Music
‘I’ve Got A Bone To Pick’
For the last 6 months or so my band Scrat (who rehearse fairly regularly, and play gigs on average once every two years) have been working on a new song. This song, like all of our originals was conceived like a bastard-child by our lead singer ‘The Dicko’.
Most of Dicko’s lyrics revolve around women, usually [...]
Saturday at V2008
Lenny Kravitz - ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way?’ at V2008, Staffs from James D Clarke on Vimeo.
I went to V Festival in Weston Park, Staffs on Saturday to see Jack McManus who I work with. Jack played mid-afternoon in the Union Arena tent, and put on a great show.
The weather was awful all day, [...]
Pearl Jam at ‘VH1 Rock Honours The Who’
What I would have given to be at this show…The Who, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Incubus, The Flaming Lips, Tenacious D and Adam Sandler all performing! Plus Kiefer Sutherland was spotted hanging around backstage - talk about the ultimate line up.
Eddie and the boys did their heroes/friends proud - check out the video above!
Best Of You
Foo Fighters @ Wembley June 2008, originally uploaded by Chris Wilkinson.
June has been a busy month. A fortnight ago I went to see the Foo Fighters at Wembley Stadium in London. It was the 11th time I’ve see the Foos in 13 years, and as ever they didn’t disappoint.
I’m not generally a fan of stadium [...]
BBC iPlayer: This one goes up to 11!
I was happily watching footage of a block of flats in Glasgow being demolished on the BBC News website when I decided to turn the volume of the embedded BBC iPlayer up, and to my joy discovered that the top volume on the iPlayer is indeed ‘number 11′. Spinal Tap fans the world over will [...]