Gold Digger

General stuff that’s amused/bemused the Gold Diggers.

Looking forward to watching the new film ‘How Weed Won the West’ – directed by Kevin Booth.
It’s a follow up to ‘American Drug War’, a compelling look at the US war on drugs.
Kevin was Bill Hicks best friend and provided the world with virtually all the Hicks recordings as well as starring in a few [...]

I was flicking through the cable channels last night when I came across possibly the most shallow of all reality TV shows ever. It was called ‘Rock of Love’ and features ex-Poison lead singer Bret Michaels on a completely contrived and narcisstic search for his ideal woman. The general premise is that after years at [...]

On Saturday 29th August Gold Digger are playing a gig at Dirty South alongside Bez from the Happy Mondays. He’s got a new band going called Domino Bones, which I believe features ex-members of the Stone Roses and Black Grape. Should be a good crack. I’m looking forward to performing our new Gold Digger mash-up of [...]

The final curtain call. Ah, what a shame we didn’t get to see him perform just one more time, never mind fifty. I hope the world will remember him for his music and nothing else. People are already pumping out naff jokes about his death…..
True, he led a bit of a chequered private life (it’s [...]

Not a good day today. I’ve taken the day off work sick, the sun has dissapeared behind the clouds and I’m feeling totally miserable. Still, this video from the Rathergood team cheered me up. In fact it’s a good representation of what my head feels like at the moment. More lemon Sip anyone?

Why do people vote for right-wing politicians? It’s a question that has popped into my brain on many occasions. I just can’t make sense of it. Whilst my ‘ideological’ beliefs are what right-wingers would most definitely call “left-ist”, I do not subscribe to any of the current (or past) “left-wing” political parties. What the hell [...]

Glastonbury Festival, eh? I’ve been 5 times and had some of the best times of my life there. I love it. But what did my nut in last year was when the organizers announced the ’controversial’ 2008 line-up and loads of people started complaining and predicting it was going to be the worst Glastonbury ever. Click here [...]

Goddamn it, I hate The Daily Mail. A vile, rag of a newspaper. Whenever I stumble across a copy (usually in a takeaway or left on the train) it makes my blood boil with fury at the ignorant, bigoted and outrageous shit they peddle under the guise of ‘news’. I think it’s a sad indictment on [...]

“Everything. Everything. Everything.” During the Halloween weekend of 1994 I went to my first ever Rave. I was aged 19 and other than listening to some of my brother’s mixtapes, I knew very little about Dance music or the Rave scene. On the recommendation of some friends in the know, we’d all travelled up to Leeds to go a MegaDog [...]

Nice one. I’ve just heard about this band called Heavy Load who have a track called ‘Stay Up Late’ coming out very soon. It turns out that the band are supporting a campaign about how many people with learning difficulties are never allowed to stay out late at all. Being dependant on their care workers, they [...]