upside downer

Dream Kitchen - Frazier Chorus

Looking forward to tomorrow (30th) when I'm off to see my old drummer's rock covers band play the afternoon away in a village pub garden. Fine ales, decent music, good company. Lovely. It's been way too long. Let's hope this is the start of getting back to what we love doing.

DJ Mark Radcliffe always said there should have been a Shakin' Stevens tribute act called Stationary Stevens.

The Drugs Don't Work - Verve

Ok. Or herself. I was commenting on a three-piece I was in with a guitarist who regularly had his hand in his undercrackers 'rearranging' himself.

With himself.

Snooker Loopy - Matchroom Mob with Chas & Dave

Friday, feelin' fine....

Listen Up! - Gossip

Weekender - Flowered Up

Drink the Elixir - Salad

Heard a lot in the last few days about Bob Dylan turning 80. He's one who I've never properly engaged with, just skimmed the surface.

Loving this.

Not artists as such, but I feel like throwing in the towel when I see some 9 year old 'wunderkind' on Youtube playing with a finesse and effortlessness that I can only dream of. It also makes me feel like giving up watching Youtube, too.

Happy African Liberation Day, composition chums!

Can't Get Out of Bed - Charlatans

Captain Beefheart's Magic Band had some superb nom de plumes. John French - Drumbo Jeff Cotton - Antennae Jimmy Semens Bill Harkleroad - Zoot Horn Rollo Mark Boston - Rockette Morton Victor Hayden - The Mascara Snake Art Tripp - Ed Marimba Elliot Ingber - Winged Eel Fingerling And the good Captain started life as Don Van Vliet.

Baby, Come Back - The Equals

Under the House - PiL

No Birds Do Sing - Public Image Ltd

You'll have to post a link to it if you have a recording as I'd love to hear that, your Lordship.

Knackers. I forgot Friends. Uses an open C tuning.

Off the top of my head Thank You, Ten Years Gone and For Your Life. Oh, and Wearing and Tearing from 'Coda'.

And never forget that, "Charlton Heston put his vest on".

Gasping for Air - Autopsy