greencarnation

Just a quick note and three cheers for the superb 'Three Bells in a Row' video performance. Never cooler, never better rehearsed. A diamond in the rough! A sight for sore eyes.

Cheers,

greencarnation

Old tunes?

If you're 40+ (or know someone British or European who is) then you'll either wax nostalgic or look blank when the name 'Tenpole Tudor' is mentioned. Eddie Tudor-Pole, who featured in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and went on to present C4's The Crystal Maze, was a well-known punk fruit machine aficionado before either 'Wunderbar' or 'Swords of a Thousand Men' made it into the charts. It therefore comes as no surprise that Tenpole Tudor are the only band I know to have penned a work explicitly about one-armed bandits, and here it is: 'Three Bells in a Row'.

You don't get many of these to the pound.

LOL

greencarnation

P.S. Quite by chance I've just started Conan Doyle's Round the Fire Stories, which was in the wardrobe and waiting to be read. It's the second non-Holmes ACD short story collection I've broached (not counting Brigadier Gerald, only the first story of which is brilliant) and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. You must have mediumistic powers!

JJW (greencarnation)

When I was a teenager, many people said to me, 'you should read Sherlock Holmes'. 'Pooh!', I replied, 'I've seen Jeremy Brett in the television series and to me he is the ultimate sleuth. He's the Roger Moore of Baker St.'. I have finally got round to reading Conan Doyle, however, and if I was even half prepared for the bohemianism, chills and adventure that infuses the better Holmes fiction I'd have been glued to it in my twenties. Avoid Sign of the Four, though, I think it's purging the system of pulp.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Belgariad when I was younger and found its revelations pretty mystical. I didn't get round to reading LeGuin until I was thirty-something and though she writes very lucidly. Doris Lessing's first novel, The Grass is Singing, a South African book, is good if you can bear tales of descents into psychopathy. It's like Fight Club set on a farm by a woman.

Keep reading!

JJW (greencarnation)

I wonder if JDW would behave in the same way with people of the cloth?

Perhaps they`ve let monopoly go to their heads. It can happen sometimes.

Goodness knows what the Firkin chain might have been like if there was one in every town.

My wife and I will certainly think twice before drinking in a Wetherspoons pub again.

JJW [greencarnation].