Leonard Smalls

Finito! Famed conductor Leo von Klein's iconoclastic punk re-working of Cage's contemplative masterwork, 4'33". Soloist (piano) - Leonardo di Piccolo. Recorded live at the church of St. Dogfan, Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant by Mr. Leonard Smalls, BBC, PTFE, LdPE. Edit: annoyingly, Soundcloud feel that I have nicked bits of Lamento by Martin Andreas Paulus and I've had to file a claim! I'd never heard of this Paulus chap and the only resemblance seems to be that Lamento starts with some atmos and an orchestra tuning. After that, they do some music-y stuff, and I don't! Edit 2: They've reinstated it!

Leaving, in a courgette plane - John Denver

Pass The peas - The JBs

A bit of bluesey stuff

Me too! Weirdly, his band (whoever they were at the time, can't remember!) supported my band at the Cricketers in Kennington. Seemed like a decent bloke. But I have met two of my bass heroes, Bootsy and Flea, and both are excellent - they even told me I didn't need to be on my knees and there was no need to back away from them bowing all the way when leaving...

Bela Lugosi is Dead! - Bauhaus

Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) - Parliament

Hole lotta love - Led Zep

Trapped - Colonel Abrams

Red Sails - David Bowie

Munchies For Your Love - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Let's Get Ready To Rumble - Ant and Dec (or Pj and Matey)

I don't usually take a handbag... But I do have special socks I always wear; they're either orange with zebras or yellow with spaniels. Pants-wise, I tend to go with black cotton trunks that helpfully say "Mr. Big" on the waistband.

no, but a quick search finds THIS As it says: They said they had been monitoring our webcams because the process of making something very innocuous and pleasant is close to making weapons of mass destruction, apparently. Their 60% offerings are pretty near to being weapons of mass destruction!

Nope... It stands for Port Charlotte - a village on Islay where the Buichladdich distillery is.

I'm much more of a fan of the heavily gated but still slightly round'n'soft reggae kick drum sound. But as many soundfolks seem to be metalheads they feel the need for it to be more like a road drill.

The PC7 is a 7 year old Islay malt that's bottled at 61% cask strength. However, I've just looked and noticed that I have its smoother, older and slightly weaker brother, the PC10 which comes in at a deeply un-manly 50%. Nice drop, mind!

We (Choked) were at the Marrs Bar in Worcester last night supporting local band Phon's album launch. Twasn't very full, perhaps 40 peoples and they all sat round the outside like cool muso types (I usually do this too). As everything was a bit late - I hadn't been able to arrive till after 7pm so no sound check - we did our short'n'sharp 30 minute set (probably a blessing to all!). However, all went fine, drummist managed to finish on 3 in "Knockout", I did my bass solos with extra widdles'n'pops and all was generally groovy. As there was a fine PA (with obligatory overloud bass drum thwack) I just took the Markbass 2x10 to be powered by the Crown amp with DBX compressor and BBE pre, all front-ended by Helix and Parker bass. Shoes were zebra striped brothel creepers. Got home by 2230 to a nice dram of PC7 cask strength...

I think that my first time on stage in a musical setting was at Chester town hall in about 1978... My mum had entered a piano competition and was playing a Mozart sonata (IIRC). But she wasn't confident enough to play without music so she roped me in as page turner. Luckily I'd heard her practicing it so much I knew it pretty well. However, another performer had her page turner drop out and my mum volunteered me! And it was a piece I'd never heard, rather complex and perhaps by Shostakovich. The lady saw I was having a little trouble following so she muttered "now" every time we approached the end of the page. Unfortunately neither my mum or the lady won - perhaps because of my punky pink hair and home-made bondage trews

I've got a classical treat in store

Bang Bang - B A Robertson

Sandy - John Travolta

Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaata and the Soulsonic Force

Nice Legs, Shame About Her Face - The Monks

First gig on an actual bass was with Dredd and the Badass Weeds, as we were known then, must have been early 1985 at a party in Chestnut Avenue, Leeds... I borrowed a short scale Gibson off Jez Utah (I didn't own one, taught myself to play on an acoustic guitar!). We had 4 actual "songs" - a punk thing called "Thatcher's Britain", a bit of metalishness ("Loud and Proud" with the chorus Heavy Metal Music, Loud and Proud! Mysterious goblins, Dressed in shrouds), a funky ditty called "That ain't a thing (it's a thang)" and a reggae thing called "Sex Feeling" (it had inadvertently laugh-out-loud lyrics which I won't repeat 😄). But we played for probably 2.5 hours, having rehearsed at most twice and basically improvised some vaguely funky rocky and occasionally reggae stuff. And weirdly we got a gig at the University Tartan Bar a couple of weeks later, then at the Warehouse despite a lack of actual coherence and rehearsal. And in early spring next year, to celebrate 40 years we're releasing our first EP!