BAIBS Friday 15/02/13

Another late blog. Had a day out yesterday and, well to be honest, couldn't be arsed to blog when we got in. More of that later.

New readers in Peru and the Isle Of Man. (Is that you Miss Smith)? Oh and Sint-Maarten. I had to google that one. It's the Dutch half of the Caribbean Island Saint Martin. Whoever you are if you want to invite me over please do cos it looks like this:

So ended up on The Road To Hull yesterday. Hull's an odd place. I had the, I'm gonna use the word pleasure, of living there from 1996 to 1998. The city centre's beautiful and it's a great night out. Sunday nights in the old town are some of the best nights out I've ever had. It's when you get out of the centre it all gets a bit odd. The less said the better probably. As one local said to me 'We're at the end of a line that no-one comes down,'

Hull has a lot to be proud of. Stood up to Charles I when he wanted to enter the city and was a major parliamentarian player in the civil war. Home of MP William Wilberforce who played a key role in the abolition of the slave trade. And birthplace of the legendary Mick Ronson - guitarist with the Spiders From Mars. A guy who worked with virtually everyone worth mentioning in the 70s and 80s. When I lived in Hull it staggered me how many locals knew none of these facts. Apart from white phone boxes and The Beautiful South they didn't seem to know much about their own city. There was briefly a Mick Ronson Memorial Stage in Queen's Gardens which not many knew about and now isn't there! Was horrified yesterday when I couldn't find it.

But it occurred to me as I gave Cherry Blossom a brief historical tour of Hull yesterday that people just don't seem to know the history of their home town? I'm probably as guilty as anyone when it comes to the history of Donny. Racecourse, Mallard, Flying Scotsman etc, Keegan, pits, Mansion House but that's all I really know about. My mission this year is to learn more about my town. I think everyone should. Admittedly if it turns out that the Racecourse, Mallard etc is all we've got I'm gonna be very disappointed!

Went to The Deep yesterday and stared at fish as they stared back. Got the impression that all the other fish were talking about the swordfish behind his back. 'Look at him with that thing. Thinks he looks hard as but he just looks a twonk. And he can't drink without using a straw.' And I spent far too long looking for a slug.

So it's the weekend. Epworth tonight for my good friend Steve Dale's birthday. Steve's the guitarist in The 48ks and arguably the best lead guitar in Donny. He just needs to realise that. I'm not gonna tell him though.

Not not Tom Harking this weekend. Rovers away at Crawley on Monday night. Live on Sky. Rovers who have come so close to topping the table could be fourth come kick off on Monday. (Would have been fifth but Tranmere lost again last night). Again on Tuesday night Rovers were briefly top only for us to fail to beat MK Dons and see Bournemouth leapfrog both us and Tranmere to go top. It's a tight division. 4 points separate the top 7 teams.

Gotta go cos some bugger keeps drinking my coffee. I think it's me.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 15/02/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack

Post Break Up Sex - The Vaccines

The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones

Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order

Somewhere - The Pilots

Like A Fox - Me

Babooshka - Kate Bush

Market Square Heroes - Marilllion

Enola Gay - OMD (for Steve 'Interesting' Keld)

Feel About You - The 48ks

Front Row - The Fallows

All Together Now - The Farm

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths

How It Ended - The Drums

Underdog - Kasabian

Adore Me Dear - Bang Bang Romeo

Recover - Dexters

Here Comes Your Man - Pixies

It Doesn't Have To Be This Way - The Blow Monkeys

The Changingman - Paul Weller

Victims - Culture Club

Talking Woman Blues - Avit

Hold Me - Tom Odell

Men's Needs - The Cribs

Stay - Rita Payne

Johnny Too Bad - UB40

Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones

We Know Who U R - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Smooth - New Killer Shoes

The Doors Of Then - Tim Burgess

The Caterpillar - The Cure

It Starts And Ends With You - Suede

The Distance - Funeral For A Friend

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

45 - The Gaslight Anthem

London Calling - The Clash

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

Elysium - Section 60 (for Patricia Saynor)

BAIBS Thursday 14/02/13

It's snowing! Didn't need facebook this time. My phone has it's snowman feature on to let me know. Only problem with this is it's not snowing. The snowman's been a permanent fixture on my phone for the last five days, apart from yesterday when it was snowing. Cloudy with sunny intervals according to my phone.

It's systematic of the current relationship I'm having with the phone. I missed the show yesterday due to my alarm not going off. Now my phone insists it did go off and I just slept through it. Neither of us is budging on this and our relationship has stooped to mutual mistrust. Don't think we'll ever get it back. On Valentine's Day too. So sad.

I have to admit I caved in to the Valentine's thing. Was always gonna play a song on the radio for Cherry Blossom but did the whole card and chocolates thing too. Just as well. Had a boatload of heart shaped shortbread covered in chocolate waiting for me when I got in. The guilt if I hadn't bought owt might almost have stopped me eating them. Oh and CB got me Kate Bush for Valentine's as well. Now that is love!

Had the pleasure of Mr. Mark Kelly's company on today's show. As I've said before we do like a gossip. So much so that I played about ten less songs than I normally would because of us yapping. Fun though. And I think we nailed the intro to Kraftwerk's The Model.

I do miss having a co-host to bounce off. And believe me there's no-one more bouncy than Mark. It's not as easy as just putting two people in the same room though. There has to be a connection. Me and Mark get each other even though he's wrong about so many things. He's a Wednesday fan for a start. At the same time though I also like being my own boss and playing what I want. As I said to someone on twitter last year if you want Bieber played get your own radio show.

Gotta dash. Shortbread to eat. Tomorrow's blog could be a late one. Having a day out. No idea where. North is all I've been told.

Good.

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 14/02/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Valentine's Day - The 48ks

It Must Be Love - Madness

Bring On The Dancing Horses - Echo And The Bunnymen

I Only Wanna Be With You - The Tourists

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

Please Don't Touch - Motorhead/Girlschool

Spinning Plates - Middleman

Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns 'n' Roses

What Will You Do - The Virelais

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers

All Or Nothing - Small Faces

Why You Looking Back Down - You Addiction

Is This Our Day In The Sunshine - Section 60

Days Are Forgotten - Kasabian

Clash City Rockers - The Clash

By Your Hand - Los Campesinos

Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros

Upstarts - Johnny Marr

Bats - The Darlingtons

Solid Bond In Your Heart - The Style Council

If - The Divine Comedy

Rock 'n' Roll Star - Oasis

Up The Junction - Squeeze

The Model - Kraftwerk

My Sharona - The Knack

Never Fade Away - Spector

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

It Starts And Ends With You - Suede

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Tuesday 12/02/13

It's a week of being told what to do, or at least what we can do. I hate being told what to do. My Mum always maintained the worst way to try and get me to do anything was to tell me to do it. It's true.

So it's pancake day today. We can eat pancakes should we wish. Sod off. I'll eat pancakes whenever I want. And Valentine's Day on Thursday. You MUST tell you're loved one you love them. All the card manufacturers insist on it. If you need a special day to tell someone you love them then there's something very wrong. I know everything's commercialized now, Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day etc but Valentine's winds me up more than any of them. Admittedly this week of the year is a bad one for me personally so that may have a lot to do with it.

Got accused recently of being a grumpy old man and reading that last paragraph back I can see why. Personally I think it's more that people hit a certain age and refuse to 'go gentle into that good night.'

It's also possible that 9 days and 3 hours without a cigarette is having an effect.

So Tom Harking without Tom Hark at the Keepmoat tonight. Rovers' much talked about game in hand against MK Dons - the team that shouldn't exist. A chance to go top for what feels like the 4th time in recent weeks. Everyone, including Rovers keep slipping up. We were top briefly when we played Leyton Orient and again when we played Walsall only to be 2nd on goal difference after 90 minutes. Seem to have been 2nd on goal difference for months now. Basically tonight a win sees us go top, a draw will do if Bournemouth don't win at Crewe.

Cherry Blossom's home with dropped cakes and I need to send a begging email to Kasabian. Time to go.

