A spring in my step

Mar 21, 2009 10:18

The sun is shining (ignore the ice encrusting the greenhouse), the sky is blue, and there is a spring in my step because...

I'm going to be in a book!

David Keenan is writing a book about the British musical underground, seems to think that the A Band can be traced back to The Strolling Ones (the eighties band i was in with stewartkeith ), who, over twenty years ago, played two gigs and sold one tape. One. Sure we mucked about with tape recorders having a good time, but, well... influential??? Anyway he's going to email me with a few questions, so i can bore him at great length with tedious Throbbing-Gristle-meets-Spike-Milligan bedroom tape culture anecdotes.

I've been spending the last few days in complete befwizzlement because of it, wibbling vaguely. The phrase "I'm going to be in a book" , especially for such a ludicrous, unexpected reason, completely floors me. Of all the weird things that The Strolling Ones or Well Crucial (yeah, it was the eighties) did, this tops them.

I just hope the book doesn't cost thirty five bloody quid like his last one.

david keenan, the strolling ones, well crucial, paignton, wtf, 80s

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