BAIBS Friday 9/11/12

First up, sorry Rob. There. Done it. As promised. During the crisp game at the Keepmoat Tuesday night Rob Dannatt asked me to guest on his Livewire show on Thursday evening. In the joyous throes of having plucked the word Chipsticks from obscurity I said yes. 5.20pm yesterday saw me falling asleep on the sofa watching Pointless. Never made it to Sine. Sorry Rob. Again.

I had today all planned out, in fact this whole weekend was pretty much sorted. Potter round town after the show and a spot of shopping. Desperately need some jeans and footwear. The holes and general threadbareness have had me feeling like I was walking around half naked all week. Then buy something for tea and toodle off home for a night of chilling and plaiting. Then the txt came. The Dark Shark himself, Mark Thomas from Black Spiders. 'Still want guest list for Nottingham tonight?' Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr? YES!!!!!!

I've known Mark since we sat next to each other at school comparing drawings of sperm. His were always better. In fact Mark is more talented than me, better looking, looks ten years younger and makes better sandwiches. I forget why we're friends!!! He is supremely talented though and combines rock God with seriously nice guy superbly well.

So suddenly today is thrown into disarray. The lazy meandering round town is now a dash to Asda. Forgot my bank card. Start again. Shopped. Jeans, food, no footwear. Oh well. New shoes at a Spiders gig is probably a bad idea anyway. Took a wrong turn out of Asda and ended up in half an RAF Nimrod. Back on track, Keepmoat. 'You're a day early.' Oh ha de ha ha ha. (Tom Hark day again tomorrow). Home. I've flattered myself immensely with the new jeans but squeeze into them.

I should point out that a Black Spiders gig is not to be missed. Their debut album, Sons Of The North, is a must for any rock fan. It is pure no-nonsense, heads down, balls out rock and Donny has NEVER had a finer rock band. Live the band are just something else. To steal a line from someone else's review, possibly of a different band, 'These guys are going straight to hell but it's gonna be some ride.' Tours of pretty much anywhere that'll have them, a support slot to Ozzy and a headline slot at last year's Sonisphere have pushed the band into the upper echelons of rockness and they're only gonna get bigger. I've given my middle fingers a work out and got my sweary head on. All set. F**K YOU BLACK SPIDERS!

DMBC are still battling it out with the leaves in Elmfield Park. 2 chaps there again today, armed with Dyson's tool of world domination patent vacuum but this time they'd brought a rake! Serious stuff though the score still remains Leaves 4 DMBC 1and I don't see a major fightback any day soon.

Tomorrow as I mentioned is Tom Hark day at The Keepmoat, Rovers home to Bournemouth. Suited and booted tomorrow for a feature in an upcoming match day programme. So you'll know who to shout at when we lose. It's happened. One disgruntled fan once blamed the build up music for a poor Rovers performance.

Sunday will see me at the war memorial and then dinner with the kids. I'm pencilling sleep in for Sunday night but not holding my breath. And then it's Monday again!

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 9/11/12

One Drop - PIL

Dakota - Stereophonics

Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet

Hold The Magic - Officer Kicks

Not Too Fussed - The Likely Lads

Quiet Night In - All The Young

If I Had A Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies

Smile - The Supernaturals

Adore Me Dear - Bang Bang Romeo

Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys

Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies

Red Light Spells Danger - Billy Ocean

Best Of You - Foo Fighters

Stingin' Belle - Biffy Clyro

Paradise City - Guns n' Roses

Doom And Gloom - Rolling Stones

Corduroy - The Wedding Present

Lily The Pink - The Scaffold

2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band

Millionaires - Famous Villains

Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud) - The Beautiful South

I Wish I Was Someone Better - Blood Red Shoes

Always Looking Forward - The Hostiles

October Swimmer - JJ72

Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison

Good Arms vs Bad Arms - Frightened Rabbit

Rock Lobster - B52s

One More Shot - Rolling Stones

Transmission - Joy Division

Beach Day - Beach Day

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

Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Into The Valley - The Skids

Sun - Two Door Cinema Club

Chevy Thunder - Spector

Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie

Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives

BAIBS Thursday 8/11/12

The hut stood atop a hill, not cosy but functional. Two rooms. The old man who lived there had done so for longer than he could remember. Given he was 723 years old hardly suprising. His name was, his name was not important. Nestled into the foot of the hill was a small village. Few of the inhabitants knew of the old man in the hut, fewer still cared. Of those that cared rumour was that the old man was the wisest man ever to roam the earth. Bagshot The Believer chose to visit the old man in the hope of gaining knowledge.

