Radios With Valves In

[Joe]

I discovered this site earlier. It isn't particularly informative but certainly entertaining

http://www.radioswithvalvesin.co.uk/index.html

[Jamie-Skinner]

Very amusing indeed!

Always switch your soldering iron on before use. It reduces the warm up time considerably!

[tiv48]

could not agree more how i wish i could write like that shades of llj
rob t

[Yorkie]

Thanks for the link - highly readable and very humorous!

Nice to see that you're a fellow Neil Hannon fan - ' Hannon the Canon' as he's sometimes known. He seems to have faded into obscurity, but his Divine Comedy 'Fin de Siecle' (end of the century) album must be one of the most under-rated ever. 'If your life is a mess, take the National Express it will make you smile'...so funny and true to life. 'Generation Sex' was masterful in alluding to the death of Diana, and the cynical world in which - on the one hand, her so-called 'fans' craved for Diana's privacy to be invaded by the papperazi - then when she died, were weeping and wailing and spending a fortune at florists on flowers that became litter within 24 hours: 'Hacks, in macs, with telephoto lenses, chase Mercedes Benzes through the night. Mourning nation weeps, and wails, but keeps the sales, of evil tabloids heathy, the poor protect the wealthy in this world...' Sums it up nicely - what a clever and insightful wordsmith.

Sorry to ramble right off topic, but I just had to mention your tagline!

Night night,

David

[Joe]

He's still very much around and up to standard, David. He had a single out called 'At the Indie Disco' earlier this year the Light Programme played quite a lot.

Last year, or knowing my perception of time, or the lack thereof, it cold have been before that) he teamed up with a chap from Pugwash and made an album about Cricket under the name The Duckworth-Lewis Method. The lead track was called 'The Age of Revolution' and contained a classic bit about overseas players: "always denied entry by the English gentry. Now we're driving Bentleys playing twenty-20."

I like some of the earlier stuff too like 'The Seafood Song' and 'A Drinking Song': "We're drinking to Life, we're drinking to Death, we're drinking 'til none of our livers are left."

I about to put Javis Cocker's 6 Music programme on. He's another good 'un.

Cheers
- Joe

[Joe]

I could NOT remember last night just what it is that Neil Hannon is currently putting most of is efforts into but it came to me in the night: he's writing a musical based on 'Swallows and Amazons.'