60a.....

.. Had a letter from the legal people last  Saturday

saying contracts have been exchanged  and I have

to leave 60a for the last time on 23rd February.

.. So goodbye my friend, thank you for the shelter.

Goodbye 60a



KRO

almost gone..........

road through the woods

kate bush. Eat the music

My fave. ever video, (bet he takes it down)
I love dance and no one comes close to these
dancers, before or since. (great track by Kate)

She died for just one kiss..

Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye

it's what old people do..

Annie Lennox - Don't Let Me Down (LIVE).mp4

brexit



KRO

Long as I Can See the Light by Creedence Clearwater Revival (Lyrics)

light

Infinity..

... what is it? Is it infinity plus one or
     infinity minus one

KRO

I wish my name was Harvey Leyland.........

I wish..

Beethoven Symphony No.7 - Mov.4 Riccardo Muti, La Scala

... this proves he was a punk rocker or just insane,

    but wow, there is so much joy in his madness....

..crazy..

It seems I must apologise ...

.. to all the young, to all those of high intellect, to the rich and
political elite, to the well educated, so here goes...
     I'm truly sorry for being old, for being poor and uneducated
for having the intellect of a mollusc and, it follows that if I talk
about immigration then I must be a bigot and a racist, for this
I am sorry.
  However the arrow of time goes only one way and with it
things must change, and, so to article fifty....

Fifty ways





KRO

Brexit............

Terry

Park that car drop that phone sleep on the floor dream about me.

dazlious

Broken Social Scene - Stars and Sons

they need a bigger band



KRO

All he said was.........

... babe your bum looks big in that ...





breakup......

Snow Cake Alan R ) avi

Snow Cake

Click on the link and watch in full screen

KRO

Ash Pollard (Birmingham's Best Busker)

Ash



KRO





   

Well there's having fun..

and there's having fun, and man were they....................







meatloaf



KRO

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know

Aussie band
The Human League are alive and well, ha ha.
Cool though innit......

.. there's not enough..

of the archangel Gabriel on here,
so here he is...........


Dinks song

David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers

   
You did ok David.

KRO



Bowie

My life time.. this just about covers it

Billy Joel
Ok, so another twenty five years have flown by, but
it's still the same shit, just new names, new plums..
KRO

Black Eyed Dog - Lisa Hannigan HQ

Drake

lisa hannigan i remember

I remember

No words ...........

XH558
(click on the link and view in full screen)

Billie Jean

Billie

spooky.

miner..

how did she do it ..

    'her nerve was her rage against the oppresser
and the unjust '

Sue Lloyd Roberts

Some people stand head and shoulders above
the rest of us...

KRO

Lisa Hannigan: Willie, Joni Mitchell Cover

Lisa

later with Jools .........

was ace last night and I wish I was
part of this crowd.........

Lone Bellow


full show

KRO

The voice of boyhood summers...

... has left us, 'what a marvellous ' voice it was.
The news this morning that Richie has died
leaves me close to tears, I have to be honest
the tears are more for me than RB. I'm so tired
now, so tired of loosing all my heroes.

Richie

Kitty Boots

In the early eighties or there about, I had a small business in the
 centre of Brum with a staff of about ten working with me in a rented
 building that backed on to the canal, which was nice, ha.
   One afternoon a young student (from Brum Uni.) walked in and asked
 me if I could sew Latex, her name was Karen Storey her "look" was
 half Goth and half punk, and I of course replied yes. She was about to
 leave Uni. and her intention was to open a stall at the Oasis in Dale End.
 Her trading name then was Forbes Hamilton, her plan was to make a
 few bob in the Oasis selling printed T shirts and latex clothing before
 moving to Kensington Market in the smoke and then New York City,
 all of which she did.

