Leonard Smalls

Iggy Pop's Jacket - Those Naughty Lumps

I posted Mr Neon's beautiful Trump Takedown twice a couple of hours ago, once in "Wot's oo lissnin too" and once in "Funny ol memes of That Internet" 😁 But that level of quick and creative work bears listening too many times!

Lovely work by Mr. Neon

Stone Cold Bush - RHCP

Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M

The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff

Vernon Reid, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Grant Calvin Weston...

Chucky's in Love - Rickie Lee Jones

Piss Factory - Patti Smith

From last Saturday in Pwllheli

Shades of Truth - Bad Religion

Papa's got a brand new Pigbag - Pigbag

Rocks, Pebbles and Sand - Stanley Clarke

Quite a weird one for us last night! We trekked all the way to a campsite near Pwllheli to play at a North Wales car and machine club annual shindig, which raises money for Blood Bikes Wales. After we'd set up our tents and had a fine pint of Trooper Ale we got the gear on the (rather spacious) trailer/stage, did a quick soundcheck and we went on just after seven - billed before the raffle! and sound was excellent, everything could be heard, there was a bit of kick in the PA plus Vox (and a tiny touch of guitar) but bass was just down to our own rigs - Raph with his tiny Elf driven by Sansamp into a no-name 4x10 and Squier bass, and me with the ACG into Helix, my ancient Marshall Jubilee and Markbass 4x10. I'd managed to get a really fat but slappy sound sound with various amp sims and tube compression which cut through beautifully at all frequencies with no boom. No mistakes, plus a bonus moshpit of about 10 6-8 year old kids and maybe 300 others, including a couple of patch clubs. No adult dancing, but it was early! Comments after were largely appreciative, one Manchester bloke told us he was "madferit", and another larger chap stormed over - we were a bit worried - but he said "it's great to see bands who are actively anti-fascist!", which was nice. There was a display of cars and bikes - highlights were a De Lorean, a Lancia Stratos, a David Brown DB1 (first vehicle I ever drove, aged 10 or so!) plus a brace of Buell M2 Cyclones. And the Raffle showed why it was called that, our Raph won two prizes. Afterwards, a most excellent covers band played two sets of AllTheRockin'Hits. Highlight though was a crazed contraption made from a car turbo mounted on a beer keg filled with some sort of fuel - this made a rudimentary jet engine which was used to start the firepit, and sparked up periodically to freak folks out...

Big Bottom _ Spinal Tap

most rockabilly! eg: And Robert Wyatt showing Elvis C how it should be done

(Pri)Mate Spawn and Die - Lard

Horrorscope - Dalek I Love You

Sign o' The Times - Prince

This Saturday 7th, Blood Bikes benefit in Pwllheli And the following Friday 13th at Worcester Music Festival

Liar - Rollins Band

Funnily enough I saw them in their very early days supported by Echo and the Bunnymen at Chester arts centre for 50p to get in. And me, Swamp and Sgav were the only ones from our school who went!

Probably! But I'd still like to see more music on't telly - at the moment it's only Jools plus a bit of Reading and Glasto!

(Not just) Knee Deep - Funkadelic

And another... More media exposure for smaller artists! When I were nobbut a lad there was all sorts of music on telly; kids TV would have Motorhead or The Jam playing, Top of the Pops could have absolutely anyone on (apart from the Sex Pistols). There was Rock Goes to College, Old Grey Whistle Test, The Tube and loads of other stuff. It was all there and easy to find. Now you have to actively search - which admittedly isn't difficult, but I suspect that as a result more young-uns are playing video games or binge watching who-knows-what instead of going to gigs. I know that my nieces and nephews never go to gigs in their hometown but will trek to That London to watch a Big Artiste.