chrisp65

Yeah my dad was very much first generation oily biker having been in to all that Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly and all that. Even his BSA motorbikes. Ten or fifteen years later with a wife and kids and music moving on he was still there culturally, but playing the likes of Queen, Tull, Rainbow, Joe Walsh etc.. Much of what he had in his back catalogue I secretly desired, the Chuck Berry, Troggs, Del Shannon etc.. But 'Queen' fitted my sneering baiting contempt for hard man leather clad 'rockers' and their refusal to see a track such as 'Sheer Heart Attack' for the camp dross it was. We're both a bit more reasonable now, there's a bit more empathy around the place. I'm a lot more mellow now.

The original brief was along the lines of wedding crowd in a working mens' club, so you've got some stormers there Shropshire Lad, if I was you I'd just bang out tracks 2,3 and 6, shout out 'thank you and goodnight' and go down in legend as the DJ that left them wanting more. Much more.

I was going to write one of those 'summary of the year' things to pop in to all the christmas cards. 'We've sold the little place we had in Austria as the skiing there has gone down hill, Beatrice has had a slight relapse and is back on the sauce but the twins, Montague and Epiphany are doing very very well in rehab. We were hoping to all get botox this year but Tarka Rose went first and suffered an allergic reaction so the rest of us right shit ourselves and backed out. Shares down about £10k but we've further sub divided some of the houses we have up the valleys and squeezed in another 6 families of slightly vague origin. Grandma Fanny is now 82 and looking great for it, she had a tattoo of 2Pac this year, but I'm not allowed to see where it is. Chin chin!' But I didn't get it together in time and now they've all been posted.

I worked in a seaside town hotel when the film of Quadrophenia came out. I was a paid up member of the Distant Echo Scooter Club and went up that London to get suits tailored to fit in a place just off Carnaby Street. My dad was an old school rocker, with his factory job, motorbike and Queen albums. Happy daze.

To get the number of 700 to 800 in to perspective. That's pretty much the same number as is estimated the pro fascist Irish Volunteers lead by Eoin O'Duffy brought to the 'liberation' of Franco's home grown fascists that had been pinned down and isolated in Alcazar in 1936. So whilst I don't personally think the 700 number is credible, it must surely be far higher, I also don't think it is the start of UK social melt down and civil war. The British Isles also sent an estimated 4,000 anti fascist volunteers to fight in Spain. All at a time when communication and travel was far more difficult and the language barrier probably more of a problem. Perhaps if we spent some time and money working out who was where, rather than on another thousand sorties, we'd have more of a handle on this. Personally, I don't have much of a problem with idiots that support ISIS leaving here and going to Syria to fight in the shit and the dust. I do have a problem with them coming back here afterwards.

I think he was possibly referring to this annual event. Although I now really really hope they had it done by moonpig.

kids are well happy, I'm off to buy four lots of pie and chips an hour earlier than I'd said and they get control of the TV

Diego Garcia

Carter USM Butthole Surfers Trashmen Half Man Half Biscuit Deee Lite We are of an age my friends, of an age.

See, this is why I stipulated no requests. I can live with Manilow, I can understand how that's a reasonable swap. But now there's a queue of dickheads asking for Queen and Iron Maiden and Emineminem. Anyway, it's all already lined up on my phone, I can't change it now. There's a Project Management company a stone's throw from Kings Cross station that does free bar on a Friday evening. I've abused that little treat more than once.

it's not a party if there's no cheese

1. Anti Nowhere League - So What (hello? hello? you gonna dance or stand on the side?) 2. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK (yeah, you were never a punk you fat suit wearing clearing in the woods) 3. Frankie - Relax (oooh, it's kicking in now) 4. Clash - White Riot (yeah, it is glass, but I think you can still chuck it) 5. Chris De Burgh - Lady in Red (bring it down a bit, have a smooch and a feel up) 6. Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings (I'm nothing if I'm not inclusive) 7. Psy - Gangnam Style (nan and the grandchildren get a dance before they **** off early) 8. Electric Six - Gay Bar (here we go, shirt off....) 9. MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (thank you and good night) £150, I'll be there by 6:30pm, must be within 2 metres of a double plug socket, no requests.

agreed swerve was the consensus

Has anybody seen 'from the Jam' live? Would that be worth a £20 ticket? I was fan No1 back in the day, but I'm fairly suspicious of these sort of partly staffed sort of reunions. Plus £20 is pretty much top end of what I'll pay (none of your lah dih dah £50, £60, £70 gig tickets here). On the other hand, this will be happening a few hundred meters from my house.

£3 up on the secret santa prezzy this year. Standard has been set at £5 but being a high level uber alpha executive I pushed the envelope and bought my secret santa a £7 book (ladybird book of 'The Hipster'). In turn I have received a bottle of red wine. A quick google and it's currently a tenner in majestics. I know one shouldn't be materialistic about these things, but it's the nearest thing to a performance review that I get.

a late contender for post of the year

I'm so chuffed with noticing how one of my photos kinda fitted into one of my others, that I stuck the record on. Tutti Frutti!

I'm in the office watching the news in the corner of my screen with the sound turned off and the guy in the corner doing sign language interpretation. I'm struggling to tell the difference between stories about Jose Murinho and Cockermouth.

Does this count as a gig? Essentially, it's a couple of hundred balding overweight middle aged white guys looking at each others junk. HiFi Wigwam 2016

I think that if the state or our elected leader declares someone a Britain hating, security threatening, terrorist sympathising risk to our nation's security, my family's security and the security of the economy, then it is ok to kill them without trial or any formal proceedings. I'm more than happy to simply take 'their' word for it. Guardian Independent Personally, I'm ok with the world losing Mohammed Emwazi. I'm just very concious we are stood at the top of a very steep and very slippery slope, with politicians in charge of how close to the edge we stand. They don't have a great track record. Yes we got Emwazi. We also got Jean Charles De Menezez.

Should we have just killed Shaker Aamer? Turned up in Afghanistan, captured by bounty hunters, supposedly a king pin in the AQ ranks, but no charges ever brought against him. But if he'd been taken out by an SAS bullet we'd surely have just accepted he must be a bad man in a bad place? As it happens, back in the naive old days he was taken away to Guantanemo where for 13 years they didn't actually raise a case against him. Now he's in London, walking around. Very awkward very grey area.