BAIBS Tuesday 11/12/12

A fraught walk into the radio this morning. It's the only word for it. First step out the door and the black ice has got me already. I struggle to walk at the best of times. I put it down to the length of my legs and a misplaced centre of gravity. I lost it with half my vinyl during one of my many house moves. In these treacherous conditions I've no chance. So walking/skating/skidding/falling down Balby Road and the shoulder strap on my rucksack broke. More cd cases ruined. I now have to carry my bag in my hand. The other hand carries the flask/mug of coffee I take with me to get me through the first hour of the show.

This now means that I cant swap hands carrying said flask/mug giving the none carrying hand some much needed pocket time. It also means I cant have the cigarette I treat myself too each morning when I get as far as The Leopard. Lightbulb moment. The coat I'm sporting this winter is a denim, fur lined (not real fur before you get the red paint out) affair (yes Jess, double denim)! (Way to many brackets in this sentence). Still with me? This coat has pockets big enough for the flask/mug. Brilliant. Free hand for cigarette and pocket usage.

Get to Sine FM Towers with a wet pocket, wet cigarettes and no coffee.

Did a makeshift fix on the rucksack only for it to break again on the way home at the exact same spot on Balby Road. I'll take a different route tomorrow.

Mopping up procedures in the Leaf War aftermath. The leaf blowers back out but now the piles of leaves are being shovelled onto the back of a DMBC lorry and transported away who knows where. I presume when they get to the last few that wont stay on the shovel they'll just lift the grass up and sweep them under.

A surreal walk through town after today's show. It could be because I was on my way to be fitted out for a tux. Not an everyday event for me so maybe life was just being genuinely random on my behalf. First up a man singing Christmas Carols whilst playing what I think was a hurdy gurdy. I need to check this properly, I'll let you know tomorrow. He asked me my favourite carol but before I could answer said 'And you cant say Vordeman' before breaking into Good King Wenceslaus still laughing at his own joke.

Next an accordion player who seemed to know no tunes and only one lyric. The word 'Yes' repeated at irregular intervals.

Then some ponies outside whatever Binns is called now. Looking very forlorn which I think was the point. They might have been forlorn donkeys. I'm really not sure.

Then a piper. I've tried to like the bagpipes, I really have, but to me it's just noise. And not really kilt weather. His sporran looked forlorn too.

One final pony/donkey before I got to the tux shop. (Do your own tuck shop pun).

I'm gonna meet my mate Ian now for beer. Think I need it.

Spell check insists Wenceslaus should be Venezuela's. Doesn't have the same ring to it.

Oh and cracking cup of coffee Starsie, cheers Tweacle.

