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My Teenage Fallout Queen

A hymn of praise to the atomic age.

Farrington Hootenanny

We supported Jon Clare and the Fabulous Dough Boys at Farrington village hall on Sat. To be honest "village hall" doesn't do the place justice as it's a superb venue fitted out with the latest acoustic tiles and curtains giving a really clean sound quality. Many thanks to Clint for getting us the gig and to Trev, Geoff, Dave and anyone i've forgotten for help and multi-media support.
We were very well received and are delighted that we are being invited back in the future. We recorded the gig and if it comes out alright we may have some video and audio to post soon.

Watch the trailer for WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY

This looks like a realy pointless and tasteless spoof - so all good there then. Jack White plays Elvis and the film sends up just about every rock 'n' roll biog' cliche going. Could be a good 'un.

Ricky Nelson Rockabilly - 3 songs featuring James Burton

Ricky Nelson possibly the best teen idol ever. One reason for this being James Burton playing lead guitar on all his early hits. This was thought to be throwaway stuff in it's time but is actually superb.

The Thekla

Tagged along with Paul, Ivan and Steve to the newly re-opened Thekla last Sunday night. It's been done up a bit and i think it's a pretty good venue.

We saw Kelly Stoltz who i liked - good tunes and a tight little band, Blitzen Trapper - sort of spikey art rockers very tight performance - passed the quality test and headliners Two Gallants - a monotonous, miserable drum/guitar duo who left me cold. The audio equivalent of getting all your teeth pulled out they had one gloomy song which they repeated ad nauseum until they decided to make it worse by slowing it down for the encore - dreadful.

If they were in reverse order it wouldn't have been a bad night, still gave me an excuse for a good moan.

The Olympics - Western movie

Now i've got that off me chest - here's some good Olympics.

The Olympics

I see they've published the design for the new Olympic stadium - it'll be half the size after the games 'cos they're ripping out a load of seats on the top tier. The reason for this is that the Olympics are over hyped crap and after the games athletics will return to it's non prime time spot in the schedules. Just like those compendiums of games you used to get for Christmas where they put a load of rubbish pastimes like snakes and ladders, ludo and dominoes together hoping that you would think quantity equaled quality they stick a massive amount of minority interest sports together to fool governments and punters into thinking they are getting great value for money.

There's very little interest from the younger generation - when was the last time your kids left home saying they were just nipping over the field to chuck a javelin about or they started moaning at you 'cos they couldn't find their throwing hammer and their best dressage jodphurs were in the wash. The best way to indulge in the interest that these sports hold for an elite few would be to digitise the whole thing and hold it online = no expensive stadia to build, no carbon footprint to speak of and no hours of training so anyone with access to the net could have a go.

There you go Seb sort it out.

Unknown Hinson - Venus Bound

Talking about country gone crazy this bloke is an absolute one-off!

Webb Wilder

I like Webb he's country gone crazy. Nice tune smart video.

Languages

It says in the paper today that fewer people are taking up the option of learning new languages as part of their education. There are two reasons for this - the first is that we English have always preferred talking slowly and loudly to foreigners rather than actually attempting to converse in the dialect of the country we're visiting - the second is that unless we are starring in a major concert to raise awareness of global warning we're not really allowed to go abroad any more because of our carbon footprint.
Speaking of carbon footprints my lovely lady wife has spilt her mascara powder on our light coloured bedroom carpet creating a proper good carbon footprint problem right on my own doorstep. The first thing i tried was to offset it by planting an acorn in the back garden but this hasn't moved the stain probably 'cos they take so long to grow. So at the start of the week i put some cress seeds on a bit of blotting paper and they've shot up however there has been no effect on the stain which rather undermines the theories of some of the finest scientific minds in the world. Carbon offsetting doesn't work remember folks you read it here first!

STATUS QUO - DOWN THE DUSTPIPE

Back in the early '70s UK Stiffs singer Grant and myself were like little lost lambs looking for some music to get excited about and to be honest there wasn't much choice.
We liked the Who and i nearly wore out my copy of Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy. So we liked the Status Quo - and what's not to like? There's a winning formula here when they can pin it down.