Monthly Archives: August 2006

Homeland Hack

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Good to see Shaun Waterman’s has launched a blog as UPI’s Homeland and National Security Editor:

“I hope you will wish your humble correspondent luck as he steers uncertainly into the fast lane of the information superhighway.

“By all means laugh at his inevitable missteps (what would life be without the occasional, refreshing glass of schadenfreude) but please don’t allow your amusement to cloud your good opinion of the Hack’s virtues.

“My first posting, excerpted below, is a regular week-ahead — a look at the events, issues and people likely to be making homeland security news over the next seven days. I will post one every Sunday night. I’ll be posting links to all my UPI stories there, plus jottings, reflections and anything else that didn’t make it into the day’s output.”

My bands confession

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Anyhow, just to confess my own nerdish behaviour, with a few bands I have seen including:

  • Gary Glitter
  • The Last Poets (Toxteth, Liverpool)
  • Hair Cut 100 (Leicester)
  • Nina Simone (Albert Hall)
  • Showaddwaddy (De Montfort Hall, Leicester)
  • Ike Turner (Ronnie Scott’s)
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Edwin Starr (Stratford)
  • Downset (LA2)
  • Public Enemy (The Dome)
  • Black Grape (Brixton Academy)
  • Erasure (MK Bowl)
  • The Swinging Laurels (the Horsefair: also from Leicester; appeared on TOTP’s with Fun Boy Three)
  • The Buzzcocks
  • John Cage (at the Sydney Opera House)
  • Cornershop (pre-‘brim full of asha’ I booked them for Manchester Town Hall)
  • The Magic Numbers (Summer Sundae 2005)
  • The Dandy Warhols (Princess Charlotte, Leicester)

    • Plus numerous indie bands, most recently the Mile High Penguins (12 Bar Club)!

    Of course each of these comes with its own special anecdote, and thus so to the blogger’s dilemma. Whether to wax lyrical to an audience of 1 (including themself) or to move on to the next day’s rant?