Welsh Boy: What a Star, Now Fuck Off
Christ it’s been weird watching my website ticking over perfectly happily in my absence. Given that I and only I have held the keys to this site for so long, watching you guys quietly getting on with it in my absence has been oddly eerie.
The best bit, I think it’s safe to say, is that it is clear that even without my instigation you’re still prepared to be a right bunch of bastards to anyone doing anything foolish (like, say, not thinking Newton Faulkner are shit) and that at any random moment threads are still liable to disappear off into some downward spiral of surreal mentalism.
More than anything, I think Dylan has done an amazing job with the writing. It’s been a brilliant combination of old stuff, new stuff and general rambling, with a wonderful balance of worthwhile writing and tongue-in-cheek frivolity. Poor lad’s all knackered now, having burnt just a little too much midnight oil, and found the tracking down of new stuff to be less straightforward than it might have been. I really should have given him a stack of promos to dig through, had I thought about it, but I’ll learn for next time.
So a massive Toadly thanks to Dylan for all his brilliant work keeping the house in order, and just time for one little gripe…
…Bombay? Bombay??? TANQUERAY, my good man, a gentleman drinks Tanqueray. Cleaner, crisper, altogether a superior gin, and the Tanqueray 10 stuff is just lovely as well, but as far as this gin sot is concerned there simply is no better gin. Bombay. Goodness gracious me, what has the world come to.
Here are a couple of things from my inbox, which contained nearly 400 emails on my return.
These lads are really good, and currently working on an album too, which is excellent news.
Inspector Tapehead – Sugar on Your Sheets
This is off the new Shaky Hands album, which is approaching in a month or two. I’m really looking forward to this one.
The Shaky Hands – We Are Young
And here’s a little treat from the stuff I’ve been listening to whilst away:
Blind Pilot – Oviedo
Ratatat – Falcon Jab
