Take Your Seats...

Teenage Fanclub tour UK/Europe in October & November. 

Most gigs seated? Hey, all my Fanclub gigs are seated *boom...crash*

Ticket links are here. 

Current favourite TV presenter? Chris Packham

Current favourite TV actor? Alex Norton in Two Doors Down

On the subject of Alex (stop me if you've heard this one before); in Scotland Alex can become the familiar colloquial "Alec". Years ago when I played with the country band Radio Sweethearts we convinced the late Mr. Chilton - who was in Glasgow for a bit -  to come and help us for a day in the studio. Our kindly pedal steel player Malcom, who was likely unfamiliar with Big Star, Like Flies On Sherbert and all that jazz, was heard to ask, "Do you fancy a cup of tea, Alec?"

In Spanish brandy news, Carlos III is quite quaffable.

And still I draw.

Click here for something to listen to while looking (extra points if you can guess why)...

Not Waving But Drawing

 I enjoyed this wee day in the life piece about the Willy Wonka of Lanarkshire.

And I liked David Sedaris on Desert Island Discs.

I am glad we have Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" to dip into. I caught some of the discussion about poet Stevie Smith. At around 32mins and 30 seconds they read and discuss Not Waving But Drowning.

I took a certain wee person to London for a weekend visit. We packed a lot in.

Matilda was AMAZING. Those wee kids - SO talented.

So I drew Tim Minchin in tribute.

We took in Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Soho Square, Covent Garden, The National Gallery, Tate Modern, Buckingham Palace, an open-top bus tour, Madame Tussaud's, Bankside Pizza Express, dinner at The Ivy - and we saw an SUV crash into the back of a hackney cab outside The Savoy (just a minor prang - no one hurt).

Is it possible to walk over Waterloo Bridge without singing Waterloo Sunset to yourself?

Some recent artistic meanderings. (Ten points each if you can pick out David Rappaport and Jules Bastien-Lepage.)

Tinkety-tonk, old fruit. x