Engine Punk

As I sift the ether for brand new musical biscuits, I come across a lot of rubbish. Forget Myspace or YouTube - I found this little gem via the Hillman Imp Club website. Over the years I've had many fascinating musical discussions around car show camp fires up and down the country and the odd thing about the Imp Club members - apart from a weakness for space hopper sumo wrestling (or is that a strength? Discuss) - is how similar our tastes in music seem to be. I've been introduced to a number of rare grooves by its members and sometimes a guitar has magically appeared. At one show, a Beer Powered Noise Frenzy broke out but I missed it. I knew one of my fellow Imp-o-philliacs, Tim Morgan, was a guitar hero and an innocent enquiry on the Imp site discussion forum about how he was getting on led to me discovering The Scopies . Okay, a trip to their page on Myspace was involved but that's okay because here I was introduced to their track "I wanna be a Ramone." ...

The Imp Club like it. All I have to do is repeat this reaction with Wolseley owners and the 2CVGB. My books have received a shameless plug in the latest edition of Impressions, the award winning magazine of the Hillman Imp Club, headed Stop Press. Over the years, I've contributed a few articles to Impressions and Grahame Pearson the editor said "Members familiar with Bob's style of writing will know it will be a good read. His next book, The Wormton Lamb, will be out around Easter and will feature Hillman Imps, which Bob insists are not gratuitous classic car placements but actually germane to the plot." The Imp Club magazine may not sound like the Times Literary Supplement but it's aimed at just the kind of people I want to connect with - pistonhead hedonists and hedonistas. Hmm. Could be a new word that - pistonhedonist! You saw it here first, folks, if Wikipedia comes looking. Imp club members come from many walks of life, sections of society and diff...