Yesterday I had my regular blood test (I'm borderline diabetic) and had the usual problem of getting the needle into a vein. It really struggles with 2000AD with 2080 being a favourite. Among my favourite mistakes so far has been "most mobile order Nelli" for Massimo Belardinelli and "than their 2018" for Dan Dare in 2000AD. As I mentioned last week, I have been using them to help me transcribe old interviews and radio shows, and the results are mixed. You'll be pleased to hear that the world is safe from AIs and they won't be taking over any time soon. Nowadays, the only gigs we go to are comedy shows, of which we have a couple lined up - the first in two years! - namely Lou Sanders (much delayed from March 2020) and Simon Evans. My first festival was Knebworth on 4 August 1979 to see Led Zeppelin. I think my first live gig was the Hawklords at Ipswich Gaumont in October 1978. The Stranglers had played there six weeks earlier. I think even then I was making a slow but steady move into rock and especially prog rock that is still my favourite musical genre.ĭuring my digging, I discovered that the Sex Pistols played Chelmsford Prison in September 1976, only a few weeks before Action was cancelled. The only albums I bought were by The Stranglers ( No More Heroes, Black & White), who were more melodic. So I was able to borrow the single, and later borrowed the album ( Never Mind The Bollocks) and others by The Damned, X-Ray Specs and The Clash. I was 14 by the time the Sex Pistols released "Anarchy In The U.K." (November 1976) and, while I didn't buy it, my neighbour, Eddie, did. (The Sweet also released a song called Action, so I have been thinking about them a lot this past week.)Īnyway, I liked guitar-led music which could be cranked up, so punk was perfect. By comparison, 'Tiger Feet' bumped along like a metronome designed for square dancing. It was a choice between 'Tiger Feet' by Mud and 'Teenage Rampage' by The Sweet and I chose the latter because I loved the choppy, wailing guitar and changing tempo and vocal styles between Steve Priest and Brian Connolly. I did like a lot of the music that came out of the scene. I didn't particularly like everything that circled around the music. I also took a bit of time out to relive a bit of punk history, watching the utterly dreadful The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980) directed by Julian Temple and the utterly fascinating The Filth and the Fury (2000) directed by the selfsame Julian Temple. I'm still piecing together the Action project, with most of the week taken up with adding various quotes to the patchwork that I'm slowly quilting. Death or Glory: The Best of Battle Picture Library.Unleash Hell: The Best of War Picture Library.Against All Odds: War Picture Library Vol.Frank Bellamy's King Arthur and His Knights.Let 'Em Have It: Battle Picture Library Vol.Sci-Fi Art: A Graphic History, with others.Up And At 'Em! War Picture Library Vol.Aces High: Air Ace Picture Library Vol 1.Frank Bellamy's Complete Swift Stories (limited edition).Frank Bellamy's The Story of World War 1.Essential Cult Books, with Gina McKinnon.Gwyn Evans: The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet.Peter Jackson's London Is Stranger Than Fiction.The Men Behind the Flying Saucer Review.The story of Harry Bensley's "Walking Round the World" Hoax The Complete Eagles Over the Western Front.Hurricane and Champion: The Companion Papers to Valiant (new edition).Excludes: Africa, Bahrain, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, United Arab Emirates, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa, Virgin Islands (U.S.
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