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ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CANADA…THE RECORDING ARTISTS OF CROSS COUNTRY DREAMS:
ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN AND INNER CONTINENTAL … (TRAVEL LOG) First stop, Orilla Ontario. Gordon Lightfoot of the Canadian back logs beneath the wooded and the rain. Fast freeze gale winds build’s of the Toronto dark auburn spirals and it’s take to winter. Color blender like a poser of the bluffs across dark dull blue …
DOCTOR HANNIBAL LECTER’S CHRISTMAS STOCKING STUFFER FROM HIS OWN ‘GOTHIC’ QUARTERS CALLED HOME
Happy times ahead from our SURREALIST WRITER ERIC LASTICK and the small team at the site! Have a good one – Leigh, Andrea and Eric! ( IN SINGLE OCCUPANT PRISON CELL) DOCTOR LECTER DRAWS UP A CLOWN: He applies the finish brush works of an oil painting of ‘a clown’..Treasuring his psychological works of …
DRUNK, BROKEN TEETH, WHEELCHAIR, HOSPITAL – BUT SHANE REMAINED ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL
Shane MacGowan has died after an eight-year battle with failing health. The Pogues front man was a potent mix of Irishman, Baudelairian mythology and rock ‘n’ roll toxicity. And like all good poets he wrote magical works, in his case mainly songs like Fairytale and Brown Eyes… he was brittle, edgy, drunk, wasted, teeth missing, …
FEAR THE TALKING DEAD … HOW AI ROBOTS ARE EATING UP OUR BRAINS AND LYING IN THE MESS
I tend to toe the hard-line of shifting sands within humanity as far as the Talking Dead are concerned. I believe that anything artificial is pointless – like sweeteners, squirty cream and squidgy frozen Scampi with soft centres. But all the above can be pleasant in their own way, bright presentation, smiley packaging and, yes, …
LOOK INTO THE INNOCENT FACES OF THESE DEAD BABIES
TICKER TAPE, TICKER TAPE: On a Sunday, within the peripheral vision of Britain’s lost heroes, there were riots, racism and arrests … TICKER TAPE, TICKER TAPE: More children have died in Gaza in three weeks than have died in wars across the world in the last five years … TICKER TAPE, TICKER TAPE: The …
What right have you to decide lost parental love is just what your child needs?
BY CAMPAIGNER ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE With no justifiable reason for stopping contact. Your ex is abusing you abusing your child/children abusing the courts. Making the courts instrumental in the abuse. Courts call this the best interest of the child/children. Since when has any abuse been in the best interest? Very often the behaviours of the …
WOE BETIDE THOSE WHO STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES IN THIS MEAN AND UNPLEASANT LAND…
Shopped in the UK for being upset about my dangling dongle What is wrong with you Britain? What happened to your manners and your self-worth? If you are a driver and you accidentally try to run me over because you can’t be bothered slowing down or looking where you are going, why look so offended …
SLAUGHTER OF OUR CHILDREN – NOW THE BBC REFUSES TO CALL HAMAS TERRORISTS
We at the BEEB must be careful not to take sides, says that nice John Simpson https://open.substack.com/pub/leighgbanks/p/slaughter-of-our-children-now-the?r=drr6n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
THE DOGS OF JAW… they are good dogs, they do what they are bred to do. KILL!
