here's a thing

many thanks to my friend sam for helping me tweak this... odd bit of nonsense

the common swings library of folk musicians #8: alasdair klenk

The Common Swings Library of Country Records #8: Old Jeremiah Parboil

the common swings library of folk musicians #7: bawtry mincing

The Common Swings Library of Country Records #7: Ducks Pardew

the common swings library of folk musicians #6: rev. huw gubbage, expert in early english folk music

The Common Swings Library of Country Records #6: Pops Narvo

the common swings library of folk musicians #5: fentiman hardacre

The Common Swings Library of Country Records #5: Ballards Fusk

the common swings library of folk musicians #4: (joseph) merridew, (alan) munby and (terrence) monk

The Common Swings Library of Country Records #4: Colonel Schmelks Mascapone and the Rainbow Country Harlequin Brigade

the common swings library of folk musicians #3: пьян и моего дерева

and today's entry for the common swings' library of folk music, is estonian band пьян и моего дерева (i've forgotten exactly what it means, but it's something along the lines of "drunk and out of my tree", which you can see from the band members is something of an ironic name for such serious types)

the common swings library of country records #3: pippy dix

the common swings library of folk musicians #2: thibaud galheglion

the common swings library of country records #2: beau bobkiss

the common swings library of folk musicians #1: dick shunt

yesterday we had the first of the common swings' country musicians - and now here's some folky types as well: one dick shunt, one of the world's most famous traditional singers of songs about tiny mammals...

the common swings library of country records #1: doc hoggis

Northwest Zine Fest

i'm going to be at this tomorrow in manchester. why not join me?

something's coming to the calder valley

and it involves scribbling and maybe... YOU? (many thanks to cat byrne for finishing my design off...)

is this the future or PE?

from a thing that is coming soon...

some new things

well here's a thing

nothing less than the thing that gave the title to this blog and these silly, silly things that i do...

something's coming

i'm about half way through the edit of "the bombardier's eyes" and am beginning to kick about the ideas for formatting it as a serialisation. hopefully it'll be in a tabloid newspaper format and in fourteen parts. i'm doing the adverts for it now... hopefully radio silence will be a thing of the past. soon...