Not that I spend much time in them any more but The British Pub is on the wane, just looking around my home City they are closing everywhere.

No mention of the smoking ban in this article but can’t help thinking it is a contributory factor. They don’t even smell like pubs any more just stale sweat and booze.  The only exception is country pubs with a log fire and old wooden floors.

‘Beans on Toast’ said it best for me with his “F*ck the smoking ban”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6aFJ7xGhE

 

“English Curse” kicked arse live, the album version seemed a little tamer.

NME are streaming it and you can play it below.

Love the lines

The drink has drunk my days away
I tried to live like Hemingway
But life just doesn’t work that way

Here’s a vid (just the audio) of the song and the Lyrics below.

I drink cause I’m thirsty
I drink cause I’m dry
I’m not yet quite thirty
But i feel like I’m dieing

I drink cause I want to
Cause I need to
Cause I don’t what else to
Do with my time
I wont say it
You can see it, in my eyes

You drink cause your lonely
You drink cause your sad
You always claim every party
Is the best time you ever had
You drink cause your scared of life on
Living off your own company
You wont say it
But i can see it in your eyes

All of the things I could become
A lonely drunkard isnt one
Which I would’ve wished
When I was young

The drink has drunk my days away
I tried to live like Hemingway
But life just doesn’t work that way
The pills don’t kill the pain
They just delay

We drink cause we’re scared that
If we should stop
The good will go away
That the bad times will not
What if its over and we’re sober
And we feel like we’re fixing to die
What now?, don’t say it
cause I can see it in your eye

The next rounds on me
The next rounds on me
The next rounds on me
The next rounds on me
The next rounds on me
The next rounds on me
The next rounds on me
The next rounds on me

Other trick I learnt was using the Google Chrome Browser to get a shortcut on the Desktop to the 6Music Flash player was.

1. Click the Page menu.
2. Select Create application shortcuts.
3. In the dialog, select the checkboxes for the locations where you want shortcuts to be placed.
4. Click OK.

Inertia

Music by Psychogenetic

Last attempts involved Nicotine substitutes which I merely cross addicted to, (the one time tried it with cigars, lasted 2 days….. pure insanity) This time did the whole docs/smoking clinic thing and they put me on Champix or Chantix in the states. Not being used to mind altering drugs any more this one felt bloody strong, took away the cravings and made smoking entirely unrewarding and unpleasant but left we with surreal dreams and highly irritable and more of a Grump old man than I usually am.

Had to come off the drugs 10 weeks early from what I’d been prescribed for my own sanity and that of those around me, feeling a lot more balanced now without the Champix in my system and for the first time since I was a student entirely nicotine free.

Kinda feels like the volumes being turned up on emotions food and smells at the moment, just gonna take time for things to settle, took bloody years for the roller-coaster to level out after I gave up the booze so not expecting any instant fixes thius time.

Saw Frank Turner down at the Wedgwood Rooms in Southsea last night, had forgotten he was playing until that day and almost didn’t get tickets and had to beg at the box office as it was a sell out. Franks now got a Four piece behind him including a great drummer also doing the backing vocals.

He put on a bloody rocking show the energy levels are really lifting the larger his support band get and really good to see him selling out larger and larger headline venues.

New Single “Long Live the Queen” is out with proceeds going to a breast cancer charity, the lyrics and sentiment of this track choke me up every time I hear it.