I'll be popping in to Pellici's, Bethnal Green around 1-ish. Possibly to try the Minestrone Soup. Hopefully to catch up with Jukebox Jimmy, the 65 year old local and avid music collector who's been a Pellici's customer for 40 years. We're due to be doing a CD swap at some point.

Bonus is, you never know who you'll bump into at Pellici's

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/05/pellicis-celebrity-album/

During one of the discussions at Friday's Massive Mingle - Lee Dorsey's LP Yes We Can came up for recommendation - an album where the art director didn't raise an eyebrow or cringe a shoulder over a sleeve that's simply a dapper Dorsey - parked up a tree..

As a musical prop the tree has some heavy-hitting legacy in the medium of album art and other visual formats. A swift thumb through the Fabs catalogue offers up - Rubber Soul, Wings Wild Life, Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and of course Macca's backwards scramble at Knowle Park, Sevenoaks...

But away from the Fabs, what are the other singing, ringing trees ready to plant in a Rock 'n' Roll Arboretum?

On paper, it's a push-me—pull-you pairing that looks just dandy. In practice it sounds fine enough - but doesn't quite hit the projected expectation. Until now that is..

When three keen-eared offstage boffins (billing themselves as White Label)take The Supremes 5:30 Plane strip away some slush and syrup, retooling it into a newly minted mashup parked at the *perfect* end of the pop-o-meter.

You'll find the full flush of similar rinses, spins and remixes on the Stolen Voices album. Rare vocal takes from Lennon, Bowie, Todd Rundgren and Billy Mackenzie all twinned with newbie backing tracks..

Following a Rainbow/Star Wars spin off of the Live Action Charlie Brown thread, and as SPT put it ‘now you've broken the seal’ - flipping it round how would you cast Star Wars from kids (or any) TV personalities? For starters - how about…

Princess Leia - Maggie Philbin
C3P0 – Tony Hart
R2D2 – Dusty Bin

And if anyones fairly fluent in Photoshop , any chance of roughing up some of the above

An occasional natter-about a few chums and I have is re-casting shows from rock, pop and TV stars. Last of the Summer Winos for example..

Foggy - John Cooper Clarke
Clegg - Shaun Ryder
Compo - Mark E Smith

One of the recent pieces we've been pitching in on is, who to cast in a live action Peanuts. I'll put the full list in the comments but a few are...

Charlie Brown - Phil Collins
Pigpen - Shane MacGowan
Woodstock - Rod Stewart

Although, rats and good grief - we're there apart from just two characters - Peppermint Patty and Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally. We've hit a cul-de-sac on completing the cast. But if anyone can come up with the missing pieces of our Peanuts puzzle - The Massive can.

Excuse the shameless self promo, but I'm slightly excited/nervous.

An old chum (Piley) and I have been churning out our home-made podcasts (Podrophenia) for a couple years now, and *slaps forehead in amazement* we've been invited to give them a run-out on the radio. Following a whole ten minutes desk training last Saturday, we go LIVE with our first show tonight.

In fact every Tuesday evening between 9 - 10 we'll be doing our Podrophonic nonsense right here.

http://www.s6radio.co.uk/

The first show is based around the theme of covers and we'll be kicking off with a Jellyfish rarity. To keep us company and so we don't feel like we're just quacking away at each other why not come on over - or perhaps post a note on the message board. Any massive members spotted will get an on air honk.

Who amongst The Massive has had an on air pop at Ken Bruce's Pop Master comp' - and what was your score? Typically I'm a bed-ridden, sick day listener averaging around the high teens to early twenties....

But yesterday being a Bank Holiday - and possibly still slightly foggy from the previous evening's scoops, thought I'd give Pop Master a punt. So, phoned in, got through, name in the hat and a few minutes later - on air and bantering with The Bruce.

As music trivia questions go, the set of Qs pitched in my direction could have been written specifically for me: mod, novelty tunes and 70s references. What was the final score? You can find out here via the iPlayer (buzz to one hour and ten min's in)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010mwj4/Ken_Bruce_02_05_2011/

Although a tail-end fumble was flapping and forgetting the hellos. Missed from the list were friends, family and members of The Massive who'd pitched in with a glorious run of rolling comments, reports and support via twitter..

So a huge thank you is due to all the Word based Twitterers and Facebookers who sprinkled some positive sparkles my way yesterday. And if you ever go up against Radio 2's mid morning musical interrogator (Code name - Pop Master) - let me know!

