Police Story – a tale of true love PART:4

When the broken chords of Message in a Bottle fill the 65,000 seater, I am running. After 27 minutes of queuing and carrying 3 beers to our seats just 20 metres from the stage (Thank you, Ravin) I succeed in spilling them all. I queue for another 20 minutes, but this time I am anxious. [...]

Police Story – a tale of true love PART:3

Kurt Cobain has a lot to answer for. In 1991 he destroyed the hair bands and knocked dinosaurs like Dire Straits, Springsteen and Mike Jackson off the throne. He told us geeks that we didn’t have to be as talented as Eddie Van Halen or as cool as David Lee Roth. We could just rock [...]

Police Story – a tale of true love PART-2

The press for The Police concert isn’t kind. The DJ on Radio One claims that if he wanted to see dinosaurs hauling their menopausal carcasses across stadiums, he’d visit the Natural History Museum. I never call radio shows, but I did consider ringing up and giving the man a lecture on mixed metaphors. 
But I do [...]

Police Story – a tale of true love PART:1

The pound was retailing at 250 rupees, London was in the throes of a tube strike and my herb dealer wasn’t answering calls. I should’ve been in a bad mood. But I wasn’t. How could I be? In 4 days I was to see The Police. When I tell people who my favourite [...]

RED SPIT MP3

RED SPIT MP3

Red Spit

Freeze frame
a still picture of life as we walk through the maze
it’s just a phase and anyways
the government declares you’re more likely to die from UV rays
and I’m walking these hot, sticky streets
dodging mud, red spit and crow shit
and I’m thinking about the news I read this morning
more people dead
more people missing
right under the cops [...]

The Pros of Con

Stillborn on the 4th of February 1948
Placenta dripping blood and hope
an umbilical cord of distrust
was still connected
it wasn’t cut off.
They should have cut it off.
Instead, mother, dead child, cord and all
Were paraded through the streets in a giant, bullet-proof jar of Formaldehyde
pulled by a shiny white Rolls-Royce
and escorted by 6 well-groomed horsemen
What a pretty sight!
The [...]

News Flash! Circus Freak escapes…

Breaking news: reports are coming in that one of the (Powercut) Circus Freaks has escaped from his island habitat of SL…He was last spotted @ Heathrow Airport. Apparently “He’s” in search of “The Police”…now that’s a switch…
If you see this man, proceed with caution. He is to be considered Tanned & Lecherous…
Watch this space for [...]

Fantastic Plastc (Live @ Sugar)

Kakhi Clad Swine

“Are you Catholic?”, I asked the cab driver. He seemd like an intelligent sort of chap. Kind of like my dad’s friends who’d come over to talk of the “old Sri Lanka” and sip on Scotch: on the rocks…always on the rocks.
“No, I ‘m a Hindu. The cab owner is Catholic,” he replied looking at [...]