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BEEF |
posted by jim on 19/11/04
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A good week for do gooder vegetarians such as me.
Hunting banned and beef removed from Bovril.
I remember when I worked for a living, on a cold West End winter morning unloading a lorryload of silk and breaking for a bacon or sausage sandwich and a steaming cup of Bovril. Quorn and McCartney have made the sausage and bacon ingredients possible but Marmite makes a rubbish drink. Now my silk unloading days can be relived and remembered in full. And anyone who could kill a fox or take part in killing one has something wrong woth their chi. Boomshanka.
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MY RECENT LIFE |
posted by jim on 15/11/04
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Birthday, Christmas, Easter, Pop Idol type programme/record, Nick Cave gig:
Every year I go and see Nick Cave live and every year he fails to dissapoint me. The only thing is my memory of the show is always tainted by the memory of the big drunk twat stood next to me swaying back and forth, taking poxy crappy little out of focus pictures on his mobile phone, doing ridiculous gangsta rap style gestures during 'Stager Lee' and generally obscuring my view. Also the other twats stood behind me with the entire contents of their hallway coat and hatstand piled up under my feet so I can't move. And basically anyone who can't pass two hours of their life without making a phone call.
Played the Joe Strummer Remembrance Sunday gig in Brighton for the second year running, tried out a few new songs live and a few more Carter ones I haven't played before. Enjoyed myself, had some crisps on the way there.
Band Aid, mmm. I think charity is a great thing I really do but I can't help feeling uncomfortable when I see all these pop stars on the telly dressed up and hairdo'd with their posh cars and butlers and personal assistants and minders. And to hear Joss hasn't she got an amazing voice for a teenager from Cornwall Stone asking her mum what was the name of that bloke...that's it Bob Geldof. And Busted, who I normally have a lot of time for, talking about reading a leaflet about it on the way to the recording studio and how there's a problem out there. And then knowing there'll be the ad libbing of the chorus by all those great singers like Stone and Beddingield, ruining any tune or trace of melody that was there in the first place. And Bono flying over to redo his bit because his manager heard that that bloke from the Darkness had done it instead, and oh the money it must all cost and do they really make any profit after they've paid all the hairdressers and stylists and helicoptor pilots and drug barons and poodle (to stroke) handlers, and photographers, and cameramen, and and and and and and...
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My New Band |
posted by jim on 9/11/04
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The last firework has been lit.
A busy week for Jim Bob as I rehearsed with my new band: Rowland Rivron on drums, Richard Vranch (Whose Line Is It Anyway etc) on keyboards, Dave Catlin Birch (Bootleg Paul McCartney with the Bootleg Beatles) on bass and Robert Newman on Banolele (neck of a ukele/body of a banjo).
We formed briefly for a BBC Radio 2 programme called Jammin’ – a mixture of music and gags. I won’t tell you what I did as that would spoil any enjoyment you might get out of it when it’s broadcast at the start of next year. Anyway, I had to learn a lot of new guitar stuff and become a musician for a day.
Despite ridiculous pre-rehearsal nerves I enjoyed myself and hope this is my big break into the world of BBC light entertainment. Maybe I’ll be asked to appear on Band Aid’s 30th anniversary re release in 2014. I hope I can do the Bono bit.
The tour’s approaching, I need to start decorating my table and picking my songs. To sit on a stool or to not sit on a stool, so many questions. I expect I’ll go for a bit of both, just like Westlife.
I was watching the X Factor on Saturday and it was annoying me so I turned over for strictly Come Dancing, where there was a really bad singer performing bad covers while someone from Eastenders was thrown around the studio by a man in a shiny trouser suit. The bad cabaret singer on the BBC was however slightly better than the nob jockey over on ITV who apparently has the X factor, whatever that may be. Is it like the wow factor in all the house buying programmes.
We used to be a nation of shopkeepers but now we are a nation of estate agents.
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JAMMIN' BUB SHEEWAR DE DAH |
posted by jim on 4/11/04
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I have this blog thing so I feel I
should occasionally use it.
