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Thank you BBC for axing Radio 6 Music, the only decent music station with an ounce of credibility. Thanks a lot…numptys.

I went to see Cumbrian prog rock legends It Bites last night. It was a ’special’ gig at Carlisle Art college , being filmed by a small army of camera men for a forthcoming live DVD release.

I last saw IT Bites in 1986, so this was really an excuse for a trip down memory lane.  The opening act was Jon Amor a bluesman from Devizes in Wiltshire, (home of the delta blues?) . Poor fella had one or two technical hitches to deal with but managed to pull off a convincing set – I particularly liked his cover of Tainted Love (in a blues stylee of course).

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I’ve listened to and followed Tragically Hip since their ‘93 album, Fully Completely. Finally, I got the chance to see them live this week at Glasgow Garage. The last time I went to the venue it was called ‘Tiffanys’ . On that Occasion I saw an upcoming Irish band ….U2.

Tragically Hip were fantastic – even better than I had hoped for. 2 sets – over 2.5 hours on stage. The audience loved it. Great sound too.

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I’ve been a long time Fan of Luke Doucet. He’s a great singer/songwriter from Canada. In fact for some strange reason I’ve always liked a lot of music that comes out of Canada – Tragically Hip , The Weakerthans to name a couple more. Anyway here’s a cool YouTube Luke Doucet clip I came across, His guitar playing is so much like my own. Yeah. right. :

I’ve added a handful of Daisychain Connection videos to the site. Long before the days of YouTube bands had to actually get on the telly to be noticed. We reached the dizzy heights of now long gone Border News and Look Around (i.e. Border crack ‘n deek aboot). There’s also some footage from our favourite haunt & practise place the now legendary, fantastic , Front Page club in Carlisle.