Christmas 1979

Has there ever been a more spirited man alive than Billy Childish? Dusted off the 'Archive from 1959' this week – a truly brilliant collection if you're missing some childish in your life. It was like a little walk down memory lane, I used to live next to the dirty water club in Tufnell Park, almost every other friday Childish in some shape or form played. I remember my dear friend Bobby supported them one evening and he was so frightened to touch any of their equipment it being all vintage plastics. Stop taking in the Christmas gift guides for every budget and take in some Childish.

Is it wrong to be going through a Jesus Lizard phase? Thats clearly rhetorical question as i couldn't care. I remember finding this track on a cassette my older brother had from a magazine cover, forget which one, I kept rewinding it back to hear it over again, and i, a good 15 years later still think its awesome track. Got me thinking – it makes a change for me to be into something while it peaks in popularity. I usually either (a) stay the fuck away forever, harry potter, dan brown, stella artois, or very infrequently admit i was wrong to shun first time round and discover it at a later date once everyone has squeezed their fun out of it, and I have to settle for second pressings, re the strokes, the sopranos.

One bloke cheering at the future of the left

Going to see the last stand & hope for liberal britain tonight. I love you Stewart Lee

Walking around in this flag-waving town

Honk if you're escaping this flag waving town this weekend for something more enlightening.
Godspeed

Fame and Fortune

saw Graham Coxon at a small secret (corporate, not sure he was that happy about that, pah) show last nite. It wasn't hard to make my way down to the front as i reckon i was the one of two other people in the room that a) blagged they way in who didn't work in the "stereo systems industry", and (b) actually knew him in his own right rather than that bloke thats not damon from blur. If you were there also i like to point out i wasn't the office guy wiggling like i hadn't heard bass and rhythm together before. However i was a bit of a fanboy at front smiling at him endlessly, only cemented this feeling as on the way out bumped into Bobby Gillespie and decided to shake his hand, something i don't usually bother with. Anyway – it was alright had good time and heard some of his new stuff which is bit more "wall of sound" (hate the expression when i was in a band, but there were three guitars so dunno how else to explain it). Other cool thing was the bassists amazing 'where the wild things are' tattoos. Can you get a tattoo of something someone else has? probably.