Here’s the new Supergrass video:
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Like every proud parent, I like to show off my baby. However, the BabyLockTM is a furtive creature who absolutely hates the video. Today, I managed to snaffle some secret shots of Verity during feedtime using my webcam on the PC. She was completely unaware that she was being filmed…
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My old recording chum Andrew Osborne emailed me over an instrumental cover of the Tubeway Army hit “Are Friends Electric?”. Unbeknownst to Andrew, it happens to be one of my favourite songs from my childhood – in those days us youngsters thought the likes of Gary Numan was cool. Anyhoo, I really got carried away by Andrew’s backing track so I decided to add my own vocals to it. I’ve probably ruined a masterpiece, but I really like it in all its wonderful lo-fi glory. Enjoy!
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OK, so it isn’t your birthday, it is mine and we only have the things we can give away, so I give to you the entire “God Pays Debts Without Money…” boxset. Sprawling over 59 songs and a good four hours of music, it is the last body of work I’ve recorded (and to the cheer of some, probably the last body of music I’ll record for a while).
The following links are for the ZIP files containing the MP3 files. Just so that the GoogleBot knows what’s going on, I feel obliged to say “free MP3 download progressive instrumental rock Darren Lock”. Hopefully that’ll get some folks this way! 🙂
Disc One
Disc Two
Disc Three
Disc Four
The Artwork
Enjoy! And if you really like it, pass it around…
Barry Morse
Oh no…another icon from my childhood has passed on. This time it is British actor, Barry Morse who flew off on 2 February 2008 aged 89, and was most famous to us folks of a certain age as professor Victor Bergman from cult sci-fi series “Space 1999”. Of course, he’s appeared in loads of other TV series and films such as “The Fugitive”, “The Twilight Zone” and most importantly, “The Littlest Hobo”. Of course, another cult show that he appeared in was “Whoops Apocalypse” which had him playing the American president and was another show that I wangled my way to watch on Sunday nights when I stayed over at my grandparents’ place.
Anyway, here’s the rousing opening titles of “Space 1999” as a tribute and I think you’ll agree this is the funkiest sci-fi theme…ever!
I was saddened to hear that TV and radio presenter Jeremy Beadle had passed away from pneumonia. It was shocking as a serious chest infection almost took my own mother over Christmas and it seems that there’s an awful lot of this stuff about at the moment. I remember Beadle from my childhood not via the show “Game for a Laugh” but from his radio presenting on London’s LBC radio station and his Beadlebum show. He was a very clever guy and such was his effect on my life that I’m often heard to exclaim in moments of exasperation: “By Beadle’s withered hand…” (Of course, you have to know that he suffered Poland syndrome that left one of Beadle’s hands shrunken.
Now I only know one Jeremy Beadle joke and it might fly over your head, but as a tribute I will post it here. It goes something like this:
I hear that on one hand Jeremy Beadle’s penis is small…but on his other hand it looks rather large…
A truly awful gag, I think you’ll agree.