Category Archives: Music

Friday The Busyteenth of Some Month or Other

Posted on May 17, 2024 by S

Friday has been busy. Not on a normal scale, not like your Fridays, but for a rusty old Steve it’s certainly had a whiff of the busy about it. My plans had solely been to get the bins out ahead … Continue reading →

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Mike Read, Mike Read, Two Seven Five and Two Eight Five, Mike Read, Mike Read, National Radio One

Posted on October 16, 2023 by S

I’ve been under the weather for several days and it’s showing no sign of shifting so this week started with me breaking open the antibiotics I keep at home for such situations. Next step will be to let the GP … Continue reading →

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Nothing To Report?

Posted on August 13, 2023 by S

Thursday’s physio beat the crap out of me and it wasn’t even that exacting a session. Most of the weekend has vanished into fatigue, sleep and muscular ouch, my biggest achievement being the cooking of a curry in the microwave. … Continue reading →

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Nothing Compares

Posted on July 29, 2023 by S

Nineteen days of hopstical and still no certainty about when I can go home. To be honest I’ve felt so vomity and battered for the past two days – neck pains caused by coughing and over breathing reaching into the … Continue reading →

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Napoleon’s Piano

Posted on March 1, 2023 by S

If I ruled the world everyday would be the First Day of Welsh. And March. And Spring. And (most importantly) everyday would be the First Day of Everybody Give Steve A Cake Month. Yes everybody, even you Putin. In a … Continue reading →

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C’mon Honey, Let’s Go Make Some Noise

Posted on January 23, 2023 by S

Hello Monday, are you a blue one, the like of which New Order once told us about? Are you one with a new moon, as foretold by Duran Duran in the same era? Are you Princely/Banglesy Manic? (Side note, I … Continue reading →

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Don’t Wanna Be Rich, Don’t Wanna Be Famous

Posted on December 22, 2022 by S

Over the last couple of weeks several musicians I’ve been inspired by and whose output I’ve enjoyed since my early teens died. Jet Black, drummer with The Stranglers, had been in poor health for some years and the statement put … Continue reading →

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As In A Mirror

Posted on November 9, 2022 by S

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. I played marbles and conkers and had loads of Action Men and cut pictures out of magazines to stick in … Continue reading →

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Don’t Worry If It’s Not Good Enough

Posted on November 8, 2022 by S

‘The trick with songwriting is to do the opposite of whatever you do when you’re not writing a song.’ Darven Crumble, 1973. Wise words from Darven there, a giant of 70s rock music you’ve forgotten about until I made him … Continue reading →

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Ed ‘Stewpot’ Stewart (is not part of this post)

Posted on November 3, 2022 by S

There are now only umpty-diddle hippo-strangling days until they pass that pesky law forbidding me anyone from strangling hippos. It’s as though nobody is allowed a little harmful innocent fun these days. These days, if you say you’re Stewart Lee, … Continue reading →

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