Is it really 11 years since Decksandrumsandrockandroll was released? Blimey.

The CD of Ade Edmondson’s latest musical venture, The Bad Shepherds, fell through my door today. It’s a collection of celtic/folk(ish) cover versions of such classics as I Fought the Law (Sonny Curtis/Clash etc), Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (The Jam), Rise (PiL), Teenage Kicks (Undertones), God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols) etc, and it seems to work very well. Hopefully I’ll get to see them in Frome in July, if not they’ll be at Cropredy anyway (mental note: must get around to ordering tickets one day).

This new Fatboy Slim album is nothing like Fatboy Slim, what’s going on? This isn’t what we want!

That was just for Simon :)

In 2008 I bought 30 CDs, 103 DVDs, and 14 Blu-Ray discs. Quite a bit more than during the previous year, partly due to a lot of sales at Play and HMV, and partly due to watching a lot more TV series on DVD. I think I’ve watched all of The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Band of Brothers, The Lone Gunmen, Red Dwarf, MASH, Black Adder, Black Books, and The West Wing this year, and I’ve just started on The Fast Show, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I also bought more books than I care to count, and dipped my toes into the world of graphic novels which looks like it could become an expensive habit.

I’m glad I bought my 160GB iPod Classic last year as they’ve now upgraded the 80GB version to 120GB, and dropped the 160GB completely. I wonder if it’ll become a sought-after collectors item?

I may not get to see all of New Model Army peform together as a band this year, but there will be a new live album titled “Fuck Texas, Sing For Us” out at the end of October, which will go some way to make up for it.

In addition we’re off to see Justin Sullivan and Dean White do an acoustic set in Stoke on Thursday which should be very good if the reports of their outing in Portsmouth are to be believed.

I’m off to listen to it on repeat until it’s time to go to bed.

You can now order CSI:Ambleside by Half Man Half Biscuit direct from Probe Plus for a tenner plus postage.

There’s a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets

From National Shite Day by Half Man Half Biscuit.

1. Evening Of Swing (Has Been Cancelled)
2. Bad Losers On Yahoo Chess
3. Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show
4. Ode To Joyce
5. Blue Badge Abuser
6. Totnes Bickering Abuser *
7. King Of Hi-Vis
8. Lord Hereford’s Knob
9. On The ‘Roids
10. Petty Sessions
11. Little In The Way Of Sunshine
12. Give Us Bubblewrap
13. National Shite Day

* I suspect this should be “Totnes Bickering Fair”.