He strode up the hill one mist filled morning till he was above the clouds and knocked on the old shack's door. 'Come' the old man insisted and Bagshot walked inside tentatively. 'Is it true you're the wisest man ever?' he asked. The old man looked at him. 'I have lived', he said, 'The berries on the tree may be green but are they fit for rolling?' Bagshot looked in awe. This made no sense to him but he presumed it to be very deep and beyond his comprehension. 'How old are you?' Bagshot enquired. 'My toes no longer treddle on the waters of worms if that's what you mean.' came the reply.

Bagshot nodded then realised, again, he didn't have a clue what this meant. Doubt seeped into The Believer's mind. 'Are you not the font of all knowledge?' he asked, desperately. 'When the skies are full of Mamadukes then the cheese is ready.' Bagshot's body sank. No longer, if ever, wise. Just wizened. A wasted journey. He made his apologies and went to leave. 'Wait', said the old man, 'I've something to show you.' The old man shuffled out the room and Bagshot left. He couldn't bare to see the old man come back with an octopus in a bucket, or something, thinking it was the answer to all Bagshot's questions.

Bagshot sulked his way down the hill, followed only by the smell of boiled octopus. The old man stood in his empty hut, 4 leather bound volumes in his hands that must have weighed more than the man himself. The parchment still crisp and as the sunlight caught it it shone like a new day. The writing so exquisite as to make a grown man weep. 'I wrote it all down' said the old man. 'I knew I was losing my faculties so wrote it all down. Everything. All knowledge.' But Bagshot was long gone. He, nor anyone else, ever returned to the hut. The old man never left it.

There's a moral to all this but I'm buggered if I know what it is.

As mentioned in Monday's blog I went to Ingoldmells on Tuesday to pick up a table. Went past Humberside airport. There's a Thunderbird 3 there. This excited me greatly. My favourite Thunderbird. Sadly underused. Thunderbird 1 was just dull, Thunderbird 2 ugly. Thunderbird 4 looked like a Renault 4 but Thunderbird 3 was immense! Red. And a proper rocket. A proper red rocket!!! Unfortunately Cherry Blossom wouldn't stop and strap it to her roof so I still don't own a Thunderbird 3. Still, soon be Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas I'm being followed on Twitter by a reindeer. Less scary than being followed down the street by a reindeer but a bit odd all the same. He's called Randy. Make your own jokes up.

Found out today my University Challenge opponent, Lesley the cushty librarian, used to be a Diddyman. Small world!

Well back to my chores (washing up and sausages) then back to Sine to co-host Livewire with Rob. Basically all I do is try to put him off and list people I wished no longer breathed in.

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 8/11/12

Post Break Up Sex - The Vaccines

AKA What A Life - Noel Gallagher

She Comes In Fall - Inspiral Carpets

Tick Tick Boom - The Hives

Gotta Get Out - The 48ks

What A Beautiful Day - The Levellers

Church Not Made With Hands - The Waterboys

Don't Know Why - The Beeds

Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People

Lorelei - The Pogues

Ready To Die - Famous Villains

Embarrassment - Madness

A-Bomb In Wardour Street - The Jam

Best Of You - Foo Fighters

To Cut A Long Story Short - Spandau Ballet

Common People - Pulp

Meantime - The Sherlocks

Sit Down - James

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

Permanent - Section 60

Hush - Kula Shaker

Back A Bit...Stop - The Wedding Present

No-One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age

Shakespeare's Sister - The Smiths

Like A Dancer - The Enemy

In A Moment - Stereophonics

My Very Favourite Stalker - The Adulescents UK

Boxerbeat - JoBoxers

(All I Want Is) Danger - The Milk

I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones

Down Down - Status Quo

My First Love - Paper Aeroplanes

Pretty In Pink - The Psychedelic Furs

Blackberry Way - The Move

Sing For The Deaf - Missing Andy

Union City Blue - Blondie

Chemicals - Various Cruelties

Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have) - The Buzzcocks

BAIBS Wednesday 7/11/12

So the Tom Hark button was left untouched at the Keepmoat last night. Actually, the Tom Hark button wasn't even there, we'd forget the cd. Thankfully we had on the bench double click Tom Hark but he remained an unused sub. It was a woeful Rovers performance but I cant really dissect it cos we got bored and played the crisp game in the media box. Take it in turns to name crisps. I was flying with French Fries, Skips and Chipsticks but soon had to defer to others with a greater crisp knowledge than I could ever imagine. I fared better in the name a celebrity who's been seen in homemade porn. I nailed that one to coin a phrase. Followed was war aircraft, brand names that have become synonymous with the product, celebrities who's first and last names begin with the same letter and surnames that are also professions. Rob won that with William Blogger.

