Slow Time Monday

After a weekend in London and the emotional highs and lows of Posh's win at Wembley in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy today has been a quiet day. I took the opportunity to listen to Berlin by Lou Reed for the first time all the way through.

I'd recommend that you do the same if you haven't already. It is a masterpiece.

Hanging on in quiet desperation

It may not be pretty but bloody minded desperation and a refusal to let others push me out seems to have worked.I still have a job. And in a region where we'll paid secure jobs for men in their early fifties are rarer than a cup winning team that's not a bad result.

Hard-Fi

I have always liked Hard- Fi southern( or more accurately outer suburban London) white working class music inspired by black working class music, neatly observing real life concerns about power, money, drugs and crime sometimes with a more political edge.

Here is a link to a new song Move Over

Young Rebel Set (again)

I wrote about them before Christmas. Their album is worth a listen. Here is a video of their latest single

New Year

Christmas good, New year crap- wife ill in bed. Me I get back to work and get this flu bug. Its only this weekend I have felt better.

Work is still crap. I have another interview this week and if I don't get one of the jobs on offer I will be out. Not without a fight though.

On a more cheerful note. Embrace are releasing new stuff after 8 years away.

Here is a link to their single Refugees