Say Hello........

Well, I suppose I oughta tell you all a few bits and bobs about me....................

male, 30 something, straight, in a long term relationship (jail term!!)

work with people who have learning disabilities

am a passionately proud yorkshireman

love all sorts of things, music, food, football, t'internet, books, films, writing, but most of all, I love ME!!!

the name? well it derives back from my youth, when plans were made - over and over again - to launch a kind of fucked up cabaret show thing, featuring boys dressed as girls, girls dressed as boys, performing all sorts of cabarret act things, and I was gonna be the compere, dressed in drag, telling a few jokes, slagging off some of the audience (in best drag queen traditions!!), and singing a few songs between each act. Imagine a drag queen singing such standards as Oh Boy, Trouble, Jolene and the like. Fabulous!! The show was gonna end with me being defrocked and crucified on a diamante encrusted crucifix - Jesus had no style, two pieces of 6x4, I ask ya - and the crowd would witness the fabulous death of me as part of the finale!! Like I said, fucked up, but would have been great fun. Never happened, thankfully!! But the name kinda stuck, and now has its place on the web.

Music - Marc Almond is a God, undeniably the most talented song writing artiste of this, or indeed any, generation. There will be loads of youtube clips and slide shows and the like featuring the only voice throughout this blog - well, when I work out how to do it!! - so that you too can share the genius that is Mr Almond. Like lots of other stuff too, from indie to dance to disco to punk to electro to cabaret to 60s to 70s to country to r+b to pop to 80s to music hall to rock to folk to 90s to bhangra to musicals to post war...................... you kinda get the picture.

Football - well, there's only one team that anyone should support. Marching on together. The champions of Europe.

Politics - well, I'm kind of a fucked up hybrid of left wing and right wing and central and nazi(esque). I hate political correctness with a vengence. I hate racism, homophobia, and other horrible things like that, but you have to remember that those things work 2 ways, and that freedom of speech means that we should all be able to voice our opinions without fear of recrimination unless its libellous. But no opinion is correct unless it's mine!!! But we'll get on to those kind of issues in due course I'm sure.

Food - got to be indian. Curries just are the reason we have taste buds (and also the reson we have heart attacks!!). A nice chicken bhuna and a few ales sounds like gourmet heaven!! But leave all this low fat healthy eating shite out of my diet ( almost became a fat slag then!). Enjoy what you eat, and if it kills ya, it kills ya!!

Reckon thats enough for now. But for the time being, here is the fantastic Marc singing St Judy last year in his first UK concert since a bike accident almost robbed us of a true star. Enjoy..................