If you don’t ask, you don’t get…
We asked and we got…
My previous Aberystwyth encounters were playing twice at the University with 4Q, once in 1989 to a packed out house with U Thant, Fflaps, Byd Afiach and the second time to an empty house for a Hunt Saboteurs Benefit with the excellent Mavis Riley Experience and some free hash cakes that made the journey back to Colwyn Bay a very colourful one!
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‘Oh, you’re an Everton fan? So you don’t follow football?!’
That was always my put-down one-liner; but at the moment (at least), Everton are sitting one point above my beloved Liverpool in the Premier League table and I don’t really fancy our chances against them on Saturday in the FA Cup Semi Final at Wembley.
Why Wembley? Think of the carbon foot print of 62,000 scousers heading for London to watch their two teams play each other when the sensible thing to do would be to play it in Manchester and the scousers could’ve trashed Old Trafford together, but hey! when have the FA ever done anything that makes sense?
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Did a video shoot for Homespun to promote their new single Badman. The initial idea was to have the frontman Terry abducted in a sack during a gig, some nice enclosed shots of him singing in the sack, the band in the back of a van playing and then the ‘body’ being dumped outside a police station.
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‘I’d rather go hungry than eat that shit.’
Came an American drawl as he walked passed Burger King in Las Vegas International Airport. Maybe some attitudes are changing in the US of A but that lone voice doesn’t speak for the 209 million people whose diet makes them walking miracles.
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Been far too busy to post blogs for nearly a year – it’ll all be in my memoirs when I’m dead!
Updated the link2wales site immensly this week – having ‘flu does have its advantages!
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If we use the metaphor ‘On The Road To Stardom’ then Rhyl’s Dressed Naked are on the side, repairing a puncture and in need of an MOT. Dead On Arrival UK from Holyhead are speeding up the slip road, ready to join the main carriageway, while Der Bomber are ready to drop down a gear and speed off into the distance.
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How totally weird was that? Leaving Blu sober! Amazing! Although I don’t recommend it!
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It’s not often I get really, really excited about a band. Yes I love music; it’s my life and soul – an obsession bordering on neurosis. From an 11 year old buying The Jam’s ‘When You’re Young’ 7″ single and having to play it at my cousin’s house because we were too poor to afford a record player to releasing LPs with my own band and running my own label.
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(by neil crud)
In what was an absurd attack on the hugely successful Wakestock Festival held last weekend near Abersoch the Daily Post newspaper sank into tabloid journalistic hell in a pathetic attempt to boost circulation sales. The headline ‘Cocaine Festival’ greeted readers on Monday morning & the following 2 pages illustrated how shocked reporter Hugo Duncan uncovered ‘Drugs chaos at North Wales surfing event.’ What a pile of complete bollocks. It’s patently obvious this journalist either has aspirations on working for The Sun or thought a rock festival was something Bryn Terfel holds for his opera friends every year.
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The Breeding Ground in Rhyl was issued with an enforced 24 hour closure warrant by police an hour before the doors were due to open for Casino, Innasense & Homespun‘s live performances. This is the latest in a number of attempts by the police to tackle reported under age drinking at the venue, even though it goes on at all the establishments in the town, TBG crew feel they have been targeted because it is an alternative venue. Ben Jackson of Rhyl band Fudged summed the situation up pretty well when he suggested that now there’ll be 150 kids between the age of 15 & 18 out on the streets, unchecked & drinking & getting into trouble. At least in the venue the security meant that there was very little trouble.
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