What Doin?…..Frenchin’ Day 4

Syd and Jim’s Diary

Day 4 (cause Sunday we didn’t do one!)

Jim – I woke with a start wondering what un balance in the ethos had jostled me from my slumber and saw directly above my head a swallow diving about in my bedroom! Drugs again is it? I thought and then realised id been clean for two and a half years! I went to get up to get the bird out but it flew out the minute I was fully conscious!

Syd – I can do better than that, not only did I see the bird that Jim saw but I saw a second one fly in straight after. It was rather odd it was like a scene from the Matrix only a bird version with agile arial dog fighting.

Jim – I was loving the fact that at no time today did l actually have to get up! There is no work for Syd to get up and go to. There was no work for me to get up and go to (not that I mind mine as its fun) and I made the most of it and laid in the warm double bed reading and dozing until the offer of going to lunch was put in front of me! I love the lazy life.

Syd – I have nothing to say about this at all! Jim spends far too much time in bed for my liking there are things to do and see!

Jim – I finally got out of bed and was looking out the window when I saw my second worst fear heading towards my dad’s dog! It was a snake and it looked like a viper that was seen two days earlier jumping into trees! I did what any cool thinking man would do and panicked! I called out to Fouky the dog and said to get away! I ran down the stairs and luckily the dog had listened and come inside!

Syd – On the way to the farm from the airport Mary had told this brilliant story about this snake she had seen jump from a water butt into a tree. She didn’t know if it had gone from the area or not so today I was up in the bedroom and Jim was hanging out the window, all of a sudden he screams out “FOUKY!”  then shouted “oh my god it’s the snake!” and legs it down stairs to rescue the dog who had taken and interest in the slithery nightmare and was trying to sniff it, stupid dog! I followed Jim down the stairs grabbing my camera on the way and was blocked in my last seconds at the door from getting out there and taking photos by a concerned Jim who thought id be eaten alive by a Viper, destroying my possibilities of ever becoming the next David Attenborough!

Jim – Wouldn’t you stop her???????

Jim – My dad told us we were being taken out for lunch so I jumped in the car and drove Syd and him to a place that really was in the middle of nowhere but had a truck stop in it! Now a truck stop in England is a greasy spoon with even greasier people in it eating greasy food who happen to be lorry drivers! This place was a lovely bar/restaurant which sold Leffe blond and Stella and served a four course meal for a great price!

When we got there and were seated we were told that the Plate du jour was Ostrich! Now i can take a joke but really! Yes it really was Ostrich. As it turns out these people knew how to cook it as it came as a stew with a rich dark sauce and added potatoes it was lovely so the three of us stopped talking for a few and got it down our necks. The only bad thing was the lorry driver who was playing spot the tattooed Englishman! He wouldn’t look away until I stared right back and said loudly in English “do you want a picture it’ll last longer!” at this point it was pointed out that maybe this was not the place for a fight! It’s a long time since my dad decided if I fought or not! lol

Syd – So we rocked up to this truck stop, not exactly as I expected no greasy mushrooms here or half cooked sausages. The only thing you can get here is the dinner of the day and if you don’t like it then you have no choice. As it happens you had to like Ostrich today as this is what was served. It turns out Ostrich is quite nice it tastes like a slightly sweater beef, and I would have it again. I then moved on to the cheese course which turned out to be very funny as there was one cheese board for the whole restaurant, though I would say it was rather large. As I was tucking into the goats cheese, id just cut the end off, the board was whipped out from beneath me and passed on to another table it transpires the cheese you are offered does not stay around long enough for it to be actually consumed. Lunch was super!

Jim – My father decided to culture us up a bit with a flying visit to Jonzac castle! This being the millionth castle I had been taken to by my dear papa my brain shut down and I went a wandering! I wonder how Syd got on with the History?

Syd -  I enjoyed our trip to the Castle and Richard is very knowledgeable about French history after writing a number of books including The Unseen Terror about the French Revolution in the provinces (available on Amazon)! What ever Jim thinks about the enforced learning he can kiss my ass I as really enjoy it all. You can never know too much! We had a look round the castle and the town and took some pictures which will be in the slideshow at the bottom of the post. Also something I noticed quickly is that I have been here three days now and have not seen a small shop open how odd! How do they make their money?

