Just for fun. And of course my abundant ego (am an artist don’t you know, is allowed)
My favourite writer:
William Shakespeare ties w Bernard Cornwell, in terms of reading-hours-enjoyment
I could not live without either
Favourite non essential foodstuff: Chocolate
Favourite essential foodstuff: Bread
Favourite singer: Candi Staton
Favourite person in the music business: Is a secret
Favourite drummer Buddy Rich ties with Charlie Watts (oh, that backbeat. Best snare drum winner in the galaxy)
Fave sax player Eddie HArris. By a 1000 miles. The man was so funkeeey
Fave composer: Beethoven
Fave guitarist: Jimi. Foreva
Fave drink: water
Favourite: animals
Whooo that a big one
Dogs. Cats. Donkeys / Burros (❤️) Birds
with close second all animals except bitey zzz zanzara drone-buzzing mozzies in your ear at night
Then it’s war
Fave intoxicant: weed
Fave synth player: JAmes Hockley
Favourite Aunt: Auntie Tina
Favourite shape: A heart of course
Favourite number: Don’t get me started
Fave record producer: me
Fave, er,
That’ll do for now
Man, it’s sunny out there. What am earth am I doing at a laptop? ☀️
Lordy Lordy. Speaking of top notch stuff . . . THIS is SO good in every way I’m almost fainting
I know a guy called, oh, cannot bring his name to mind, forgive me, with stuff going on all around in my head, but it is a colour. A hue. Lovely chap. And I don’t want to get it wrong. He was my goddaughter’s first love, when I was living bang on Hoxton Square next to White Cube. And in Twigs’s band. All so very touching
But believe it not, despite having having her on multiple occasions earnestly referenced to me, have never checked her out.
Like knowingly heard and identified her work
(most of my off-time devoted to an entirely different thing than music making or listening, Art even.
These days)
I was aware that she was a beauty though. Super smart
And now, so . . . intriguing
And turns out a gifted actor
Top wow, really. Wonderful wonderful music making my heart sing on this beautiful balmy Central London Spring day when the whole town seems to be whistling a merry tune 🎵🙏☀️
Right. Let’s put this Madonna ROL 2.0 thing to rest here and now folks. Can get exhausting
Is NOT going to happen.
Look, why don’t I just lay it out, cos I get asked constantly
I have an album ready that imho is indeed the successor to ROL.
Everything about how it was made and how it sounds yells that from the first few bars.
And I reached out. And there has been heard. Nil response. A week later. I speak with many close to her, including fam, but have not had a single syllable back in over two decades. There I said it. I only sort of hint we’re pals so’s not to ignite a firestorm of speculation. And wish nothing to come over as bitter because in my life and art now I’m finally where I want to be and the very opposite of bitter. Sweet as a nut. But interpersonl relations, you know. Human stuff. . No idea whatsoever what’s in her head. I believe she is very happy, she looks fabulous and full of life in recent pics i’ve seen, although I don’t really follow . Busy lives all of us. But yeah, last time we spoke was at in Midtown Manhattan, MSR Studios, for MDNA
Zero zero absolute zero hard feelings. Are you kidding, I will always love that woman. For real. She made my career
But am I crying?
Look at me. Crying with mirth and glee these days. You can’t shut me up squeaking and squawking about the table of lovely musical goodies laid before me
So there you have it. I am writing a book, and that’s where I will put that entire story along with my candid reflections. Not going to do it here cos it’s quite the backwater
(quite the lovely lagoon though, as I see it. We're all pals)
This book: Some deep chapters
Some pop goss
Some cartoon art
And I breathe one-liners
Have transitioned now to a man for whom Fs are no longer on offer
Zero fucks. For the music biz
But who likes to hear somebody go on about feeling good
So, for the history books, she doesn’t love me any more waaaaaaaaaaaah”
awww
No icon for billy
Never mind, there’ll be another one along
For my ROL 2
And this time Billy’s Goes Full Gonzo
#iscreamyouscreamweallscreamicecream🍦
There’s something else going on all day today today,
hang on . . .
I thought perhaps the algorithm had supressed my posts, with that DHL biz.
And the peop I follow, in my idealogical ‘caucus', if you scroll down, hardly approve certain bro-tesqueries.
But have concluded is just me back to the usual ho hum. Not that I don’t truly treasure you commentary
(BEST IN THE ACTUAL POST FOLKS, THE COMMENTS, NOT DMS, THEY USUALLY GET MISSED)
I like to scroll down and reply to comments on a post. (allowing for time available, as I peek in now and then. I encounter some really interesting people here
But point with posts not dms is am going to stop checking for dms, and continue engaging with my fabulous correspondants in a group setting
So the question is, why that number?
Why does it poke out like that?
I don’t want to make a thing with myself re follower numbers as it would be too crushing looked at that way. I see it as a group of like-minded discerning ‘members' of a club. I do get suggestions from peers to do a paywall of some kind. Or subscrition. Monetize. Same with LABS. But I don’t care for all that nib nib nibble
I like getting chunks of cash from corporations. And live off my my modest IP stream. Not the raging river bursting its banks of circa 2000, but a decent trickle. The bigun’s are nice cherries, but actually is the steady IP from things like ’Strange Cargo’. And I have a decent Government Pension.
And then there is the pop thing. With its blossoms and fruitiness. And I will work for chocolate and puff if I really really love something
Now, the venn diagram of people that adore Madonna that also appreciate my own work gives a small lenticulation in the middle that I notice growing. Snails pace. Limping snail with an oxygen tank and walker even, but is the right direction
Smashed Grammies or not. And hey, they WERE packed properly
I also love to write, Is likeike breathing, and this IG and FB etc not ideal, so will head over to SUBSTACK, or similar, right after my show, and after I finish off a last few tweaks my new recording thing
Plus coming up with a line of merch, first time ever. #ifindthatthehashtagbityrsupposedtodoattheendofapostabittedious
Just had to check, and my stack of EVERY Guerilla Records release vinyl, which weighs a ton, has been located. Had to be sure, and I feel like giving every one of them a spin
John Digweed is about to re-release this track here, ‘Obsession’, which is timely as Erire (@erireobano ) is singing with me on stage in a couple of weeks. We have a great new version of it too
I signed that one, way back then, and am delighted to see it have new life, as it’s such a stormer
#fuzzylogic #erire #obsession #johndigweed #guerillarecords
So THAT’s what an Emote is. Sweet.
As I understand it, there has been an unofficial one,
and now Fortnite are seeking her authorisation
(I’m grilling 10 year old nephews and nieces!)
Our incredible and laser-focused ninja and culturally astute Victoria Beverley called by, at my little online laboratory, and plucked ‘Spiral’ out. To it would seem to everybody’s cheer, GLOBAL REACH BULLSEYE
With my stake in the Master Rights (I 100% own ‘Spiral, and ‘Hello Waveforms”, just sitting there unloved in LABs) She went to blow the dust off and there flew up a bright sparkle of coin
hashtag pay-up
So
I’ve said NOT APPROVED to Fortnite because SONY have been pigs. Although a great thing for me is that it has, in all its email comms, brought me back together again after many years with a wonderful woman, Karen Poole, of “The Sky Is Rearranging” brilliance (she and I teaming for a massive collab right now actually)
🎵🎵🎵
........................................................Send me my wedge SONY, no more sorry assed fillibuster, and your supernova of an artist can gambol away in the verdant pastures of Epic Games to everybody’s hearts’ (and pocketbooks’) content
I don’t need anything in life I havm’t got
Of all in this circle give the least Fs. I want to go out and buy a new laptop. M3 pretty mushed. But happy to wait
