Author: Nick

Live at the Bull & Gate

This Change Is Everything – a band that some of you may remember fondly or otherwise – is playing Monday December 22 at 9.30pm at the Bull & Gate in Kentish Town, London.

The three core members will be playing, with the fourth, the drummer, being replaced by an expensive machine, such is the way of the world, but then what do drummers expect?

Anyway for more details, a flyer you’ll need to get in, good luck messages or if you think we’re just plain stupid, drop us an note.

New photos

I’ve now finished a basic version of the new photo albums and if you click here or on the image on the right hand side, you’ll be taken to the albums featuring pictures of Miles.

There are three albums up there, one with a few samples and two others documenting his first two years. The last two are password protected for obvious reasons, so if you want to see them, drop us an note and we’ll send you one (if we know you).

We’ll be updating the pictures regularly, I promise. And I’ll be working on the site constantly to make it look a little less ugly.

Watch this space

So I’ve slackened off over the past few months as you may have noticed, due in part to technical problems and laziness.

Anyway, I’ve nearly completed setting up a new set of online photo albums using software called Gallery, which is great once you get it up and running and are prepared to fiddle a little with various software interdependencies.

I waited a long time for Movable Type to come up with an effective photo album tool that didn’t involve hosting it at another domain name, and when it did it was too expensive, so I went with Gallery, which I strongly recommend. But I’ll still use MT for this front end.

Anyway, enough with the technology, I hear you saying. We have a lot pf pictures of him and what we’ve been up to that we want to share, which we will do so shortly. So check back within a few days and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Meantime, please excuse any broken links on the right while I clean things up.

Long time, no see

Apologies for anyone who has been coming back here in the last couple of months expecting to see new pictures of himself – I know that’s the only reason anybody would come here, you’re not here for my ramblings, are you? – but one thing and another has conspired to let the updating of ther site slide.

I know, poor show and all that, but hopefully I’ll be changing the photo albums soon and who knows even adding video of him.

Stay tuned.

Vivid and in their prime

If The Smiths are your bag – and why wouldn’t they be? – then the recent BBC Radio 6 stuff surrounding the 20th anniversary of the release of the debut single, Hand in Glove is essential listening. After you’ve recovered from how old the whole thing makes you feel, there’s a few gems on the BBC site to reward your persistence.

The best is the two-part the Smiths @ The Beeb, which includes all the recordings the band made for the John Peel and David Jensen shows between 1983 and 1986, many of which were not on Hatful of Hollow or Louder Than Bombs and haven’t been heard before.

There’s also some great comments from Peel and a short interview between Morrissey and Jensen in the first section of the piece in which he sounds so young, camp and excited about the whole thing, just a year after he and Marr met. Top stuff.

Adieu Tigs

It just goes for bad to absurd down at Fulham, as they’ve now sacked Jean Tigana, two games into his lame duck manager period and five before he was due to leave the club for good anyway. The mercurial Chris Coleman – apparently something of a leader of men – has been put in temporary charge.

I guess it can’t get be any worse than the last three games, especially the Blackburn debacle.

A sad end to a great three years, but hopefully we’ll get the 2-3 points we need to have another go round at this Premiership thing next year.

His record across one Div 1 season and almost two in the top flight was:

P: 152 W: 69 L: 43 D: 42