Leonard Smalls

Have you tried west Midlands bands and Musicians on facebook? I often see folks on there looking for bass players for everything from hardcore through funk to Oasis covers!

The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff

Anyone in Worcester next Saturday? My mate Wimpy is coming all the way from That London to see us again! And we're headlining, which means we're on at 11pm (!Eeek!). It's 19-21 Pump Street, Worcester, WR1 2QX, England

Willkommen! Wenn du echt Bollox willst, musst du nur mein sehr beschissenes Deutsch sehen!

Word Up - Cameo

Weeds tripping the light fantastic...

Dynomite - Bazuka

Can't beat a bit of Haggis, even they're not on Aceed Jazz! Though you can hear the ScotFunk connection...

(Watts the story) Morning Glory - Oarsis

Big (Potential) Difference - Nicki Minaj

(Capaci)Dance To The Music -Sly and the Family Stone

I'm In Love With A German Film Star - The Passions

I understand the words "nice" and "wee" together, especially at my age, but not the Macdonalds and burger bit... I can just about cope with a Burger King Angus, but it's just the disappointment associated with the Big Mac. It's not particularly Big, and it's a tired looking thing when compared to the pic. A portion of decent chippy chips is another matter entirely!

Pappardelle don't preach - Madonna

Peek-a-Boo - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Had another bluesjazz band jam last night... For some reason the guitarman had completely lost any sense of funk, so where he previously grooved in some place between Nile Rodgers and James Blood Ulmer he was now like a lumpy Eric Clapton, which is Not A Good Thing in my book. Drummer's still On The One though. Still, it's a bit weird to be playing what is potentially The Devil's Music in an 18th Century church!

I do the cold shower thing... Sometimes I start with the cold - in which case it's about 45 seconds before there's a hint of warmth. And for that time I sometimes "speak in tongues", and sometimes sing raucously. Like this one (beware of An Oft Repeated Swear Word!):

(Not Just) Knee Deep - Funkadelic

We only do two covers, but I enjoy 'em both! First, there's "Don't Dictate" by punk legends Penetration - I play it with a mashed up section of Cameo's "Word Up" which works very well. We also do Dead Kennedys' "Moon Over Marin". As we're a 2 bass band El Rapho plays a relatively straightforward version of the bass line, but I play it as if it was Magazine's "Song From Under The Floorboards", which also seems to work.

Beasley Street - John Cooper Clarke

Back in the day most of the band were in the back with no seats, just lying on top of the cabs... That wasn't so bad if we were in our usual roadie's hand painted black transit cos at least you could see out of the windscreen and the cabs were a handy flat surface to roll up on... But we once had a gig in Bournemouth and had to hire a van. The only one available was a Transit Luton so being in the back was a bit rubbish, especially as it took 3 hours from London with absolutely no clue where we were or ability to speak to the two lucky souls in the front!

Strange headed blokes playing groovy fusion...