Alternative Band Aid Lyrics
(as featured in Guardian Society yesterday)
Take your pick from the intentionally funny –
“It’s christmas time and there’s no need to be afraid
It’s christmas time, Bono’s here and he&#8[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1974

1974 appears to be the dividing line between the recognizable and the void in my life. The earliest memory I can attach a date to is Bobby’s birthday in October, and there are memo[…]

What? AGANE!!!
Alaistair Sim version this one. Which was actually called Scrooge on release. That is the one which was specified. Which may be harsh on all these other films which would have the jump on it by virtue of being called A Christmas Carol:[…]

Bus stop top fun
From Hoxton to Clerkenwell (haven’t checked out the return route yet), on the route of the 55 and 243, next to the Foundry, Old Street station, Turnmills, Yo! Sushi, Clerkenwell Screws and the Yorkshire Grey. Variously, 8 brea[…]

Fantasy Football
(For the tiny handful of TMFD readers who don’t know about it…)
The Exeter City fans on TMFD have been rather quiet about it – whether through modesty or shock I’m not sure – but ECFC won their FA Cup 2n[…]

Dimebag Darrell is dead — I gotta admit, I wasn’t a huge Pantera fan, though I appreciate that for a lot of folks they were in ways the perfect gateway drug to all sorts of things growly and mean and loud. But jeez louise, this isn&#8217[…]

End-Times Economics
The Good News! We (well, those of us who were interested) have got our tickets for Gurls Aloud at the Hammersmith Apollo on May 28. See you there poppists!
The Other News: Apparently after booking fees etc. are taken into account […]

“time to give yrself into strange gods’ hands”: or how an IT GUY saved my BACON at the mere small cost only of the sacrifice of my DIGNITY hurrah ugh groo
mark s (by email): dear lovely IT Guy One , IT Guy Two says you sometimes un[…]

Does the umpteenth rehashing of rockism-bashing get your blood boiling? Not as much as rockism itself, and the upcoming NFT ‘Easy Riders, Raging Hormones I [Heart] the ’70s’ Fest provides plenty of that. The programme notes posit an[…]

Band Aid 20 is now squatting atop the charts and I feel I can safely bring an end to my “History Of Band Aid” charity appeal. If you recall it involved me giving a pound to charity for every link this got. The links keep trickling in and […]