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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Liberal Democrats – Let Your Leaders Do The Walking
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Blackwater Has An Online Shop
Monday, October 15th, 2007
selling fluffy toys etc. in case you want anything for Christmas.
No, I’m not going to provide a link, just an image of what they might next decide to sell.
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills – Acrimony and Alimony
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
A weekend repost of an old image – seems appropriate.
I really should see if I can tidy this one up. Heather’s face just doesn’t fit Yoko’s hair – maybe I should replace the head completely but that creates problems with the hair below neck level (and above the waist before anyone comments).
update – minor improvement made now.
So, how did this gruesome twosome first meet?
Well, apparently Mills approached McCartney when he briefly lapsed from his vegetarian lifestyle and visited Kentucky Fried Chicken.
He went up to the counter and asked for two large breasts and a single leg, then he felt someone tapping on his shoulder…
For the not-so-squeamish, my alternative version is here – Link
King Creosote
Friday, October 12th, 2007
With my probable departure from Camden, the town I consider my home, back to Scotland, it pisses me off that a guy who restricted his performances to the land of my parents, grandparents and their ancestors’ birth* is now travelling far and wide and will therefore give me less of a chance to see him live.
*My dad was an engineer and the family moved around the Middle East. I was born in Kirkuk, Iraq, but I am a ‘Sweaty Sock’ as we are called down here.
And the bloke seems to use a pretty broad range of instruments, including the accordion.
I remember the first time I saw Shawn Colvin at the original Mean Fiddler. She was accompanied by bassist and accordion player, T Bone Wolk.
Shawn told a story that, at a benefit gig, Bonnie Raitt approached T Bone after a spectacular accordion solo and asked him if he was married, to which he replied yes and enquired why she had asked.
She replied, “Your wife has got to be the luckiest woman in the world to be married to a guy who can move his fingers that quickly.”
One of few tracks using accordion I’ve heard (honest I don’t search for accordion music) is Eddi Reader singing with Fairground Attraction on the LIVE version of Allelujah from the album Ay Fond Kiss. A simple yet brilliant analogy underpins the song – the composer is Mark Nevin.
The video below is pretty good with Eddi Reader being nuttier than usual but the track on the album is better.
“An ice-cream van shuts off its tinsel bells, Winter won’t be long.”