Very funny story about Billy's drumstick Julius. A bit like using the Turin Shroud as a dishcloth.

Rock and Roll souviners anyone? I have one of the two, little, tacky, plastic union flags that were attached to the outside of the 100 Club when the Sex Pistols first reformed and held their press conference there. It's the sort children wave at the Queen. My friend pulled it off the sign afterwards and gave it to me; I wasn't actually there.

I went to see the Undertones a number of times with a friend who had a special pair of 'gig glasses'. These were basically a bashed up pair of NHS specs held together with tape/paperclips so that it didn't matter if they got lost or broken etc.. Feargal borrowed them and wore then for a whole rendition of What's With Terry. Afterwards he graciously returned them to my friend with a bit of a flourish. I've no idea if he still has them.

Talking of that same friend, we used to take a couple of Mars Bars to Undertones gigs and try and lob them at Billy's cymbals! Can't remember if we ever managed to hit one.

Went to see AFI in London last Friday. Failed to follow any of Cliff's standing instructions for gig preparation and as a result felt so faint and sick I actually had to totaly get away to the side of the venue and prop myself up by holding onto some stair banisters! Don't think I've ever done that before. I blame it on the cold I bought back from German and still have. It was very hot too. The venue was packed and I got the feeling that AFI are in the process of becoming 'the next big thing'. I felt very old there too. The surge forward by the crowd at the start totally reminded me of see the Undertones when they were at their height.

Can't you just spot I've got the day off work?

cactus .day off get out of the HOUSE and do something mad like buying a boy band cd or s club`s last cd or like a tv show from a galxy far far away why do you turn of your tv set and go and something less boring instead [ any one over 40 will now what i mean ]talk soon see ya

2003-06-11 John Peel 'And this is the only record to end the programme with ....'

What and where is the Bray Festival?

Sent that thing today wilke.

That link doesn't work Alex. Any prizes for guessing it's a festival in Co. Wicklow?

Is anyone else having problems with Freeserve tonight. I'ts doing my nadgers in, slow as feck.

Writing reports...anyone know a polite synonym for 'awful, badly behaved little so and so?!!'

Alex?

a spoild little son of a bitch who does not right from wrong.any good jackie thanks alex.ok talk soon see ya pps its been one hell of a day maureen away to bed so i`ve just put the head phones on a stuck on punk 2 teenage kicks great stuff BYE

Family commitments dictate few visits to this site, but thanks to fellow fan Al I now have the Peel session, & as JP said: 'Well, that'll certainly do for me!' It's been a long week & it's only Wednesday (excuse tenuous Tones link)... but after several listens I'm in 'here comes the summer'mode & it's like that pre-Fleadh night at the Mean Fiddler all over again! Four new songs with shades of the Petrols at their high octane best, the Wedding Present at their most heart-searing, Ash, the Chesterfields, and pure, unadulterated undertones of some other band that once melted my heart. Yowser! Excuse length of message, but it goes with the territory. PS: Anyone for Guilfest? (my hometown, despite my current Lancashire tenure)

High spirited.