It's a big white van with metal grids over the window! (masquerading as a Mini)

Saturday Nov 22nd: 9am England V Australia, 5.35pm Albion V Reading live on SKY, 9.30pm(?)Undertones in Brighton,the only guarantee of joy is the last one.Somewhere squeezed in there I'll have to go to work.

who the hell is alan smith

Reading the TV lists for today it is almost an Undertones day, what with When Saturday Comes and My Cousin Vinny. Pity the real mckoy aren't on. See #25120. Mark is offering posters from The Casbah.

Alan Smith - is he not a footballer??

But being a woman, I'm not too sure!

Jo - we saw David Batty in the bowling alley today. Both kids got his autograph and I stood there embarrassed as I know they're both ManU fans!

Lindsay! Wash your mouth out!! Man U indeed. That's no way to bring up kids!

A few interesting comments from Jake Burns in his book about SLF, to follow. (Unless you read the postings the wrong way up, then you'll have read then already.)

It was also around that time that we played a gig in Portrush, which is right on the North Antrim coast and it was at a place called Kelly's, which we played quite a few times. I remember this guy coming up out of the audience saying to me, 'Oh we're in a band from Derry called The Undertones. Can we play a couple of songs before you go on?!' And we said, 'No not really because it's all set up for us.' I think it was Damian, so by that stage I was aware of The Undertones as well. And of course it wasn't that long after we did Suspect Device that they did Teenage kicks with Terry Hooley, which was, and still is, and will always remain, a fantastic record. We heard it and it was like 'Fucking hell they're good.' It's a wonderful record, it just is.

Quite nice really.

Another quality goalkeeping performance from David James today....