Notting Hill Diary

What on Earth have you been doing?
So it’s been a while huh? Well most of June was spent working on the band. Turns out that our crazy modern sound is more popular with the kidz than we knew and it’s all starting to move. The highlight of the month was when we played at Jewellery designer Stephen Webster’s party in the wonderful old East End music hall Wilton Hall. The party was entirely based around our song “Pick a Pocket” (soon to leak out as a single) with its Dickensian theme. You can hear a rough, unmastered version of it on our myspace page.

Sounds great! What did you play?
We played a six song set, starting with three of our own. Gary Kemp joined us for the fourth song, a rocking cover of Spandau Ballet’s To Cut A Long Story Short (well - it wasn’t a cover as far as he was concerned of course!), then Mick came on for the 5th and 6th songs, one of ours (can’t for the life of me remember what it was right now) followed be the obligatory Should I Stay or Should I Go. It was only during the rehearsal the day before that I realised I’d never played it before in my life. The closest I’d come was when Mick and I sampled it for the song The Globe in 1991. Mick started to tell me the chords, but I pointed out that he didn’t really need to because you could probably go up to anyone in the street and they’d be able to play it.

As it turned out it sounded fantastic and Mick declared it the best rendition since he left The Clash.

Um - just in case you want to form a band (and you should!), here’s a page to find musicians.