The Strait(s) Of Hormuz - Iranian Dire Straits tribute band. Could work, lighten the mood abit.

'Famously gloomy Jot Division'. Colin Patterson: a life well spent in barely phoned-in light entertainment punditry.

Ok, so i've just reread the famous review of Coney Island Baby by Peter Laughner. I used to think it was a Great bit of writing. It's not, it's awful. It's unsparing and juvenile ( and downright nasty). It's good to have long held opions turned on their head.

Read it a long time ago. Bangs may not be great - main character syndrome. What is Great, is Peter Laughner's review of Coney Island Baby, now I think about it.

Er, right.

I'm just shooting the shit on a slow Monday, btw.

Julian Cope's Head On is great, but not Great. Maybe a memoir or diart's can never truly be Great aa they lack 'vision' Great would be: Brautigan, Greene, Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Ballard, Larkin, even Burroughs ( much laughed at by lit snobs) loads more of course.

I thought it was fun and enjoyable. But far from great, but that was kind of the point. Tarantula may be great...I read it years ago, and thought it was a wild amphetamine induced word vomit.

I think the biggest problem with LT is that Marcus has no sense of humour; if you're making a connection between John of Leiden and John Lydon just because they have similar names, then you need a few jokes!

I haven't read mystery train. I thought Lipstick Traces was fun when I started reading it, but the more I read, the less I liked; wildly inaccurate, which didn't help his more fanciful theories.

I'm always baffled when music writers are described as 'great'. I've read alot of music writing and honestly think some of it is at best decent, but 'great', never. Great is WB Yeats, not some bloke who wrote for Q etc.

I've just watched the McCartney bass documentary that features Hawkwind and I feel genuinely outraged. It makes a completely unfounded, verging on libellous, claim that "it felt like Hawkwind had a motive [to steal the bass] and it also felt like they also had the personality to go and do it." 1/2

Final sidenote: Steve Albini was slightly obsessed with the state of the Beatles teeth. 'I just thought they were English guys with terrible teeth' etc. In later years I his view of the Fabs was more appreciative.

We were mixing at the time; we'd found the life size Beatle cutouts in the Abbey Rd studio 2 storeroom and had put them in the studio behind our instruments. Luckily we'd put them away just before Paul appeared. 'Jesus, thank fuck we did that that' said Steve.

Well worn story: Me and Albini in the control room. Suddenly Paul Mac bursts in. He just starts up with the scrambled eggs story. We were trying to be a little too cool for school, but I caught Steve in the corner of my eye, being pretty awed. Then he was gone. Dude.

True, the Dave Anderson thing doesn't fit the timeline. Me and Sue are the Hawkwind defence committee. Will put on a free gig for the cause. Probably.

All probable. Dik Mik, no angel of course did rather get the wrath of mid England though. Good doc, but went a bit odd in the middle I thought.

While i'm grousing about Macca ( I do think he's great btw) I really wish he wouldn't hire these Guns n Roses lead players to destroy the Get Back solo. #imavailableandcanplayitproperly

'Hawkwind had an anti Beatles song' Did they? Not that I know of, and yeah, very Daily Mail about the Ladbroke Grove scene...

This Macca bass doc is very odd: Hofner's are great, Paul's great - but we seem to have taken a bizzare anti Hawkwind turn! Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies becoming the Blue Meanies. And Dik Mik is apparantly Satan. Who knew.

Pearls before swine.

'Beans n Vans' pub rock pioneers. One album produced by Larry Wallis in 1975. Still going with original line up.

'Niven Ciao-sescu' - 5 twats from Bouremouth. Championed by Melody Maker. Signed by London Records. Album still unreleased.

Bands and bio's. Take yer pick:
'Nihilist Roofer:' 4 white 54 year old men. Post Sleaford Mods angry. Signed to Fierce Panda on a one single deal.

That would be the great Don Warrington.

My friend Scott King is railing against exclamation marks on instagram. I hate them too. They are the Mumford and Sons of Grammar.

The Auteurs - 2 songs live on 2 Meter Sessions (1994) YouTube video by 2 Meter Sessions

youtube.com/watch?v=cKqV...

There are not many live bits of this old band of mine: The Auteurs. Forgotten by most, but this is how good we were. No bullshit - just intense as young bands should be.

Excellent work from an old friend of mine. For context, I ate a similar soup most days while I was working on a micro opera about a Mark Smith impersonator in Berlin (2013). The soup is better than it looks.

Gene and Dean Ween was their only really solid gag. Actually bothering to be a real band after that may have been a step too far.

My new album. Out in July:

'Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Bizzy'

How magic became...Magick.

@cherryredrecords.bsky.social will be available on vinyl/CD and digital trash