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Me Hearties
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Me Hearties
Songs I acquired at the weekend; a selection.
SHEILA AND B DEVOTION – “Cover Girls”: from an album by the people who did “Spacer”, picked as usual for a promising title. Vigorous disco-rock crossover with a g[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER NEEDS
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FREAKY TRIGGER NEEDS YOU: attention!!! This Friday, your Humble Author will be attending the Big Brother live eviction!! Your Humble Author intends to take a banner and get their ugly mug on the goggle box.  But readers!! I have no imagination a[…]

Songs about or by puppets #1: Fuzzbox – “International Rescue”
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Walking down the street on the way to the pub the other day, I notice a big poster for an upcoming Thunderbirds film. As a youth I rather enjoyed the works of Gerry Anderson, theme-tunes notwithstanding, I found his childish simplicity and vision of […]

Bringing pride back to African restaurants: ladies and gentlemen I give you the African Kitchen Gallery.
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Bringing pride back to African restaurants: ladies and gentlemen I give you the African Kitchen Gallery. After our appalling service in Addis a couple of weeks ago (as recounted here, here and here) it is nice to find a restaurant where service is ev[…]

I am never drinking any cocktail EVER AGAIN
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I am never drinking any cocktail EVER AGAIN, (hem hem),  which isn’t listed on webtender.com. Yes, that means NO MORE PUBS “own-brew” cocktails, YES that means YOU, The Ben Crouch. No more random “blue” stuff for me[…]

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