Engine Punk

Last night I was making a bracket - as well as a racket - in my garage-cum-studio when I heard a very thought provoking programme on Radio 4. It was about sleep patterns and how the early risers have been favoured by society ever since we were an agricultural economy. In our pre-industrial society, our lives were ruled by daylight and the early bird really did get the worm. However, since the dawn of industrialisation, we have adopted much more varied work and sleep patterns. Our sleep patterns change throughout our lives. As young children, we tend to go to bed earlier than when we are adults and when we are teenagers we prefer to stay up late and have long lie-ins instead of getting up at the crack of dawn. And sleep patterns vary tremendously between individuals. The point this programme made was that some of us are Type A and naturally disposed towards getting up early and going to bed early. The disposition towards early-ness for larks is much greater than it would be for mo...

I'm really looking forward to seeing this brilliant band again on Friday 27th March, this time in Plymouth at The Hippo, which was The Hub. Plymouth gets by-passed by too many bands so I'm hoping The Hippo (short for hippodrome?) will be a regular draw to those of us who like both kinds of music - punk and rock. It's a new venue for me but some of my mates say it's pretty good. What we're hoping for is a great gig from SLF, so good they'll include Plymouth on all forthcoming tours. I saw them in Falmouth last summer and I've been up to Bristol to see them many times in the past so want them to remember this gig and come back. (Photo from Kev-inr's Flickr photos ) To that end, about 30 people have been enticed into going. Some of us have seen Fingers before but most of our party are coming along because they've heard so much about SLF from the rest of us. I hope there's a good turn out but it'll be a new experience knowing so many people ...