Oh and the Molly Malone embarrassment wasn't our idea!

THE BIGGER ALL IMPORTANT SHOW FACT OF THE DAY

Told you there'd be more. When the first Billboard 100 was published in 1957 radio stations in America insisted songs were all 2 minutes 58 seconds long. After complaints from musicians unions they agreed to play non 2:58 songs but if it was a shorter song there would be the appropriate amount of dead air to make up the alloted time, a longer song was cut off at 2 minutes 58. It wasn't until Colonel Tom Parker invented the fade out in 1961 that musicians got more free reign on song length. Hank Marvin blew it all apart a year later with the invention of the fade in.


Common sense prevails shock!! Not only have America not voted for World War Three but DMBC have a vacuum cleaner. Two chaps in Elmfield Park with van and massive vacuum sucking up leaves. It's huge. A product of the tortured mind of James Dyson, reeling after his first commercial flop, the self cleaning skirting board. I fully expect him to suck up some small island group, maybe the Faroes, with this device while he sits in his lair in Cromer threatening world domination. It'll be ok though. Daniel Craig in blue trunks will save us with a Henry and a modified Parker pen. Er, bit of a tangent there. The upshot is no leaves in Elmfield Park. Personally I wished they'd left them alone right from the start. Autumn's job is to look pretty and let us kick leaves about.

Sign on a gravestone in Hyde Park cemetery: Danger Of Death. Bit late surely?

Vaccines tickets have arrived just in time for the last of the KitKats.

And that was all he wrote.

Laters

SS

Playlist Wednesday 7/11/12

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

America - Razorlight

Gimme The Sign - The Enemy

The Cutter - Echo And The Bunnymen

American Girl - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Soul Uncensored - Section 60

Gold On The Ceiling - The Black Keys

Star - James

No More Heroes - The Stranglers

Whirring - The Joy Formidable

Lost - The Pigeon Detectives

Paper Plane - Status Quo

Spies - Famous Villains

American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem

Australia - Manic Street Preachers

Altogether Now - The Farm

Sha La La La Lee - Small Faces

Bucket - Kings Of Leon

Bag Of Bones - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout

If I Ever Stray - Frank Turner

Halo - Texas

Blink Of An Eye - You Addiction

This Charming Man - The Smiths

Condominium - Fantasy Rainbow

The Prince - Madness

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Give It Up - Hothouse Flowers

Gangsters - The Specials

Balloons - Foals

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths

Roll With It - Oasis

National Express - The Divine Comedy

Stop In The Name Of Love - The Supremes

(All I Wanted Was) Danger - The Milk

Milk And Alcohol - Dr. Feelgood

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

Chemicals - Various Cruelties

Sun - Two Door Cinema Club 

Spellbound - Siouxsie And The Banshees

BAIBS Tuesday 6/11/12

No walking through park experiences to relay today. I'm sat in the office at Sine FM Towers looking at a photo of a sleeping Mark Kelly, an invite to Rob Dannatt's Famous Lemon Meringue Shindig and the Sine Fm Quiz Champions trophy. Won by myself, Rob, Anthony and Steve and with no help from Rob's phone at all. Ever. Not one iota. Honest.

So, planning tomorrow's show. I know it sounds like I make it up as I go along but there's a reason for this. I make it up as I go along. Some planning is involved, all the this day in history stuff etc and it's whilst doing this research that I stumble across some interesting facts so this is the first in what will be a very erratic series.

THE BIGGER ALL IMPORTANT BREAKFAST SHOW FACT OF THE DAY!

The corporate world has gone mad. Since Cillit Bang came along sales of Cif have decreased drastically. Cillit Bang it has to be said cleans everything from kitchens to horses. Er, actually don't try the horse thing. That was a guess. Anyway in what can only be called a desperate measure Cif is to go back to it's original name of Jif and the makers have petitioned the government of Fiji to change the country's name to i-jif in a billion dollar sponsorship deal. You couldn't make this stuff up!!!

Another fact of the day tomorrow. Ish.

