First UK Appearence

"Guten Abend. Ich freue mich, hier in Rotherham zu sein"

Escaped Into The Wild

Yeah, so, three tracks from the BluesBerries demo CD "Back With The Blues" are available to listen to on our Myspace Page. I'm proud of them and I know my band are so I'd appreciate you all taking a few minutes to listen to them and, if you feel like it, to leave some feedback here or on the Myspace page.

I wrote "Invisible Friends", if you can think of any non-icky way to expand it to take in all the senses then I'd be interested in hearing your ideas -- I don't know why but the way I sing "lepers" on that track makes me smile, I hope it has the same effect on you.

The BluesBerries: Back With The Blues Cover

I believe you can see what I did there.

There are new tracks to be uploaded right now and as soon as I pick the best three or four they'll be on the myspace page

Son of the Return of Short Shorts VIII

You're never alone with a Short Short.

• How To Read an American Newspaper


• The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008. Does not include any bet made by Eamon, oddly enough.


• Those Austrians Part Whatever... Though part of me thinks Bill Hicks would approve if it was a final artistic statement.


• Robert McCrum gives his list of last years Top Ten books along with an indication of his relationship to the author of each book.


• An etymologists view of England.


• Translating The Wire into German.


• Inconveniencing yourself to a book deal. Giving up dining out for a month must have been a nightmare.

Son of the Return of Short Shorts VII

The difference between Marketing, PR, Advertising and Branding

• One for Peter: Shia LaBeouf... Why?


• CoverMode Go there while they still have Nouvelle Vague's cover of Too Drunk To Fuck up (then subscribe to their rss feed)


• I'm not entirely sure it's something to be proud of, but the XBox 360 games in tis list of Offensive Video Games seem to be either games I've got or games I'm interested in getting in the future.


• Offworld's take on how all the games above are really gay deep down. Or just on the surface, whatever.

Band News

I've not spoken about The BluesBerries for a while, mostly because we've had a bit of hiatus from gigging, we really needed to sharpen our sound and work on new songs.

Anyway, we spent the other Sunday in Markus' basement recording some tracks. And, well, it seems that we got about 7 good ones. Around four of these will be appearing on the BluesBerries Myspace page in the next month or so so keep your eyes peeled and your ears ready.