PMS Radio

It’s Sunday night and I’m at Charlie Parkers in Crosby for John the chefs birthday bash, that and a live radio session on PMS, Roger Hills long running Merseyside alternative music show which kicks off at midnight. John the chef played flute on the Growing Up album and has a right and proper collection of oddball instruments, I keep meaning to check them out when all we do is talk about them. I’m sure I will one day. Tim and I have just rehearsed the songs and I’m feeling like a scouser by proxy as I tend to on nights like this. I drive to the restaurant and after eating some the finest burritos this side of Guatemala [I know…that was unnecessary] head off into town and park up outside a new rave bar in Wood Street. The new Radio Merseyside building is deep in the heart of the renovation zone, the automatic doors work and the intercom too which helps. Richard the engineer meets us and soon we’re sound checking; we even manage a test run to assess the mix. At 12.35 am we play the first of three songs back to back; Lazy Bohemians, Kiss me I’m a Social Worker and Batman, we’re especially enamoured by Social Worker which I might well add to the my space site at some future juncture if it sounds any good. The station is forwarding a CD. We then talk on air to Roger about the new album; he compares me to Jegsy Dodd as a social commentary type song writer. I am of course, this being Liverpool, referred to by my real name, something that’s not really happened in interviews for awhile. What comes around goes around Tim says and he’s right. It’s just the bit in the middle that blurs and confuses. I drop Tim off and we end up talking for ages about the nature of success. This is it I tell him, we’ve arrived at last. I listen to the demos for the new album on the way home and they sound amazing….VP x