THE case for outlawing XL Bully dogs is overwhelming. They are killers. Out of ten people torn apart by dogs in the UK recently, six were killed by this brutal breed. The last victim, Ian Price died as he fought one attacking his elderly mother. Dog lovers say the breed cannot be blamed. And they are …
IT’S NO DISNEY WORLD ON TOUR, SAYS BOB AS HE PROMISES MORE DATES
Bob Dylan has set more dates on what is rapidly becoming his never-ending Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. A few weeks ago, Bob announced 17 dates and promised more would be on the tracks. There are whistle-stops in Springfield, Massachusetts, Port Chester, New York and Waterbury, Connecticut beginning October 1 in Kansas City, Missouri. The Rough and Rowdy Ways tour hit the road in …
+THE TRUE REASONS WHY PARENTAL ALIENATION SEEMS TO BE A NO-GO AREA FOR NEWSPAPERS, BROADCASTERS AND TELEVISION
An open letter to the victims and perpetrators of abuse of parents and children Briefly, let me try to explain to the victims of parental alienation why they feel neglected by the traditional media. And there are three… The first, in the UK, are restrictions on reporting cases… rules so draconian that journalists and editors …
WHEN ANNE HARTLEY-BULL AND I SAID YES TO BEING CLOSE TO THE EDGE
Anne Hartley-Bull was my favourite cousin. People used to say we were very much alike, a bit wild and a bit drunk. And they were right, we were 80s party animals … both of us could cause a party in an empty house and people like George Best would come knocking on the door. So …
This is the poem that had Isle promoters in a panic over Dylan’s ghostly echoes of 69
Well, it happened. A few years ago His Royal Bobness supplied an 11 line poem to be read publicly at at the Isle of Wight’s major convention to mark his appearance there fifty years ago. And this is despite the fact the Isle of Wight wasn’t one of Bob’s most memorable hours – and some would …
FLY FROM THIS WAR, PUTIN PILOT TELLS AIRFORCE
Russian defector sells helicopter and lands a new life for family Maksim Kuzminov, aged 28, is a Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot. He could also be the first propaganda hero of this awful Ukraine war. But to Putin and his twisted cohorts Kuzminov is a coward, a thief, a deserter – and a target. He surrendered …
THE FINAL SLEEP OF AL FAYED, NEXT TO DODI IN AN ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN WITH LIONS AND SPHINX
The final resting place for Mohamed Al Fayed is a burial chamber next to that of his son in a mausoleum metaphorically guarded by statues of lions and sphinxes. It stands close to his home on his 226-acre Surrey estate. The mausoleum is a simple wooden pergola with 12 wooden supporting pillars and a stone floor. It …
HOW COVID STOPPED BOB’S HEART BEING IN THE HIGHLANDS… AND NOW UK HOMES CRISIS THREATENS HIS £3m SALE
Dylan’s stately Highlands home is caught in Britain’s financial crisis, putting his £3m asking price in jeopardy. The historic estate with landscaped grounds has been his and his brother’s for more than a decade and was described as a bolt hole. It isn’t, it is a beautiful part of Highlands history set against forest, mountains and …
HIGHLIGHTER GLARES AND TRIPPED-OUT SPLIT IMAGES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE, ‘BEATLE’
Another brilliant piece by ERIC LASTICK Being a Beatle from all the trails…the runs of development of style…the beat…the coffee houses, Jazz clubs…the night spots along the French cafes…The jingling of jewels of the Hierarchy of English tone…and tarnished souls…They, the Beatles, British Liverpoolian pop sensations were and are, just what we all had been …
Tragic legacy of Lesley Anne Downey’s lonely trip to a the fair
We should take a few moments to remember Lesley Anne Downey, the young girl kidnapped, raped, murdered and dumped in a shallow grave at Christmas. If she had been allowed to live, she would have been 69 years old. The season of goodwill was in full swing in the background – music, laughter and families …
Drinking in a rainy night in Paris
Dripping with ivy and memories, the early-closing city with style and a certain sadness A rainy night in Paris is like no other. For one thing most of the back-street bars are shut by 7.30pm. The Left Bank is boarded up and the noise from the road that killed Diana is beginning to cool. If …
Modern rock’n’roll is fake, says that ol’ crooner called Bob…
Angry young man to protesting pensioner? Or is Dylan spot on about new music? As he released his third album – this one triple – of grand old American lounge-lizard ballads His Royal Bob-ness attacked new bands, saying they are just fake when it comes to the blues. He was performing on his 6,000 date …
THE PAPER MACHETE & MACRAME… STRING PATTERNS OF THE 1970s
(At ‘diggers’ ball…a ‘catch-all’ of the latter 1960s… and it’s release’s thru the 70s) TEN YEARS AFTER AT WOODSTOCK: 50,000 MILES BENEATH MY BRAIN… BY ERIC LASTICK Numerology a decade long…miles of rocky country…rough roads. Peace-nick and drumsticks—off to the Catskill highest of hills. Take towards these terrains. Brains big as the acid trips …
Farewell to Robbie… somewhere down his own crazy river
Robbie Robertson has died. He was 80 years old. He was an ol’ rock’n’roller, a fabulous song writer, king of the choppy guitar, chat show story-teller, charmer and joker. But more than anything, I remember him as the leader of The Band… the man who stuck it out with the amphetamine, howling, thin white clothes-horse …
FORGET THE BEDROOM TAX AND THE MEDIEVAL WINDOW TAX – THIS NEW ONE IS A REAL-LIFE KITCHEN SINK DRAMA
Demolish part of your home or we’ll tax you on your granny ..! People with a back door are potentially being forced to knock down part of their homes to avoid paying Britain’s outrageous ‘granny flat’ tax. The Society today focuses on a Government method of swelling its ailing coffers by charging more than 30,000 …
MIRROR MIRROR IN THE LAKE, WHO IS THE CRUELLEST OF ALL THE FAKES?
