oldbloke's mutterings

A few days ago I mentioned that my colleague Stu is also in a band and provided the MySpace link. http://www.myspace.com/chevisancemusic in case you missed it. A clear influence from Sisters Of Mercy according to L.
They had their first LIVE gig last night, and apparently (I wasn't there) it went pretty well. Mali wasn't that impressed by the other bandmembers but reckons Stu ROCKS. And his dad arrived to see it, unexpectedly, all the way from Cornwall! Awwwwww.

A rare event:
On the way in this morning, after getting into 5th as we came away from Rochdale on the A627M, didn't have to change down until I was past Oldham. Yes, not even as I went through the roundabout at the junction with the M62. Still takes about an hour and ten from home to Jack's nursery, though, even when we don't have to stop for him to do a wee (which we haven't for a few days now, huzzah, in the mornings at least - we still generally have to stop at least once on the way home, but no actual accidents for ages now)

A fun gig:
Spotted that Artsworld had "Roy Orbison and Friends" last night. Only got to it about halfway through, but a nice gig all the same. In the band, along with what I assume was Roy's normal backing lineup, were Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, KDLang, Bonnie Raitt, and a few other people I probably ought to have recognised - Google tells me there were Jackson Browne, Jennifer Warnes, T Bone Burnett, James Burton, and more.


A dilemma:
This follows on from the above. Our free-all-of-Sky-for-a-month deal is over on Friday. The Hey-why-not-sign-up letter came last night. I'm actually tempted, despite the money going to Murdoch. But you know, we didn't watch all that much that wasn't on FreeSat anyway in that month, and which mixes would I need for the stuff we did like? It's cheap(ish) for the first year, but after that??? And is there some small print that says you have to stay past that first year, hidden away somewhere?

While L watched the Grow Your Own Vegetables series, I mostly read, but kept having my attention grabbed by the background music in the programs. Loads of great stuff from when I were nobbut a lad, back in the 67-73 period.
Um, that's it.

Fantastic program.
Wonder if there's owt on YouTube? Some of the numbers looked like they were being made into videos.
And, um: I cried.