Whales, Plug and Marquez

Prints of Whales were at the Gladstone on Thursday in all their glory - you can't beat the sound of twin musical saws...except possibly with a trio of musical saws.

Plug and Ish Marquez were in session today. I was particularly impressed by Georgie from Plug's ability to play the bass while also playing a keyboard with her feet. Now that is multi-tasking! Come and see them play next Saturday, 29th November at the Miller in London Bridge.

The Whole Schebang

Nice harmonies and basslines from TWS at the Gladstone last Thursday.

Easter Eggs

Quick catch up on the Easter weekend, which started off with a trip to Old Compton Street to get my hair cut by Paul. He's been tending my locks for over 20 years and more often than not the haircut is followed by a swift pint or three. Several jars later I wobbled down to Acoustic Suicide to catch marvellous sets by Congregation and the Boycott Coca Cola Experience. BCCE were also live on Saturday's show, playing a very entertaining session of quality post-modern blues. Le Shark were live on the show too and equally excellent, with their Frenchified pop antics. The deXter Bentley themed Easter continued on Saturday night at the Half Moon with a line up including Shimmy Rivers And And Canal plus Agaskodo Teliverek, possibly my favourite two bands we've had on the show. Both outfits have relatively new line-ups and were a joy to behold, not least because of their impeccable dress sense - fetching tight shorts for Agaskodo Teliverek and a specially knitted Hello Goodbye jumper being sported by Shimmy's keyboard player. As if all this wasn't fantastic enough, Keith turned up too - turns out he used to live across the road in New York from one of Extradition Order, who were also on the bill.

Quails eggs and gingernuts

The week thus far:

Out in Soho on Tuesday night to celebrate the birthday of Mr Adams: Sting lookalike, maninblack and king of the gingernuts.

Then Acoustic Suicide last night with songs sung in Roma and Turkish from Thee Intolerable Kid and songs with judicious use of the c-word, as well as a song dedicated to misunderstood diabetics, from Simon Breed. All of this and free quail's eggs too, I kid you not, making for a very fine evening's entertainment.

And tonight we're staying in - Howard Marks is on TV and looking uncannily like this mask Shelly made today.