Helensburgh Real Ale Festival (Again)

My thanks to the lovely Karen McKay who took these and other great photos of Harmonica Lewinsky last Sunday. Clicking on Karen’s name takes you to her Myspace site (I’ve just had a look – she’s nuts!)

As Good as Jazz Gets!

That was a comment left by a poster on this video featuring the Cannonball Adderley Sextet. I must dig out the Paul Jones solo version of this with just harmonica and vocal which is superb. Meanwhile this is the full Adderley band with Worksong.

Jonathan King

Aye remember him? Rolls Royce driving record “producer” who every so often would release “novelty” records like “Una Paloma Blanca” and “Leap up and down with your knickers in the air” etc just to annoy the hell out of us. Discovered Genesis and 10cc, was a big fan of Maggie Thatcher’s and sang the vocal [...]

Eurovision 2008

To me it’s never been the same since the days of Mary Hopkin, Lulu, Cliff Richard and Clodagh Rodgers when if Britain didn’t win there was a steward’s inquiry. I just can’t believe though how much attention has been given to this over the last week in the media. Terry Wogan saying that the whole [...]

Football, FIFA and the European Union.

I’ve been reading about FIFA’s plan to introduce a five foreigners rule i.e. any football club would have to field at least six players from their home nation. This has thrown up EU employment law  which would appear to be in conflict with  this proposal in that  any  EU citizen can work in any country [...]

Latest From the Amazon Jungle

This is from BoingBoing. Just one thought, why is one tribe member so different in colour to the others? Also I have a theory that there are similar isolated tribes in the Overtoun Woods in Dumbarton.

This photo released yesterday depicts members of a tribe in the Amazon rain forest firing arrows at an airplane. Apparently, [...]

Tom Waits v. The Blue Nile

Aw naw! I hear you say! Has he no’ gone on aboot this enough? Please gentle reader bear with me! I am pure dead excited so ah um about these two gigs coming up. As is my habit I was having a wee strum on the guitar tonight and a wee tootle on the moothie [...]

How’s My Drivelling?

From the latest Private Eye

Goodbye Gretna

Gretna FC (the administrator and an interested party that is) , relegated, in administration and with one interested party in saving them, football agent Paul Davies, met with the SFL yesterday and applied for membership as all clubs relegated from the SPL have to do.

The SFL have declared that their integrity must be upheld by [...]

Tom Waits on Ebay

My correspondent Claire points out that the Ticketmaster/ Edinburgh Playhouse measures to stop ticket touting for Tom Waits have failed. The link below gives you the opportunity of parting with £650 for a ticket. I hope the bastard has them confiscated.

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