According to grahamparker.net he's intermittently touring in the US, releasing official bootlegs and archive collections - all the usual cottage industry stuff - but he writes an interesting article about his experiences with an agency that promotes the use of an artists songs in US TV series.

This extract made me snigger:

Now, there may well be a Paleolithic among you who thinks that even wanting to have tunes placed on TV shows, in movies or in adverts, is a sell out, a morally reprehensible idea, a crass indefensibly offensive affront to the delicate sensibilities of both artiste and audience, a reproachable attack on the bedrock virtues of nonconformist ideology as espoused by 50 years of iconoclastic observance to unwritten codes of conduct evinced by a continual wellspring of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion now well established and accepted as a hierarchy implicitly sanctioned in the embedded psyche of a generation of man/child torchbearers still gripping unflinchingly the flame of truth-against-power, a flame held dear to countless manifestations of the unadulterated poetics of musical purity, unencumbered by commerciality, resistant to compromise, bound implacably to the concepts of art and simultaneously immune to the vagaries of market and acceptability, popularity and monetary gain, resplendent and intrinsically wedded to higher aspirations of artistic insularity and the steadfast multiplicity of complex compositional profundities deeply inherent to the form as established in long-standing antiestablishment diatribes, agitprop and anti-nabob in both structural formulation and density of sonic delivery, immersed in — for want of a better word — cool.
                  
Well, then you’d be a twit.

Would be great to meet up and have a natter. You went off the site for a while or at least took a lower profile. Am in fairly regular contact with a couple of other Midlanders on here and have been to a couple of the London mingles which really are good fun.

Bob Andrews haircut circa '75-77.