Notting Hill Diary

We’re playing our last gig of this year tonight, fittingly enough at Inn on the Green, where we played our first gig back in January, courtesy of Mick Jones and Tony James, hosts of those fantastic Carbon Casino nights. Still trying to find out what time we’re on.

It’s been a great year for us with some real highlights, but the important thing is that we’ve stuck to our basic principle, laziness. Old fashioned sloth. If it gets too hard, move on to something else. We’re in it to make music that we like and to enjoy it. It took Gary months to coax me back into the studio, but I’m really glad he did. Enough of that!

Thanks to Trish, Pockets and everyone else at Strummerville for putting us on last night. It was a bit chaotic as always, but it’s probably how it should be. The “surprise” guest was Huey Morgan, who came on to sing Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (better, though incorrectly known as Too Good To Be True) with us. We all joined in on the chorus. Frankie Valli is reported to feel unthreatened.