BAIBS Thursday 11/04/13

I'm gonna talk about two things that I'll attempt never to talk about on here again. Thatcher and the 80 hour show. I was gonna leave the Thatcher thing well alone but a few comments have riled me somewhat, out of their naivety if nothing else.

'It's only men having a go because of she was a woman'

Yes, that's the only reason. Nothing to do with politics at all. And there are no women criticizing her policies at all.

'She saved the country' and this from, amongst others our glorious shiny faced Eton twonk of a leader.

If by country you mean a square mile in the heart of London then you're quite right. And let's not forget that when Shiny Dave's party unceremoniously dumped her in 1990 there was no great leader who saved our country comments then.

'She's only hated because she won.' from some faceless Tory MP daring to raise her head above the parapets.

Won? That statement should just be left to hang there and pick up all the contempt it deserves on it's own with no help from me.

'It's only people with dead end jobs who are Thatcher bashing.'

Yes the double Oscar winning MP Glenda Jackson must be wondering where it all went wrong.

Right, hopefully I won't get wound up again and can stop talking about her. This blog's becoming another rant.

There's a smokefree stress ball languishing next to the laptop. Maybe I should start using it. Then I wouldn't be ably to type though. It's a dilemma.

Started work on the paperwork for the Even Bigger Show today. It's a mammoth job. Probably another 80 hours worth of work. OK, maybe not that much but with 40 witness statements and logs to go through plus checking every song was correctly taken note of you can see it's gonna be more than a 5 minute job. I reckon we probably played about 750 tunes during the show. All the video evidence needs uploading too. 18 breaks (start and finish), the beginning and end of the show plus the moment we broke the record. That's 39 clips to find, edit and catalogue. Then making sure that all the video evidence and witness logs tie up with timings. Any media coverage needs including too. It's another reason why I've said never again. And I shall mention the show no more. Well maybe when we get confirmation of the record but that's it. I promise.

Spellchecker is insisting catalogue is wrong but only offering cantaloupe as an alternative. Maybe we need to send the bods at Guinness a melon as well. They didn't mention it though. I hope we don't miss out on the record for not sending them large fruit.

We still have plenty of bananas if they'll do. I'll ask.

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 11/04/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Down At The The Doctors - Dr. Feelgood

Return Of Django - The Upsetters

Signal 30 - Public Service Broadcasting

Can't Stand Losing You - The Police

Follow Baby - Peace

Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen

Hold Me - Tom Odell

Mary's Prayer - Danny Wilson

Pelican - The Maccabees

Right Now - Bang Bang Romeo

Recover - Dexters

Love Her Madly - The Doors

Lorelei - The Pogues

Not Too Young - The Tricks

The Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim

All Together Now - The Farm

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

Madness - Madness

It Ain't What You Do - Fun Boy Three ft Bananarama

A Message To You, Rudy - The Specials

No Hope - The Vaccines

I Want It All - Queen

Feel Like This - Missing Andy

Molly Gray - The DN Allstars

Island In The Sun - Weezer

She Will - Savages

Summer's Child - The Coopers

Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters

Graceland - The Bible

Bats - The Darlingtons

Blue Collar Jane - The Strypes

Made Of Stone - The Stone Roses

Road Rage - Catatonia

524 Fidelio - The Wedding Present

Diane Young - Vampire Weekend

Into The Valley - The Skids

In A Big Country - Big Country

On The Pull - Straight Razor Angels

Temptation - New Order

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers