as i walked down Oxford Street this morning listening to XFM they announced that they were opening the Virgin Megastore early this morning to launch the Twisted X – Born In England football song.
so i popped in and did a teeny weeny interview and bought the single.
i’m not really a football fan or a single buyer, but i do like the song (and love the B-side).
here is a bus and a david beckham lookalike.
DJ Christian O’Connell:
the single:
today i have been mostly listening to this. it brings a tear to the eye.
i’ve found this question really difficult to answer as i have so much stuff which i really enjoy but there’s nothing i would be absolutely gutted if i lost.
so, in the end i decided to give you a picture of my bass guitar for no other reason than i’ve had it for ages and it’s a nice red colour.
20 questions
Our friends’ bands Pure Reason Revolution have their debut single out this week. it’s most excellent.
They are on Poptones which is Alan Magee of Creation records label.
here are some CDs and vinyl in Virgin Records on Oxford Street:
and here’s the second song: Skin In My Bin MP3 (386KB).
it’s a story of a man who loves a woman too much with a catchy singalong chorus
i promised that if you didn’t provide any good suggestions i’d give you some music from when i was a poor student. the poverty was not just financial, it related to talent too.
so here’s the first one: Good Looking MP3 (845KB)
It’s some old folk set to music. back then i had very long hair, but i don’t think i looked too much like a girl.
here is a photo of my stylophone. the ‘styl’ was a play on words referring to the electronic ‘stylus’ pen you use to play the instrument. today it could stand for ‘style’ of course.
My instrument was played and signed by Rolf Harris himself. Click on the pictures for a proper look.
if you get a chance to see spiritualized then go ! Jane and I saw them at Reading University this evening and they were amazing.
of course we all know that any decent kids TV program entertains both kids and parents. i’ve been watching CBeebies with esther and kezia this morning whilst jane has been mucking out horses.
at one point in the Fimbles, Bessie said to the fluffy thing called Ribble ‘Ribble, Ribble, your face is a mess’. Kids were amused and Bowie fans were amazed ! I love things like that !
i get a number of visitors to this website who are looking for Pop Idol information. I come second in Google if you do a search for ‘junior pop idol‘ for example.
this morning, i saw the pop idol bus asking us to ‘Vote Mark’. If i’d thought about it i should have knocked on the door and said “is mark in”, but i didn’t.
who is mark ? should he win ? i dunno nothing.
update: about 4 hours later i saw the bus again and this time they were giving out bars of chocolate. still no sign of mark (still no idea who he is).
following comments on my original Pop Idol post, i sent an email to the production coordinator of Pop Idol saying “can you tell me if there is going to be a kids pop idol at any time in the future on British TV ?”.
here is the response:
i love 6music. i listen to it lots. i am on their announcement mailing list. so are hundreds or thousands of others.
they must have changed their email address settings because this afternoon i’ve received about 20 out of office replies from other people on the list and they are still coming in fast and furious.
i’m very tempted to send an email to the mailing list (which is now an exploding mailing list) and spam them all about the blog ! Or maybe I could sell the list name to a notorious spammer for a pile of modern money.
(After announcing the URL at my presentation yesterday I did spot a jump in viewing figures to the site – and 6 people downloaded the presentation [but one of those could have been me]).
it’s fascinating the different types of out of office messages people have
here are a few extracts:
i saw a repeat of a fantastic documentary on the BBC Radiophonics workshop last night (i think it was on terrestial TV when i was in stockholm). Most excellent.
Watch the clip called Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO
BBC – BBC Four Music – Alchemists of Sound
Arab Strap were most excellent. A bit like the Tindersticks meets to the Pogues. The venue, Debaser, was excellent too. Wish i’d been there instead of the ‘stuck-in-the-80s-michael-jackson’ place i went to saturday night. oh well
set list:
arab strap are playing in stockholm tomorrow night at a place called debaser which i think is about 15 mins walk from the hotel. hoorah. doors at 8pm if you are interested in joining me there.
as you know we lost the entire site a few days ago and i’ve been gradually rebuilding the various sites i run. on the way i found some real gems.
here is a pop video for a song i wrote. the video features me dressed as Edwin Tidyface and my friend Paul dressed as Rudolf Leider. It was recorded back in 1993ish. a good year for pop videos. Read more about Paul here
High Quality (11,497KB)
Low Quality (2,271KB)
(apologies for download size – the term ‘quality’ refers to the technical quality of the encoding and NOT the quality of the content !)
i had a good bass sound and volume this morning. i took a photo to remind me of my settings:
The amp is a peavey amp. the logo makes it look like ‘pervey’.
