When I walk down your street, through your barred windows you look at me - Ramsgate still has some fabulous buildings hidden away, you only need to go off of the main streets a little to find them. It can't be long before beautiful buildings such as this one are turned into luxury apartments.
In high seas or in low seas - The weather is finally turning, the winds are picking up and the sea is changing too.
Well I told you once and I told you twice, but you never listen to my advice - Another fine example of stencilled graffiti, this one is hidden from site on Ramsgate seafront.
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles - We walked from Cliftonville to Westbrook and back this afternoon. It tried very hard to rain, but the sun kept on shinning.
Turn on your light, let it shine on me - The Lizard is the most southerly point of mainland Britain and one of the things that it's famous for (besides it's famous sons) is serpentine. Serpentine is a metamorphic rock that has veins running through it and at the Lizard it is turned into various ornamental souvenirs, one of the most popular shapes is the lighthouse.
Robbing people with a zip gun - In a couple of hours we are off to Folkestone to see The Bad Shepherds for the third time. The Bad Shepherds are a great folk band fronted by Adrian Edmondson and they play punk songs in a folk style and are fantastic live!
Here's a better description direct from their website:
The Bad Shepherds play punk songs on folk instruments. Not as a gag, but because we really like the noise. We think the songs are better than people remember. We love folk instruments. It works. We do songs by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers, The Jam, Sham 69, The Undertones, The Buzzcocks, The Ramones, The Specials, Talking Heads, Squeeze and others, even Kraftwerk! Alright, they're not all punk, but they come from roughly the same era. We've mostly given the songs a kind of Celtic feel, and we've stuck in the odd reel and jig here and there. But occassionally we just thrash! I've always thought the excitement of a reel taking off is the nearest thing to the excitement of watching punk live in the 70's.
I love the songs of 76 - 82. I was 19 in 76 when punk arrived. Those songs were the soundtrack to my life as I went through Uni and started pretending to be a comedian. I loved the noise, the faces and the attitude. I love making music. Got my first guitar when I was 13 and along the way I've picked up ten other guitars, a banjo, a ukelele, two trumpets, a banjolele, a mandolin, an autoharp, a charanga, two pianos, a tenor guitar, a triangle and even made myself some Coconuts (strangely enough - from a coconut). I also love folk music, I love the noise - at its live best its the most exciting music to be in the same room with. It occured to me that punk was the folk music of its day.
I decided to form a band to reflect all of the above. It would be great if you came along for the ride.
Cheers, Adrian
Lay down your arms - Terracotta warrior in an egg cosy.
