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Well, that’s made an otherwise miserable January day considerably better. A little in the way of sunshine to help us get through the post-christmas skintness… Karl was in a Mojo Nixon t-shirt. That was a new name to us. We listened to Mojo’s Elvis Is Everywhere. Nigel was in a Trek-Segafredo cycle racing team t-shirt. You would expect him to be a bit more up to date. There is a new sponsor for that team and they are now known as Lidl-Trek. Coincidentally, sword dancers traditionally compete for the Trevor Stone Memorial Trophy, named after the writer of the definitive history of longsword dancing, ‘Rattle Up, My Boys’.) Just a shame that the vinyl is held up due to Adele’s divorce album using all the pressing capacity.

Third time hearing Oblong live and first time I didn’t sob like a babba at the end. Might be all cried out with the week I’ve had. But my main regret was that – because of the terrible news about Paul – we didn’t get to embarrass the Bard with a chorus or two of “happy birthday.” I was gonna try to get it going and maybe even try it in Welsh. Pen-blwydd hapus i Nigel, Pen-blwydd hapus i ti. Also had a half-arsed banner half-ready, but it got ditched half- finished on the morning when I heard about Paul. Otherwise I would probably have ended up finishing it in the pre-gig pub, in true Euro-away-match style. CCaC I sincerely hope to take you up on that beer offer sooner rather than later. The United game was a miserable 90 minutes followed by a massive endorphin surge that I already crave more of. Anyway, if the support act were well served by the superb sound and a maestro sound engineer, HMHB made just as good use of the opportunity to show off guitar skills. In this type of venue, it seems that monitors don’t matter so much and it seems they can just go off the same UHD version the audience are hearing of the instruments, adding in intricacies that we might not get elsewhere. There was some novel interplay between Karl’s guitar and Nigel’s on Terminus, which was played in more jingly-jangly style, and the already jingly-jangly Lark Descending was able to continue its recent ascent towards being one of the finest showcases for Nigel’s right hand work. This is all great news. I’m glad I’m not the only one with a tube of voltarol in the fridge where once stood tubes of cider.I’m pretty sure Neil’s intro to ‘Awkward Sean’ wasn’t from ‘Ships in the Night’, but what it was from I couldn’t say. I wasn’t planning to suggest this for a while yet, but the opportunity has presented itself. There are five versions of Take The Skinheads Bowling – each from a single unique angle. I own one and have been known to talk of the beautiful game, although I draw the line at bottled lager. I dare say we’re not alone down here, I suspect there’s a growing audience for the band in NZ, I wonder what we have to do to get them to tour down here… It might actually be easier to round up all the HMHB fans and charter a flight to England.

Not much I can add with regards the sheer brilliance and variety of any live HMHB show. Every Time A Bell Rings seems to get better with every outing. As good a rendition of Look Dad as I’ve heard (and that’s not just because it was my FBL joker and didn’t appear until the encore). Chuffed to hear Jarg Armani too – like most people, I assumed it would be dropped from the set list after its first play in 59 gigs at Bristol last time out. One other thing that seems to have been overlooked – NB sang ‘Ravi Shastri’, rather than ‘Sadi Rani’, during the snippet of Brimful of Asha (now available on YouTube). Anyone in from Oldbury?” asked Nigel. “Do you know Macca?” And a follow-up question established that they have seven re-cycling bins. “Seven!” Nigel wondered. “That’s for the whole town!” was the response from the floor. In Renfield’s Afoot it was noted that Roydon Park was “nowhere near Oldbury”. And he pointed out that the song is a “true story”. After the opening song (The Light At The End Of The Tunnel), Nigel sang the jingle “Washing machines live longer with Calgon.” And he asked “Is anyone in from Aberystwyth?” He answered his own question…“There never is.”I always thought that John Peel lived in Stowmarket. In fact, it was a couple of miles away in a place called Great Finborough. A blue plaque on The Pettiward Hall marks this fact. “John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (1939 to 2004). Pioneering and influential BBC broadcaster who helped the careers of many artists. Lived in this village from 1971 to 2004.” Karen, Phill, Andrew and I had a walk round the graveyard at the nearby St Andrew’s Church, where Peely is buried. It was moving to see him there. A great man. Even now, the majority of my music collection is from folk that I first heard on his show. The gravestone has become a little worn over the years. It certainly isn’t a “celebrity grave”. He wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. We were at a wedding reception recently over the water, Hulme Hall. I know The Beatles played there but have Nigel and the band also played there before ? Fascinated Trivia point: the T3 doesn’t follow the expected route between Corwen and Bala, i.e., the A5 and the A494, but goes along the B4402 through Cynwyd, Llandrillo and Llandderfel before joining the B4391 at Cae Crydd. The reason for that is that the bus route replaced the railway service between Ruabon Junction and Barmouth Junction – now called Morfa Mawddach – which closed at the end of 1964, and the replacement bus service ( q.v.) was required to serve the same villages as the railway had).

The R.M. Qualtrough label makes this all the more perfect. It’s just the sort of thing Nigel would slip into lyrics too. Thanks Chris, I’m not sure why I didn’t spot that before. Probably goes without saying, but ignore any weird requests you got from me to enable editing on the spreadsheet. You biscuit people speak a different language to everyone else. Fan comments are as fascinating as the lyrics. How did I get on this mailing list? The joys of Brexit mean those of us in the EU may have to pay a pound or two more to various governments for the album than we would have paid pre-2021, but nobody said life was going to be fair. I also want to clarify that when I shouted “so don’t do it kids!” at the end of ‘What Made Colombia Famous” I was just being silly. Just very silly and loud, as usual. It prompted NB to make the statement that “Yeah but it’s not a statement like that.” He doesn’t do statement songs. That has been clearly stated.

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I’m not a scholar, but yes it’s molon labe, “Come and take them!”, the remark the Spartans sent to Xerxes in response to “Hand over your weapons!” before the Battle of Thermopylae (480BC) – the omega is correct I think. It’s a great T-shirt (notwithstanding the use of the slogan by US gun lobby nutjobs who use crossed assault rifles rather than guitars). You never know, there might be a line about opening up a Japanese noodle bar in the Whakapapa area. I don’t think Chris has ever put up any covers lyrics other than the one that’s on an album (Worried man Blues). Tess Of The Dormobiles”. Another laugh-out-loud one which instantly reminded me of “where be my camper van”.