Enormous Collision / September 5 2008
Nelson Galaxy and I are doing family things for a few days so I plan to take a little time off from blogging - amongst other things. I’ll be back next week.
Until then, allow me to remind you that tickets are still available for the Enormous gig with 80s popsters B-Movie at the Town Mill […]
Hendrix In Nottingham / September 4 2008
I was in Nottingham yesterday buying some Doc Martens when I noticed a heavily tattooed man cleaning the big front windows of Debenhams department store in Slab Square. It was none other than disgusting punk troubadour Hendrix Sikboy.
Dressed in black leather and sporting a huge peroxide hairdo, he was shouting the lyrics to the Sex […]
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! […]
Atomic Dandy Actor Ham Chants Damned Ballads Badly / August 8 2008
My struggling actor friend has formed a band – Hamilton Bentley and The Jesus Robots – and has just asked me to produce their first single.
‘I never imagined you as a singer, Ham,’ I laughed.
‘Wonderful, isn’t it!’ He flopped on to the leather sofa in the control room with a loud thump. ‘The idea hit […]
Ringing The Changes / August 4 2008
‘We’ve changed our name again!’ Punk drummer Sonny Starr rang me from Paris last night. ‘We are now called The Ringtones.’
‘Brilliant name, Sonny,’ I told him, ‘but you’re still not coming in the studio.’
‘But listen, Davy man: Hendrix, the singer, right? – he’s having a sex change in October.’
‘. . .’
Makes you wonder how far […]
Daily Mirror / July 20 2008
I am really growing to hate the mirror in my bathroom.
I stare into it every morning, preparing for my shave, and the things I notice most are the lines around my eyes. I am not very old, but it seems as if my flesh is dying on me. Every day there is another unwelcome wrinkle […]
Bass Player Acquired / July 11 2008
I have an announcement to make:
Enormous now have a bass player. Yay!
His name is Steve.
During the rehearsal on Saturday, which was, in effect, an audition, it took only ten minutes and a quick run-through of That Girl Again and Let’s Run Away Together for Graham, Ash, Paul and me to realise that he was the […]
Mood Swings and Elevators / June 15 2008
Punk drummer Sonny Starr paid the studio a visit yesterday. I was incredibly busy as usual and did not have the time to pay him much attention or to patronise him in the way to which he has become accustomed.
After he’d finished telling me about how he’d had a ‘right good blow-job’ from a member […]
Avon Calling / May 12 2008
I have just been invited by Sonny Starr via a late-night telephone conversation (I was actually in bed – early riser me, I need my beauty sleep) to play guitar on the new Dysons album and European tour. I declined the offer.
‘It’s a turgid dirge, Sonny,’ I explained when he asked me why I wouldn’t […]