Narcissists are sick people, alright… sick as people can get. And they are on every street corner and in your bed… A Greek youth was so taken by the reflection of his own face he was scared to ever look away again. Narcissus had found the true love he was willing to die for. But …
A tough crowd sometimes… but Bob is still standing. They won’t get him beat
It’s always been seen as a fair game to boo, lampoon, insult, attack, complain about and scoff at Bob Dylan. This attitude has made me furious over the years … of course he can sing, he is probably one of the most inventive singers since the beginning of popular music and has influenced the whole …
VERSIONS OF SO IN-SIGHTED READS OF BOB DYLAN
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR) (A BILLY THE KID PERSPECTIVE) Another grand opus by the quite brilliant Eric Lastick Pat Garrett Texas cowpoke, high call it home.Home wherever the cowboy in him. Tilt barrels of frozen memories—–all through the grimes of …
MYSTERY OF THE WOMAN OF OXBOW LAKE
When Andrea and I moved to Shropshire in 1989 we were the proud owners of a black Jaguar, a black cat, and an Albino golden Retriever. The car might have been a bit of an overdraft-hungry wreck but when we reclined its big leather seats it became a large double-bed, room for the dog and …
STORIES OF HEARTACHE, HORROR, FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE BOMBED AND BLEEDING LAND OF THE SLAVS
I washed up in Central and Eastern Europe as an itinerant travel journalist in the blistering summer of 2015 … I remember Mr Vlad ‘Action Man’ Putin was still, daily, baring his chest and his teeth after annexing Crimea. Mr Putin was obviously emboldened by his new war of attrition. After all, he’d got noticed …
Remembering the incomparable Sinead O’Connor
It would be so easy to go with my tabloid mates and write a short eulogy to Sinead O’Connor headlined Nothing Compared to Her … And it would be true. I met her once, on a dark rainy night in a dingy back-street pub in Birmingham. And nothing did compare to her, way back when, …
Bada bing, bada boom… I’m ready to fight Genghis’s ghost army now
Update on the story I may never be able to tell you PART III THE PLEDGE Storm clouds are gathering … the town looks like it’s on fire, Genghis’s ghost army is billowing. Yep, those good ol’ good fellas are getting ready for war… they’re pumping up their ancient smoke and mirror machines. Stirrup pumps …
A Curious Night in Electric Lady Land
Many years ago I was commissioned by a leading magazine to investigate the burgeoning interest in ancient hauntings in the early 2000s … I got quite well paid for the articles over three years and retained the copyright. Anyway, I ‘sold’ myself as the Skeptical Occultist with a mission to prove or disprove existence of …
A BRIDGE TO FAR-(AGE) BY A FISTFUL OF POMPOUS COUTTS
Sadly, we have to defend a frog-eyed monster to protect our own freedoms Coutts, perceived as an international private bank for the super-rich, has cancelled one of the most dangerous men in the UK. But this censorship had nothing to do with Farage’s political pontifications or the fact that the ex-banker-turned-big-w*!nk*r has been erroneously described …
Another darkness falls on the TRUE story I may never be able to tell you…
Society’s good fellas use their dull knives of lies to play ‘split the kipper’ with my life Yep, it has happened again … they are gathering at my back door. The lights of the road don’t reach there. I am going to have to fight them again, aren’t I. I beat them off last time, …
USURP TIDES OF NATIVE CLAY STEAM DISHES…RATTLES THE PELICAN WINDS AT ALCATRAZ ISLAND
A NEW AND MAGICAL PIECE FROM RESIDENT ‘SOCIETY’ WRITER ERIC LASTICK Native Alcatraz place…and it’s Indian justice—and to what to be, in no more than a moment, as just that fast, the pointed sharpness of the spear— loses it’s edge to the dull of truth…and the thunderous Cannon call; as this cut of native rock—casts …
HERE IS THE HUWS – ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA FORCED VICKY TO NAME HER HUSBAND, NOT JOURNALISTS
THE twisted world of social media’s illegal name-and-shame game went into overdrive before Hugh Edward’s wife named him to stop the savagery. One reason she took this step was because the piranhas on twitter, Facebook and all those other new bastions of Freedom of Lies were naming anybody they could think of over a crime …
Here is the Huws – red tops, BBC new-scandal blues, yellow-belly social media and all those dark lies and whitewashes
