A chip off the old block indeed
A politician called last night, we talked and drank wine and ate mints. Would love to tell you more but that wouldn't be wise. No not at all.
Thanks for all the nice comments about the music yesterday-you are right if course! And let's wish regular blogger KatyMac all the best for that op today, look forward to having you back on line KM...
Jim Kerr is a model of how to be a pop star don't you think? Millions sold, still hungry and a real gentleman. Always gives a great interview, never disappoints. Good on yer Jim and all the best for Lostboy!AKA etc
Now guest news for today's drivetime. Always loved Paul Simon-first album bought, first gig etc-and today his son Harper joins us and strums a tune or 2. His first album has some lovely tunes on it and it is impossible not to hear his Dad's voice and particularly his guitar style all the way through. Harper after 6 and a cracking confession at 5.40.
And it is songs for/from/referencing the south today. Leave below!
See you later...
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At 09:29 27th Apr 2010, Posh Soul Lady wrote:"Moonshadow" Cat Stevens...all my teeth north and south....
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At 09:31 27th Apr 2010, Posh Soul Lady wrote:Jo South "the games people play"
and ref to southern places....
"Georgia on my mind" Ray Charles
"sweet home Alabama" lynyrd Skynryd
"song of the south" Alabama
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At 09:32 27th Apr 2010, CrimboDeevs wrote:Simon
Please can we have PERFECT TEN - BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
And yes, good luck Katy. We'll all be thinking of you and awaiting your return.
Deevs
x
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At 09:35 27th Apr 2010, Molly Coddle wrote:Bless you Simon, I am sure Katy will be thrilled to read your blog today!
My song choices are:
Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes with "I Don't Want To Go Home"
Beautiful South with "Song For Whoever" if only for that bonkers line.. I love you from the bottom of my pencil case!!..
Captain Sensible with "Happy Talk" ..South Pacific
Or Gretchen Wilson with "Redneck Woman"
Many thanks, Mcw x
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At 09:42 27th Apr 2010, Tortie Cat wrote:Morning all, and a beautiful one it is here!
Simon, how lovely of you to post a message for Katy.
KatyMac - good luck for the op today and for a speedy recovery. Hope to see you blogging again soon.
Song choice - "One Last Love Song" by Beautiful South, please.
Tortie x
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At 09:48 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Morning all,
Can we have one or two of the following please?
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY - JOE SOUTH
SOUTHERN NIGHTS - GLEN CAMPBELL
DOWN UNDER - MEN AT WORK
DOWN DOWN - STATUS QUO
Cheers,
Kev
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At 10:18 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:Good Morning Each! I would like to start by joining with Simon, adding my good wishes to Katy for tomorrow. Hasten back Baby Driver.
Now then, Simon. I DOUBLE dare you to play Led Zep on consecutive days.
'South Bound Saurez' by the aforementioned.
Also:
'Southern Man' by Neil Young
and by his sometime buddies
'Southern Cross' by Crosby, Stills and Nash.
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At 10:26 27th Apr 2010, KKMac wrote:Thank you Simon - you have made me feel very special and more than a little tearful.
xx
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At 10:34 27th Apr 2010, KKMac wrote:Blesspoppets - never was the name more apt - kudos to Spike.
Cheers x
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At 10:35 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:Hows about these:
'Tropical Loveland' by Abba
'Down To Margate' by Chas and Dave (Whoo-hoo!)
'Cornwall Blank' by America
'Silly (Scilly) Love Songs' by Wings
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At 10:37 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:and there's always;
BARBADOS - TYPICALLY TROPICAL
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At 10:38 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:Good morning All
My choices for today:
SWEET HOME ALABAMA by Lynyrd Skynyrd
RIO by Duran Duran
JAMBALAYA by the Carpenters
Deebee X
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At 10:40 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:#8 and so you should KatyMac (feel special, that is) Thank you Simon - it is so good to know you care about your bloggers X
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At 10:40 27th Apr 2010, Posh Soul Lady wrote:"midnight train to Georgia" Gladys Knight and the pips for a soul offering
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At 10:45 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:#13 - And so say all of us!
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At 10:48 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Katy - Just noticed the title of the blog today. I hope Simon is talking about Paul Simon's son and not your op! :-) Looking forward to seeing you back on here very soon!
