I attract bizarre situations. Always have done. Last night, after the Metallica gig, I couldn’t find the guys I was there with so started walking back from the SECC, through the Anderston area of Glasgow to get to Queen Street train station. About 10 minutes into my walk, I spot a marginally inebriated guy contemplating [...]
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And stirred his red coat heart, to this Strange Engine
I can’t speak. My knee is agony and I’m absolutely knackered. Must have been Marillion Weekend then…… I’ve been back from The Netherlands for a couple of days now and I’m slowly recovering. After arriving at Port Zelande on Friday, it was straight on the ‘wreck the hoose juice’ as is always the norm for [...]
This time next week (I’ll be rubber)
A week from today I’ll be in The Netherlands at Marillion Weekend. Ouddorp to be precise. By this time next week I am likely to be well on my way to being severely drunk. I’m actually slightly concerned about my drinking capacity these days. I’m out of training. I used to be out most weekends [...]
Thursday Thirteen
It’s been a while since I’ve done the Thursday Thirteen. With such a stooshy brewing up about the X Factor version of ‘Hallelujah’ and the campaign to bring Jeff Buckley’s classic version to number one instead, I’ve decided to do my thirteen favourite vocalists today. That’s favourite – not necessarily the vocalists who I think [...]
Homecoming 2009
Brilliant work by the Scottish Government on the new ad featuring famous Scots singing ‘Caledonia’. Fairly makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Happy St Andrews Day. Tweet This Post Bookmark It
Gigs, travels and travesties
This has to be the slowest week on record. Yesterday seemed to drag on for an eternity, mainly due to being very tired. Wednesday night was the Alter Bridge gig in Glasgow. Whilst the gig finished about 11pm, the journey back from Glasgow (on a packed train full of Man Utd supporters) seemed to take [...]
Happiness is the Road again
A week tomorrow I’ll be at the Glasgow ABC to see Marillion on the Happiness On The Road tour. I always look forward to a Marillion show. I think I’ll do this one sober. That way I can take in all the subtle nuances of ‘Essence’ and ‘The Hard Shoulder’. And I’ll get home quicker. [...]
Raise your fists and yell
This week, I’m mostly loving 80′s metal and hard rock cliches. Oh how I love songs which mention:- being ‘Born to Rock’ anything involving ‘The Dangerzone’ (whatever that is). being unable to ‘stop the fire burning out of control’. crazy nights. the midnight hour. In other news, I’m working from home today and tomorrow. I [...]
Succumbed
OK. So I succumbed to downloading all of “Happiness is the Road”. It’s impossible to put something that good in front of me and not expect me to devour it whole. The great thing about this piece of downloading is that it’s guilt free. I paid my £30 for the deluxe version of the album [...]
Boxes still to be unpacked and the last temptation of Mark
If you are reading this post, then it’s safe to say that you have arrived at the new version of the site, hosted on my shiny advanced server. I had some hellish problems exporting my old posts from the previous server, with WordPress only exporting posts up until September 2007. Some hasty backend SQL work [...]
