Interrogates

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Completely inane, ambiguous questions from an interviewer receive lukewarm to openly hostile responses from a host of top musicians = internet gold!

I particularly like this interview with Ane Brun, one of my musical heroes. She looks so dismayed that she's being asked these questions! And when the interviewer opens the curtains behind her halfway through a question, she looks like she's going to walk out. Then he picks her up on a throwaway comment and interrogates her about it until she looks visibly uncomfortable.

Also a great moment when Laura Marling takes the wrong meaning of the interviewer's phrase "big albums". She gives an eloquent answer about albums that were big in sales and gives an insight into her influences – he corrects her and talks about the size of LP covers nowadays.

Heavies

I'm organising another acoustic gig in my studio in December. This time my friend Anjuli of Crack-a-Jack Crow is playing. Looking forward to that already. Now I just need to find someone else to play. Hopefully my friend, Sarah, who I met on the songwriting class, will play a few songs.

I met up with Sarah on Sunday to practice playing bass on some of her songs. Good fun! I always love playing music with other people. She's got some great songs too. And she did an amazing melodica solo on my song, Grace is Just Her Middle Name.

On Thursday my mate Bezz, who I've known since we were 12, is coming down to Brighton and we're going to see the Brand New Heavies. It's been one of my ambitions to see the BNH with N'Dea Davenport. She's gorgeous and really sets those songs on fire. Bezz got me into the BNH which led me to get into funk which led me to be a funk DJ in Swansea briefly so it's very apt that I'm going with him.

Covered

Cover update: my girlfriend bought a copy of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole on VHS from a charity shop. It's a TV dramatisation of the book the was done in the Eighties. We out it on and I remembered the theme tune instantly. But I never realised what a great song it is! It's got a real bitter sweet feel to it.

I looked it up and realised it is by Ian Dury and that a full song has been made of it. Perfect cover material I think. I've found the chords online and had a quick play through last night and it sounds quite good done in my plinky-plonky guitar style.

The sequel, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, has got a different verse so I might use that one in my version too.