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At 10:57 27th Apr 2010, David Turner wrote:How about:
Southbound Suarez - Led Zeppelin
When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Billy Holliday
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At 11:00 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:'Australia' by The Manic Street Preachers
Not too shabby.
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At 11:01 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:Hey, I just realised. The blog is working properly from the off. Well done Peta, and techies.
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At 11:08 27th Apr 2010, Molly Coddle wrote:With apologies to Martha and The Vandellas:
Katy, Oh KatyMac, You'll soon be coming back
With that uncanny knack, of choosing a real good track.
This blog will be missing you, Simon feels the same way too!
So Katy, Oh KatyMac take really good care
Love from the blesspoppets everywhere!
;)
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At 11:08 27th Apr 2010, CORNISH DARREN FEWINS wrote:Warm Tuesday Morning greetings to, (takes a big breath) – 634Salan, Adam_McReynolds, Alison from Eastleigh, Andy_Toverson, Anthony in Rugby, BabyDriver, St David Marshall, Brenda, CherylTheDiva, cleverSupernanny, dawhandle, Deebee9, dreamurdream, Emily, Flourishing, Helen May, Jason Issacs, Jeff, John Merrick, KatyMac, Ken Jude, Kev TrickyTree Williams, Kidteeth, MadChickenWoman, MissToeDipper, MobileToothFairy, Music_Geek, NicRolastic, Paul of Sheffield, Paul?, Payre, PoshSoulLady, PurpleDragon, SparkleSparklyTinsel, SylviaB88, Ticketyboo, Tortie-cat, untalentedmrripley, ,... and somebody who rarely makes a post, Spike!
All the best KM.
I fully support P.O.S. in his suggestion for CORNWALL BLANK by AMERICA, (obviously).
Failing that:
THE FLORAL DANCE, (Into the sweet and scented air of a quaint old Cornish town, etc).
Failing that:
PADSTOW by STEELEYE SPAN
Failing that:
Small Town Southern Man - Alan Jackson
South Side - Moby
South Side of the Sky - Yes
Southbound Again - Dire Straits
Southbound Pachyderm - Primus
Southern Accents - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Southern Girl - Incubus
Southern Point - Grizzly Bear
Southern Voice - Tim McGraw
Straight Outta Southside - G-Unit
The South's Gonna Do It Again - The Charlie Daniels Band
Love the show, the host, myself, the staff, the other blogpoppets, the mods, the tweeters, the browsers, the callers, the emailers, the face bookers, the ones that don't even know the show exists (shame on you)
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At 11:10 27th Apr 2010, Revster wrote:The Lord bless you, KatyMac. Now, Simon - "Sweet Home Alabama" sounds like a stonking good choice to me! And thanks for playing "Northern Sky" yesterday - I'm sorry I missed it.....work, meetings, ministry - you know the sort of thing!
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At 11:36 27th Apr 2010, NicRolastic wrote:Morning All,
Hope everything goes well for you KatyMac and hope to "see" you back here soon.
My suggestion is Morrissey - Come Back To Camden.
Nic
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At 11:47 27th Apr 2010, CrimboDeevs wrote:What about
Southern Freeze by Freeze?
Deevs
x
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At 12:37 27th Apr 2010, LueyLuey wrote:Anyone suggested Down Under by Men at Work?
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At 12:44 27th Apr 2010, Revster wrote:# 24 Deevs you mentioned Premier League club in a previous blog, a job I think you had applied for?? It wasn't Stoke was it?
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At 13:34 27th Apr 2010, CORNISH DARREN FEWINS wrote:#7 There is of course "Communication breakDOWN" & "DOWN by the seaside"
Using the same concept you could also have:
Don't Bring Me DOWN - Electric Light Orchestra
DOWN Bound Train - Chuck Berry
DOWN From Dover - Dolly Parton
DOWN In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
DOWN To Earth - Curiosity killed the cat
DOWN To The Waterline - Dire Straits
When The World Is Running DOWN, You Make the Best of What's Still Around - The Police
and of course:
Don't let me DOWN and DOWN - David Bowie
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At 13:37 27th Apr 2010, CrimboDeevs wrote:#26 Rev - no, it was Aston Villa FC. I really, really wanted the job but sadly just missed out.
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At 13:47 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#27. Hows about Catatonia's 'Dead From The Waist Down'. That's southerly, isn't it?
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At 13:49 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:#29 depends if you're in the Northern hemisphere, I suppose!
