WEEKLY PLAYLIST

LIVE PLAYLIST 1 Warrior in Woolworths (live) – X-ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents (extended) Sweet Jane (live) – The Velvet Underground – Classic velvet Underground If Rah (live) – Underworld -Live at Summer sonic 2016 I Want to Live – This Mortal coil – This Mortal Coil boxset Live the Life – The Twang –

CRACKED ACTOR

The curtains slowly drew together and as the stage lights began to fade and the audience began to clap… He lifted the gun in his hand and fired! The shot rang around the auditorium and the claps were frozen in an almighty gasp. The lights came up. The curtains opened. The crowd roared and stood

STRUMMING MY FINGERS

This will not do my little one, Sitting on a razor blade between hope and anguish! Come let us see you my precious, My special one, We have walked hand in hand In the forest of dreams, You all full of questions And I am slow of  answers. Now you are slow to show, And

NEXT

At two inducement, And then you wait, wait and see. Amy, it will be fine. It will be fine, Dale, Just you wait and wait and see, It will be fine… Dale. Nervous tension tight, Butterfly belly rumbles, Just make it so please.

RUSH

This little one is all of a rush desperate to be out and about to meet and greet her nearest, Her dearest family… All agog and yet ready to rise to the challenge To surround her with love and sustenance.   Too soon she will be here And all things will change Perspective modified, By

RACE

460 MILES 9 HOUR DRIVE VAN FULL OF BELONGINGS DAUGHTER SAFELY HOME COST:PRICELESS HOPING THAT EVERYTHING IS OK. AMY GONE STRAIGHT TO MATERNITY TO MONITOR THAT HER PREGNANCY IS GOING OK. WORRIED BUT HOPING.  

ONE-MAN BAND

Making music with two tape recorders as a kid, layering up a naive multi-track, with my Les Paul Copy And Marie’s acoustic… And my vocal strained through a built-in mic… a wicker wear washing basket beaten with wooden spoons, providing paltry percussion. And thirty years later with my ejay system, and my cool pro sampler,

MY TOP TEN : SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES SONGS

10. Mittageisen (METAL POSTCARD) 9. RED LIGHT 8. SUBURBAN RELAPSE 7. PLACEBO EFFECT 6. PREMATURE BURIAL 5. TENANT 4. PARADISE PLACE 3. NIGHTSHIFT 2. MELT! 1. ISRAEL Quite arbitrary list, all songs i’ve seen performed live, which is why rhapsody and lullaby didn’t make the cut. I saw the Banshees five times between 1978 –

TOAD

when I was nine, I had a pet toad. I’d found him up in near the frog pond at the top of the lane. He had been hiding under a rock, and knowing where they hid, I found him and took him home in my pocket. I made him a home in a small goldfish

THE WAIT

HAIKU NO.4 THE WAIT Drumming cold fingers, trying not to think at all, you wait for the call.