Yule Be Seeing Me / December 19 2008
It’s Christmas!
See you in two weeks; I’m having a break. I’m going to indulge myself with the finest wines and Belgian chocolate and dozens of sexy gorgeous women.
Yeah, right. (Well, you never know: there are other dimensions - Christmas Fantasy Ed.)
I’ll probably be sat in the Villager pub with Nelson trying to ignore the toothless [...]
Male Possessive / December 5 2008
‘The wife does all that for me, Steve.’
‘What, even when you haven’t washed it for a few weeks?’
‘Especially then.’ He pointed to his jeans and laughed. ‘I made her get out of bed at four o’clock this morning to iron these before I opened the shop.’
‘You don’t iron jeans, surely.’
‘No, she does.’ Mr Mishri pointed [...]
Jazz Band Mastering Marathon / October 15 2008
I have an attended mastering session booked in tomorrow.
A jazz band contacted me a few weeks ago wanting to come in to the studio and master an album of traditional swing numbers. They have stipulated it be an attended session and are adamant it will take three or four days.
Apparently there are about twenty tracks, [...]
Cale Concert / October 10 2008
I’ve treated myself to tickets for the Nico tribute concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London tomorrow which is being curated by legendary Velvet Underground member and iconic Welshman John Cale. I’m really looking forward to it.
I have met Cale a couple of times – we used to share the same UK publicist – [...]
Lisa’s Online / September 26 2008
I have always wanted – for some unfathomable reason known only to my subconscious mind – to write a pop song that was under a minute long. I have achieved this task to my satisfaction with brand new composition Moaning Lisa.
I have just done a quick recording of it in the studio and I’m so [...]
Galaxy Casts Off In Podcast Blast-Off / September 12 2008
While Nelson was here, we finished work on his mini-album Half Nelson which Big Arena Records will be releasing shortly.
To say the songs on the album were recorded with just two acoustic guitars, they sound unexpectedly big and powerful, intense and full of passion; but at the same time the whole thing is sad and [...]
Cosy Power - In Which Davy Lawrence Finally Loses The Will To Live / August 29 2008
The day I have been dreading for ages has arrived. Reg has been hard at work practicing on his new drum kit and wants to book into the studio to record some ‘hot tracks’.
As Audrey and I were passing his house this morning, he erupted from his front door and pulled us inside. The interior [...]
All That Glitters / August 24 2008
As I was passing the recycling bins in the car park of the Co-op - that comically provincial supermarket full of half-price frozen fagots-in-gravy and Aunt Bessie’s Traditional Yorkshire Puddings - I spotted Reg, who was emptying bags of what looked like CDs into one of them. ‘Getting rid of all the crap,’ he commented.
‘I [...]
Cherry Outburst / August 22 2008
What is that constant ridiculous sound in the background of the Verve’s new single Love Is Noise? It sounds like a herd of geese. It makes Audrey bark like some kind of crazy female madman every time it is played on XFM. It ruins what is otherwise quite an average song.
Actually, I would rather like [...]
Hip Hop Pensioner Turns Blue / August 10 2008
‘Reg, I’m sorry if I upset you the other day.’ I felt so bad, I had gone round to my elderly friend’s - the erstwhile alien abductee’s – house to apologise for being so rude to him.
He told me not to worry about it. ‘Anyway, what do you reckon, eh?’
‘What’s that, Reginald?’
‘I’ve bought a drumkit! [...]
