Mike Peters - Walk Forever By My Side

Mike Peters - Walk Forever By My Side (Live)

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'Walk Forever By My Side' - Mike Peters was filmed at The Gathering 16 on 25th Jan 2008

The Gathering

Was at The Gathering 16 at the weekend. The Alarm were amazing on Saturday evening and on the Friday Mike Peters performed an Acoustic set.
Took over three hundred photos and am in the process of editing them. Thought I'd post one of Mike Peters and myself that was taken during a signing session on Saturday afternoon.

Dogwood - Building a Better Me & Feel the Burn

Building a Better Me


San Diego punks Dogwood have been awfully quiet for sometime so I thought it would be good to post a little reminder of what a great band they once were and hope that once again they will rise up and delight us with their brilliant tunes.

Feel the Burn

U2 - New Year's Day

A nice one to start the new year.

Mandi Perkins - Live

Edited 10/02/2013

The video that was here is no longer available and so I thought I'd do a quick re-edit.

Mandi Perkins is a pretty cool lady. This her doing some solo bits before she got together with Of Verona.

Every Body Knows


Who Am I


Why Pretend (Live)

Aztec Camera - The Crying Scene

I was digging around the CD collection today and found some Aztec Camera that I hadn't heard in a while. 'Stray' is one of my favourite albums of theirs and it included a couple of great singles ('Good Morning Britian' and the excellent 'The Crying Scene')


Good Morning Britian (featuring Mick Jones)

Andrew Peterson - Matthew's Begats

Have a great Christmas. Enjoy the music.

Saving Grace - Everlast

'Saving Grace (theme song)' by Everlast


Here's a track that I quite like at the moment. It is the theme song for 'Saving Grace', a show that just recently finished its first season on TNT in the States. Holly Hunter plays the lead role and it is a powerful drama about a cop in Oklahoma who's family live in the shadow of the terrible Oklahoma bombing and is in desperate need to be saved from her crazy life. It contains an angel called Earl who spits tobacco and eats tacos. He is Grace's 'last chance angel'.

It's gripping stuff. The only hassle with it is that Grace sleeps with almost everyone to try and find true intimacy, but with little success. As the show develops we learn that Grace had been abused by a priest when she was a child and Earl's mission is to bring her to a place of healing.

The series is very dark at times and yet humor abounds in the midst of great gruesomeness. I'd be stunned if Holly Hunter doesn't end up winning awards for this show. It has a great supporting cast.

Alison Krauss & Robert Plant

'Raising Sand' is by far one of the great releases of 2007. The single 'Gone, Gone, Gone' is not even the best track on the album. I guess it is just the most well known song as it has been a hit for The Everly Brothers. 'Please Read the Letter' is my favourite track.

Here's the video for the single

77 The Year of Punk & New Wave

Just finished reading Henrik Poulsen's fine book '77 The Year of Punk & New Wave. It's a pretty good book that spotlights the bands from the UK and Ireland that released singles and albums in 1977 at the height of the Punk movement. By no means are all the bands in the book considered to be punk rock bands or artists (Kursaal Flyers and Graham Parker 7the Rumour do not even fit into the mould of New Wave) and Poulsen says that repeatedly when dealing with such artists.

Many of the bands listed in the book are bands that I had the opportunity to see when I was a kid (I was 14 in 1977) and of course many of the releases mentioned I actually had. It is a great reference tool but more than that it tells a little about the bands that to this day few people have heard of. He also tells a little bit about what happenend after 1977 and it is interesting to see the bands that have survived to this day (Stiff Little Fingers, The Buzzcocks, UK Subs, The Vibrators & a host of others who got back together in time). Some of the bands fizzled out very quickly and after going their seperate ways ended up gaining huge success in other musical styles (Jim Kerr once of Johnny and the Self Abusers hit the big time with Simple Minds. Mick Hucknel was in the band the Frantic Elevators but found fame with Simply Red. Those are just two examples).

I bought the book in Fopp. They were selling it for £10 (usual price £25.00) which is a real bargin. Not sure how limited the hardback edition is but Fopp had loads of them. A great way to spend £10 if you are still thinking of what to get someone for Christmas!

Here's a little bonus. Generation X on the Marc Bolan Show (Bolan embraced a lot of the punk bands. He had the Damned support him on tour) performing their debut single 'Your Generation'.