Leonard Smalls

I fought the law - The Clash

Steak in the Heart - Demented Are Go

I like to Moooove it - Reel 2 Real

Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper

Toke That

Boybone.

Not being a fan of to-the-note-and-word covers, I'd say do it, but make it your own. Put a spin on it, a different feel, different instrumentation, whatever. But don't copy it. Copies are rarely more than a shadow of the original.

Naz-Tee May'en - Fishbone

Excellent! Haven't seen her since leaving school... Apparently "more than half" of the tickets have been sold - perhaps we'll almost have a crowd. Even Swamp's coming!

Down in the Park - Tubeway Army

I lived with a bunch of Boro-lads for about 4 years - all that "was us fookin wentin or fookin gannin man" sort of rubbed off on me and I occasionally tag it on the end of a sentence. It's not maaan, though!

Toilet On The Sea - Stranglers

The Stool On The Hill - The Beatles

WC you later, Alligator! - Bill Haley and His Comets

Destination Out - Last Exit

Patches are the programmed FX chains... There's thousands of slots available for new ones, you can either put them together yourself or download from various places.

Mine never has, in the 5 years I've had it! It's failed to boot up twice, and both times off/on started it up nicely. Is the software up to date? Are patches too resource hungry, or from a dodgy source?

Captain Kirk has got a date on the Enterprise Holodeck with Nurse Chapel in his favourite romantic piano bar on Aurora Prime. However, alien microbes have got into the matrix so when Kirk goes to find Christine admiring the view from the bar's private beach he finds she's actually a bloke called Derek from Redditch... This month I've sort of followed the Baloney route, to some extent! I programmed a manic 150bpm drum track, and did a 1 take bass improvisation over the top. Then I stuck 2 tracks of piano "accompaniment" on it and 3 tracks of wah guitar noodlings. Drums programmed using Impulse pads triggering identical midi sounds from EZ Drummer (Clyde Stubblefied kit), and Ableton's Arizona and Exposed kits. Bass is Sandberg DI-ed via Focusrite (double tracked, touch of delay on 1 track). Piano is Ableton's Grand Piano, and guitar is a battered Strat with clean Helix wah and Bias FX bluesdrive. Everything is rolled in Ozone 9 and Neutron 3.

Coming up soon, 1st public Weeds gig in at least 9 years. We're actually thinking of having a rehearsal! Exciting support bands too, and limited capacity...

Einstein a go-go - Landscape

Ride a White Swan - T Rex

The one that was cancelled was from Manchester to Carmarthen... Which caused me to miss the connection in Shrewsbury to the little max 2 carriage train you mention - that's the Heart of Wales line to Swansea and there's only 4 a day!

I remember back in the early 90s I walked the Tour de Mont Blanc with my girlfriend... We carried a tent, and food/clothes for 7 days - being fit we managed the 100+ miles in 4 days but we'd sweated like pigs as it was also warm. When we got back to Chamonix we looked for gifts for folks, a friend of ours was well into Reblochon so we bought her a decent lump. As we were going home on the coach I'd put on my lightweight shoes for the journey back so the only safe place to put the Reblochon was in my mountain boot (the one I'd been wearing for 25+ very sweaty miles per day) in my pack. The nearly 24 hour journey was accomplished in sweltering heat - 30+C - so we naturally worried a bit about the cheese. However, there was nothing we could do... When we got back the cheese had melted into the shape of my boot, but we stuck it in the fridge and gave it to our friend the following day. A week later we saw her and she thanked us effusively for the cheese- "it's the best I've ever had!" she said.

Silent Land - Material

Git Down - Gaye Bykers On Acid