Bands

If it is sophisticated (proper) Adult orientated music you're looking for ,

you can do no better than Copenhagen featuring the ever lowering voice

of Neil G Henderson and the vibes of Kirsa Wilkenschildt. Occationally it might sound

like the sound track for an assisted suicide but it really is rather good.

MisterLee, madness from the Midlands, lunacy from Leicester, eccentricity from

Evington. Lee Alitson and his band are walking the walk, just to the left of everyone

else. Well.. a lot to the left of the rest of us, and keep doing mad dances just to worry us.

His band look the part, they dress like Polytechnic Lecturers, and my god they are

Polytechnic Lecturers.

Genre hopping post rock with increasing elements of Jazz, is possibly not

the way our Friends in the North (Germany) think of themselves.

But since this is our site Iise Lau are just going to have to live with it.

Since their site is in German, and we are English, and shamefully

mono-lingual. If they say anything rude about us we'll never know.

There is another one of us in the US a band called Downriver, two of them

from Sunderland USA as opposed to the mad mackem place. We though it

was well strange and ran round the rehearsal room. They thought it was

just a coincidence. They're are an EMO band so probably cry a lot about

how horrible the world is. Oddly enough that's what we do. But the difference is

we're menopausal and not young and angst ridden.

So we get to that age and we need some emotional support, visit, go see

PROM. A band us oldsters get, and if you youngsters

don’t get we may all be doomed. If nothing else get their mail outs .

It proves than Rock’n’Roll is not for dumb asses.

Comedy

What do you do when you meet one of your heroes.  I met Nick Revell a few months back,

and I think I introduced myself with the phrase “thanks, your comedy has confirmed my world view”

After that cheesy, but true open line he was charm personified. I was thinking,

“you’re my comedy god, I’m loving this”. And he was thinking,

“why are my obsessive fans not 25 year old blond with bigish boobs, and not a bald 45 year old bloke with man boobs”. 

Or possibly “ fat boy squeal like a pig". 

If I get the answer I’ll l tell you. 

Our world remains a wonderful place.  

And this young chap is the third best comedy songwriter in Britain.

After Stilgo and Digence, evidently. He has an obsessive Smiths fan

and a guy from Sunderland in his "crew". One of these things is

a very good thing, the other is very bad thing. Guess...

If success keeps going to his waistline, he may even make us the second fattest

band in the UK, which would be nice.

Since we've reached that certain age, where the options were, buy a big motorbike or form a

band. We seem to have gone for the more suicidally dangerous choice. When not being Rock'n'Roll

dads we spend all our time listening to BBC Radios 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7. So it would be criminal not to

give these a mention. Since TOTP has disappeared into the ether, it is really the only place

that gives a sensible view on music. They've just finished thier difficult fifth series.

Episode five was particularly difficult.

For the audience.

As an aside, Showaddywaddy on thier new CD cover Chris Spedding's Motobikin' and

TRB's 2468 Motorway.It's what the phrase post-modern was invented for. Roland Barthes will

be spinning in his deep structure.