     We worked together for two or three years I guess and the
 memories make me smile, memories of shows in town, one
 outside the Oasis while I was still finishing off dresses for the
 models as Karen was in her office ( an old red telephone box)
 being interviewed by Central TV. Memories of a guy saying that
if you had enough money any one could have a number one
 hit and he did it. Don't remember the name of the one-hit wonders
 but we dressed them up for top of the pops in latex, the lead
 singer dressed in a pink latex cat suit.
    We also made the front cover of Elle, a beautiful lady dressed
 in a classic "little black dress" except I made it in gold latex,
 hand fitted of course. It was for sale at £99 but the printers
 made a mistake and listed it at £999 and, yep, Karen still got
 orders for it.
    It was about this time Karen was to leave for NYC, I hate
 goodbye's so I avoided her phone calls and visits to the factory
 until she gave up on me and left for New York.
 Some years later I was watching a fashion show on BBC2
 when the presenter said he was going to interview Kitty Boots
 the London designer in a taxi outside.  Red telephone box?
Yellow taxi? It couldn't be could it? It was, ha ha Kitty Boots
 aka Karen Storey, attagirl..... miss you ace.

Karen

When cool was cool..

and cool was Emma Peel and Steed ..

(love the song on the clip)

Emma

KRO

so what if I have?...

.. it's my blog.
Ryder


KRO

.. so now 'they' say.....

.. cheese, milk and butter etc. are realio trulio
good for you like in the Woody Allen film
Sleepers. So, talking of Woody and love and death........

Wheat

Miss you Hitch........

Never be a spectator
of unfairness or
stupidity. The grave
will supply plenty of
time for silence.

Christopher Hitchens.

Hitch.

I guess she was...

...a bad girl but, well.......





Carmen

KRO

Deborah's theme

Deborah

Talking of terrorists and...

... why you don't see white dog shit anymore..


dogbombs

KRO

The station agent....

Finbar McBride

Brand and Paxman..

I'm not that keen on Russell Brand but I love
 this interview and I do have one thing in
common with him, I have never voted or
 taken part in any general election. The reasons
 for this are the same given by Brand, in fact I
 agree with all that he says to Paxman but sadly,
 like me he only gives the results of his dreams
 not the path  or means by which we may achieve
them. Good TV though ain't it.

KRO




Brand and Paxman

Serena Ryder

Just... ace..





sisters of mercy







what I wouldn't

Fisher king

You did ok R.W.

KRO

Humans

nasty lot ain't they, and they'll never change.
The only hope are the children but we leave
them to starve to death, or die of curable
diseases and if that don't work, well we
just bomb the little buggers, all in the name
of freedom or 'Holy' men.

            Faith..
If all the Irish were in Ireland
What a crowded land it would be
No pixie dens deep green
Nor hills rolling gently to the sea.
If gods and saints were mortals
And all faith began this day
Should we then ask for reasons
Why this time, this place, this way?
                    Derek H.
Brady

Loudon Wainright

Most evenings I sit and have my dinner
about seven- ish, ( cornflakes and tea)
and watch old re-runs of M.A.S.H. while
I do so.
      Now and then Loudon Wainright is on
the show with his guitar, here's  a beautiful
song of his............

Loudon

Paths of glory.

"With the death of each individual
an entire universe vanishes"

Paths of glory 

Revolution......

Well, lately I guess it started in Tunisia,
they took to the streets and overthrew
their rulers, Libya fought a bloody battle
and rid themselves of 'the' mad man.
   Then it got big as Egypt's millions
voiced their anger and and got a new
military government, and in Syria thousands
are dead and dying as civil war continues.
Now we have Ukraine god knows where
that's gonna go, and the worlds largest democracy
has ended the Nehru dynasty and the French,
well they take to the streets every month so they
don't really count well now the Brits have had
enough we'll show the world what a real fuckin'
revolution is, what have we done? That's right,
we've voted UKIP so don't fuckin' mess with us...

Revolutin

KRO

Music..

.. from Brum, and there abouts......
love this clip, (although the bearded
women in red hats are a bit spooky)

brummoves

KRO

The swallows..

.. are back at Runway, four days early
by my reckoning , sign of a hot, dry summer.
Ha.
Click on the link at your peril, you'll be
there for hours (t.o.g.w.t)

Janis Ian
KRO

Faces...

.. in the days of Ronnie Lane what an
  ace band they were.





Faces

KRO

Last Tuesday..

I was back in hospital, the eyeball section
not the ticker division, and yay, both my
eyes are AOK and they discharged me
from their care. Now that's a first for me
as I have sloped out of the ticker division
three times, on the third of which they
caught me and made me sign myself out.
       So, Rufus where the hell did you go....





Natasha

poses

KRO