Smoking kills! I mentioned yesterday about the catalogue of ridiculous deaths in the Saynor line. My great great something or other was killed by smoking. He was cycling along when someone in the car in front threw a cigarette butt from the window. It hit my relative in the eye who veered off the road down an embankment and died in a oak tree/head incident.

On the war memorial in Woodingdean, Sussex, a Private Cottingham is etched proudly amongst the other war heroes. Private Cottingham was a distant relative on my Mother's side. He died in the First World War officially in action. He actually died playing football. During a lull a football was fashioned out of wood! Guess who was first to try and head it! R.I.P.

Keepmoat tonight, Rovers v Crewe. Hopefully I'll get to press the Tom Hark button lots. Between now and then I'm off to Ingoldmells for a table and to point at the sea saying 'I can see the sea.'

Laters

SS

Playlist Tuesday 6/11/12

I Will Wait - Mumford And Sons

Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse

Brand New Friend - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

How It Ended - The Drums

The Devil Takes Care Of His Own - Band Of Skulls

Ready To Die - Famous Villains

Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite

Magic Joanna - Dirty White Cars

Babylon's Burning - The Ruts

Black Man Ray - China Crisis

When You Were Young - The Killers

Alive - Pearl Jam

Layla - Derek And The Dominoes

Drunk - Ed Sheeran

Let's Let It Go - White Valentine

Underdog - Kasabian

Swan Lake - Madness

Beat The Clock - Sparks

Whip It! - Devo

Take You Back - The Pilots

Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

You Love Us - Manic Street Preachers

Tongue Behind My Teeth - The Staves

Don't Let Me Down - The Beatles

To Be Like - China Rats

Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys

New Year's Day - U2

Seek It - Richard Hawley

Burning Love - Elvis Presley

524 Fidelio - The Wedding Present

Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys

The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

Hotel California - The Eagles

Take Her Back - The Pigeon Detectives

Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed

Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club

Babies - Pulp

BAIBS Monday 5/11/12

Remember, remember something or other.

Interesting twitter chat with an American listener this morning after I asked American listeners to vote Obama for the sake of the planet. He basically told me it was none of my business and he wouldn't dream of telling me who to vote for in the upcoming Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

Two things:

One: The US election is everyone's business given their World Police tag. Romney's foreign policy makes Dubya look positively statesmanlike. He has an advisor, Richard Williamson, who has advocated Israel attacking Iran. With nuclear strikes if necessary. Well the new President doesn't take up office til January so if it is Romney at least we'll get one more Christmas. If I'm lucky I might squeeze a birthday in too. Just.

Two: How does a US citizen know about our Police and Crime Commissioner elections!? I know nothing about them! Though it looks to me that should we get another display of corruption shown by South Yorkshire and West Midlands police post Hillsborough they can just say 'Well, you voted for them.' I'm willing to admit my naivety on these elections. All I know is I've seen the adverts asking which crimes we'd like the police to target. Er, all of them perhaps?

Pleasant weekend had by your breakfast show host. Did the music at the Keepmoat for Rovers game on Saturday. I say 'did the music'. The erstwhile Mr. Rob Dannatt does all the work. I have 2 jobs. Check the volume levels which are always wrong. Too loud or too quite depending who you speak to, never just right. Goldilocks would hate it. And, press the button to play Tom Hark when Rovers score. I've been watching Rovers since September 1979 and it worries me that some fans seem to need to be told when to celebrate a goal. There was an instance last season when I forgot to press the button after we'd scored, I was too busy leaping around, and had several West Standees turning round with a what are you playing at look.Just celebrate the goal you fools!

Saturday night was Burlesque Night at Cask Corner and hugely enjoyable it was too. A massive thanks to Marc Jones at Cask, Reece Lightning for being too funny and of course all the performers for putting on such a stunning show. Oh and Reece's co-host was looking particularly stunning. No bias there at all.

Glad that DMBC pay attention! I mentioned last week about the chap blowing leaves off the path in Elmfield Park on a windy day. Well today they had two of them at it! Obviously Autumn is full on now so no half measures. Slight flaw in the plan was one blower clearing the path blowing leaves onto the grass, the other clearing the grass blowing leaves onto the, er, path. To give the chaps there dues they both had resigned we know we're p***ing in the wind looks.

Got stuck in a gate today. Pay attention Sheila. The gate at the Balby end of Hyde Park cemetery is a turnstile type affair. It's a squeeze. For someone my size (tall and let's say portly) it's a risk. With a rucksack on it's impossible. Got half way in then was jammed. The gate wouldn't move forward or back. As The 48ks say these marching feet were going nowhere. Whilst pondering another stupid death in the Saynor family (I'll tell you one day) an old woman came to the gate. Didn't say a word but quickly worked out my predicament. She looked like she'd seen it all before as she prodded me with her walking stick til the gate moved. I thanked her graciously and I'm sure she said 'it is a tight space'. In hindsight I think she said 'what a waste of space'.

So that's it for the day while I wait on Vaccines tickets and eat KitKats.

Quick shout out for Mark Kelly who quit smoking today. Catch him and Maddie on the Home Run Show. Got Ed Sheeran on tomorrow's show before his Dome gig!!

Laters

SS

Playlist Monday 5/11/12

Soul Man - Sam & Dave
Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
The Jean Genie - David Bowie
Tonight - Iggy Pop
Best Of Friends - Palma Violets
You Jane - The Wedding Present
Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
Spinning Plates - Middleman
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Right Now - Bang Bang Romeo
Whiskey In The Jar - Metallica
Afterglow - The Crookes
Slide Away - Oasis
Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay
Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
Broke Up The Family - The Milk
Kayleigh - Marillion
Razor Blade Alley - Madness
Fire - Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Fire - Kasabian
Baby I Love You - The Ramones
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys
Wishing (I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls
Tumblin Tears - Kiziah And The Kings
Walk On By - The Stranglers
Pelican - Maccabees
Summer Of 69 - Bryan Adams
Somewhere - The Pilots
Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
You Are The Sea - Feral Brood
Just - Radiohead
Never Fade Away - Spector
Hot In The City - Billy Idol
Mrs. Robinson - Simon And Garfunkel
Run Right Back - The Black Keys
This Is Real - The Enemy

BAIBS Friday 2/11/12

Kicking off with a rant. Doesn't hurt to vent your spleen occasionally, unless you literally have your spleen vented, that hurts like hell.

Had a complaint that I play too much local music. Let's look at the facts first. In a play list of getting on 40 songs on average I play 5 or 6 local bands. Hardly excessive. So maybe the the complaint should have been too much new music i.e. bands he's never heard of. OK maybe that takes us up to 10 or 12 tunes the complainant may not have heard before. Still not an excessive ratio. My edict is if it'd good it'd in. Bands from all over the country send me tracks. Some good, some not. Take a band like New Killer Shoes from Redditch. They sent me tracks just asking me to have a listen. It's quality stuff so gets played on air. It's received some excellent feedback from you guys. Off the back of this they are looking at getting a local gig knowing a, albeit small for now, fanbase is already in place. Fanbase. For bands that's what it's all about these days. Record companies no longer send out A and R men scouting for bands and offering 5 album deals. Bands have to graft and rely on word of mouth. If the show can facilitate that in any way then I'm happy to help and will continue to do so.

 The Beatles, The Stones, Who and Kinks. David Bowie, Queen, Led Zeppelin. Springsteen. The Clash and The Pistols. The Smiths. Madness. The Stone Roses. Nirvana. The Pixies. Oasis, Muse. Coldplay. etc etc. All these were once unheard 'local' bands. Everyone starts somewhere. In a pre-packaged, X-Factor world, where people want instant gratification, from microwave meals to 20/20 cricket it's more important than ever that the grafters get noticed.

 If just one person checks out Bang Bang Romeo, Famous Villains, The 48ks, The Pilots et al because of my show than I consider it a job well done.

Maybe I'm looking into this too much. After all the main purpose of the show is entertainment.

Footnote: The Pilots track Somewhere is featured on a national press release by published author Richard Pierce after hearing it on Sine FM. I had a tweet this morning thanking me for introducing them to the music of Bang Bang Romeo.

Rant over.

Interesting show this morning. I ate too much fudge. I realize that from these blogs it would appear I eat nothing but cake and sweets. Don't be deceived.  I like biscuits too.

3 hour twitter conversation with RP this morning ranging from raspberries and muffins which rapidly became an innuendo filled affair that could lead to a collaboration on the next great novel: 31 Shades Of Purple, to lining ourselves up in an early 20th century fantasy cricket team. You be Wilf, I'll be Victor. You had to be there.

Sine FM Towers to Hyde Park via Elmfield Park. Countless times I've walked that path and only today noticed it's not straight. It curves, which could explain the bin jumping out at me last Sunday night. Admittedly the chances that I was walking in a straight line are, well, nil. DMBC had someone blowing the leaves off the path today. Not vacuuming up, or sweeping into piles. Just blowing off the path. On a windy day. Took a photo for inclusion in an online dictionary for the entry Futile.

