Ron Cocker

The mid-80s EK council house bedroom decor lends them a tawdry-yet-charming quality.

That is magnificent. I feel a cover of Jungle Love coming on.

They don't make em like they used to. It does sound like a gash onboard soundcard though. I've got an old Compaq desktop with a Soundblaster somethingorother card it in if you want it. Was fine for recording the last time I used it.

Ancient 13MB version of Cakewalk (Pro Audio 9) running with a Soundblaster X-Fi on my fragile PC. Got some version of Sonar, but too scared to use it. I have an SM57 and a TC Helicon Create for vocals and Zoom B2/G2 pedals for bass and guitar. I programme drums and MIDI instruments (strings, brass, etc) using the piano roll (dragging blocks about a piano sceen). Got a DVD full of soundfonts of of ebay for a tenner to make it sound a wee bit more realistic. Budget recording for demos and such. Recorded the Belloc's Bar album with this set up (on MySpace and Facebook and such).

Got one on Saturday, it's a lovely compilation for winter motoring. I likes The Matricarians, Dusty Valentino, Les Pelicans and Kopi Luwak especially.

I can send a wav if required. Rapidshare or something, it'll be forty-odd meg.

I was going to suggest getting "Blackpool" tattoed around your meatus u., but someone beat me to it. So to speak.

You should get that one expanded into a fruit machine/bandit theme. You know, a bit like folk who get cards or dice, but something that says Blackpool.

Some of the Belloc's Bar album was recorded using a fat shield/spatter guard thing for frying. Worked a treat if you could keep a straight face long enough to sing a line.

I think the walls are done with wid reclaimed from a school gym hall. Hardcore IPA on draught, though. Choice.

That's by the by, how about the lass that works in the Foyer?

It's a good song, we should stick it on the album as "odds and sods that didn't make it". Magic guitar solo, likes. I reckon some local punk outfit should do a cover of the Sex Pistols Belsen one and reimagine it as Nilsen Was a Brocher. Choice.

This is very pleasing.

When I was a bairn, I played with a magic drummer. He now plays for a choice outfit called Stuntman Mike. They are in some competition or other. You can listen to their track and vote on this thing, down the bottom on the right (took me fucking ages to find it). Ta. 96.3 Rock Radio - Scotland's Classic Rock Station :: Tom's A&R Session

I can rarely be arsed.

Missed it. Maybe she's blossomed. I'd bend it into her maw though, her what was on Jigsaw.

Sophie Ellis Bextor, the simpering wee shitehawk.

I'm certain that there are more productive things you could be doing.

On in my kitchen the noo, track 10 on. Brawissimo.

Gied you it. Did your wee dug eat it?

I saw them on the Mother's Milk tour at the QuiM in Glasgow. There were awful damn good that night.

Could you review the Belloc's Bar CD an' all? Should be finished presently.

Hot damn, that looked pretty fucking awful goddam sweet. Will you post here? This Is Why You're Fat | Just another WordPress site

I'll take you on a date as long as I get a hummer.

That was nice. Thought The Hijacks were immense.