Friday 14 November 2008

Sadly, the Flipron gig I was hoping to go to on Sunday has been cancelled, but in partial recompense the copy of Barry Andrews' single 'Win A Night Out With A Well-known Paranoiac' that I tracked down, has arrived in the post, and it sounds dangerously like proto-Flipron. As I remember, Annie Nightingale still used to play it on her Radio 1 show years after it came out. Not bad for a B-side that was never a hit.

A text message arrived during the night from Katy Bircher, saying she's in a taxi in Mexico City and Mungrel Stuff is on the radio. Hooray.

You can watch DG in his dynamic role as S.M.A.W. (substitute middle-aged weirdo) in Red Priest here - especially his rock 'n' roll Tartini Devil's Sonata. And the two of us are blasting away behind Adrianne Greenbaum on youtube here: the harmonium is cunningly hidden behind the harpsichord.