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At 13:55 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#30 That made me think. Visions of antipodeans walking on their hands. Freaky!
Anyhoo,... 'Kangaroo' by David Gray
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At 13:55 27th Apr 2010, Spikey Claus wrote:Afternoon all - early start this morn, so only just on line while I grab a spot of lunch.
Oh KatyMac, wishing you bestest recoveraciousness dear Blogpoppet and Scrabble foe of foes!
Hey folks - be quick cos Viv Stanshall's wicked Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End is being serialised on Radio 7 and part 2 of 5 has only 2 days left on iPlayer. It says it hails from 1996, but that's rubbish cos it's from John Peel's mid-1970's radio shows! Oh, this episode is followed by Ivor Cutler. Bliss.
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At 14:04 27th Apr 2010, Spikey Claus wrote:Hey up Blesspopps, mtd is back from her strandedness. Welcome back mtd.
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At 14:07 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:#33 Yes, welcome back indeed mtd.
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At 14:09 27th Apr 2010, Mark Cannon wrote:How about Down Under by Men at Work cant get much further south than that ( i know tasmania & the south pole but cant think of any songs apart from freeze & the southern freeze ) or anything by the beautiful south
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At 14:10 27th Apr 2010, Tortie Cat wrote:Paul of Sheff - did you just hear SW play Tull? Thankfully it doesn't happen very often! : )
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At 14:10 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:mtd, tell us of your travels - did you see any dragons, fuzzywuzzys or gryphons?
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At 14:15 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:.....................................S.........................................................................P.P.......................................................................I...I.....................................................................K.....K...................................................................E.......E.................................
Good call mate!
(Stanshall & Cutler)
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At 14:17 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#36, Yes I did. Pity it was 'the usual', but you can't have everything.
#38. Did I break something?
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At 14:55 27th Apr 2010, CORNISH DARREN FEWINS wrote:Just for the Rev, how about anything by ROLF HARRIS?
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At 14:57 27th Apr 2010, CORNISH DARREN FEWINS wrote:Gota be:
Tie me Kangaroo DOWN
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At 15:00 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:Rapid promotion prospects down in Kernow. Someone should tell Nis and Deevs.
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At 15:03 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#42 Nis, pfft, teehee. NIC. NICCC! I san do it. (sic)
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At 15:03 27th Apr 2010, CORNISH DARREN FEWINS wrote:In the words of Jerry Legbetter "Hello peasants!!!"
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At 15:46 27th Apr 2010, CORNISH DARREN FEWINS wrote:Sultan's of Swing - Dire Straits, (way on down south, London town)
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At 15:56 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Of course!!!
ZIP-E-DEE-DOO-DAH from the Disney film SONG OF THE SOUTH...
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At 15:57 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Or the
AMERICAN TRILOGY by ELVIS PRESLEY...three Southern American songs...
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At 15:58 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#46 You silly twisted boy.
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At 16:00 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#48 ©The Goons
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At 16:06 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:#46 I thought of that one, but I decided to keep quiet about it
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At 16:06 27th Apr 2010, CORNISH DARREN FEWINS wrote:#48 #49 Or Private Pike when he got his head stuck in the railings.
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At 16:06 27th Apr 2010, Molly Coddle wrote:MRS POTTERS LULLABY by COUNTING CROWS ...you can only move south down the coast..
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At 16:12 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#51. Good afternoon, sir. Was there something? © Much-Binding-In-The-M
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At 16:13 27th Apr 2010, Posh Soul Lady wrote:#50 ditto re #41!
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At 16:14 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#53 i would have completed the name of that show here( ), but I would have probably been wombled.
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At 16:32 27th Apr 2010, KKMac wrote:Lovely jubbly - finished all me visits, am fully Hibiscrubbed up, and now have a couple of hours to play in here and listen to the ray-dio before having a last supper [fish I think] then setting off for sundown in Southampton ...
... thanks for all the marvellous, wonderful, funny, poetic [Mcw!] thoughtful and reassuring messages
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At 17:56 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Ooh,OOh, my song and a mensh!!!
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At 17:58 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:#56 - dont you just hate that time between being readied and actually going? Far too much time to think!
and you're welcome Katy - we'll be waiting for you when you get back to us!
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At 18:04 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Hey, well done Deebs!! And a mensh, to boot!
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At 18:20 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Harper Simon - his voice is scarily close to his dad's, but beautifully haunting...and he plays the Buzzcocks! Well played, that man!
