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And for forcing a very creditable home draw with Stevenage. That's.... Stevenage.

I still won't

Well it was great to hear the alternative Cornick song 'Hurry Up Harry' by Sham 69 played in the ground pre-match on Saturday. With all due respect to Herman's Hermits, if ever there was a band whose songs were literally written for shouting at the top of your voice on the football terrace, it was these herberts. The lyrics actually have to be written in shouty block capitals with exclamation marks, otherwise they don't quite work. COME ON! COME ON! HURRY UP HARRY COME ON! WE'RE GOING DOWN THE PUB!

I sense a 'livelier' atmosphere than of late, incoming.

Yeah that's the one, thanks, I haven't seen it for about 40-odd years! I was only 14 when the record was released, but there are one or two people on there I've met over the years since. Not least the Blue Aeroplanes legendary front man Gerard Langley, who is credited for quite a few of the photos on the poster. And there we are, 'Melanie Dicks' vocals on 'My Dead Mother' by Double Vision - Alan Dicks' daughter, I believe.

Yes I still have my vinyl copy of Avon Calling, it came with a free poster that adorned my teenage bedroom for a while. Some really good tracks on that record. Pretty sure I saw Essential Bop and some of the others at the Bristol Bridge Inn and/or the Stonehouse. If I recall correctly, I think the singer of My Dead Mother was, bizarrely, the daughter of Alan Dicks! Or did I dream that?! 🫨

Excellent band, Hard-Fi, and a good bunch of lads. In about 2004, I and a band I was in at the time played with them at a joint music industry showcase at the Camden Barfly, one of those 'next big thing' events. And hey, guess what? Hard-Fi became the next big thing! And we.....didn't

Bored of the England Australia game, I've popped over to watch some of the second half of Bris v Leicester. Good to find the Bears 25 - 7 up as it stands, but WTF is that big blue circle doing on our pitch?!! Not happy about that!

And another achingly beautiful song from a female artist in the same era, this is one of my all time favourites. Judie Tzuke - Stay With Me 'till Dawn

A beautiful song, I love Rickie Lee Jones. Strangely, I was listening literally last night to Chuck E's in Love, another amazing track.

It's getting kind of late now, I wonder if you'll stay now... Or will you just politely say good night?

Same, we used to go and see them all, The Clash, Jam, Damned, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Ruts, Siouxsie, SLF, Stranglers... and all the 2Tone ska and mod bands, I was into it all. Have seen the Undertones dozens of times since then. I've always wished they'd managed to capture their awesome live sound on record. Don't get me wrong, the records are fantastic, but in concert they really are something else.

I was there too, fantastic gig wasn't it? Did you notice Paul McLoone chanted BRISTOL CITY! in the middle of My Perfect Cousin? Legend! The Undertones remain one of my lifelong favourite bands, having been the first gig I ever went to, aged just under 14, in 1979. The Locarno was supposedly an over-18s venue, but was always full of spikey little schoolkids when the punk and new wave bands came to play, which was most weeks back then. Good times.

I saw him first, you cow!

Shit team, got lucky?

The Undertones 'Just Like Romeo and Juliet' is an absolute stunner of a cover version. It's thanks to the Undertones that I discovered the seminal Nuggets compilations, and Michael & The Messengers version of 'R&J" is one of the standouts. I could literally listen to this Undertones version all night on repeat, it's ace.

Well quite. The only bigger jobs right now are top half Premier league.

I think the unwritten advice from Mayor Rees's team can probably paraphrased something like this. "Look lads, we're desperate to wave this through for you, but we can't approve it right now because, well, the "application" you've submitted is the most laughably amateurish piece of work we've ever seen. Seriously, what were you thinking?! Embarrassing! We'd be a laughing stock if we let that pass FFS! "Listen, your best bet is to withdraw the application as soon as possible, before everyone realises the stand you've already built is way bigger than the primitive image you bizarrely tried to get away with on the original form. Sorry, but you're going to have to pay someone to do a proper application, but then we'll be able to get rid of all those inconvenient objections for you. Don't worry about the local residents or the Greens, we'll 'take care' of them, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. You ain't seen me, right?

Hmm, because the market might pay those prices, doesn't make them 'right'. Supply and demand says that a 3 bed Victorian terraced house around the corner from Ashton Gate could cost you north of £600k, but that's not 'right' either, it's f king obscene.

Hurry up Harry, come on...

England vs Scotland women has been an enjoyable watch.

Or is he more Hall and Oates?

True that, didn't we average getting on for 2,000 away in GJ's play-off season? After so many years in the third tier, I think a lot of us were tempted to travel far more than normal, which is understandable and natural behaviour whoever you support.