Frank Blank

As a diabetic I’m firmly in the ‘at risk’ category and going nowhere until we are over the ‘peak’.

There are people more at risk than others but those not at risk potentially become ‘super spreaders’ as in they don’t feel I’ll still all or only have very mild symptoms so carry on behaving as normal thus spreading the virus about.

I three at the moment, two ACGs and a Rob Allen but considering selling both ACGs to fund a decent Fender.

No worries!

Yes they work. My 11 year old ACG had Schallers installed and they work perfectly well with the latest version.

Welcome Sir.

Yes, autopsy videos were a big part of SPKs thing too, yeech.

However, everyone else will be in self-isolation.

1. After a dramatic entrance Jim Kerr fell off the front of the stage at the Lyceum and had to be helped back onstage by audience members. 2. An enormous rockabilly fellow getting on stage, again at The Lyceum, with The Cult and doing the classic chicken dance. Several roadies appeared to get him off the stage, all of whom he dispatched with flailing punches. He eventually rejoined the crown but only after drop kicking Jamie Stewart into the wings. 3. SPK supporting The Birthday Party at the Electric Ballroom. SPK had animal skulls on sticks as stage props during their set which they threw in to the audience when they finished. I picked one up, a sheep skull I think, my finger found something squelchy in the the eye socket, a rotten eye. The smell was epic. This was the most violent gig I’ve ever been too, a friend of mine had his ear spit in two during the fray, he was (and still is) vey proud of it. 4. During a Killing Joke souncheck Raven was informed that guest was trying to get in. I went to see who it was and looking in through the window was Billy Duffy. “It’s Billy Duffy” I reported back, “Tell him to fück off” came the reply. I went back, opened the window and said, in my most gentlemanly tone “I’m afraid Paul’s tied up mid-soundcheck at the moment but he did specifically request that you fück off”, which, seemingly, he did. During the actual gig Duffy returned but Raven clocked him and between songs shouted “Oi Duffy, I thought I told you to fück off?”, which, this time, he promptly did. 5. During a Crystal Method show in Houston (I was working for the support band) ZZ Top turned up. Billy Gibbons had ZZ Top headed post-it-notes with his autograph which he stuck to anyone who asked. 6. Working with a band at the Phoenix Festival in 1996, the tour manager ran up to me and said “There’s some nutter sitting on the DJs podium and he’s rocking it so much ******* can’t scratch” I ran over to eject the fellow but as I approached I realised it was Goldie, ”S’alright, I’m fücking off” he grinned. 7. Returning from a Banshees gig in the early eighties, about thirty of us boarded a train at Liverpool Street. Once we’d all found seats someone shouted out, “It’s Gripper” and indeed, sitting quietly on his own was Mark Savage who played Gripper Stebson in Grange Hill. Once he realised we weren’t going to throw him out the window he was a good laugh. 8. Hearing a rousing chorus of Stand & Deliver being sung by a crowd of football supporters alighting from a train at Euston. Only on closer inspection did I see a highly embarrassed Adam Ant walking along the platform with his wheelie suitcase as the crowd sang behind him, he looked like he wanted a hole in the ground to swallow him up.

What a bloody excellent site this is!

Christ, quite possibly on a bike ...

Kind of Blue is a mainstay on the iPod but I'll certainly listen to more with Mr Chambers. I'm not sure I'll be able to get around my intense dislike of Billie Holliday's voice to listen to that album but I'll give it a shot. I realise this is probably some kind of Jazz heresy but there it is.

He does make some interesting noises and spread across a range of genres, v interesting indeed.

I am so digging this.

He was never forgotten by me. His peculiar, verging on the gothic, demeanour and delivery, his strange songs peppered with 70s sexism and yet he will also sing heart wrenching songs like Molly Metcalfe and my personal favourite The Hair Of The Widow Of Bridlington. Odd man, odd songs.

Just back from Stewart Lee at The Cliffs, excellent as usual.

Thanks to @lemonstar ...

Totally, @Jabba_the_gut updates have been missed.

Yes ...

Actually loving this.

I've witnessed bare knuckle boxing in a barn in Somerset about three years ago, and it was a sorry sight to see men goading them on in such a barbaric fashion. And I'm rather ashamed to say I was party to that goading, two men fighting as I saw in the barn that night, naked as the day they were born and fighting the way God intended. Wrestling at points - I don't know if you've seen "Women In Love", that marvellous scene by the fire. It kind of resembled that.

I love her clunky dancing!

One of my favourite players, love Tina Weymouth, what’s not to like?

We aren’t making this easy for @Burns-bass, perhaps the poor fellow should toss a coin? 😙

I have no problem using the Schallers as regular strap buttons.