A personal game of two halves last night with my two first loves. I've been in love with Doncaster Rovers since Saturday 1st September 1979. (3-0 defeat by Bradford City). It's been an up and down relationship ever since and if I'm honest more giving on my part than theirs. Last night was a prime example. A pretty woeful performance. Like date night actually being a trip to the chippy followed by a warm pint and a pickled egg. No Tom Harking for me last night. They left me hurt but at the end pecked me on the cheek with the league table and told me it'll all be OK. And, as always, I believe them. They know I'll never leave them. I've never looked at another and never will. I think sometimes they take advantage of this.
So feeling slightly used I head to The Leopard for my other first love, music. (Sod grammar). Music is different. It's acceptable, encouraged even, to sample as much as you can. You should never stick to one lover. When one lets you down (notably The Waterboys and their Room To Roam album) another will step up and make everything wonderful again. King Charles was live at The Leopard last night and it's possible that the man is a genius. Guitar playing that's pure delta blues one minute and classic Prince the next. The Prince comparisons are hard to ignore with his look as well. There's also a hint of Morrison presence with Jimi having his say too. And tunes! Oh man does he have some tunes.
I met him on yesterday's breakfast show when he'd been dragged from his tour bus for a half awake interview. After the show last night he was wide awake though and we talked at length about Fred MacPherson's mind (Spector) and Iggy Pop's penis. He's a truly likable guy who shares my third first love, alcohol. Hence another late show this morning.
So if Rovers was the first half and King Charles the second then for me it ended in a 2-1 win.
I've avoided the whole Thatcher thing til now. There's been a lot said and posted. Facebook has become a microcosm of her reign. divisive as ever. What has appalled me is the 'show some respect' comments that spring up as soon as she is criticized If you can praise her then I can damn her, dead or otherwise. She doesn't become faultless through death and she had many, many faults. Her dismantling of the manufacturing industry, her decimation of whole communities, her whole uncaring nature to the plight of so many under her cosh. It cannot and should not be dismissed because she's dead. So what of the good she did? Most people seem to point to to The Falklands War and the buy your council house policy. Yes back in 82 as a 14 year old I got jingoistic when the Union Flag flew in Port Stanley again but let us not kid ourselves. She didn't fall in the mud at Goose Green but she did go from becoming the most unpopular PM in history to a landslide general election victory on the back the war. A war that had far more to do with her own political survival than the repatriation of The Falklands. And yes she gave people the chance to own their own homes who previously never had that option but left nothing in place for those that still needed cheap housing. There are now 2 million families waiting for a council house. It's a direct link.
What has been equally sickening are the spineless eulogies from those you expect to stand up for the working man. I'm looking at you Ed. God I miss Socialism!
So in my lifetime 3 former Prime Ministers have died. Wilson, Heath and now Thatcher. 2 private funerals and 1 £10 million ceremonial funeral with military honours? Why? That is what I find most galling of all. That and the phone hacker Piers Morgan saying, you guessed it, 'She's dead. Show some respect.'
Rant over.
Laters
SS
Playlist Wednesday 10/04/13
Tom Hark - The Piranhas
Lady Percy - King Charles
Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
To Be Like - China Rats
Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox
Diane Young - Vampire Weekend
Just Like The Rain - Richard Hawley
Get Back - The Beatles
Let My People Go-Go - The Rainmakers
Forget Never Met - The 48ks
Panic - The Smiths
Pictures Of You - The Cure
Love In Outer Space - Hail To The Eskimo
Mansize Rooster - Supergrass
The Day The World Turned Day Glo - X Ray Spex
Heavyweight Champion Of The World - Reverend And The Makers
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Antarctica - Sound Of Guns
It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream
The Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
The Female Of The Species - Space
Hunger - Frankie And The Heartstrings
Roll To Me - Del Amitri
Wasteland - The Mission
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Walking On The Sun - Smash Mouth
Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Flick Of The Finger - Beady Eye
Midnight Wave - Two Wounded Birds
Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers
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