Jim – Even though the small town shops never seem to open as Syd said, the large ones do! L.Eclerc is a large player in the ‘buy all here’ game in France and we went in there with a will to buy food! Not just some food but all of the food we could! I bought mini barrels of beer all the meat I could find as well as four HUGE Salmon fillets for lunch tomorrow! Everything here is bigger better faster stronger in the food world but by no means cheaper as the bill came to 150 Euros oooops don’t tell Syd!

Syd – While Jim was excelling himself with buying over the top beer barrels I had a more cunning plan of sliding in ice creams and chocolates as well as French patisserie cakes without him noticing until he had to hand the money over for the bill! OOOps look what I bought! Looks like we are equal after all!

Perhaps not that equal after all as I got distracted by a stall of shiny things on the way out and purchased a silver and Amber broach in the shape of an art pallet I couldn’t help it, it was shiny!

Jim – There comes a time in every holiday where walking must be taken on to see the surrounding country side that cannot be taken in from a car window! Well that is what I’m told anyway! Me and Syd left the safety of our farm house and went a walking down the road to see some local animals some planned some not!

Syd – During this walk we came across a donkey sanctuary which is cool as I like horses and donkeys so we fed them carrots and carried on walking. We came across the biggest Hornet on the planet it just had to be. It must have measured three inches long and had a vivid red head. Once again Jim scuppered my plans to take photographic evidence of this odd beasty!

Jim – Since the fearful snake episode we still went to sit in the garden and read before dinner but we had one eye always on the bushes waiting for the snake to come get us! Living in fear I tell you, fear! Or we could just go inside?

Syd – Because of the snake episode just one question for you all! Is Ghost mouse still alive?……………

Syd and Jim we were both told today that we may not get home due to volcano ash in the air! Oh what a shame!

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What Doin? ……..Frenchin’ Day 2

Syd and Jim’s Diary

Day 2

Jim – I didn’t wake up to a cockerel. I woke up to the site of my wife to be’s back as she watched out of the window the cockerel that had woken her up.

Syd – O god what is that noise, where am i? A cockerel? Huh?! This is how I woke up. To be honest I had a little bit of a disturbed night what with my pre-set alarm going off on my phone at half past 3 and Gemma the dog barking at invisible aeroplanes. Now morning avec le cockerel!

Jim – Now, car hire is of course an option but only for people with credit cards it would appear! I being the most blacklisted being in the world can’t get a credit card so there for, no hire car for me! This was circumvented by Adele who is a great friend of Mary’s who simply said “Have my car for the week I’ve got another one!” Talk about my luck changing for this holiday! Alright the cab didn’t turn up to take us to the airport but we got another one and now there is a really nice car in the drive way waiting for our bums on its seats and to whisk us off to unknown lands!

Syd – I also am black listed beyond doubt so therefore I cannot get a hire car either. So the kindness of the people living over here again excels itself to the lending of a free car which we are exceedingly happy about.

Jim – we jumped in the car and Syd drove us to the little village so we could forage for food to fill our stomachs for the coming day. She drove great considering the wheel was on the wrong side of the car and we were on the wrong side of the road. We found the co – op yes even in France the co – op is king lol! Jambon Pain et le fromage simple pleasure but it was great to sit out on the terrace and consume fresh everything! The best thing about France is fresh everything.

Syd – Of course im the only one with proof of an actual driving licence though we both claim to have them so therefore I am driver and this is scary as I have never driven on the damn wrong side of the road before. It turned out not too bad apart from the constant stalling of the car in the most awkward of places but I didn’t kill anyone too much. The only thing I would say is its hard not to reach for the invisible gear stick on the left hand side in these French cars? Made it to the co – op inside we were greeted by a barrage of French through which I stood there goldfish like and a little bit dumb. The woman behind the counter didn’t realise we were English of course and Jim dealt with it with his pigeon French. Breakfast was great thanks for asking!!

Jim – After Breakfast we were told that there were guests joining us for our evening meal and spending the night! This was all good until I heard myself say “Its ok ill cook for all six of us no worries!” What the hell was I thinking! Anyway I asked Syd to come help me shop and she came in the afore mentioned car and we set off for Mirambeau! We went to Super U which is a smallish supermarket where we proceeded to spend a kings ransom on the biggest piece of pork I have ever seen vegetables and all manor of goodies to wow my father’s guests! Super U is much like a Tesco’s just with better food quality larger prices and far far less staff but all this said we managed to buy everything we needed to get the job done! Driving home I had a go at the left hand drive car on the right hand side roads and just drove as I normally do fast and a little erratically but we made it home safe and even managed to take some photos on the way!