Laters

SS

Playlist Tuesday 11/12/12

Rat Trap - The Boomtown Rats

Run Right Back - The Black Keys

Why You Looking Back Down - You Addiction

Permanent - Section 60

When You Were Young - The Killers

Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea

Adore Me Dear - Bang Bang Romeo

First Of The Gang To Die - Morrissey

Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads

Follow Me - Muse

Your Smile - Kiziah and the Kings

I Always Knew - The Vaccines

Spellbound - Siouxsie and the Banshees

We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen

Smooth - New Killer Shoes

Always The Last To Know - Del Amitri

Honky Tonk Woman - The Rolling Stones

Red Red Wine - UB40

It Hangs - The Darlingtons

Take Me Back - The Pilots

Iris - The Goo Goo dolls

Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid

Gangsters - The Specials

The Wagon - Dinosaur Jr

Disco 2000 - Pulp

Lola - The Kinks

Another Love - Tom Odell

Don't Let Me Down Gently - The Wonderstuff

Don't Know Why - The Beeds

Everything I Own - Bread

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love

F.E.A.R. - Ian Brown

Shadow - Gringo Star

Chain Gang - Sam Cooke

Best Of You - Foo Fighters

Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl

Recover - Dexters

Best Of Friends - Palma Violets

Vicar In A Tutu - The Smiths

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers 

BAIBS Monday 10/12/12

I've Christmas shopped. A bit. A kinda SAS shopping raid. In and out before they see you coming. Blame Richard Pierce for what would seem to be an innuendo fueled start to this blog. As I'm sure you'll have worked out from previous blogs I have an aversion to shopping that's up there with my aversion to veg. You all know my shopping tactics but it's tricky when buying presents. I'm as useless at picking presents as I am at shopping, so given the lack of 'The Presents That Simon's Family And Friends Might Like Shop' in town I'm more lost than usual. I cant go into much detail of course should any present recipients read this but cd shop for cds, book shop for books and get out of there. Today's shopping trip was made more bearable by a friend that likes shopping who supplied coffee and cake. Thank you Miss Kirsche. I'm gonna have to try the online thing. I know what I'm like though. I'll dive into the internet looking for something specific and end up buying an electric garlic peeler-come-sausage prodder. Still, only once a year!

As you also know by now I'm technologically inept. To the point that an electric radiator attacked me this weekend. We were all happy doing our respective jobs, the radiator kicking out heat, me and Cherry Blossom soaking up the heat when the sparks flew. Then a little fire and me staring at it before trying to reason with it. 40 odd years of speaking to inanimate objects and I'm still convinced it'll work despite a 100% failure rate. I mantastically (see Biggest Show Ever for mantastic definition) unplugged said radiator then bravely ignored the fire still burning and the acrid smoke.Is it safe to throw water on an unplugged electrical device? I honestly have no idea! Pathetic. Long story short: the radiator's at the dump, the front room's cold.

Worryingly the spell check questioned online but not mantastic,

Joined on this morning's show by David Ramsay or Bo as we all know him. The perfect guest in that he'll just play and play if time allowed. He's like that on stage. The guy would play for 5 hours if people let him. He's an amazingly talented singer/songwriter/guitar player and if you ever see Tobias or Pure Pearl Jam advertised playing live go see them. You'll thank me after! He's also a damn fine sound engineer. Am I allowed a 'strings to his Bo' pun? No? Thought as much. As much as I enjoyed this morning's live session it was also an absolute pleasure to catch up with a good friend again. I love the live sessions. Music in it's purest form. Listen out for upcoming sessions from Bang Bang Romeo, The 48ks, Rita Payne and Famous Villains.

Right, I'm off to shop online. Someone's gonna get an electric garlic peeler-come-sausage prodder in their stocking. Started with an innuendo, may as well finish with one.

Laters

SS

Playlist Monday 10/12/12

You Better You Bet - The Who

Teenage Icon - The Vaccines

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Recover - Dexters

Givien To Fly - Pearl Jam

VPL - Gbone

Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives

Another Love - Tom Odell

Animal Nitrate - Suede

Dancing Makes Her Happy - Jery At Controls

Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club

Never Fade Away - Spector

Seek It - Richard Hawley

DAVID 'BO' RAMSAY Live Session

Neverland

I Just Want To Dance With You

Mother

Leave Me Alone

Hurt

Left Foot Tommy - Unicorn Hunters

I Wish I Was Someone Better - Blood Red Shoes

Somewhere - The Pilots

Nancy Boy - Placebo

Two Doors Down - Mystery Jets

My Sharona - The Knack

Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen

Do Nothing - The Specials

Chemicals - Various Cruelties

Cannonball - The Breeders

Into The Valley - The Skids

After Hours - We Are Scientists

Peach Blossom - Eels

Hotel Yorba - White Stripes

Tragedy Of Artists - Shade Of Red

Like A Dancer - The Enemy

Kennedy - The Wedding Present

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

BAIBS Friday 7/12/12

Those that know me will know I have just two policies for when I'm PM. First one is to fill every IKEA with chavs and blow them all up. I'll admit this was a policy founded without ever having visited an IKEA. Fancy a politician coming up with a policy without any personal experience to base it on! It was based upon the flat pack furniture that'd occasionally turn up that I'd then struggle to put together. I've mentioned before my total ineptitude at all things DIY, this includes flat pack furniture. Screw B never lined up with hole Q. Panel F was always too short for base K etc. And there were always bits left over. And it always fell to bits exactly 47 days after my woeful construction attempts.

Anyway, I've now visited an IKEA store and can now base my policy on experience and the policy stands. Harsh maybe but no gain without pain, we're all in it together etc. I need a better spin doctor. So IKEA. The words hell, on and earth spring to mind. It's a maze and designed that way so there's no escape. Not until you've purchased something do exits miraculously appear. It was a relief to see that their efforts on constructing their own furniture were not much better than mine though. The cafe was an interesting experience. Had to construct my own mug before I could have a coffee. The handle fell off.

Oh and the stupid names they give their furniture too!! There's now a box of bits that wont quite fit together properly, but will vaguely resemble a wardrobe when finished, loitering in the hall going by the name of Flailingkrapness or something.

Oh and my second policy once I come to power is compulsory Dickensian Christmases every year. We'll import snow if needs be. Everyone to dress accordingly. Gentlemen to doff their top hats to ladies and every hour, on the hour, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen to be sung (with gusto).

I'm contemplating a third policy of annexing Suffolk but not sure yet.

So a weekend beckons again. Seriously need one of those lie ins I talk about. I'm fancying a quiet one but probably wont happen. The Graceholme tonight for The Yorkshire Main Commemorative Trust Christmas Variety gig. Sine FM session band The Colliers are playing. Now there's an apt name for such a gig. And host of Sine FM's Vinyl Daze, Pete Liversidge, is playing with his new band No Folkin' Around.

No Tom Harking again as Rovers away at Swindon. I'll take a point. Open day type thing at Doncaster Brewery tomorrow though. Be rude not to.

Gotta go. Flailingkrapness to shift.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 7/12/12

American Slang - Gaslight Anthem

Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Madness - Madness

Tangled Up In Love - The Rifles

Ride - The Vines

Comerade Dog - Propane Rats

Jack And Diane - John Mellencamp

Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie And The Hot Rods

Roll The Dice - The Colliers

Black Chandelier - Biffy Clyro

Pumped Up kicks - Foster The People

Girl From Mars - Ash

Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones

Chi Town - The Cribs

 

MARTIN BLACK LIVE SESSION

My Fingers Bleed

Time

 

Teenage Icon - The Vaccines

This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - Sparks

The Magnificent 7 - Bad Manners

Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite

Hey Ho - The Beeds

Ruby Soho - Rancid

This Is Real - The Enemy

Open Your Heart - The Human League

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen

Another Love - Tom Odell

Sound Of The Suburbs - The Members

Real Gone Kid - Deacon Blue

Last Christmas - White Valentine

Country Girl - Primal Scream

Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs

Just Like The Rain - Richard Hawley

Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

Uprising - Muse

Chevy Thunder - Spector

Going Out West - Tom Waits

Valentine's Day - The 48ks

Love Me Two Times - The Doors

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

BAIBS Thursday 6/12/12

OK not my best show this morning. It's why I normally don't party too hard on a school night. But Yorkshire Pete's funeral yesterday and we had to give him a send off, which is more than we managed with the chinese lanterns. More of that in a mo. I wont give you a blow by blow account for two reasons.

One: It'd take too long and

Two: I cant remember that much about it.

So edited highlights: Beautiful and brave eulogies by Mark and Shaun Kelly, a service that said it's OK to question God and his mysterious way of moving - don't get me started on that one. As Jimmy Carr says I'm way past having invisible friends. To quote Sine FM's Alex Dean, 'It's science.' Sheffield lollipop women hunting in pairs, a lost stylus for my phone which I don't think I'll ever get back. It's, possibly, in Maddie's car but given that would appear to be a mini (or Mercedes if you prefer) Bermuda Triangle I'm not holding out much hope. Pickled onions, bread and dripping and some woeful dancing. Thankfully I was at the bar when Gangnam Style was played but I've seen the videos. Not pretty.

A sea of Wolves shirts swaying to Rud Stewart singing Rhythm Of My Heart. Last time I saw that many Wolves shirt was in a subway outside Molineux. You don't wanna know what happened! Failed chinese lanterns. Only two really made the effort but didn't get far. The rest burnt where they lay. Any fires in Hillsborough last night can be blamed on us. Think everyone of us said 'Pete would have p***ed himself.'

It was a fitting send off for a man loved by so many. Old friends were appreciated more than ever, new friends made with the 'stay in touch' promise. For once I'm going to keep that promise.

Accosted on my way home this morning by a man with a clipboard outside the Frenchgate centre. I let my guard down. Eye contact is the crucial thing. Avoid eye contact at all costs. I combine this with my ipod and usually avoid the half hour conversation about how we must save the Mongolian ant that always ends with 'No, you cant have my bank account details.' But my ipod died and foolishly I took my earphones out and in my cold and hungover state he got me. The Mongolian ant is now £2 a month better off.

Remind me next time that I promised a whole music and politics blog. I'm just too fragile to face it today.

I'll be honest, I'm off to bed.

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 6/12/12

Dignity - Deacon Blue

Tears Of A Clown - The Beat

Local Boy In The Photograph - Stereophonics

On Trial - The Tricks

I Always Knew - The Vaccines

Last Christmas - White Valentine

Rhythm Of My Heart - Rod Stewart

Stingin' Belle - Biffy Clyro

Always Looking Forward - The Hostiles

Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Valentine - Gbone

She Comes In Fall - Inspiral Carpets

David Watts - The Jam

I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses

Best Of Friends - Palma Violets

Mary - The Adulescents UK

Take 5 - Dave Brubeck

Life On Mars - David Bowie

I Want The World To Stop - Belle and Sebastian

The Way We're Made (Made In England) - Missing Andy

Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police

Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill

Talking Woman Blues - AVIT Blues Band

Monster - The Automatic

Common People - Pulp

Geraldine - Glasvegas

Debaser - Pixies

Whistle For The Choir - The Fratellis

Back In Black - Amy Winehouse

Stand - REM

Chipping Away - Middleman

Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam

Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

Joy - Tracy Thorn

Jump - Van Halen

Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

Another Love - Tom Odell

Give It Up - Hothouse Flowers

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

BAIBS Wednesday 5/12/12

Today we say goodbye to Pete Meredith, Yorkshire Pete. Nothing I can write here will do any kind of justice to our friend or how so many people feel today so I'll just give you the words of the most uplifting song I know. Spirit - The Waterboys.

Man gets tired,

Spirit don't.

Man surrenders,

Spirit wont.

Man crawls,

Spirit it flies.

Spirit lives when man dies.

Man seems,

Spirit it is.

Man dreams,

The Spirit it lives.

Man is tethered,

Spirit it free.

What Spirit Is Man Can Be.

Mike Scott

Playlist Wednesday 5/12/12

You're Missing - Bruce Springsteen

The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

(All I Wanted Was) Danger - The Milk

Slide Away - Oasis

Lightning Bolt - Jake Bugg

Alright - The Subways

Good Enough - Dodgy

Blink Of An Eye - You Addiction

We're Not Deep - The Housemartins

Altogether Now - The Farm

Undercover Martyn - Two door Cinema Club

NW5 - Madness

Pure - The Lightning Seeds

Union City Blue - Blondie

Fire -Kasabian

Waking Up - Elastica

Spirits In The Material World - The Police

Cool Zombie - Adam Ant

Close To Me - The Cure

Brimful Of Asha - Cornershop

I Fought The Law - The Clash

I Will Wait - Mumford and Sons

Rock Lobster - B52s

Quiet Night In - All The Young

To Be Like - China Rats

Rise Up - The Skints

Touch Me - The Doors

Chapel Of Love - Elton John

On The Pull - Straight Razor Angels

524 Fidelio - The Wedding Present

The Messenger - Johnny Marr

Smooth - New Killer Shoes

Post Break Up Sex - The Vaccines

Just Like A Woman - Black Spiders

Tutti Frutti - Little Richard

Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac

Never Fade Away - Spector

Goodbye My Friend - White Valentine

Spirit - The Waterboys



BAIBS Tuesday 4/12/12

Bought a belt today. I know! What with last week's gold, could be orange, tie I'm properly accessorising. Usual shopping tactic: Go to belt shop, buy belt. Not so easy. Who would've thought that belts had become the porn of the fashion world. Hid out of sight or on a top shelf. Plenty of spotty 17 year olds in BHS plucking up the courage to ask a shop assistant for a 34" black leather in a brown paper bag. This is why internet shopping's so popular. No awkward lurking. Finally found the belts hiding under an escalator. £10!! For a belt. Again, this is when I need the 'Belts In All Sizes That Will Fit Through The Loops On Your Suit Trousers And Are Cheap Shop.' Shop number two. Belts next to the tartan slippers in plain view of the queue for the lift. Held my head high and shamelessly picked my £2.50 belt. I'm too old to lurk.

