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moi, currently Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureishi (a collection of short stories)

Ivan: i got Fabio Volo's 'Un giorno in più' as a xmas prezzie and so felt obliged to read the thing: an interesting insight into the not-quite-middle-aged male Italian psyche - sexual scenarios oft to the fore yet sentimentalism prevails, and the females inevitably remain either mamma or nonna. Lots of New York place-name-dropping throughout.

Hi Ivan,

We've got the Woolwich Wanderers tomorrow - it's only been EIGHT years since we last beat them *sigh* - reall tough month ahead; in the next 4 weeks we've got the scum twice, the chavs, your lot and Man U!! Not exactly the best time to tell one of our strikers he can naff off either!

We always go to Berlin for New Year; beer, snow, beer - fantastic!

..."The Making of Water for Life"

..er could've guessed that I s'pose .. eeek a 'hefty' 25 quidder, but looks well slick.

Just picked up Richard Dawkins' Unweaving The Rainbow

Just finished another band biography by who other than Steve Malins. His book on Duran Duran is quite an interesting read and yes all of the band members are notorious....except Nick ! :p

Chris

To Cut A Long Story Short I've just finished another book. Tony Hadley does provide a very honest account of his life. Such a great voice and front man he's ideal for any band. It's sad in a way how bitter the end of Spandau Ballet was. IMHO Tony was the best voice for Gary's music. What I like about Tony is that despite all that legal battle he looks back at Spandau Ballet without any regrets and happy to have lived those magical moments. "So true funny how it seems..."

I wonder if Gary will ever release his autobiography. I could learn one or two tricks on the Jupiter-4. BTW I didn't know he married the girl on the Gold video. The lucky.....!

Chris

Sounds very interesting. Does he write much of the very early days? For me, the 'change' that occurred after the first album marked the end of Spandau. And yes, Tony has a great voice. I personally just did not like the change in direction (fully recognizing the great singles from that change)

Hi Maryann

He does talk about the early days but what I found missing was info on the technical side ie the instruments used and Richard James-Burgess production techniques. Tony naturally talks about how he recorded his vocals for the albums. He does talk fairly a lot about touring and surely the way they drank!

Chris

naturally....