Leonard Smalls

I take Americana to mean white square US music, so not blues, funk, jazz etc but more 70s singy AOR stuff - anything from Melanie to Woody Guthrie to the wetter end of Chicago etc... Basically nothing that's got too much of a groove as the last thing you want is to be dancing to music 😁 But then I'm with Chuck Brown - "If it ain't funky..."

You need hands - Max Bygraves

We had a trip to Telford yesterday to play at a "punk and alternative all-dayer". Our other bass player had to bring his kit, but I had a lovely TC electronics head and 2x 2x10 cabs to play through that the venue had provided; Parker into Helix into that sounded great, a proper meaty slap tone that cut through beautifully. We played well, weren't booed off or even beaten up, was accosted in the toilets by a chap who though we were great which is always nice when you're having a piddle. I was stopped a few more times by folks who enjoyed us... But strangely, we had the smallest crowd! As soon as the hardcore growlers started the room was rammed but our far more melodic punkyfunky stylings were much less popular. Each to their own I spose! However, there was a most excellent Indian restaurant 100m away which did Paneer Chilli so I was very happy. Not only that but I discovered a B road route back that took us 61 minutes for the 50 mile drive... Next week we've got a Dingle To Dottingham, supporting the incomparable Soap Girls (!) at the Old Cold Store. Edited to add photie!

Touch me - Sam Fox

Do ya wanna punk - Sylvester

SpizzLive!

'82 Wal custom from Allbang and Strummit for £500 in '90-91ish. Had to take out a loan to pay for it... Still got it! (not the loan!!)

some proper guitarism...

Closing Time - Semisonic

New Mannequins single

Your band keeps coming up on my Facebook feed - looks like your sponsored posts are getting around!

That's not my name - The Ting Tings

Bit of Jeff and Rhonda doing covers...

Right said Fred - Bernard Cribbins

Ive got "Georgia on my mind" and "What'd I say" off it on the playlist - all on Spotty!

Excellent, just stuck that album on too! 1585 songs so far, from Bach to Scientist, Fatback to King Tubby, Parliament to Jimmy Smith, Heptones to Herbie Hancock, Scientist to Schubert but probably 60% reggae.

Again!

I'd forgotten all about him! Just added a stack to our shop playlist...

Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus

Killing in the name of - RATM

I enjoyed it as well!

If he can do that why does he not do more interesting stuff in U2? 😁

Holidays in the sun -Sex Pistols

Yet another gig for us... This time at the Guttercrush Punk and Alternative All-Dayer at the Wrekin Inn, Wellington near Telford on Sunday 5th May... Even got a video flyer with our own audio! ChokedGuttercrushVid.mp4

We played third out of 4 bands at The Herdsman in Hereford last night... First band up were ANoise, who do a sort of dance-punk craziness with lots of bizarre costume changes... Lots of fun, though unfortunately only about 6 people had come in by then. Then it was MC16, who do an excellent agit-punk thing - highly recommended (but no pix, though we're playing with them again next week near Telford). Then it was us - luckily I'd brought my Big Amp (1500W!) so I could be heard, which is always nice cos it's all about me 😁. We had the biggest crowd, either because somehow we have fans or, more likely, we had the best time slot. And actually, rather than muttering about how rubbish we were or shouting "Oi, flash w4nkr!" if we dared to play above the 5th fret, someone came up and said I played like Les Claypool! I suspect he must have been very, very drunk. And we are also now officially a covers band, as our other bass player suddenly started playing RATM's "Bullet to the Head" and then our encore was our Cameo/Penetration mash-up of "Don't Dictate"... Headline band were Last Tree Squad who do a ReggaeRapPunk thing and are proper groovy, though I only saw one of their songs due to having to get my ancient self to bed ready for work at sparrow's in the morning... ChokedBulletToTheHead.mp4