Another day of recording - the result is "Favorite Slit " - a tribute to The Slits.
I'm in the process of writing "The Frank Sidebottom Song" - a musical quest to find just who Frank is? Actually, it's a rhetorical question as everyone knows it's Chris Sievey.

Just spent the day recording a version of Patrik Fitzgerald's "Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart". I'll put it up on the MySpace site in a few days.

I have so much to give .....
Just heard from the CD pressing people that "I Beg To Differ" is SO big ( around 90 minutes) that they can't get it all on 1 disc. I was left with the choice of leaving out 5 or so songs or putting out a two disc release. I chose the latter.
Just get Roger Dean in to do the gatefold sleeve, and we're all there .....

MySpace has embraced The Disco Students - a very encouraging start. I had my photograph taken today by an Icelandic photographer - Henrik Spaunhausen. He is compiling a collection of photographs of "English Eccentrics" and reckons I fit the bill. He brought with him a hairdresser, Joni - who cut my hair prior to the photo shoot. Crikey - it's like punk never happened.

The Disco Students have made it to MySpace.
www.myspace.com/2006discostudents

There are four songs on there at the moment , "Oh No, You're Pregnant", "Mark, What's The Score?" , "Kafkaesque" and "Helen Come Home".

There'll be some new material put on there very soon.

Jim Morrison, tell me how it feels,
To end up with just £25 from being on "Deal or No Deal".
Jim, James, whatever is your name (today),
The rest of the Doors still want their pay.

Writer & Broadcaster.

Paul Gambaccini, wearing only a bikini,
Found in the launderette,
Worn for the day to win a bet.

The drunken daughter,
Of Janet Street-Porter,
Caught infragrante delicto,
With the first husband of Helen Shapiro.

Helen Sharman, first Briton in space,
Recruited by Pete Townshend to play bass,
On a concept album based on London's A-Z.
John Entwhistle, you see, is , I'm afraid dead.

Oh , A.A. Gill.
Yeah, A.A. Gill.

Celtica Radio - a station in darkest Wales, are I am informed , blasting out tracks from the "My Black Girlfriend" E.P.

A review from "Cool Noise".

Saturday, June 03, 2006
My Black Girlfriend by The Disco Students
Firmly from the DIY/John Peel style of music making we have The Disco Students. Their Mark E Smith's Dead may be factually inaccurate but it is a good song with a snarl to enjoy. Lo-Fi fun for the discerning in the family.

Just started to record the first all-new Disco Students CD of the new era. And the retrospective CD isn't even out . Got to get everything done before I drop down dead.
The first song is "Who's Your Favourite Slit?" - it was originally a poem, one that I performed at the live dates I did last summer. I've since set the little devil to music.

Ari Up, Ari Up, Ari Up, Hurry Up,
I can't take no more,
We've gotta keep the noise down,
Palmolive's at the door.
Your favourite Slit,
Who's your favourite Slit, your favourite Slit?
Eaten me for breakfast, a naive provincial boy,
Kept me as a mascot, kept me like a toy.
Made me do the errands, sent me out for tea,
I did all their washing, that was all down to me.
I squatted and I squatted like I'd never squat before,
I took to my new bohemian life one step ahead of the law,
I shared a morning postal round with Vic Godard,
I met some Rastaferians in their lovely yard.
I told them, I warned them they would catch their death,
Standing around in November covered in mud in Hammersmith,
I told them, I warned them this could not go on.
For a while, I was very keen on Viv Albertine,
Yeah, I was very keen on Viv Albertine.

My Shit Don't Stink.

It's painted on a wall outside the old town hall,
Someone wrote it on my fence, using the present tense,
People stop me and ask, "Is it really what you think?"
I say yeah, yeah, yeah - My Shit Don't Stink.

An anonymous note was pushed beneath my door,
A crank caller left a malicious message on my phone,
I get criticised because I cannot hold my drink,
I say yeah, yeah, yeah - My Shit Don't Stink.

And so, it has happened again. We are no longer in the World Cup.
Fuckshittingwankingcuntingbollockingbastardshitpissfuck.