Top o' the Modem to ya! Yes, I was in Dublin's fair city last week taking part in "Came so Far for Beauty"; an evening of people singing the songs of Leonard Cohen. & what did I learn? Well, that Guinness makes you sing with a frog in your throat, that Lou Reed has has designed his own pair of spectacles & that there are 13,000 Leonard Cohen fans in the Dublin area. I know that dead tree media is pretty passe nowadays but if you fancy it I have edited the issue of the Observer Music Monthly that comes out this Sunday. There are articles on Lee Hazlewood, underage discos & Russian Depeche Mode fans plus some very ugly photos of yours truly. Only available in the UK I guess - I'll try to make it up to my international friends somehow. Are you getting that Autumn feeling yet? When exactly does mellow fruitfulness turn into irreversible decay? Dunno - but isn't it time to go & take a tin of cling peaches & some corned beef round to a local pensioner's house? Share the bounty of the harvest. All together: "We plough the fields & scatter...." Laters.
