Spirit of Play

Sod muddy Glastonbury, bugger off Big Chill, sayonara Secret Garden Party...the only festival that matters is the Lambeth Country Show!* It's just over two weeks until the festivities kick off, highlights include the mighty Horace Andy, Johnny Clarke, Ska Cubano, Luciano...and Spirit of Play. I'm reliably informed that #countryshow is the hashtag to follow Photo action on flickr here Festival website with full info here With nearly 200,000 people expected over the two days, Spirit of Play are honing our set and pooing our pants. See you at the Village Green Stage on Sunday July 17th at 4pm. *(...the other... ... continue ...

So, Pop Goes The Revolution, which is a very discerning radio show based in Glasgow (remember what I said about Glasgow? Do you?) not only played us on their show a couple of times, but also featured Spirit of Demo on their facebook page (something to do with Justin Timberlake and the West Wing, I believe) as their Monday download. They may even have mentioned something about us being awesome. Simper. No, really, it is jolly nice and they champion new music and everything AND they spelt "connoisseur" right, which NOBODY does in these degenerate times, we couldn't be more... ... continue ...

I'm not going to bore you with the story of how I spent a heady morning with David Tennant a few years ago. What, you want me to tell you again? Well, in about 2007 he played a driving instructor in a (what was, quite frankly, pretty ropey) TV play. You may have seen it. It was rubbish. Anyway, he wanted to do some research, and at the time I was working as a driving instructor. (These were the days before I'd found my true vocation in life, selling adverts to loons.) He came out with me for a morning... ... continue ...

As Wendy likes to remind me from time to time, there was that excellent time we were in Macari's ... continue ...

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