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No Superlatives can command how good this... If you have functioning ears, you will get it.....

I have some time in Ireland

Howl with delight!

I'm hearing / seeing Lauryn Hill on Thursday.

Before anyone says anything bad about Cocker, remember this....................................................

I warn you now. Jessie J has a full Christmas album coming out. I'm utterly unconvinced that this is in anyway a good idea. Rose was excellent in comparison. This not so good....

The most striking thing was the absence of backing singers at the Jessie J concert. Dim, nada, nish backing. Some per-recorded self backing, but no live singers at all, unlike all previous shows. Means she has supreme confidence in her own voice. True Eh?

What utterly lovely people Jessie J fans are.... I was pissed, but not bored this week. Primarily due to the Albert Hall visit. There was a guy in front of me (great seats, like mine, about the same age as me) who was there with his two teenage daughters, clearly horrified by the whole spectacle. If someone collects all the inter-song banter together and plays it in one it will be very bad (Nearly Trump bad). Concentrate on the singing though, and it's sublime.

I've never done a class A drug. My Friends have though. One year, mid eighties, I was in an open-fronted, large, teepee tent above the Pyramid, North side of the Valley, very late. Everyone in there except me was high as fuck on either LSD or Mushrooms. I would have been baked. We were watching the late night laser show that happened in those days. All cool. Then, out of nowhere a massive Lightning Bolt struck a tree on the opposite side of the valley (way outside the perimeter fence - as it was in those days) We saw an Oak tree split in two in front of our eyes. I was some way behind everyone else in that tent, but fuck, imagine that.

Wow. I ended up in the Welfare tent once about 4-5 years ago. I just woke up there. No recollections. But that was not the most smashed I ever was at Glastonbury. I don't think I was very bad that night, I was just trying to cop off with someone who thought I was ready for the Welfare tent. The worst was the height of the Brothers Pear Cider Frenzy. 2004?. What a mess that was. I was one of the men shimmying up the flagpoles, getting quite high actually then falling. People got minor injuries. It was not big or clever.

I have 'Days Won' at 11 days apparently. I have no idea how that might have happened. Saw Jessie J on Tuesday and it looked like this. Happy days. You make your choices in life, and choosing to be there for this was one of the very good ones.

Jah Wobble is truly magnificent.. True dat.