Yesterday (Wednesday) I went to a church hall in Totto Court Road to rehearse ideas for 'Jammin'' – the Radio 2 show I'm on. I feel better about it now, I was beyond anxious before, thinking I would be out musicianed and out funnied. I'm more relaxed now and just have about a million or so songs to learn.
The show is recorded next week and broadcast in February by the way.
Halloween = only one set of ghost kids showed up, so felt less terrorised than usual. And got to eat all the mini Mars Bars and Starburst ourselves. Ronnie result.
Bonfire night continues, now into it's second month. This year we'll be at the girlfriend's brother's for sparklers and baked potatoes. On November the 5th, wasn't somebody born on that date?
More soon.
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SURPRISE, SURPRISE |
posted by jim on 27/10/04
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Attending your own surprise party that you know is taking place is bound to be a bit weird. When I walked into the Angelstrike! album listening party at the weekend that's what it felt like. I'm basically quite shy and needed to get to the bar as quick as possible for a couple of alcoholic relaxers. Got to meet the hardcore, who are all scientists and doctors. I like to think I've got the most intelligent audience in rock. A great night.
I've got good feelings about the album, a couple of reviews have been promised already - good or bad I don't know but we live in hope. Measure your reviews Jim, don't read them.
I met John Peel once. It was in A BBC radio truck at Reading Festival in 1991. While he was interviewing us he told us how he didn't really like Carter but had warmed to us after hearing our sample of him on the 'Rubbish' single. Rest in punk rock peace John Peel.
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IN A BIG HOSPITAL ON A SATURDAY NIGHT! |
posted by jim on 17/10/04
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Saturday night on the 29th floor of Guy’s Hospital at Dave the Socialist’s 50th birthday party. Yet another different and hastily formed version of the Abdoujaps – with Arran J Rhesus Lovechild on drums and Danny on stolen Hospital ward piano – performed a few songs, while I played an even more hastily assembled – ie: during the first song – set with Bransby, performing covers of Common People (William Shatner version), What I Go To School For, All The Small Things, The Only Living Boy In NC and the first 2 lines of Another Girl Another Planet, which was round about when I forgot the words.
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Friday afternoon at JBHQ |
posted by jim on 15/10/04
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I can’t apologise enough for suggesting there was a gig of some description on 22nd Nov. Even Team Jim Bob: Marc and Neil asked me where the gig was taking place. For my birthday I would like everybody to buy my album and to come along and keep me company on tour. I’m looking forward to it.
If I make too much of a nob jockey of myself at the Radio 2 thing – I’m nervous about that by the way, I will have to have a couple of glasses of something before it for confidence – if you’re in the audience don’t let it put you off coming to my gigs. If you are in the audience incidentally, remember to laugh at all my ‘funny bits’. If there are any.
Thinking about what songs to play on tour, so many to choose from. I was contemplating the songs on 30 Something when I realised I haven’t got a CD copy of it. I had to check it out on vinyl. And to play that I had to take it off the wall and break the glass and prise it from the felt backing it was glued to. Which was when I discovered it was just an old Black Lace album sprayed gold.
Since buying my digital radio I’ve been listening to a lot of BBC 6 and have noticed that all new music sounds like it was made in 1978/9 by XTC and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.
Watching Darius on GMTV this morning I remembered how much I hate him. He’s very arrogant isn’t he. But in a very humble sort of way. Like he’s Elton John or somebody. His new single is bollox as well.
Saw S*M*A*S*H* the other night with R*H*E*S*U*S* in New Cross. Weird night, I don’t get out much these days. It was very loud. I’m very old. I’ve got a muffled thing going on in my left ear and my eyes are craving some sort of lens and frame get up. I like Elvis Costello and Thora Hird but I’m resisting.
Sex Traffic on Channel 4 was good. The drummer in Razorlight once asked me if he could play drums with Jim’s Super Stereoworld and I considered it seriously at the time, too late now I guess. Actually, seeing Salv the other night with S*M*A*S*H* made me think about the Stereoworld, I wouldn’t mind doing a gig one day. Don’t hold your breath though because I’ll probably disappoint you. I might form a tribute act instead and call them Jim’s Superb Stereoworld.
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