I went to the pub yesterday late afternoon and had a couple with some mates , we were then asked to leave as we didn't have tickets for the frivolities later that evening , a beige buffet and **** disco no thanks , later that evening I turned on Jools Holland's Hootenanny , ye gods what the **** has happened to it , it has turned into a hostage situation, they do not try any more and it shows and had me wishing for the White Heather Club with Andy Stewart ( one for the kids ) anyway turned off that old tut and saw in the new year listening to Motown chart busters vol 3,4 and 6 HOOTENANNY, COYS
NYE is a total waste of time and space. Fictitious line in the sand based on a calendar less than 2k years old. Send a few token messages and then in bed by 10! Hurrumph!
Currently listening to the Durutti Column, what a guitarist Vinny Reilly is , not a well man anymore sadly, I had an original copy of the The return of the Duritti Column on a very low issue number but got rid of it due to the sand paper cover leaving grit all over the place , just checked out how much it would sell for now wonder how much my CD copy is worth ?
Spoken like a true curmudgeon! Like Christmas, it's for young people and the young at heart. Our eldest daughter is partying in Amsterdam and our youngest was in a club up in town...next year Mrs B will have retired and we'll be in Vietnam going ****ing nuts... ....this year, we've both got extremely heavy colds and spent the night being taunted on Facebook by people at gigs, whilst we sat at home sharing cold cures....."Aaaaaaaaa-shooooooo!"
It is an age thing for sure, but it's also a reaction to the 'you must celebrate at a given date /time' mantra. The best nights are generally less mandated in my experience, although I would make an exception for gigs But yes, I'm probably between 80-90% Bah Humbug at this stage of my life!
Nothing like going into town for a swift one and meeting up with old friends, those sessions can become legendary
No point in London. You'll be awakened by something reminiscent of the Russia/Ukraine "special military operation". please log in to view this image
I own Vol 3 on CD and bloody good it is too! At recent Damned gigs, a book has been present for people to sign, to get the band on 'Later with JH', although many would rather that they didn't bother! I've scarcely watched it in years. We watched the fireworks on BBC with the sound turned off, as the music all sounded like Stock Aitken and Waterman. Then onto a recording from Sky Arts of The Damned in Germany on their 40th anniversary tour.
That era Motown is just so good and BBC2 has a couple of interesting programmes on Motown and Lamont Dozier tonight
At some point in the next week, one of you will be getting strange looks in a queue because you're absentmindedly singing this
The music reference in this will not immediately reveal itself...but it is there. On Friday, I attended the funeral of a dear family friend. We met her through her daughter, who worked behind the bar at the pub across the road from our old house. She became our child minder for 10 years and over that time we became friends with most of her family, often drinking together and with them attending our kids' birthdays and vice versa. She was 60, like me, and it was a tough, tough day. However, as is usually the case, the wake becomes a life affirming affair, as you meet old friends who you haven't seen for years. Given the pub connection, I saw a number of drinking partners, for the first time in over a decade, some nearer to 2 decades. This entailed learning of the illnesses and passing of others and their successes and failures...and it also afforded me the opportunity to say a sentence that I'm pretty certain I'll never say again in this life.... "So, are you still playing the bagpipes?"
