Was in the supermarket today choosing some foodstuffs for dinner, some toiletries and domestic items for the house and garden and cats. I got 100 Nectre Points which is handy! When I walk around the aisles, I am in contact with other people’s lives. I see them, just like me on the face of it, looking at items… but different. They are making choices, placing the goods into trolleys and baskets, and sometimes they glance at me with a strange, detached look that I've seen somewh

I was in my local charity shop at the weekend. It's the place where I scout for black suits to wear on stage. I always have a look for ornaments and CDs too - I like to buy them, but they're often scratched. To my surprise, I found Eight Rounds Rapid Lossleader on the shelf between Robbie Williams and Steps! Its unbelievable to be mentioned in the same breath as them. I bought it, obviously, but as I predicted it was really, really scratched. Probably just overplayed.

So, yesterday the band went up to London to do some sightseeing. We went all over london, taking in the scenes of history around our capital city 'the big smoke', with all its stories and deafening sounds which are so exciting to our creative senses. We went to Soho and saw a film and in the audience was famous people such as Alan Yentob, Mark Lamar, Mark Commode and others. We felt at home in this situation with all the famous people and clearly fitted in to that world of su

So, yesterday the band went up to London to do some sightseeing. We went all over london, taking in the scenes of history around our capital city 'the big smoke', with all its stories and deafening sounds which are so exciting to our creative senses. We went to Soho and saw a film and in the audience was famous people such as Alan Yentob, Mark Lamar, Mark Commode and others. We felt at home in this situation with all the famous people and clearly fitted in to that world of su

Went to the local music shop earlier to browse the instruments. The music shop has a lovely smell of new wood and plastics and it is a heady mix that always gets my creative juices going about music and songs with all the instruments. Someone in there said they had seen me playing with the guys and we had a chat and chewed the fat about the scene. I think he was really excited to have met me off the stage. It’s good to be approachable really. I could have just taunted him and