I'm interviewing Marco Pirroni and Chris Constaniou both ex-Ants and now Wolfmen tomorrow ( for a booklet to go with the vinyl edition of their new album). I'm ready with my prep' and questions, but if there's anything - rocking or random, references or influences you'd like to know/ask about - post it here and I'll punt it there..

However, even though he's the eleph-Ant in the room -  probably best not to ask any Adam based questions..Sinéad O'Connor (duets on one track), The Dandy Warhols (remixed several tracks) or Lou Reed/Velvets (a long-lost Lou tune is covered on the album) are all good and up for discussion..

If you haven't heard The Wolfmen yet,  they sound like this

Thanks for all your Twitter-tips last week, I've signed up for most of the recommendations (and you're right David Schneider is a gem.) Although over the weekend I noticed a spin-off option for the Twitter/Times Word Nerd calculator. Using the key words pulled on your score page - appears, well for me anyway, to be a thumbnail summary of your personality..

My Saturday results showed - 'razz, bopping, macaroon, boggled, twanging'. Which is pretty much me rendered in five words!

Checking about, others were...

Derren Brown - uncontacted, congrats, levitating, lordy, knackered
David Hepworth - rabbiting, scriptwriters, knackered, beady, upmanship
Jonathan Ross - speedos, oreos, toher, bafta, ampersand

See!

Although some twittees were unexpectedly off topic in places..

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama - webcast, rato, condolences, laureates, friendlier
William Shatner - bruins, futon, celtics, viewership, guitarists

Why not test yourself - Perhaps there's a smack of quackery about my theory, but it's more reliable than those Christmas cracker fishes (which perma-pegged me as 'fickle').

I've only been on it a month and think I've buddied up with most of The Massive on there - but who should I be following on Twitter. Any recommendations?

There seems to a lack of poppers and rock stars in the twitterverse. But an overload of spam-bots pitching in with diet advice, Costa Rican swingers and e-books on fishing?

I'm parked up here @Mr_Mondo if anyone fancies tweeting me up with some #FFs

Sifting about Spitalfields Market on a Christmas prezzie trawl last month - frown faced and locked into my must-get, gift-list - I was determined to polish off those pesky seasonal doings without any distractions. A case of 'in, out and put the kettle on' as Monkfish used to say. But the resolve and best intentions turned to soft toffee when a train-stopping cover version came into play from one of the market's record stalls. A Stones refit so frisky and high-kicking, that it reeled me in with a deep-seated hypnotic pulling power.

Sod the shopping - I HAD to have that track.

What was it? Una Valli vamping, booming and lung-busting her way through Satisfaction. One month later, it's still on a perma-loop with no loss of first play potency.

My typing tends to echo my talking - I rattle on at speed, and pepper the text with an occasional clunker, which has lead to some interesting variations when typing 'Word Blogs' into Google

Wordblog - Life After Retirement: 'Benefit backlash and a boob job' - who knew Suffolk life could be so spicy..
http://www.wordblog.co.uk/

Wood Blog:'where the groupies aren't so cute' - charmed, I'm sure!
http://www.woodmagazine.com/community/blogs/

Thankfully the eye-frying Italian porn site Mondo Planet that used to pop up as a variant on my gaff seems to have long since gone

to a couple of questions bothering my noggin of late, that I'm sure the collected expertise of the Massive should be able to resolve...

Possibly the greatest One Minute Jazz Off in the history of One Minute Jazz Offs - but who is the combustible drummer cracking off the eleven second solo?

One of the discussions at Friday's Massive meet touched on a mystery blues tune seen in 1885 as part of a BBC2 Evening of the Blues (hosted by John Walters I think). Of all the items and shows: Sonny Boy Williamson live, Leadbelly footage - there was a documentary on Delta blues which was just stunning. One sequence featured a chap in his front room singing a 12 bar tune - with the opening lines to the verses beginning..

'They call me D.E.V.I.L…' next verse 'They call me M.O.N.E.Y…' and so on..

I've spent several years trying to track down, the performer, the song or the documentary - but to date haven't managed to locate any details. Does any of this ring any blues bells amongst the massive. Better yet, can you name the singer and the song?

Ironically I've got the highlights of the evening on VHS somewhere, but the tape was lofted long ago

Start your bids at £535,000 http://bit.ly/ewT8ZP. Any thoughts?