Rossferatu

I remember thinking it wasn't as bad as everyone was saying it was at the time although admittedly the only thing I can remember about it now is Batman in a donkey jacket (and even that might be a false memory).

YouTube video by mymusicfootage The Beautiful South feat James Dean Bradfield - Old Red Eyes - Later With Jools Holland BBC2 1997

Loved the giddy fuck out of this song anyway, "He pours a drink and listens to his body thaw" is a pin point perfect lyric about alcoholism for crying out loud. Have always loved JDB's voice since hearing Stay Beautiful on mid afternoon Radio 1. So yeah, this is a happy discovery.

Sebadoh were great with their song that sounds like a deconstruction of the theme from The Big Breakfast. Who's on next week, Archers Of Loaf?

My main takeaway from recent weeks is how much I love When You're Gone, Mel C single handedly making Bryan Adams palatable.

Remember loving the prominence given to If I Can Dream ie. THE BEST ELVIS THING.

I'm only your bum
Of flesh and blood I'm made
I'm only your bum
Born to make mistakes

YouTube video by The Monkees The Monkees - Me & Magdalena (Official Audio)

One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life (and I discovered it on an album that was sent in the post to my old workplace to someone who'd left the company and they said they didn't want it)

The 'But know everything lost will be recovered' bit always hits me hard.

You know when you walk past some animal shit on the street and all the flies suddenly depart it at once? I want to tell them that it's alright, you lot fill your boots, I'm actually not interested in the animal shit and even if I was you were all there first.

And they're all "Yes, Ringo!" because he's fucking Ringo.

On a colossal Beatles kick this year. Just rewatched the 1964 Maysles Brothers doc and the best bit is when Ringo starts dancing in the club with those incomparably cool New Yorkers who are all formation doing the hitchhike and whatnot and he's just flopping all over the place much like I would.

Neil Young sings Right Said Fred Lo-fidelity fun from your boy Rossco! Demos, sketches and other assorted pop detritus.

I heard he's opening with this one, ever the contrarian! #neilyoung #glastonbury #mightaswelllgetsomemoremileageoutofthis

soundcloud.com/ross-patrick...

Nobody knows what it's like, to be a dustbin, in Shaftesbury, with Whi-izz Bangs.

Oh no, The Whizz Bangs are here. I hope they don't put a drawing pin on my seat when I go to the toilet and make me jump up in the air and shout "YAROOOOOOOO!"

Speaking to my dad today about the local gang you definitely didn't want to mess with in his boyhood in the 60s who were called.....wait for it.....The Whizz Bangs. Apparently nasty pieces of work but that's not a name that strikes terror into your heart, is it?

Of course you know who he could easily ask for help with scurvy don't you? HOWARD DONALD!!

No. Fucked that up, sorry.

Of course you know who he could easily ask for help with scurvy don't you? MARK LIME!!

Regret not buying that market stall t-shirt I saw a few years back that had Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister on it with a bifter badly superimposed near his mouth and GAME OF WEED, not even in the font.

I've always loved James' voice since I first heard Stay Beautiful on Steve Wright In The Afternoon. I try to sing along to those early albums but it's like Alan Partridge on valentine's night at the Linton Travel Tavern. "It's...it's too high."

YouTube video by Rolling Rockvideos (rollingrockvideos) Manic Street Preachers Musikhalle Frankfurt 1992 Full Broadcast

Great how well served the early Manics are by YouTube, a ton of obscure early 90s European TV performances like this you can wade through should you care to.

A skip with the words MICK GEORGE SKIPS on it.

If only we could all be as happy as Mick George.

Any other insomniacs often plagued by stupid looping combinations of two different songs?

Oh, would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are?
(WHHHHUUUUUUP!)
One foot in the grave!

DID YOU KNOW that there's a church in Mexico where they worship No Jacket Required era Phil Collins and have a big animatronic statue of him dancing about slowly in his pants to 'One More Night'.

I've Started Something I Couldn't Finish.

Has there ever been an album cover that better captures that feeling when you're in a park and have a sudden need to do a shite but you can see from where you're standing that there's a padlock on the door of the toilets?

i got stung by a radioactive bee i can't fly or make honey, but my knees look fucking spectacular

The amount of people who must have driven past The Love Shack because there was a sign outside that said STAY AWAY, FOOLS!

Do you think Barry White was alright with the nickname The Walrus Of Love? Cheeky bastards.

Thrown off the Vengabus for passing a solid in the chemical toilet. No way I could have waited til San Francisco.

Just went to the Oreo website and hit “accept all cookies” … and now we wait

"Please, Mr Robot was my father. Call me Eric"

Dunno about you guys but I'm forever accidentally doing nazi salutes, especially on podiums in front of loads of people.

Emerald Mine Kampf, anyone already done that one?