Leonard Smalls

Beer and Chips and BumGravy - Macc Lads

Turd Eye - STool

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) - Magazine

Trump up the Volume - MARRS

Rock and roll ain't noise pollution - AC/DC

Kick in the Eye - Bauhaus

Sensoria - Cabaret Voltaire

Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone

Still attempting to reset my security question so I can access BC on my laptop... Still won't send me a reset email!

Battery Bounce - Art Tatum

Having done our VAT return for quite some time, I can categorically say that company's costs are rarely VAT-free! The only time it's actually VAT exempt, as opposed to zero-rated, is for services such as insurance, subscriptions etc, or from businesses that aren't VAT registered due to being exempt (i.e. below the threshold or if they only deal in exempt goods) - or at least that's my understanding! To make things entertaining, we also sell zero-rated stuff which can also be a bit of a minefield. Books and kid's clothes are 0% (i.e. tax is levied, but at 0% 🤪), same with food plants. However, if it's classed as ornamental it's VATed at 20% - so a bay bush is 0, but a standard bay (i.e. a single stalked bay) is 20%. I'm sure they will make things more complicated at some point, cos who would want a nice easy tax system that everyone understands?

Bit of pumpin' jazz blues (or is it blues jazz?) from guitar maestro Scott Henderson and band...

We rehearse as much as poss... Had our 2nd rehearsal with our new drummer (Bob, ex of terminal Rage!). And while we're still a bit rough - some of our songs are quite complicated with annoying stops and rhythm changes - he's getting the hang and we'll hopefully soon be even tighter than we were before. Luckily, we haven't got any gigs booked till May so we can sort some of the previous annoyances out - like getting rid of old drummer's 4 beat fill he always stuck in a 2 beat space, despite hundreds of attempts by me to stamp that out!

I remember when I used to DJ at Leeds University back in the 80s... I played almost exclusively, funk, rare groove, electro and funky disco. I rarely had an empty dancefloor, folks were happy to get down to James Brown, Parliament, Fatback, Jonzunb Crew, Mean Machine, Trouble Funk... But once a guy came up and asked if I had any dance music. I asked what he meant by that and he said "something like The Virgin Prunes" (this was Goth Central in 1984ish!). And amazingly, I had Pagan Lovesong on 7". So I put it on, the dancefloor emptied and Me-laddo wobbled about on his own for a bit.

Blue Meanings -Toyah