Syd – I must say the French super markets are truly excellent the difference in the quality and the amount of food in them compared to England is quite vast. All the fruit and vegetable produce looked immaculate and incredibly fresh. The fish cheese and meat counters were twice the size of the ones we have back at home and have every type of fish and meat you can think of, I even saw a lamb’s brain for sale mmmmm yum!  Another thing we noticed was the complete outrage of the French at Jim’s choice of skin adornment it turns out that tattooing is not seen as ordinary as it is in England!

Syd and Jim – Just to let you know we both bought sunglasses and now look exceptionally cool thank you very much that is all.

Jim – I was a bit worried about Syd at one point as she has completely disappeared! I’m shouting her name and the dogs are chasing about but she was no where to be found as she was Lizard hunting right down the garden! Yes Lizard hunting ill let her tell you,

Syd – Mary gave me an SD card for my camera as I left mine back in England. So now I can take photos and as I had noticed a lizard that lived in a lavender bush on a tour of the garden with Jim’s Dad this had become my obsession to capture this lizard on film or in this case on an SD card.  So I spent quite a lot of time pretending to be a statue holding my breath waiting for the lizard to perform. Eventually I did capture him and you can see the evidence of this in the slideshow at the bottom of this post! My next mission is to capture last night’s ghost mouse also on my camera! Watch this space.

Jim – Finally we get to the end of this busy day but not before the small matter of cooking for 6 people, 2 of which I didn’t know or I thought I didn’t any way! I asked Syd to be my sous chef and we worked well together like an oiled machine and we set about veg and meat both and prepped it all in record time! I was ok with it all timings were all good and cooking was going swimmingly until I realised we had a fan oven and the meat was done way earlier than it should have been! Me being on the ball enough to realise it was done was a miracle so I took it out and set it to rest while I manically ran around trying to hurry the veg along to be ready sometime before the world ended! Its all came together so well im happy to say especially the gravy! I have never made gravy from meat juices and wine before but with a little help from my sous chef (actually she saved the whole thing from being shite) we sat at the table and we ate the best dinner I think I have ever cook! Great time for a bit of luck right!?

It turns out the guests weren’t unknown to me as the man Bob used to sell me fish in Warwick way in London, small world or what?

Syd – I pealed potatoes, that is all!

Tip of the day if you have bitter gravy just add sugar and taste.

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What Doin? …….. Frenchin’

Syd and Jim’s Diary

 Day 1

Jim – The trouble with holidays abroad is that they have to involve travelling and early starts! Our holiday to my father’s house in France started at 3:30 am! Syd’s alarm went off she jumped up and simply said “Get Up!” Instead of arguing as usual I just got up, got dressed checked the passports and money and left the flat!

Syd – Dzzzzzzzzzz (alarm) oh crap half past three is here after three seconds sleeping! Time to get our stuff together and head out to France.

Jim – By the time 4:05 came around we were outside waiting for the cab that had been booked to take us to Luton Airport at 4am sharp. It was obvious to me that he wasn’t coming at all and a sinking feeling took over! Why does this always happen to us! I booked the cab it should be here it’s not rocket science! So Glyn had failed to get up or had died in the night I’m not sure I care which, as he had nearly ruined our holiday before we had even left our manor!

Syd – All excitement now being taken down by the lift only the cab to get into that’s all we need to worry about, shouldn’t be a problem he’s only got to turn up. Me and Jim waiting at the bottom of the flats listening out for any noise of cars all you can hear is the dawn chorus, just what you need at that time of the morning! So still waiting still looking ……… Ten minutes go by….. fifteen minutes go by and we start to panic looking for plan B’s.

Jim – Ok so supremely let down by the Cab company! Thanks Dj’s! We jump in Syd’s car as my Merc had no petrol in it. The plan being to drive to the airport and suffer the huge parking costs for the week we are away! I decide however to drive through the town and see if by chance there is a cab about that can take us!

No Fucking way!!!!! There is a cab on the rank outside the café! I pulled up along side and panicking about time asked the guy if he could take us to Luton! He looked at his watch and said “I’ve got a half five pick up but ill do it!!!” Oh my god the relief! So we parked up Syd’s car jumped into the cab and was zoomed at great speed to Easyjet central and away for the holiday planned!

Syd – Jim’s getting angry now but the good thing about our relationship is that we work well together in crisis situations! The first thing we did was think of all the options we had to get the airport, from going to wake the taxi driver up at his house to driving my car which I really didn’t wanna do! Eventually we agreed to get in my car and speed into town (we didn’t really speed for the purposes of any law enforcement agencies reading this!) where upon we came across a mirage in the shape of a taxi driver named Ozzy our saviour was found!!

