My name’s Al. I was born in a small seaside village in Suffolk UK in 1963. I am lead singer and bass player in the Punk Oi band L.O.A.D I am also a hard working family man, proud dad to three sons, and grandad to two little terrors, and I love spending time with them. […]
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Interview with Hugh
I am from Armagh, Northern Ireland but raised Dublin, the Republic’s capital, as well as a few childhood years in Chicago. I just turned 50 on my daughter’s 4th Birthday – yes good timing. I’ve lived in Moscow for almost 13 years and love to explore, travel, teach and learn. I also like beer and […]
A Pain in the…Ear
Bzzzzz… Bzzzzz… Bzzzzz… – Hey! Do you hear the bees? – Huh? – The bees! Can you hear them? – What bees? There are no bees here! – Well, what’s this buzzing in my head? Like you, I’ve been to over a thousand concerts. And I still continue to go to them. I’ve seen good […]
A History of Portable Music
Question: What is a pen used for? Answers: To write, to draw, to use as a blow pipe for sending balls of wet tissue to your classmates’ heads, to show that we’re very rich if the pen is a Mont-Blanc … What else? To rewind a cassette of course !!! And yes, do you remember, […]
Flirting in the Old Days
First contact – Hi, do you have a spare cigarette, please? – Here. – Thank you. Hey, guys, those few words bring back memories? When you spotted a pretty young punkette at a concert and asked her for a cigarette pretending not to have one, while your pack was stashed in the bottom of […]
Cops and Old Cars
Like most of the readers of this article, I’m over 50, and I love rock ‘n’ roll and the 50s. I’m therefore a bit nostalgic for an era that I didn’t know, but that I tried to live, in spite of everything. How did I go about trying to get there? Well, first of all, […]
Old Lady Hands
I’ve never liked my hands, even as a teenager. I used to secretly compare the skin on my hands with my classmates’ and friends’ hands. Their hands always looked so beautiful. Their skin was so smooth – like the skin of an ‘English rose’. I always thought that my hand skin looked like it was […]
Old Teeth
32 is basically the number of teeth you have in adulthood. That is, if you’ve got your wisdom teeth. And 28 is the number of teeth we’ve got, Cheryl and me. And yes, who knows why, but the wisdom teeth never appeared neither for her, nor for me!!! Some will say there’s a reason for […]