Lau

A Paul Hogan approach to reporting

Us ancients will remember Paul Hogan. Crocodile Dundee.

“Nah, mate. This is a knife.”

Interviewed, he contrasted the Aussie and Pommie approach to reporting on their cricket teams' performances. His theory was this: Aussies do well, and their papers are full of it, and so are ours giving our team a kicking. We do well, both sides of the press gloss over the whole thing in a couple of lines.

Taking the Hogan method:

Decent first day, but boy did we take the heel of our boot off their neck when we should've been applying maximum pressure.

Lau

Three men. Violin. Guitar and vocals. Accordion and (I LOVE THE NHS) keyboard and all the effects and technical stuff.

A huge, warm, energetic, bouncing off the walls sound. Just a great gig, and if you get the chance to see them (and it'll cost a fraction of the cost of seeing better known but lesser musicians) then go and see them and have a great night.

On the music side of things...

...just when you may have been warming to the Elephant Man leading the new old tory labour whatever party, he goes and choses a Robbie Williams track for his Desert Island Discs. These are the eight forever songs you can listen to, and that's either a sign that he's entirely at the mercy of a PA team and therefore not fit to run a nursery let alone the country, or he's made his own mind up and chosen a Robbie Williams song, in which case he clearly not fit to etc etc.

Jesus.

Google Desert Island Discs. Search on our so called leaders, and marvel at the lack of imagination and originality. We may as well have Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Littlejohn running the place supported by Colin Montgomery and Carol Thatcher. If your taste is predictable middle of the road bland, you 'aint likely to have the beans to make significant changes to anything.

Apart from anything else, why go on the show, unless it is just a publicity thing, when you don't really like music. As soon as someone says that they “don't have much time” for music, shouldn't that mean they're not worthy of clogging up the airwaves for the duration of the programme? Unless and until we have people running our nations who reach for the iPod before the popularity polls, we're toast.

Whoever picked the tracks, there's a huge misjudgement there. Unless I'm the only person who would never, ever, vote for anyone with a Robbie Williams song in their Desert Island eight.