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At 18:24 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:#59 Missed it - again! I was on the phone. I heard yours earlier though, Kev - well done!
Which song did I get? And was it my blog name or real name this time (or a combination)?
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At 18:29 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Blog name, DeeBee -= Sweet Home Alabama.
Is it me or do you think since the blog went belly up Simon has concentrated on our choice of songs, and has been mentioning us more? Keeping us sweet, perhaps? ;-)
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At 18:32 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:#62 Great, I wanted it to be that one.
We do seem to be getting a lot of menshes lately - and Simon's lovely comment about Katy shows he does actually read beyond the first few posts too.
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At 18:38 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Paul gets a mensh - his twitter name, KeyNews.
Paul, you could cut that piece of the show and create an advert for the shop!
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At 18:40 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:#63 - I'm hoping Simon DOES read the comments, and that it's not that the production team read them and pass them on. It would be understandable if that did happen, as I'm sure being a national broadcaster is a very demanding job...
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At 18:41 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Perhaps Simon could pop into the blog one day and leave a message just to let us know he's watching! :-)
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At 18:43 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:#66 that would be good!
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At 18:43 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:Staggering and giddy at first ever mensh for a song played.
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At 18:46 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:#68 Woohoo Paul! I didn't realise it was your first. Well done!!
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At 18:54 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:I knew your cherry would be well and truly popped sometime soon!
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At 18:56 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Yay, and my jazz choice too! Not sure it's jazz though!
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At 18:58 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:right, off to get my chicken noodle cup a soup - I know how to live! See ya laters, peeps!
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At 19:00 27th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:I'm off too - bye all, see you tomorrow.
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At 19:06 27th Apr 2010, Spikey Claus wrote:"tis a propitious evening indeed - well done and all the best to all Blesspoppets!
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At 19:42 27th Apr 2010, Paul of Sheffield wrote:I've calmed down now. Worn myself out Dad-dancing. I am so pleased that the song I got a mensh for was by CSN. It might have been Chas and Dave.
Did anyone else think that the pig man was the funniest guest for yonks. What a character.
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At 20:13 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:#75 - indeed. When he said the pig was the worst animal for getting drunk of all that he had heard of, and Simon said well how many have you heard of then, and the gues said, well,, the pig was the only one he knew that got drunk!
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At 22:01 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:I may not get a chance to be on the blog much tomorrow, so I will be tweeting;
EAST JESUS NOWHERE - GREEN DAY
EAST SIDE STORY - BRYAN ADAMS
IF YOU EVER - EAST 17 FEATURING GABRIELLE
LOOKING EAST - JACKSON BROWNE
EAST WEST - MORRISSEY
Thank you and goodnight!
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At 22:03 27th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Oh, and one of the strangest songs I have ever heard;
EAST - BILLY PAUL
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At 07:55 28th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Morning all.
How are we today?
All thoughts with Katymac today.
Got woken up by a brawl outside my b&b window (not literally, i am on the top floor) - 3 guys (1 wasa drug dealer)scuffling in the middle of the road at 4:00am. This is 100yds from the |Bournemouth International Centre, on a main road. Welcome to Bournemouth!
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At 08:10 28th Apr 2010, Molly Coddle wrote:Morning Kev, and anyone else lurking!
Yes, I did wonder how Katy was this morning.
And I thought Bournemouth was on a par with Eastbourne. My Dad used to call it 'God's Waiting Room'!
Have already tweeted my request TURNING JAPANESE by THE VAPORS.
Mcw x
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At 08:17 28th Apr 2010, Deebee wrote:Morning all
Yes of course, thinking of Katy today - hope all goes well.
Does anyone else follow Dara O'Briain on Twitter? Great exchange between him and Simon in the middle of the night. Which I have only just read, I hasten to add - I was in the land of dreams at the time!
Deebee X
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At 08:18 28th Apr 2010, Kev Williams wrote:Hi mcw,
I think it used to be, but now it's stag night mecca for the south coast. In Boscombe there is also a large problem with drugs. Most of the town seems OK though! I think this incident may have been a one-off, as I haven't heard anything else since i have been staying here.
Good call for the Vapors! I remember buying that single from Pendulum Records in Nottingham's Victoria centre. The shop's still there too!
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At 08:31 28th Apr 2010, Molly Coddle wrote:New Blog..
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