Laters

SS

Playlist Tuesday 12/02/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

The Elephants' Graveyard - The Boomtown Rats

Lonely Boy - The Black Keys

Chipping Away - Middleman

Broke Up The Family - The Milk

My Best Friend's Girl - The Cars

Adultery - Little Comets

Girlfriend In A Coma - The Smiths

Kennedy - The Wedding Present

Goodbye Kiss - Kasabian

Chemicals - Various Cruelties

Burn This City - Famous Villains

Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse

After Hours - We Are Scientists

I Wish I Was Someone Better - Blood Red Shoes

No One's Gonna Love You - Band Of Horses

No More Heroes - The Stranglers

Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives

Velouria - Pixies

I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys

Geraldine - Glasvegas

Club Foot - Kasabian

The Wrestler - Reverend And The Makers

Just To See You Run - Bang Bang Romeo

Leather Jacket Love Song - The Cribs

Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley

Wetsuit - The Vaccines

Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes

I Will Wait - Mumford And Sons

Sitting On My Own - The 48ks

Inhaler - Foals

Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones

Riders On The Storm - The Doors

Break On Through (To The Other Side) - The Doors

Pinch Me - Barenaked Ladies

Here It Goes Again - OK Go

When Doves Cry - Prince

Freakin' Out - Graham Coxon

Animal - The Pigeon Detectives

Going Underground - The Jam

What You Do To Me - Teenage Fanclub

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Monday 11/02/13

Suddenly got a lot of Russian readers. Maybe I should see if BAIBS means something in Russian. Something to do with tractors possibly.

As we know I'm a proud pedestrian. Admittedly circumstances rather than choice dictate my pedestrian status but still, I'm sticking with the proud pedestrian tag. We're a special breed. No government pavement code for us. No Pedestrian Proficiency Test. We are the anarchists of the getting from A to B world. Check out Anarchy In The UK - 'I give the wrong time, stop a traffic line.' Pure pedestrianism at it's best.

Quick footnote here. The worst live musical experience I ever had involved Anarchy In The UK.

 Mel B/C*

*delete as applicable, which ever one is the loud scouse one. Her. That's who I'm on about.

was the special surprise guest at V99 . She did a woeful version of Anarchy which included the line, 'I am the anti-christ. I am a sporty spice.' I kid you not.

Anyway, I digress. As I've talked about before the perfect pedestrian world is become increasingly infiltrated by the cyclist. More and more have taken to the pavements. No consultation with pedestrians first. It's an aggressive takeover bid. There's a narrow bit of pavement on Balby Road, just wide enough for 2 people to pass. Walking down there this morning and a woman with a double pushchair was coming the other way. I leaned against a wall to let her pass. She gave the standard apologetic, grateful smile, as is the unwritten pedestrian code, only for a cyclist to come charging from behind me screaming, 'Coming through.' He wasn't because there wasn't enough space for which he blamed the woman with the pushchair. A bit of a Mexican stand off took place before he realized all he could do was wheel his bike backwards til the path widened, cursing all the time.

Now I've tried cycling on the road and it's treacherous but it doesn't give cyclists the right to invade our paths and make walking treacherous too. More cycle lanes is the answer. I'll put it to our English Democrat mayor. SORRY, he's independent now. I'd forgot. Yes too many BNP joining the English Democrats for his liking. Didn't seem to mind when it would appear it was the BNP second vote that got him elected. There's an election due. Purely coincidence that he's left what is basically the BNP Light Party I'm sure. The word loathsome is wheeling round my head.

Now that's what I call a tangent.

So a mixed weekend. Rovers again failed to take advantage of other teams slipping up. On Saturday we looked scared to actually go top. Try again tomorrow night. Have to say League One is a poor division this season. No-one seemed to mind no goal music. Good. As I've said before we have a major problem if Rovers' fans need to be told when to celebrate.

Excellent gig Saturday night at The Flying Childers. Sine FM's Pete Liversidge's new covers bans No Folkin' Around were playing. Possibly the most diverse band I've seen with covers ranging from The Everley Brothers to the Foo Fighters and every genre and era in between, all with an acoustic, folky bent. Well worth checking out. They could tie-up the club scene quite nicely.

Ably supported by Donny legend Beast and the ridiculously talented James Taplin it was a good night all round.

Well 1 week, 1 day and 4 hours without a cigarette. I'm on 60 carrot sticks a day though.

