Not THAT Jack Douglas

So Teenage Fanclub played a socially distanced club show in Cardiff on Sun 8th Aug, supported by Group Listening:

And on Sun 22nd we headlined The Far Out tent at Green Man:

It was weird but certainly fun to play again, giving some Endless Arcade songs their first live outings.

One thing about the band functioning again, Norman starts spinning tracks for the edification of whoever in the vicinity might be inclined. Here's a very wee playlist of some stuff he was playing and I was digging:

More shows to come, of course - https://www.teenagefanclub.com/live

Belated farewell, Una Stubbs. Wonderfully horrible as Aunt Sally in Worzel Gummidge (with the late, fab Jon Pertwee, of course).

And farewell, Don. I reckon this is my favourite Everlys track:

I've been listening a lot to the John Lennon songs on Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey. Interesting to know the producer was one Jack Douglas...

If you haven't read "Happy-Go-Lucky" by David Sedaris, I can recommend it.

And farewell, Charlie...

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...what a great, great drummer.

Tally-ho!

I was chuffed to provide the music for "Peter And The Oboe" - a short animation, written and read by Bernard MacLaverty...

On the subject of charming: this doc was directed by Alison Pinkney and I was glad to do the music. And I was glad to see it pop up again on BBC Scotland.

I made up a Dad Joke. Rock Rock. Who's There? Elvis. 

I received my copy of the work_kspace ep:

The first song alone - called "Song" - is a wee beauty. More here.

Stranger Things Season 2? Tick. Two thumbs up.

I thought The Krull House - as recommended by Harriet Gilbert on BBC4's A Good Read - was great. Dark and grim. And relevant.

Now reading this...

As I type Teenage Fanclub are on the eve of playing our first socially distanced gig in yonks. In Cardiff.  Yikes.

During recent rehearsals the chat turned to the guitar John Lennon used for Double Fantasy.

This led me to this article.

And to this wee peach which I hadn't listened to in a while...

So. Cardiff then. Tally-ho...