Ultravox - Systems of Romance
Rheostatics - Melville
Rheostatics - Whale Music
Rheostatics - Music from the Film "Whale Music"
Rheostatics - Music Inspired by the Group of Seven
Tori Amos - Fade to Red (DVD)
Five Hole Band - Tales of Hockey Erotica
The Violet Archers - Live at the Anza Club, Vancouver 2005
Martin Tielli - Live at Steamers, Victoria 1999
Dave Bidini - Live at the Paramount 2007
Ah, the first day of October and a lovely bright, fresh, sunny morning...
To FOPP with a vow in my head only to buy CDs I actually want...
So, no CDs bought - but I did partake of their £3 offer on a Tori Amos double DVD of her promo videos...
Throughout this week and again this evening, I've been mainly listening to Rheostatics - totally, unequivocally recommended to you...
I visited the Rheostatics Live site, from where fans (or anyone) can download concerts for free, and I downloaded some solo gigs...
Also visited e-bay Canada and stuck a bid on the latest Dave Bidini CD - can't find it for under £20 including postage elsewhere...
Also bought a Martin Tielli solo project, Nick Buzz, and await its arrival...
Oh, and I wrote a new song...
Lyrics flowed and a tune appeared - took around 30 minutes all told and I'm liking it...
Song number two for the next LP, it's called "I Walk to the Beat of a Cold Broken Heart" - it is not autobiographical I might add...
Ended the day with "Question Time", David Starkey setting out the utter dreadful buffoonery and failure of Gordon Brown - best quote "anyone who said they could banish Boom and Bust wouldn't even pass economics O level"...
And "This Week", with guest, former cleaner and, now, judge, Constance Briscoe telling it like it is on "Brown's Broken Britain" - she sees the result of our benefit culture and families with up to three generations of kids who've never lived with anyone who had a job, every day in her courtroom...
Funny to see the Labour MP and apologist, Diane Abbott, squirming at the use of the term "underclass" and railing against it, being brought down to earth with the riposte "well you've had twelve years to do something about it and you've done nothing"...
Mind you, the Tories had 18 years before that to sort it out - and, in fact, Michael Portillo's assertion that the roots of this go back probably more than 40 years is right on the button...
It's such a waste of resources - not just taxpayers' cash poured down the drain but the human resource of all those people who are quite able to work but for whom benefits seem to offer a better option - a view perhaps coloured by the experience of family members in the past...
Not long to go now though, hopefully there'll be some fresh ideas - surely the Tories can't be any worse than "New" Labour...
Highlight of the Day : New song...
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