Well, we won't be home again for months. It's time to skate across the world again.
Here is a clip of Edwyn Collins performing his song Home Again, however. I shot it on my phone, like a true obsessive fan, from the audience of the Park Stageon Friday at Glastonbury. Roddy Frame was on guitar, so it was a chance to see two Scottish legends at the same time (mind melting solo on Girl Like You, Roddy). My phone's a bit crap so you can't actually make anything out beyond a blob of pixels, but it's such a lovely song I thought I'd put it up anyway.
We had a long drive today from Bath to Yeovil. Actually, it was a short drive but we got caught up in a lot of Glastonbury traffic so it took a long time. I spent a while flicking through my ipod rediscovering the soundtrack to my teens like this Hefner song (below). I was kind of obsessed with the video at the time. It used to get played on MTV2 on this show which I seem to remember being called 'Alternative Nation', but I could be wrong. It was on after midnight so I'd stay up specially to watch it and record my favourite videos.
Further to my Myspace blogs about One Hundred Years of Solitude, I'm almost done with the book so I'll be posting something about that soon.
Following on from my post on the myspace blog about the Corby Trouser press, here's some Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band recorded for the Colour me Pop TV show in the early 70s. The Bonzo's had a song called "Trouser Press" which, to my knowledge features the only recorded trouser press solo in the history of popular music.
Incidentally their vocalist, the late Vivian Stanshill was the onetime
owner of the Thekla in Bristol, a boat which now houses a music venue
and a restaurant moored on the River Avon ( I think) in Bristol, where
we played 2 nights ago. We..ahem.."rocked" it that night.
