Oh nice. A moveable feast.

Ha! May I ask how that came about?!

Today I celebrate my 19th wedding anniversary. Conveniently enough, my wife is also celebrating hers today. It's like it was *meant to be*.

Great tune, and one that pops into my mind whenever I see the name Olly Murs.

One of the best things about being a musical comedian is that you hardly ever get booked on the same bill as other musical comedians; which means you get to enjoy an evening of comedy without having to endure *bloody* musical comedy.

Or - a definite Smarty Pants one - playing the first variation but with my thumb barring the fourth fret, over the top of the neck.

Ha! They haven't got my preferred variation on there. (4447, if you were wondering). I wonder what he'd call that...

Sambuca? Shots fired!

Someone commenting on one of our videos, saying that they listen to our music to help them get to sleep.

Genuinely not sure whether this is a compliment or a sly dig.

You're more than welcome. I put it on over dinner the other night - because I want my wife and daughter to hear it - and they were bopping about to it, which is a *good* sign. I was also delighted to see you describe it as 'fuck the patriarchy' music recently, cos that's exactly how I heard it.

Aye! I hoovered it all up, of course. 🙂

There's a lesson here - and it involves not videoing yourself before you've brushed your hair.

My son watched loads of them a few years back, and it blew his mind when he watched What We Do in the Shadows and I told him who was playing Nandor. On a side note - he was on Adam Buxton's podcast a while ago and did *the best* Louis Theroux impersonation. Dunno if you heard it, but it was sublime.

Did you listen to the podcast he did recently? A solid 7/10 with occasional flashes of comedy brilliance.

Is he a Brian Badonde tribute act? 😄

Great British Menu has a fancy new ingredient.

Dear @labourpartyuk.bsky.social you may wish to fix this.

😂

I heard them on the John Peel show back in - God knows when - and wrote the name down (I think I actually wrote 'Bored of Canada'). Then once I had access to eBay, I just bought everything by them and never looked back. It was like nothing I'd ever heard. Electronic yet organic. Man. I adore them.

Note to Facebook acquaintances: my birthday wasn't belated, it was on time. As it always is.

It really is. They make extraordinary music. It does something inexplicable to me that barely any other artist manages to do. I don't understand how it works and I love that.

Tape 05 YouTube video by Boards of Canada

NEW BOARDS OF CANADA NEW BOARDS OF CANADA NEW BOARDS OF CANADA NEW BOARDS OF BLOODY CANADA. OH MY. youtu.be/6bghDcbzfEU

My favourite was the brand - I can't remember which one - which had a generic advert saying "We're proud to sponsor this programme". Not even bothering to name the show. Such pride. It brings a tear to the eye.

People talk about the old fairground game, where you'd have to throw a dart into a playing card to win a goldfish in a sandwich bag - but people forget the bigger prizes - get three darts into three playing cards to win a spaniel in a rucksack; or five darts in five cards to win a horse in a skip.

Haha!

Ha - more or less.

You know when you take a gamble and book a show in a venue that's probably three times larger than you've ever done before? Yeah? Well... that.

Fuckinell. *deep breaths*

It'll be fine, Simon. It'll be fine.

Plus it came out in 2010, which, in my world, means that it is a VERY recent release, so I feel all hip and groovy and down with the youngsters.

I'd like to mark this moment as 'the moment I first listened to 'Holkham Drones' album by Luke Abbott'. It is SO up my street, it's almost unnerving. If - like me - you enjoy bleeps, bloops, electronic squiggles & the occasional beat that makes you go "Oh, yeah... Niiiiiiice", I highly recommend it.

A screenshot of one of my videos, with a comment from Curtis Stigers saying "Poor old Ed".

This morning I'm mostly chuckling at Curtis Stigers(!!!) commenting on one of our videos. One in which I'm fairly rude about Ed Sheeran.