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By Gad, but David Byrne is on form - I have Later with Jools Holland on as I type, and it's fab. Whole clutches of music I wouldn't normally listen to - of course I don't like it all, but live music - well, performed live to a camera - unbeatable.

I think I might have to poke around in Steve's Sounds just off Charing Cross Road (on the edge of China Town for those who know it not) and see if he has a copy of Mr. Byrne's latest offering. I remember back in '77/'78 being the first person in Wolves Poly with a Talking Heads album - Talking Heads 77 in fact, and I cleared the dance floor when I played Psycho Killer in the Union Bar. The kids just weren't ready for it, delightfully post Punk yet pre New Wave as it already was at that time. It was several more years before Talking Heads made it big in the UK, and by that time they'd already recorded their best stuff and moved on. Road to Nowhere - astonishing aural stereo effects not withstanding (this was the end of the age of quad) was but a poor shadow of anything on More Songs About Buildings And Food or even Fear of Music, and by Stop Making Sense it was all over. Mind you they weren't bad even then. And I might well be misremembering the order...

I think I might dust off a copy of Sand in the Vaseline and give it a listen sometime this weekend. It must be ten years since I played it; maybe longer...

Edit: Scissor Sisters - gotta love a band with a singer called Ana Matronic.

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By Gad, but David Byrne is on form - I have Later with Jools Holland on as I type, and it's fab. Whole clutches of music I wouldn't normally listen to - of course I don't like it all, but live music - well, performed live to a camera - unbeatable.

I think I might have to poke around in Steve's Sounds just off Charing Cross Road (on the edge of China Town for those who know it not) and see if he has a copy of Mr. Byrne's latest offering. I remember back in '77/'78 being the first person in Wolves Poly with a Talking Heads album - Talking Heads 77 in fact, and I cleared the dance floor when I played Psycho Killer in the Union Bar. The kids just weren't ready for it, delightfully post Punk yet pre New Wave as it already was at that time. It was several more years before Talking Heads made it big in the UK, and by that time they'd already recorded their best stuff and moved on. Road to Nowhere - astonishing aural stereo effects not withstanding (this was the end of the age of quad) was but a poor shadow of anything on More Songs About Buildings And Food or even Fear of Music, and by Stop Making Sense it was all over. Mind you they weren't bad even then. And I might well be misremembering the order...

I think I might dust off a copy of Sand in the Vaseline and give it a listen sometime this weekend. It must be ten years since I played it; maybe longer...

Edit: Scissor Sisters - gotta love a band with a singer called Ana Matronic.

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I must be mad.

I stayed up faffing around until Good-Grief-Charlie-Brown o'clock this morning and then got up at 8 am just to listen to Brian Matthew's radio show. I really, really must get broadband so I can listen to this stuff when I want to not when it's broadcast.

I think I may well collapse back in an undignified heap around 10 and get another hour's kip. I'm at a bit of a loss over what to do today; I suppose I ought to do some more writing of the character sheets for NWO, but that frankly feels a bit chore-like right now.

Of course a bit later it may not.

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I must be mad.

I stayed up faffing around until Good-Grief-Charlie-Brown o'clock this morning and then got up at 8 am just to listen to Brian Matthew's radio show. I really, really must get broadband so I can listen to this stuff when I want to not when it's broadcast.

I think I may well collapse back in an undignified heap around 10 and get another hour's kip. I'm at a bit of a loss over what to do today; I suppose I ought to do some more writing of the character sheets for NWO, but that frankly feels a bit chore-like right now.

Of course a bit later it may not.

The world has gone mad...

All this talk in the media about trying to control illegal immigration is one thing.

But to hear on today's radio news that the authorities have arrested a bunch of illegal immigrants as they tried to smuggle themselves back out of the country...

Dear Lord.

The world has gone mad...

All this talk in the media about trying to control illegal immigration is one thing.

But to hear on today's radio news that the authorities have arrested a bunch of illegal immigrants as they tried to smuggle themselves back out of the country...

Dear Lord.

Serious Music Expenditure

I have some serious music listening to do over what remains of the weekend. Following last night's watching of Later With Jools Holland and a posting by suitandtieguy (who's changed his tag without my noticing until now...), I went on a CD hunt in the West End this afternoon.

I didn't end up with the John Wetton album I wanted, but picked up another instead, Live in the Underworld so that's OK. I did manage to get hold of the new David Byrne opus, Grown Backwards, and I'm looking forward to listening to them both.

Unfortunately for my credit card, I also picked up the re-mastered Cloud 9, by George Harrison, and the soundtrack CDs to Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2. That'll all keep me happy tomorrow when I'm hacking away at the Michael Kananainos character sheet for NWO.

Serious Music Expenditure

I have some serious music listening to do over what remains of the weekend. Following last night's watching of Later With Jools Holland and a posting by suitandtieguy (who's changed his tag without my noticing until now...), I went on a CD hunt in the West End this afternoon.

I didn't end up with the John Wetton album I wanted, but picked up another instead, Live in the Underworld so that's OK. I did manage to get hold of the new David Byrne opus, Grown Backwards, and I'm looking forward to listening to them both.

Unfortunately for my credit card, I also picked up the re-mastered Cloud 9, by George Harrison, and the soundtrack CDs to Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2. That'll all keep me happy tomorrow when I'm hacking away at the Michael Kananainos character sheet for NWO.