It's easy to forget how much fun it is going to live gigs in pubs, I really must make a point of ensuring I do this at least every couple months, it is something I enjoy immensely. Last night I was joined by Broughton friends Dave Evans and Nick Mabey and we headed off to The Joiners in Southampton to see Paul Heaton, the former Housemartins and Beautiful South frontman. I have followed Heaton's career ever since 1986, so to see him playing live ...
I had an alternative football experience on Saturday that was out of my comfort zone but very entertaining and enlightening at the same time. I had invited one of my loyal customers to the game (Reading v Portsmouth) and given him the option of corporate entertainment or just meeting in the town centre for a bite to eat and a few beers before going on to watch the game. He decided on the former, because like me, he found the whole corporate ...
I read an article the other day by Alex James (former Blur guitarist) which, quite frankly, amazed me. Did you know that in the 1970's yogurt was a new craze? Yes the humble yogurt was a new and exotic treat that had never been able to be packaged before plastic containers came on the scene. This got me thinking about what I ate as a child apart from heavily sugared bowls of cornflakes that would often be my ...
I searched my name on Google the other day and it was not until I got to Bob Letha... that my name came up on the predictive search where Google guesses what you are inputting. I came to the conclusion that my millions of readers must already have Blog firmly in place at the top of their "favourites" list saving them time using search engines. Either that or they use Ask Jeeves the once heavily advertised search engine that now attracts up ...
I have decided to abandon my trawl through the failing careers of former Radio 1 DJ's, for the following reasons. Firstly I started to become concerned that no one else would care much for my almost morbid fascination with this subject, and secondly, all their careers seemed to follow a familiar track in to the abyss unless you exclude Steve Wright who does "Steve Wright in the Afternoon" as a kind of Groundhog Day fixture on Radio 2, such ...