Jim – After suffering anger and then relief the last thing I needed was to be treated like a cow being herded to milking! Sadly the Easyjet/Luton airport way of things is to assume all humans are dumb and treat them accordingly! I went through security and was told to empty my bag! “Here we go again!” I thought but it turned out deodorant cans are terrorist weapons of mass smelliness and must be left in England! Idiots!

Syd – I waltzed through security like the innocent being I am unlike Jim who is obviously a master criminal planning all kinds of world destruction with an aerosol can!

Jim – the flight on Easyjet ………. Nuff said

Syd – Wedged into the SleazyJet roller-skate produced a whole myriad of emotions and physical pain! Nerves almost beat me on this flight which is unusual for me as I’m not scared of flying and I’m normally alright. Coasting at 35 000 feet I settled down to endure the flight and was slightly concerned as the Pilot seemed completely unaware of his final destination. As well as dealing with that on the descent into Bordeaux airport I experienced excruciating ear pain with my head about to burst! Flying is not fun.

Jim – We landed, we waited for the door to be open then we ran from the rubber band powered roller-skate to the shack that is Easy jet’s terminal! We did however spend just one minute from landing to getting bags to being picked up! Walking through the passport control I did notice the small soldiers with big guns and my only thought was “are all French soldiers sufferers of small man syndrome?”

Syd – We literally spent the blink of an eye inside Bordeaux airport after sweetly smiling at the man with the big gun and getting no reaction at passport control we slipped on out into the French sun shine. “It all smells a bit French here!”

Jim – We were picked up by Mary and Benjy the dog! Mary was her usual kind self and big hugs all round and then to the serious business of if we were hungry as she had food stuffs in the car and juice, the perfect person to meet us anywhere! We settled into the hour long car journey where I caught up with everything that had happened since I was there last. Not quite realising the trouble my fiancé was in, in the back of the car. Ill let her tell you this….

Syd – The hour long car journey to the farm was not quite what I expected, after initial hellos and welcomes Mary and Jim spent the whole hour chatting and catching up as you would expect. I however spent that hour quite differently!!! You see I was surrounded by three border collies in the back of a Twingo. One of them in particular was called Alfie and was quite frisky due to the spring air or something and spent a large section of the journey trying to hump my leg. Blissfully unaware in the front Jim and Mary continued to converse while I was defending myself from an amorous dog. L If you thought that was the end, oh no, fellow canine Benjy decided it was a good idea to bite my face so not the best of journeys I’ve ever had but at least Pipa the third dog left me alone!

Jim – we arrived and with a small amount of trepidation (and I mean really small) Syd and my Dad met for the first time! I suspect they will be the tightest of friends and by the end of the week I will have been forgotten about and all conversation will start and finish with them! That thought makes me happy.

Syd – I was a nervous about meeting Jim’s Dad for the first time but I went through that whole “is he gonna like me?” kinda thing. I smiled he said hello and even hugged me. He made me feel very welcome to his house! Mary and Richard seem lovely and im glad we came out to see them.

Jim – My favourite place to eat and drink is Bill’s bar around these French parts and my dad and Mary knowing this took us there for lunch! I ordered a round of drinks and settled into my goldfish bowel of Stella while Bill the owner of the place with his wife Phil proceeded to tell me id put on weight! The perfect greeting in my favourite bar! Little Scottish Bugger that he is can be forgiven for this because he is probably right and also is the perfect host!

Syd – FOOOOOD  YUUUUM Le Lapin was particularly fine with its reduced red wine sauce followed by a caramel and chocolate mousse with cold custard. P.s strawberries are the devils food.

INTERLUDE (sleeping)

Jim – while I slept my swede off my fiancé was in the garden creating! No not kicking off, drawing,

Syd – A lonely figure in the French wilderness with only pen and paper for company and the sun beating down on my bonce. I had the inspiration for a new Big Eye Stuff character. Scratching around in the dirt was the trio of cockerels that Mary likes to keep. So I quickly sketched up Jaque Francois the arrogant cockerel! See below for details.

Jim – After dinner me and the wife took a stroll through the local countryside and we saw a lot of Frenchies driving home. Why do they all look so angry? Then we walked to a tower in the middle of a cognac field but were made to feel a little unwelcome by another angry looking French car driver, so walked to the only place nearby! The graveyard! Full of family tombs and covered in really odd tacky souvenirs to celebrate the passing of loved ones! All a bit odd if you want my tuppence about it!