Laters

SS

Playlist Monday 11/02/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Never Fade Away - Spector

Love Her Madly - The Doors

Love Train - The O'Jays

Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

Second, Minute, Hour - Jack Penate

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

My Hero - Foo Fighters

Somewhere - The Pilots

This Is Real - The Enemy

It's Yer Money I'm After Baby - The Wonderstuff

Hey There Delilah - Plain White Ts

Transmission - Joy Division

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

Dancing Makes Her Happy - Jery At Controls

Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

Tempted - Squeeze

My Number - Foals

North Country Boy - The Charlatans

Enola Gay - OMD

Talk Of The Town - The Pretenders

Don't Know Why - The Beeds

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

Fortune Teller - The 48ks

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

You Jane - The Wedding Present

To Be Like - China Rats

Give It Up - KC And The Sunshine Band

Shoot The Runner - Kasabian

Smooth - New Killer Shoes

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Next Year - Two Door Cinema Club

Tommy Gun - The Clash

On My Radio - The Selecter

Pictures Of You - The Cure

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

Another Girl Another Planet - The Only Ones

All Day And All The Night - The Kinks

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Friday 08/02/13

Add Peru and Kazakhstan to the list.

First blog in a while. I've been ill. This not smoking lark is killing me! As someone pointed out though being ill doesn't stop me blogging. But the blog was always meant to be linked to the radio show. The main reason I started was because of people asking ,me what a certain song I played was. I never know. I play a lot of songs and rarely remember what I've played. They do all get written down for PRS purposes but I've seen my writing. It's shocking. I can make no sense of it at all. So this blog is inherently linked with the radio show: No show, no blog.

There's also the fact that most of my blogs are just observational stuff so given I've done little for the last three days the blogs wouldn't amount to much. 'Laid on sofa and watched a Big Bang Theory I've only seen four times. Had a scotch egg. Regretted it.' You see my point.

Plus like I said. I've been ill. There's certain things from the last three days you just don't want to know about.

Back to the gym today and had a reminder what I dislike about gyms. I don't dislike exercise but I've always preferred playing sports. I'll happily spend an hour in the gym with some good tunes though. (12 Dirty Bullets work particularly well). Today was excellent. It was full of fat and/or old people. I fitted in nicely. Apart from one, I believe the term is, gym bunny. When I walked in the changing room he was there, weighing out his protein shake thing. He'd actually bought scales. Did a big show of mixing it up with his little cocktail type shaker, lots of flexing, all in front of the mirror. Now I know I can be obsessive (music, football, cricket, maps! - show me a good stat and you've lost me for days) so I shouldn't mock him for taking what he does seriously. But I'm gonna. Purely for this next bit.

Two of the most astounding sentences ever. First he looked at a rather large gentleman getting changed and, without leaving his beloved mirror once, said to me, 'Look at the state of that.' I was horrified. Maybe he should join a gym I replied. It was hugely gratifying that he agreed with me then did the classic comedic penny dropping face. His reaction to this: 'They shouldn't let fat people in the gym.' Priceless. I left him kissing his muscles. They seemed very happy together.

So a busy weekend beckons. Sheffield tonight to see the brilliant Section 60. A truly quality indie band. I'm hoping tonight I'll see one of them smile on stage.

Tomorrow is, what I'm gonna call. a no Tom Harking Tom Harking day. Rovers at home to Walsall but as mentioned in a previous blog we're not doing goal music anymore. Good. I'll let you know how that works out.

Saturday night is The Flying Childers (I had the flying childers once. Winter of '84. Very nasty) to see my mate Pete Liversidge's new band, No Folkin' Around, supported by the immensely talented James Taplin and the irrepressible Beast. Should be a good un.

