Notting Hill Diary

The lovely Lenka. We wish her a speedy recovery

It’s been a quiet January here in Rotten Hill City, but we haven’t been totally inactive. For a start we have the makings of a few new songs and we’ve had requests to play various gigs over the coming months.

The first of these is this coming Tuesday, Feb 10 at Movida, a club so cool I can’t even find their address on their website, but it’s on Argyll St, just by Oxford Circus station. We’ll be on around 10pm. I’ll post a flyer as soon as I get one.

Next up is our old haunt, Inn on the Green on Friday Feb 13, where we’ll be playing with some old friends, The Self, The Dirty Curtains, JC 001 and Taurus Tracker. It’s a benefit gig for the lovely Lenka, one of the bar staff there. All money raised will go to aid her speedy recovery and we wish her all the best.

I won’t bore you with gigs further into the future, but interestingly I see that some of them are being billed as “Mick Jones’ new band”, which must be a bit of a shock to Tony James! The truth is that Mick is good enough to contribute to RHG whenever he’s available and we’re most grateful, but Carbon Silicon is his band. What we can’t guarantee is that whenever you see a particular gig of ours advertised specific members will turn up. It’s more of a squad with interchangeable members. Clear?

Oh and in that spirit, the Fun Lovin’ Criminals’ Huey Morgan is jumping into the fray on guitar. We’ve known Huey since they played with us (by which I mean BAD II) at a couple of gigs in New York in ‘94 and it’s a pleasure to have him living over here in Rotten Hill City now.

Now it’s time to get back to our kitchen renovation project. We need to find some engineered oak for the floor at a reasonable price today if possible so all suggestions welcome!

Movida - too cool to publish their address

Movida
8-9 Argyll St
Soho

Inn on the Green
3-5 Thorpe Close
London W10 5XL
Tel: 0208 962 5757