dictate that I’d have spied him on one of his regular appearances on Number 73 but there aren’t any memories I can dredge up. I know I watched it every so often, but apart from the theme tune there’s [...]
My new music blog
4 January 2010 – 9:36 pm
fuckyeahobscuretunes where I’m going to try to post an obscure tune a day.
Wire And Punk
1 April 2009 – 8:18 pm
“Wire were always at odds with the rest of the late 70s punks. In today’s extract from Wilson Neate’s 33 1/3 book on Pink Flag, we find out why”The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | On Wire And Punk: An Extract From The 33 1/3 Book On Pink Flag
The17
18 March 2009 – 5:12 pm
I’ve just had a email inviting me to be in The17 for a “performance” in April (St George’s Day). I’m stupidly excited.
What made me weird
18 February 2009 – 2:36 pm
I know I’m weird, most people are but it takes a bit of self awareness and a sort of forthright bravery to admit it. Inspired by this blog post, here’s five things that made me weird: Monty Python — or the realisation that humour didn’t need to be dumb at least. It’s probably the ‘Marxism [...]
Half Map Half Biscuit
18 February 2009 – 10:27 am
A map of everywhere mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song. Genuis psychogeography.
Glasvegas
4 February 2009 – 11:36 pm
Have the look of the band of 2009 – as imagined in a British film from the early nineties. They’re various old punk scenesters playing the future Jesus and Mary chain. The set is straight from Jude Law’s forgotten dystopian master-work ‘Shopping’ – desolate monolithic council flats rumble bass and flash neon. They’ve only got [...]
Momus on Matt McGinn
16 January 2009 – 10:44 am
Scottish songwriter and aesthete Momus on Matt McGinn — “communist, atheist, republican, and perhaps Scotland’s most interesting satirical songwriter”
MJ Hibbett – The Advent Calendar Of FACT
5 December 2008 – 7:19 pm
YouTube – The Advent Calendar Of FACT
