Quote: George Kaplan @ 5th March 2019, 3:24 PM
You too. Hope you can stick around. 
Good long interview with Terry Hall on this afternoon's Nihal Arthanayake radio show on 5 live. Well worth a listen once it's on iPlayer. Starts after the 2 o'clock news.
Thanks George. Oddly enough I did the West Midlands on Saturday. I've not been feeling well and had never been in deep there before so I decided to do an entire new region in sixteen and a half hours instead of medicine. (I left at 0630 and got back at 2300). Coventry was the team of one of my mates. He died suddenly at age 40 in 2004, having fitted in enough girlfriends in that time for twenty dozen 80 year olds, so going on the train through Rugby where he lived and then Cov brought back some memories. He used to think it funny to call me Roland Rat and got the hump when I answered every question in his pop quiz but came to my rescue on several occasions in the 1980s. Rugby yes, Cov yes. But I'd never been further.
To get the full vibe, once I was at Brum I took the 80A bus to West Bromwich not so far away from Steel Pulse's Handsworth and Lenny Henry's Dudley and chatted to a lot of people in the market. Then I moved on by tram to Wolverhampton so that I could see the outside of Derek Dougan's Moulinex food mixer. Then around 1.45pm the entire city turned into a weird gold colour which wasn't in line with either of my two tone eyeballs so I got the tram back into Brum and went to watch Grealish's volley at the Villa. It was very exciting and the claret architecture was superb. I can see why William appreciates it when he is driving his helicopter.
To cut a long story short, it was a long story back but I managed to avoid getting stabbed between my Eustachian station tube and my St Pancreas. I have bought lots of tickets now that I can't afford for all sorts of things as medicine. I'm hoping to be at the 100 Club soon for the greatest 80 year old singer no one ever knew ever lived. I will be back with more information shortly including an interesting thing about the Leeds version of Ukraine. Yep, The Wedding Present's alter egos are on tour again and it is like York's Red Rhino records have never been away. In the meantime, the great, soon to be the 100 Club's, Ural Thomas :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhFD9JCj9Y
(The Stax like one - very strong - high culture likes this one best - but I like it equally)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0MxBTzBhk
(The Northern Soul one - in its genre, a killer of a track or as they say now a banger)
(stumbled across this - and if he really is 80 or nearly 80 I'm having what he is having!)
