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polythene pam

Polythene Pam

Another Black Friday passes me by uneventfully. It would do. I don’t subscribe. Complete tosh. Controlling the public, stoking up the masses to buy crap they don’t need with money they don’t have but that the Man will lend you. Fuckers. Aside from that I was watching my newly painted...

demolition man

Demolition Man

We’ve been open over five years now. Not here today, gone tomorrow as suggested in the beginning. Knowing looks from passers-by. “He won’t last long – vintage guitars ? That’s bollocks that is” or quite often “I had one of them in “64, cost me £ 80. How much ?...

Here comes the sun

Here Comes the Sun

A glorious scorching red hot poker of a summer. Records broken again. Temperatures hover around 3o°. Reaches a staggering 45° in my flower bed in front of the shop, built like a blue brick kiln. Absorbs the heat. Not many shops with a flower bed, good for the bees. Don’t...

Powder Finger

Powder Finger

So the world wakes again to another US shooting atrocity. Yet another homegrown nut job. Orange Donald said it wasn’t guns to blame but mental illness – no shit, still a lump of lead to the head does you no good at all no matter how sick the trigger finger....

Bad to the Bone

Bad to the Bone

Rumour is we are going to be renamed again – Axe Grinder. This could be viewed as a not so subtle attempt to subvert search engines and boost gay readership. Sadly no, just a suggestion by Greg, one of my more talented customers. There’s certainly always something to grind. Mind...

money for nothing

Money for Nothing

Carelessly checking my bank account the other morning I spot a few unrecognised transactions, about fifty of them to be precise, all at £250 a throw. Alarm bells slowly rattle around my caffeine starved skull. Something is wrong. I clearly do not remember being up at 3 a.m. last night...

while my guitar gently weeps

While my Guitar gently Weeps

I struggled with this, to comment or not? It doesn’t try to be funny. Just been watching Grenfell House burn. Horrific. Theresa May says we’ll have a public enquiry. A fucking blind man could see what happened. The cladding burned. People wrapped up inside a firework, dying on TV. Why...

another brick in the wall

Another Brick in the Wall

We’ve been renamed Andy’s Rants. Can’t imagine why but Trading Standards did call in and claim it was clearly a blatant mis-description, not a proper Blog. It was Gareth’s idea. Blog – just what sort of word is that?? 21st Century tosh. Not a proper word in my day. Should...