The Roquefort Files

is how Underworld: Evolution is correctly read aloud. Dave and I went to see this on Monday and while it wasn’t bad per se, it was more or less completely identical to the first. Not so much evolution as treading water. Harmless (apart from the gore, gratuitous sex and swearing), mindless (apart from the intestinally [...]

We’re driving across a plain bordered by mountains to the north and south on our way from Flagstaff to Vegas, the penultimate big journey before we finally reach Santa Barbara and the Pacific coast. We stayed in Flagstaff for two nights, using it as a base for a day trip to the Grand Canyon. The [...]

…and then buggers it up completely. Saturday’s session at the Brill Building went like clockwork. We all arrived near enough on time and set to work with military precision. Doug and Dave set up a borrowed 4-track tape recorder (hint: this motherfucking device is the unwitting villain of the piece) while I set up Doug’s [...]

I started writing a “woe is me” entry late on Friday afternoon. I’d spent the day trying to compensate for Bingy Corp‘s exasperating inability to read the instructions on the stuff we send them, writing email after email to explain and re-explain how to use it. I was in a bad mood. Fortunately, the weekend [...]

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The Roquefort Files went to see Primal Scream in Glasgow on Friday night. They were playing in the Carling Academy (the same venue I’d seen Grandaddy at) and we managed to miss the support band. Again. Anyway, the ‘Scream wandered onto the stage (complete with Manny from the Stone Roses, quite clearly off his face [...]

Last night we were having a couple of friends round for tea at the flat, and it was my turn to cook. As the day went on, extra people were added on and it turned out I was cooking for six in total. Fair enough, I thought. Josh suggested that I do a tradition Roquefort [...]