Syd – Dinner, a little bit more leg humping by dogs, a bit embarrassing in front of the new family. We wandered down to the interesting cemetery which looks very different to the English cemeteries and they seem to pop up all over the place in the countryside here. They are all rather tacky full of family tombs not individual graves! We enjoyed looking around until we spotted a lone woman mourning a recent passing so we respectfully left as we were being rather loud!

Jim – we wanted to write this diary so I went next door to borrow a pen! When I came back after a whole 3 minutes I came across Syd looking weird alone outside the front door??

Syd – So Jim leaves for a pen, sitting in the living room I start to hear strange noises coming from the kitchen. To be honest it freaked me out. So I stood by the front door ready to bolt. This place is quite obviously haunted, I was thinking then. I heard the bin lid shut and I have never moved so fast out of a door…bricking it I waited for Jim to come back, he seemed to be gone for ages.

I met him outside and we went back in, I was convinced there was a ghost here, still looking at where the noises had been coming from I saw the curtain move by itself! Oh God a poltergeist! Jim calmed me down thinking it was all nonsense and we started to concentrate on the diary. The noise happened again and I turned round and I saw it……….. a mouse perched circus like on the dogs tennis ball? Looking like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth, this is bad but at least there are no ghosts …as far as we know!

Day 2 tomorrow.

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Im Doing It I am Im Doing it!

I don’t know about you but i’ve never written a book before! I don’t know the secret rules involved! Is there a secret group of people who control the publishing world where every door has a sign that says “no unsolicited material!”! Well if there is I couldn’t care less as im doing it all myself! I think im in a position to just produce 100 books and then im gonna sell them with the book sound track im working on so fans or friends can buy both limited edition disc and book for £10.

The book is a slightly twisted affair that is based on the true stories from my life but due to the nature of some of my past I have written it as a mix of fact and fiction! All the situations really happened but the people involved have all been hidden by differing methods and some of the places have been changed! I also did it this way (actually I still am as it’s not done yet) so I could have some freedom to make the stories the most entertaining it could be! So far its all kept to the truth and to be honest the title of the project is Bang on. It will be called “If I Told You the Truth You Wouldnt Believe me!” and from remembering my life up to this point I don’t believe me a lot of the time and I was there.

A lot of people see me as one way they have made the decision im an arrogant idiot, a rock cliché or a good man that is their choice but this book gives me the chance to lay out the way I really feel and the things I really have done! It doesn’t shy away from the harsh realities of my drug addiction or the crime I have been involved in for a large number of years in my life! What it doesn’t do is glorify these things it simply tells it the way I saw it!

People will read it and argue that im full of shit or people who were there will say it didn’t happen that way but I can do only one thing, I can write my book my way and if it leads to debate, fights or bad feeling then so be it! I’ve spent a lot of time saying what people want to hear and not telling people the truth of the matter as deep down im a decent bloke and don’t want people to be miserable. I have been on the end of people’s fury people’s violence and also received some of the most heart-felt kindness in my life so if the truth is gonna cause trouble then so what, its the truth!

What I havent done is gone out to paint people in a bad light or lie to make things more interesting cause lets face it I simply don’t have to. My life has been a rollercoaster filled with challenges adventure stupidity and violence. I may not be a professional writer but that’s just because I havent don’t it before.

In this day and age with a bit of money and some time and energy you can pretty much achieve what ever you want. I’m under no illusions, ill never be a best seller I may not even sell the 100 but at least I can say that I tried it and did my best to get my story out there!

The book is coming soon probably end of this year so keep a look out for it. Simply come back here and keep and eye on my site as all the news on where when and how will be here!

Look out for my wifes blog site to as she has an exciting new business www.bigeyestuff.co.uk I think you may like what you find there go have a look please and let us know what you think!

Love Respect and Dirty Rock n Roll

Jim Distortion!

Sundays are Days to Explore! Museum of London’s Turn!

Every Sunday me and the wife (Syd) try to get out and do something we have wanted to do for a while or something that turns up to keep us entertained! This Sunday we went to the Museum of London near the Barbican!

I’ve wanted to go here for the longest time and it turned out Syd did too! The reason I’m blogging about this is because it really struck me on so many levels how a place like this can (without being to grandiose) change your life!

