I went to see Kris Dollimore last night. For those who haven’t heard of him he was the original lead guitarist with The Godfathers. He then had his own band, The Brotherland, who got nowhere (although my old outfit, Ship of Fools, did gig with them once). He then had a short spell in The Damned followed by a long spell with Del Amitri. There: biography over.

Anyhoo, I was heading into the West End to meet FM and we were planning on heading up to the Spice of Life in Soho for one of their jazz evenings. I flicked through a copy of ‘London Lite’ on the tube and saw that Dollimore was on at the 12 Bar Club, so we went to see him instead.

Now, I realize that people change with time but I wasn’t quite ready for the reinvention he’d undergone. No longer the indie/punky guitar hero; instead, he was a sixty year old black man. Well… not exactly, he just played like one as for the genre he was tackling was the Delta blues. On stage it was just him, his guitar and a box to stamp his foot on, sitting on a stool playing Robert Johnson covers and original material which sounded like Robert Johnson covers. He remains a class act and despite my complete dislike for the blues I did enjoy myself, especially when he encored with an instrumental version of 'Ride a White Swan'. He is also now managed by the fellow who used to be the lead vocalist in The Godfathers which was sweet bearing in mind the shit that flew between them when they booted him out of the band back in the early nineties.

But – I hear you ask – enough of your social life, what about OD? Well, she has not been in school the entire week. Her Mum advised me that she was ‘unwell’ on Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday she was too lazy to get out of bed, and today, according to a text from t’Beast, ‘she played in the snow’ [and what a snowy day it was today too!]. Great. Her horoscope for this evening was rather pertinent (Shelley von Strunkel – scary looking): ‘You’ve been sidestepping certain commitments for fear they’d be restrictive and unrewarding. But if you don’t get involved now then events will proceed without you. While you may not be thrilled with arrangements as they are, it’s better than being left behind, which is actually your only other option’. And people say there’s nothing in it!!