Enough. Time for a carrot stick.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 08/02/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Baby Don't Cry - INXS

I Always Knew - The Vaccines

Ceremony - New Order

The Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - The Flaming Lips

Made Of Stone - The Stone Roses

Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones

Elysium - Section 60

New Natives - Jim Lockey And The Solemn Sun

Lose Control - Courteeners

Fortune Teller - The 48ks

Naive - The Kooks

Silver - Echo And The Bunnymen

She Comes In Fall - Inspiral Carpets

Upstarts - Johnny Marr

Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

Shot By Both Sides - Magazine

Rock Lobster - The B52s

Stingin' Belle - Biffy Clyro

Can't Stand Losing You - The Police

Hold The Magic - Officer Kicks

Animal - The Pigeon Detectives 

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant

A Heart That You Can Borrow - Ian McNabb

Heroes - David Bowie

Chevy Thunder - Spector

That's Entertainment - The Jam

Tumblin' Tears - Kiziah And The Kings

Alright - The Subways

A-Punk - Vampire Weekend

Skinhead Moonstomp - Syrammip

Local Boy In The Photograph - Stereophonics

Runaway - Del Shannon

(White Man In) Hammersmith Palais - The Clash

Beat The Clock - Sparks

Jack And Diane - John Mellencamp

Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club

Place Your Hands - Reef

Panic - The Smiths

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Monday 04/02/13

Add Honduras and Argentina to the readership. Only need some African readers to have fingers in every continent. Sausage fingers?

Latish blog today. Did that gym thing again. Feel free to slap me if I start talking about reps. I just wanna fit in my jeans again. Interesting how some bands are better to work out to than others. Ramones worked a treat but ultimately nearly killed me. They just don't do slow.

Went to my mate Ian's after the gym to help him fix his fence. There's so many problems with that I'm not sure where to begin. As we know I'm technically inept so I was there purely for lifting duties. Why two supposedly intelligent blokes thought walking round a garden with a five foot fence panel in 20 mph winds was a good idea I don't know. If we hadn't let go we'd be sailing somewhere over Filey by now.

Had a kinda distracted feeling all day.

Still have.

You can tell can't you. I'm putting it down to 30 hours without a cigarette. Not that I'm counting or anything!

Who's Band Is It Anyway?

I got to thinking of this when Wilko Johnson announced his farewell tour after being tragically diagnosed with cancer. Wilko of course was the guitarist and co-founder of Dr. Feelgood and to a lot of fans will always be synonymous with Feelgood. But he left in 1977 after 3 albums. In 1981 bassist John B. Sparks and drummer John Martin (The Big Figure) left. Singer Lee Brilleaux carried on with, after a few line up changes, PH Mitchell (bass), Gordon Russell then Steve Walwyn (guitar) and Kevin Morris (drums) until Brilleaux's death in 1994. The band carried on (at Brilleaux's insistence) with first Pete Gage and then Robert Kane on vocals. The Kane/Walwyn/Mitchell/Morris line-up still tours as Dr. Feelgood. Is this Dr. Feelgood? To many fans Dr. Feelgood are Brilleaux/Johnson/Sparks/Martin and always will be even though the current incarnation is the one that's been together the longest. I saw the 1986 version of Feelgood and even with Brilleaux singing it didn't feel like I'd seen Dr. Feelgood. I guess it's up to the band members although famously it can get messy.

At the moment 2 versions of The J. Geils Band are (attempting) to tour the states. One is J. Geils himself with a new band, the other is the remaining members of the original J. Geils Band. They are waiting for a judge to decide who hast the right to the band name before they carry on. It's staggering though that J. Geils may in effect have no rights to his own name.

Fleetwood Mac have just announced the 'Reunion' tour dates for the UK this year. No Christine McVie. Not really a reunion then is it? Or a full reunion anyway. And we could throw Peter Green into the equation and really mix it up.

Obviously some members of bands are more replaceable than others.  There's probably a pecking order:

Singer
Lead Guitarist
Second Guitarist
Bassist
Keyboards
Drummer (unless your Charlie Watts)

Sting and Phil Lynott overcame being 4th on the list by being singing bassists. Saying that Thin Lizzy have only just retired that name.

Status Quo fans are inordinately excited about the original line up doing 8 dates this year (I've got my ticket). Original bassist Alan Lancaster was in the band 24 years before he left. Replacement bassist Rhino Edwards is entering his 27th year with the band. Who's Quo's bassist?

There are a stack of examples of line-up changes that could be discussed here (Madness, Beautiful South, Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Big Country, The Cure, The Waterboys, The Wedding Present etc etc) but we'd be here all day and I've got to go plan a show and not think about cigarettes. To be continued methinks.