So the weekend beckons. Lie-ins. Maybe. Rovers Saturday afternoon, Burlesque show at Cask Corner Saturday night which the Cherry Blossom is comparing. Sleep Sunday. Back to it Monday.

Laters

SS

Play list Fri 2/11/12
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
We Wear Our Bones - Bang Bang Romeo
My Perfect Cousin - The Undertones
Teenage Icon - The Vaccines
Silver - Echo and the Bunnymen
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Valentine's Day - The 48ks
Special Brew - Bad Manners
Pretender To The Throne - Beautiful South
Seek It - Richard Hawley
Friday, I'm In Love - The Cure
(All I Want Is) Danger - The Milk
This Is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets
Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
Walking On The Sun - Smash Mouth
All Together Now - The Farm
Rock n Roll Star - Oasis
Roxette - Dr. Feelgood
Tequila - Terrorvision
Take Me Away - Steve Foster
Like A Dancer - The Enemy
I Still Believe - Frank Turner
Bubbles - Biffy Clyro
Silence Is Easy - Starsailor
If You Leave - OMD
Honey From A Knife - The Cult
Constant Craving - k.d. lang
Thousands Are Sailing - The Pogues
Breezeblocks - Alt-J
524 Fidelio - The Wedding Present
Drinking In L.A. - Bran Van 3000
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance - The Black Kids
Yes - McAlmont and Butler
Millionaires - Famous Villains
My Sharona - The Knack
Shotgun - Eugene - McGuinness
Poison Ivy - The Lambrettas
Apache - The Shadows
Going To Bed Doesn't Mean Going To Sleep - On The Waterfront
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
To Be Like - China Rats

BAIBS Thursday 1/11/12

Walking through a graveyard on Halloween? Yeah, why not. Hyde Park to Balby, quickest route through Hyde Park Cemetery so this is what I did yesterday. Somewhat unnervingly I stumbled, literally, across the gravestone of a certain Simon Saynor. OK, Simon's a reasonably common name and there's been Saynor's in the parish for many a year.

Saynor's bike shop used to be on Cleveland Street (now the YWCA) til Great-Great-Grandad Saynor sold up to a Mr. Barker who later went into business with a Mr. Wigfall.
In 1804 Albert Saynor of Docking Hill Road invented the porthole. There's even graffiti on the Roman wall near St. George's that reads 'Saynorus eunt herum'.

What was disturbing though was the inscription on the gravestone: 'Shuffled off this mortal boil November 1st 2012'. My first thought was 'that's an unfortunate slip of the chisel'. My second thought was 'bugger'. Actually I made that bit up. He died in 1845 (Quarter to seven in old money).

There's also a gravestone for a Fanny Fish. Don't think we need to dwell on that one.

So music quiz in the Tut last night. 10 questions on horror films? Nowt to do with music Mr. Johnson! I don't like horror films. They scare me. Still an enjoyable night that lead to a very blurry show this morning saved only by the appearance of a very splendid cupcake and Richard Pierce trying to assist me with my Norwegian pronunciation. Furuholmen as in Furuholmen. Never did get it.

Homemade muffins have just turned up next to me. My cue to go!

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 1/11/12
Munich - The Editors
Burn This City - Famous Villains
Break On Through - The Doors
By Your Hand - Los Campesinos
Balloons - Foals
Somewhere - The Pilots
Sound Of Guns - Antarctica
Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen
Freestyle - Unicorn Hunters
Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash
Rat In Mi Kitchen - UB40
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
F.E.A.R - Ian Brown
Smooth - New Killer Shoes
45 - Gaslight Anthem
Beach Day - Beach Day
Madness - Madness
Rise Up - The Skints
I Will Wait - Mumford and Sons
Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers
The Beat(en) Generation - The The
Making Plans For Nigel - XTC
Summer Of 69 - Bryan Adams
Best Of Friends - Palma Violets
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastice Bertrand
Rough Boy - ZZ Top
This Is Real - The Enemy
Take On Me - A-Ha
Jennifer - Little Comets
Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats
Let's Dance To Joy Division - Wombats
Truth Is - Levellers
Cabron - Red Hot Chili Peppers
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - Sparks
Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire
Ready To Die - Famous Villains
She Comes In Fall - Inspiral Carpets
To Be Like - China Rats