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Ginger Says – It’s show time!!!

Saturday, October 28th, 2000

It’s been some time in preparation and the past few months have been torn between public opinions from “can they pull this thing off live?” to “will they be a disappointment compared to The Wildhearts?” and “I hope to God it’s as good as I hope it’s gonna be”. The proof of this particular pudding […]

Ginger Says – A band, a boy, and breakdown in communication…

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2000

So, now there’s a band in place and the songs sound great… but something is missing. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is, either. Mind if I just throw some thoughts your way? If any of them stick then maybe we’ll have made some use of this time together, ‘cos chances are […]

Ginger Says – Nature kicks ass!

Wednesday, September 13th, 2000

And there was me thinking I’d seen some interesting stuff. I must have asked God for an interesting life somewhere along the line, and in the true tradition of being careful what you wish for, I certainly got one. Witnessing your baby arriving into this world is pretty spectacular on any level, let alone when […]

Ginger Says – Anyone can walk it for a while. Anyone can talk it for a while. Only the very special few can be it forever

Monday, August 14th, 2000

Patience (a truly ridiculous concept). And the Lord said something like, “if you hang about for ages, until whatever it was that was so important seems such a distant memory that its importance has become diluted to the point of ‘oh what the fuck, eh?’, then you shall get whatever it was you wanted in […]

Ginger Says – Whether trekking across the Himalayas, wrestling greased buffalo or completing a list impossible to complete in 24 hours, come midnight it’s Groundhog Night

Friday, July 14th, 2000

Doing stuff (a modern ailment). It’s 4.30 in the morning and I’ve gotta be up in a few hours. Not very rock ‘n roll, nor even all that outrageous considering the lengths and breadths I have often gone to to push my body into some experimental realm of consciousness just to see what it feels […]

Ginger Says – Oh, I have seen some sights lately. Bobbing heads, guitar straps the length of the average necklace and enough static stage presence to make Noel Gallagher look like Angus frigging bastard Young

Thursday, June 8th, 2000

The entries have been charging through my front door at a fair old rate of knots. Those slices of joy that reek of domineering young men that demand the chance to shine – to seas of fans around the many stretchmarks of the world. The newest Rock God to hit the magazine racks. The freshest […]

Ginger Says – And there was me denying that love existed

Friday, May 5th, 2000

And so it is done. The album is finished, mastered and completed. The artwork is done. After nine months of serious work, the end has finally arrived. When I started this album there were a whole host of differences in my life. I was living in America. I was reliant on drugs. I was single. […]

Ginger Says – You can never give up – it’s not in a rocker’s nature

Thursday, April 20th, 2000

The album is finished. Finished as in done, dusted and rarin’ to rock. Six months of intense rehearsing, recording and mixing and suddenly it’s over. The sadness I had anticipated didn’t arrive as planned. The final day was a blast of activity that negated any emotional involvement. Champagne was uncorked and congratulations were passed around, […]

Ginger Says – We’ve got a full tank of petrol and we’re wearing sunglasses

Thursday, February 17th, 2000

Rock is here, and I won’t say I told you so. Well it happened, and is happening, after all this time. It’s coming home. It’s back big time. It’s gonna be big. It’s gonna be wild. And it’s gonna be loud. When I was a kid me and my mates thought nothing of buying a […]

Ginger Says – Being tough is being gentle when everyone around you is getting off on acting like a movie character

Monday, January 10th, 2000

Happiness exists… it’s official. 2000 started on the roof of a skyscraper, watching scenes of firework mayhem and millennial excitement. Together with some great mates and a wonderful girl, I took a quiet moment alone to think… which normally, inevitably, leads to over-thinking and worry. And I could not for the life of me figure […]

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