The Museum of London as you would expect is a place that shows you how London became the city it is today from the dawn of time right up to now! Its also free entrance so perfect for a family outing when times are tough! If you are thinking I’ve gone mad and how can a rock cliché such as me go to a boring museum? Well wake up to the fact that i love social history and seeing how things developed and that’s where a lot of my songs come from!

The whole place seemed very quiet like it was our little secret place to visit! There were no or nearly no screaming kids or loud idiots ruining my chance at learning something! The place itself is set out in such a way that it involves you in the differing times you are walking through. I literally mean walking through as well as they have rooms that are set up as shops and houses of the time! There is even the original 1920s lift and wooden wall from the Savoy hotel!

There is obviously a part of the museum given over to the war years and this struck me the hardest! I was sat in the dark watching the film reel there about people’s experiences during the war and how it effected them! Right from the horse’s mouth as it were! It was an honest and moving account of the troubled times but also showed the fragility of people under the bombing! On the flip side it really shows the resilience of human beings . They were able to survive the hardships and the lack of food and clothing and still have a bright mentality!

I know this has all been said before but im saying it now! A museum that can evoke such feelings just by education should be seen and indeed cherished!

We went there to see Victorian London mainly as both our families have traceable links to that time! They have a full street with mocked up shops using the items of the day which means you can see and feel what the time was like! The most penetrating of rooms was a wooden prison cell from medieval times which was an actual cell and you can see the engravings done by the inmates on the cell wall! As well as seeing what they were feeling through their wall drawings you could actually get a taste of what they felt from just being in the dark lonely room!

It was a great day in London and the museum should be supported and cherished as it’s the one museum i would spend another day looking round as you couldn’t see everything in a day!

On the way home we stopped to look at Saint Paul’s and a number of other sites i was to up my own ass to look at in the seven years i lived in London! Take a day out of your busy lives, grab hold of your significant other and take some time to go look at London you wont be disappointed!

Oh yeah The Pigeon picture it was the strangest thing! A whole lane full of Pigeons behind a fence! They must have felt very safe as they didn’t move or were sleeping as we were watching them! Its in Pimlico if you ever need a pigeon!

The picture of my finger tattoos was done on the way home as i saw they looked good in the mirror in the sun shine! It may be random but its all part of the same day out!

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So i guess ive done it all!!! What Next?

May seem like an arrogant statement but in my 37 years on this planet I’ve been an Oddbins manager a restaurant manager an art and design company owner an advertising salesman a criminal in several guises a tattoo shop owner twice a musician a compeer and ive played and talked to over 100000 people so far not to mention the thousands that listen to Recharged Radio and my show on that network!

People criticize me for being arrogant or too big for my boots even my girlfriend laughed at me when i said that I’m no longer the person in the light and didn’t wanna be in amongst the people anymore! Maybe its time for me to revert back to plain Jim and let Jim Distortion take a back seat!

The only trouble with that is i have no clue who Plain Jim is! I’ve been playing this role for so long the real me is so lost under a pile of Mockney  swagger and hard edged anger that I’m confused about who i want to be anymore! I know that i have a good side and i know i can be the pleasant person i want to be but there is also the underlying need for craziness drugs booze and being the center of things! Is there a happy medium can there be a life that covers all aspects of my crazy life without the death of me occurring prematurely ?

I love being the lead singer in a band but is it worth the trouble nowadays to deal with all the lies and bullshit involved in being in doing it at 37! Im looking forward to getting married and having children but will i be ok at that ? I’m worried im gonna blow up and let people down! Thats the nature of addicts though, now im clean and have been for nearly three years there is always the thought that i may fuck up again and let the family down!

Luckily all these doubts are normal and are part of life! Im glad there is no manual and no one to tell me im doing it wrong, well no one id listen to anyway! Im gonna muddle my way through and to be honest ill always have music and performing in some direction or another even if its not Distorted Breed!

If you find yourself questioning everything don’t worry at it just answer the questions that you find yourself asking yourself,  you might just learn that you know a few things after all and life is not the chaos bowl you thought it was!

At no point am i asking for a quiet life but when is it time to stop showing off and just act the business and family man! Fucking never is the answer cause i am those things already as well as the musician and chaos lover! You don’t have to change you just have to grow!

Don’t limit what you are as mediocre is all you will ever be and that is the way to a life as boring as death!

(keep an eye out for my book out early next year!)

Graphic Nature Need Your Help to Help Children

 

On this Saturday (26th March), we are holding a product demonstration/
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What’s more, we are also raffling a brand new LD Dave 10 system,
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