Gordon Kerr's blog

Words fails me

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7623846.stm

Just when you feel the entertainment world can't get anymore empty and shallow along comes a story like this.

Ooh I give up

Is this the gig from heaven

For $60, oh, and a flight to LA but worth evey penny

http://www.uclalive.org/event.asp?Event_ID=571

Nashville calling

At the risk of turning the area into a travelogue I need help from the massive.
I'm off to USA in October with the GLW and I've negotiated 3 days in Nashville in return for the free use of my credit card at one of their shopping malls.
Can I have some recommendations where to see some live bands in that fine city. I want to get in as many as I can in the short time I have before the Visa melts down.

How his neighbours must have suffered

For once, hats off to this council. The music police at last doing their job.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7551176.stm

now if they would only come to my neighbour over the fence who insisted playing Whitney Houston and Maria Carey all last Sunday!!

Sharing The Imagined Village from Cambridge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/cambridgefolkfestival/2008/lineup/theimagine...

Even though I wasn't there could feel the power and emotion

I've just realised The Grim Reaper is coming!!

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Both of the photos are of Grace Slick, a woman who spent a lot of time with me in my room in the 60's!!

Disco this week?

I know a lot of the pupils are off with Mr Eavis, the geography master on the Somerset outing today, I'm going with Miss Tunstall on the Cornbury Dig next week. Question is will the common room be open for an afternoon disco tomorrow?

The Messiah is coming!!

stevie

I assume that there is rejoicing across the land that the great man is coming here.
Week on friday 9:00 the tickets go on sale. Somehow, someway I've got to beat the touts!!!

Lest we forget

Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of this great comic:

Feck!!!

Well Mrs Isley, I'm waiting

Came across this photo of The Isley Bros.

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Can't help feeling there must have been awkward silences at the breakfast table as Mr Isley Snr waited for an explanation from Mother

When music in adverts works

It really works

So you want to be funky but you ain't black

you could always be ginger!!

The funkiest white folks ever???

Perfect Partners? I think not!

While on the Amazon site purchasing "Mothership" by the mighty Zeppelin it is suggested that the perfect partner for this Opus would be "Long Road Out of Eden" by the not so mighty Eagles.
Hmmmm?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mothership-Very-Best-Led-Zeppelin/dp/B000VLE3GA/...