So the news is overloaded today with news that Kate (Middleton just in case you've luckily missed the news) is pregnant. My excitement cannot be measured. Honestly. 0.0 on whatever the equivalent of the Richter Scale is for excitement. Thousands of people get pregnant every day. Er, obviously I mean thousands of women get pregnant every day. If men were the child bearers the planet would still belong to the fish. I know she's a royal but so what is what comes to my mind. I have to admit to being a huge hypocrite when it comes to the royals.

Capital R for royals I've just been told.

Get bent.

I'm not a royalist at all and don't see what purpose they serve. If men were the child bearers it would be what porpoise do they serve. Sorry. Tangents. But I love the whole pomp and pageantry of royal occasions. I do think we do it better than any other nation and it gives me a sense of national pride. Think I'm a lapsed Socialist. I know the argument is the whole tourism thing but I truly fail to see what difference having a royal family makes to people visiting the UK. They don't come to see the Queen! I'm off to play some Pistols and cleanse my soul.

Had, let's call it, a discussion this morning with a friend about a local band who I often wax lyrical about. He says he likes their tunes, and image and stage presence but thinks their lyrics are lacking so he'll never be a fan. My argument, primarily, was that their lyrics are way better than some out there but also they got away with it because of the quality of the songs, arrangements, live performances etc. Which leads to the old debate: Do you go for lyrics or tunes? I think songwriting is a gift. I cant write a tune or a decent lyric. I've written 2 lyrics in my life. One contained the line 'I'm still not heard as she runs wild with life's flag unfurled.'

I think we can all agree that just from that one line I should never be allowed to attempt lyric writing ever again. My other lyric was co-written with one of my oldest friends, Nigel Smith, and I should point out was made up on the spot one very drunken night in a park in Golder's Green. It contained this gem: 'I'm made out of cheese, you get honey from bees, Ken Barlow hugs trees, I've got brie for my knees cos I'm made out of cheese.' Nigel's a very talented songwriter. Think I dragged him down to my level on that one.

I've tangented again. My point is writing lyrics isn't easy. Listeners will know how much I love Bruce Springsteen. But the man who penned 'Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack. I went out for a ride and I never came back' and 'The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways. Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays.' also wrote 'Surprise, surprise, surprise, yeah, surprise, surprise, surprise. Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes.' You can guess the next line! Even the best don't always get it right.

My friend, Richard Pierce, calls one of our greatest lyricists, Billy Bragg, a poet and I'm inclined to agree. 'And then it happened, she cut her hair and I stopped loving her.', 'If you've got a black list I want to be on it.' and 'The revolution is just a t-shirt away' are pure genius. (Tomorrow we'll do politics and music).

The one difference in the songs I've mentioned though (and I'm getting to my point finally) is that they are all great tunes apart from Bruce's Surprise, Surprise so it stands out as a particularly bad song. Had it been a good tune he would've got away with it. Duran Duran's Please, Please Tell Me Now has a shocking lyric including possibly the worst line ever, 'You're about as easy as a nuclear war.' but it got to No.1.

So in conclusion as much as I love a great lyric you can hide a poor lyric in a great tune but not vice versa. It's the tune we hear first.

Think I've waffled enough. There's prawn crackers to be ate and blue suede minsters to fawn over. Trust me on this.

Laters

SS

Playlist Tuesday 4/12/12

Dancing Song - Little Comets

Rollercoaster - The Cave Toads

Bubbles - Biffy Clyro

Like A Dancer - The Enemy

VPL - Gbone

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love

Tick Tick Boom - The Hives

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

Outsiders - Franz Ferdinand

Another Love - Tom Odell

The Magnificent 7 - Bad Manners

Seven Seas - Echo and the Bunnymen

Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - The Ramones

If I Ever Stray - Frank Turner

How It Ended - The Drums

Men's Needs - The Cribs

Pictures Of You - The Cure

Hold On - Don Broco

Drop Dead Gorgeous - Republica

Trash - Suede

Loaded - Primal Scream

I Always Knew - The Vaccines

Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues

Pelican - Maccabees

Bassline - Reverend and the Makers

Lightning Bolt - Jake Bugg

Ceremony - New Order

Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen

Lead The Way - The 48ks

After Hours - We Are Scientists

We No Who U R - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Dead Wrong - Hanni El Khatib