Laters

SS

Playlist Monday 04/02/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem

Two Doors Down - Mystery Jets

(All I Wanted Was) Danger - The Milk

Ride - The Vines

Animal - The Pigeon Detectives

Westward Backwards - Me

Molly Gray - The DN All*Stars

Honky Tonk Woman - The Rolling Stones

Follow Me - Muse

A Town Called Malice - The Jam

Bikini Girls With Machine Guns - The Cramps

Reward - The Teardrop Explodes

Everything - The Darlingtons

Close To Me - The Cure

The Distance - Funeral For A Friend

Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club

One Step Beyond - Madness

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

Elysium - Section 60

Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads

54-46 Was My Number - Toots And Maytals

Lead The Way - The 48ks

Like A Dancer - The Enemy

Sit Down - James

The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

The Pretender - Foo Fighters

That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly

Monster - The Automatic

Do Nothing - The Specials

Balloons - Foals

Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers

American Skin (41 Shots) - Bruce Springsteen

Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

Adultery - Little Comets

Leather Jacket Love Song - The Cribs

I Fought The Law - The Clash

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Friday 01/02/13

Feedback. That's what we like. Thanks to Chris Page and my brother, Niall, for their pear-shaped comments. I mean comments about yesterday's blog, not that their comments were pear-shaped. 

It would seem that the phrase it's all gone pear-shaped stems from RAF pilots who when training combat manoeuvres had to learn how to do loops and when it went wrong the loop appeared pear shaped. Thank my brother for that little tit-bit.

And as we all know the world isn't round but is an oblate spheroid. Kinda like a sat on beach ball. But (and I know my grammar's all over the place here) because of the speed the Earth spins at, and the non-uniformity of the land, there is a bulge just south of the equator. So it could be deemed pear shaped. Or piriform if you prefer. Ish. (See Chris' comment on yesterday's blog).

Today's walking home shenanigans: (Oh, my typing. That said walking gnome shenanigans at first. Think I prefer that). Some bloke walked straight into me as he left a shop on Scot Lane. Not my fault but t'was he who said, 'Why don't you look where you're going?' I pointed out the error of his ways to which he gestured at my iPod earphones and in all seriousness said, 'If you didn't have them things blaring in your ears maybe you'd see where you were going.' A piece of logic totally above my mental capabilities. Hat's off sir.

Twonk.

Well I've been wittering on about my increasing girth and general unhealthiness enough. In the words of Secret Affair this is a time for action. I've joined a gym for the first time in my life. Was surprised to find out that a cross trainer is not a Peter Reid type football coach. And I've designated the packet of fags on the table as 'last packet.' There have been many last packets in my life. Hopefully this packet means it. I'm not going all health foody though and to prove this there's a crisp sandwich next to the last packet. Plus I don't like veg. It's evil stuff. Everyone goes on about the effects of eating sprouts but to me they smell that bad when they're boiling. Nothing that produces such an horrific odour can possibly be good for you.

So not much planned this weekend. Gonna finally sort my cds out. For someone who loves music so much I don't half abuse my cds. Sunday I'm taking my kids out for lunch and making my gym debut. Not sure in what order yet.

OK, I'm off to google piriform.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 01/02/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Kings For The Weekend - Missing Andy

Heatwave - Martha Reeves And The Vandellas

One Drop - Public Image Limited

I Got Love - The King Blues

Right Now - Bang Bang Romeo

Time To Pretend - MGMT

Space Oddity - David Bowie

Teenage Icon - The Vaccines

Along For The Ride - The Avit Blues Band

Clash City Rockers - The Clash

Sally Cinnamon - The Stone Roses

To Be Like - China Rats

Hysteria - Muse

Hold On - Don Broco

Permanent - Section 60

The Distance - Funeral For A Friend 

L.A.Woman - The Doors

Supersonic - Oasis

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

Roses In The Hospital - Manic street Preachers

Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club

Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads

Love Is A Wonderful Colour - The Icicle Works

Feeling Good - Nina Simone

Stay - Rita Payne

Top Of The Pops - The Rezillos

Hey Ho - The Beeds

One Way Trigger - The Strokes

Is Vic There? - Department S

You're The Boss - Cud

Big Sur - The Thrills

Tongue Behind My Teeth - The Staves

Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Antmusic - Adam And The Ants

Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers