Random Thoughts

Reports now done and as i have left it too late to go down Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks way i shall do these ones tomorrow.

I mus have slept awkwardly last night as i have a stiff shoulder but i have rubbed some deep heat stiff into the joints and taken a coupe of ibuprofen.

I wonder what has happened to both The Flash and Supergirl after the Xmas period - this mid season break seems to be taking too long. Mind you i am being kept busy with selecting random episodes form the last nine seasons of the X Files.

Meanwhile does anybody remember these two classic TV shows.

Forest

I recently finished  off the biography of John Peel and just going back  a few pages i remember one section when he and Sheila had Forest stay at their pad. John asked them all to have baths as they were som smelly.

Forest were an acid fol rock band in a silmilar style to Trees.I would never claim that Forest were as powerful as say The Trees or The Fairports but they definitely have a place in anyone's acid folk collection - they verge on the ethereal all in a very good band.

Here is their debut 1969 album in full -

Forest - Forest (1969) full album

A1 Bad Penny




A2 A Glade Somewhere




A3 Lovemaker's Ways




A4 While You're Gone




A5 Sylvie (We'd Better Not Pretend)




A6 A Fantasy You




B1 Fading Light




B2 Do You Want Some Smoke?




B3 Don't Want To Go




B4 Nothing Else Will Matter




B5 Mirror Of Life




B6 Rain Is On My Balcony

Book 14- John Peel " Margrave of the Marshes"

John Peel " Margrave of the Marshes" (Bantam hardback)




I starters this book at the beginning of last year and the reason for the slow read is that i had often read a chapter and moved onto a new book in the meantime, and many chapters i re-read as much of the book was very enjoyable. 

Cant say i am surprised by the varied and interesting life Peel lead. The public's reaction to his death said much about the affection this man enjoyed in his career and rightly so, in such a negative world his positivity in his field was clear, even if you weren't really into music. Definitely preferred Peels half of this book to the latter half mind. I have always enjoyed the existence of people who put your own ability into perspective. I've always fancied myself as a music buff but in comparison to this man you realise how blinkered you are. How a man can keep his passion up for the business and move with the times like he did amazes me. Hats off to John and his book.