Sexuality - Billy Bragg

Mary - The Adulescents UK

Love Is A Wonderful Colour - The Icicle Works

Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

Ho Hey - The Lumineers

Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

BAIBS Monday 3/12/12

So it's Monday and it's cold. I know this cos every status on facebook this morning told me so. I'll be honest in the 2300 odd Mondays since I was born it no longer surprises me that Monday follows Sunday or that it's cold on December 3rd, especially given the weather people told us it would be. Can't wait for the snow. No-one has a facebook status saying it's reasonably mild with a steady north-easterly breeze.

I'm being harsh. I'm 44, been well over 6'4" for nearly 30 years and still forget to duck. I also can't walk any distance without my laces coming undone. And invariably fall over when I bend to re-tie them. If I can work out Monday follows Sunday you'd think I could work out those simple things too.

Well given it's a Monday that means we've just had a weekend.

 Friday night curry and beers for Rob Dannatt's birthday. Decided to do a tour of Sine presenters djing in town. First stop The Home Run's Mark Kelly working at La Barracca. Not my usual type of haunt. I scowl at all the people drinking stupid drinks and dancing to crap music. Then I have something that involves inhaling pure alcohol fumes and dance Gangnam Style. The NME listed Gangnam Style as the 50th best track of the year, stating that everyone had danced to it. I smugly read this on Friday morning thinking, 'Not me. I'm way too cool.' Ah well.

Next up Tiki Bar and Johnny Gibson from DJ Johnny G's Rock Spot (Sine FM, Friday, 2pm). More of the same only this time I have a White Russian in the desperate hope that people would think I'm The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Think people just thought that old fool should get a hair cut.

A desperate need for some 'proper' music required so Cask Corner to see The Dirty Dancefloors. Covers but quality covers by a very tight band. And my ego was boosted by 'Sine fm are in.We better be good.' They were. Someone thought I had mystical qualities by predicting the next song they played. They never seen a set list?

Saturday I lazed. A lot. Till Saturday night for Burlesque at The Sun Inn. Dancing girls and fake snow. What more is there?

Sunday cleared out the cellar and forgot I was 6'5 lots of times. Said goodbye to my vinyl again. One day your time will come.

Got verbally poleaxed by a window cleaner this morning. Frenchgate centre at 6.30am. I walk past and wittily say,'You've missed a bit.' 'Where?' he asks and that's it. He's got me. I either point out his shoddy workmanship on a window I've not even looked at or admit I've made the lamest of jokes that he's probably heard thousands of times. Either way I'm shamefaced. I pretend I cant hear because of my ipod and walk on.

I now have to go gmarketing. More on that tomorrow when I've worked out what it is.

Laters

SS

Playlist Monday 3/12/12

Forgotten Town - The Christians

Don't Know Why - The Beeds

45 - The Gaslight Anthem

Panic - The Smiths

Fortune Teller - The 48ks

Dreaming Of You - The Coral

Christmas, Baby Please Come Home - U2

The Eton Rifles - The Jam

Ruby Soho - Rancid

It's The End Of The World As We Know It - REM

Adore Me Dear - Bang Bang Romeo

Blue Skinned Beast - Madness

2000 Miles - The Pretenders

Seek It - Richard Hawley

The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

When We Was Fab - George Harrison

Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies

Gimme The Sign - The Enemy

Flashlight - The Pilots

Buck Rogers - Feeder

Just Like A Woman - Black Spiders

Mary - The Adulescents UK

Fishing For A Dream - Turin Brakes

Best Of Friends - Palma Violets

Shine On - The House Of Love

Cant Take My Eyes Off Of You - Andy Williams

Common People - Pulp

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley

Last Christmas - White Valentine

Black Chandelier - Biffy Clyro

Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire

Pump It Up - Elvis Costello

Uprising - Muse

Stop Your Crying - Spiritualized

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

The Road To Hell - Chris Rea

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers