Apparently the Stranglers will be playing at Glastonbury this year. I was astonished to learn today that their drummer, Jet Black, is 71. No wonder they decided to pack in touring. I know it is a job you can do sitting down, but I still think it requires a lot of energy to play the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'WILT'
Suzi Quatro
February 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Music
Back to trivia even sooner than I expected… while ferretting around in the odd corners of Spotify tonight I learned something interesting. OK, maybe not interesting in the general definition, but I was interested.
Baionarena
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Music
After Christmas I treated myself to a couple of things on Amazon, notionally using some xmas money from Mum (happy birthday today BTW – 70 candles!). Unfortunately they had not quite arrived when the snow fell and so they didn’t get delivered here until today, when the postman brought a huge backlog of mail – [...]
Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Music
When I finally caught up with reading Friday’s Guardian I learned something unlikely today in this article about what happened to several music acts that looked like being the next big thing but never were. Not only that but it gives me an excuse, as if one were needed, to put up a link to [...]
Well I never
July 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Uncyclopedia is supposed to be unreliable, so when it said that something was really true, I took it with a pinch of salt and double-checked on Wikipedia. Knowing how Wikipedia is fallible I cross-checked with a few newspaper sources before coming to the conclusion that it was really true but… Abu Hamza’s real name is [...]
Demolition Time
January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
If you live in a mid-terrace house, and wake to find the house next door is being demolished it cannot be much fun, and you have to wonder just how much more brazen developers can get.
On the other hand, you have to worry a bit about the neighbours when they can say “The safety of [...]
Tags: Town Planning·WILT
Questions And Answers
November 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Life, Work
There is a saying in politics that goes along the lines of ‘don’t ask a question unless you are sure of what the answer is’. Today I discovered the hard way that it applies in other areas too.
Good Times
October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Music
Today and yesterday I have been working my way through the Yazoo box set In Your Room. I have been able to give it my full attention because all my subtle hints about the new Metallica album coming out a week before my birthday fell on deaf ears.
Shooting Star
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
The round-up of the Paralympics on the BBC tonight showed a bit of the shooting competition, where Matt Skelhon won a gold medal. I hadn’t seen coverage of Paralympic or Olympic shooting before – possibly because it is one of the least TV-friendly sports so doesn’t get shown much
Rediscovered words
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Yesterday’s Guardian carried a small story about the Tate gallery having an exhibition of paintings by Western artists that have an Eastern subject. The headline was “Gateway to the East: Tate shows rediscovered works” but it the story itself contains something of a rediscovered word… look in the antepenultimate paragraph and there is [...]
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