upside downer

Looks like a panduri. https://www.hangebi.ge/eng/panduri.html

It looks like the consensus is just grin and bear it if you're having to play a few songs that you dislike. This is the experience of pretty much anyone who plays in a covers act. In my last band we played a mixture of pop and rock and there were certain numbers that each of us couldn't stand, but not all at the same time! Three of us liked 'Club Foot' by Kasabian, drummer hated it. The others loved the two AC/DC songs we did, I'd rather gnaw off my own foot than listen to them. And so on. It's compromise time, OK, you can have that if I can have this. Never any rows about it, we're all doing something that's fun so there's no way we're going to fall out over something as trivial as 'Whole Lotta Rosie'! It's also true that sometimes playing something you wouldn't listen to by choice is actually quite fun to play. It can take you out of your comfort zone and make you work that little bit harder. And when I say work I really mean it opens up more creative routes in your playing. 'Place Your Hands' and 'Dani California' were two such tunes for me. Likewise, there's song I love but with dull as dishwater bass parts. Just enjoy it. I'm currently bandless and am starting to miss it. Right, where's that short scale....

Weird old time for PiL in the late 80s. 'Happy?' was a decent follow up to 'Album' but it was the beginning of a slicker sound that sat uneasily alongside earlier works. Anyway, more post-punk from New York.

This is a curious oddity of peculiarity.

Everything's just fine and Dandy.

The Manic Miners Perestroika C5 Star The Snood Dudes

More surf rock from my favourite Saint Petersburg-based trio.

Thatcher's Hatchers.

Na Na Na Na Naa - Kaizer Chiefs

First heard this on the ITV 'Night Network' when the clueless Mick Brown (of Pat & Mick 'fame') was interviewing the band. This is the original Icelandic version and Bjork's voice cracks at 2:16 yet it adds to the otherness of the whole thing.

Released in 1979, I'm calling this a post-punk classic with its jagged guitars and biting lyrics. ***WARNING*** Ms Faithfull is in full-on effing and jeffing mode here. It's a long way from 'As Tears Go By'.

A bit more recent, this one.

Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath

Over 5 and a half hours of King Tubby? That's today sorted, then.

Well done, Doc! 👏

Call It What You Want - Taylor Swift

Announced yesterday ☹️

Bad news, FLC have cancelled their tour. I was hoping to see them in Nottingham ☹️

Finally - CeCe Peniston

Stanley Road - Paul Weller

(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 - Nat King Cole

Blue Orchid - White Stripes

Fritz a Mystery - Toyah

How Sweet to Be an Idiot - Neil Innes