Do you know, there is something inherently wrong about the story concerning a depressed TV presenter who got caught up in a scandal either of his own making or not. Huw Edwards is one of the UK’s leading journalists with coming-up-to half a century in the job. He should have known exactly what the consequences …
THE PEADOPHILE SPIRIT OF ERIC LOOKS DOWN ON THE BBC’S CELEBRITIES OF SHAME
Why is news giant rolling like thunder under the cover-ups? I am saddened and angered by the new attacks on the popular British media… these attacks are a defence of the not-so-popular BBC, which may just be the most convoluted and ‘secretive’ news organisation in Britain today. Simple equation … the media investigated – totally …
500 days of horror as Pocket Man Putin fails in Ukraine
The Ukraine is fighting for the freedom of the West against a country run by one of the world’s richest men. At first Putin came across as a pocket-action man with a penchant for sitting half-naked on horseback – for puffing his chest out like a belligerent pigeon and for surveying his outside world with …
EAGLE SOUND STRUMS ON WINDS OF THE WITCHY WOMAN…
By our resident writer of surrealism, Eric Lastick EAGLE SOUND STRUM: Peyote buttons…desert high. Monies of the gold you run—through lucid dreams…soulful battles of wretch and whistles. Native Indian scenery on a hit sandy say. Hot gifts from the prophets now look dead on. Not a myth! Witchy Woman align with parts and figures of …
Keith Bennett’s brother writes ‘when Pauline Reade’s body was found after 24 years, her mum said a dark cloud lifted’
Alan Bennett, the brother of ‘lost boy’ Keith, has written another gentle and heart-felt piece giving a glimpse into the world of those who were left behind and were forced on a quest to find the remains of their loved ones. Thank you Alan, your writing is keeping memories and support alive… Alan writes: On …
Make Jim’s childhood Florida home a shrine, Kreiger said – so what happened?
Jim was just an incredibly talented, Baudelaire-ian, alcoholic, gorgeous naughty boy – says The Society Jim Morrison’s childhood home in Melbourne Florida went up for sale for $2.4 million. And his ancient bandmate Robby Krieger said at the time, it should become a shrine to Jim. “Why not make it like a little Doors museum-type thing?” …
Echoes in the walls
This is the story of an encounter with a ghost in a small English market town They thought the circus had arrived every time old Jack Bannister rolled into town. His wagon creaked like bones and his black dog was the devil. Kids chased his wagon, one tried to hitch a ride on the …
CANNERY ROW ED’S FEEL-GOOD RULES FOR HIS ‘ALIENATED’ CHILDREN
Ed Ricketts was killed by a train which smashed into his beat-up old sedan as he crossed the Southern Pacific Railway track on his way to a market in New Monterey. He was going to buy a steak for his dinner. After he and his car had been impaled on the cow-catcher of the Del …
WAR PROPAGANDA, ALL IS PHONEY … HELP US TELL THE RUSSIANS
IT IS MORE THAN A YEAR SINCE THIS LETTER WAS SENT TO THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA – WE SHOULD ALL SEND IT AGAIN According to dictionaries, propaganda is the sharing of misleading information for a political cause. It all began in 1622 when Pope Gregory XV Propaganda Fide to tell the world about the Catholic …
Blasters of War … never-ending hope as Bob’s mate Charlie joins Ukraine protest
Rocker asks Putin ‘is your money that good …’ as her band members fights on Europe’s streets of death (see video inside) The lanky musician who has brought an element of punk blues to Dylan’s performances over the past decades has stepped into the spotlight of war. Charlie Sexton, the six feet three inches tall, …
Silly truckers? Or Honest Joes? When Nashville museum advertised ‘appalling’ 50s Slovak wagon
Who remembers these Communist ‘failures’? A quirky museum needed a bit more room for its array of historic cars, trucks and motorcycles. So it tried selling off part of its Slovak and Czech collection. Makes sense… we can all do with some more space can’t we. So, what do we do? We have a garage …
IT BEGAN ON A WING AND A PRAYER – so, DOES SLOVAKIA’S FLYING CAR STILL HAVE A FUTURE?
Years ago I was asked to write something about Slovakia’s dream machine … a prototype flying car. I loved it, but I worried I was being a bit of an Icarus about it all, blinded by the light, waxing lyrical. I certainly didn’t want to support a car crash in the sky! Then it …
Dylan’s spirit, forever we’ll keep… in this anthem for change by a robotic creep
I’ve protested about Artificial Intelligence ever since our barmy army of boffins came up with this real no-brainer threat to our civilisation. And, as Dylan almost said… Come gather ’round people wherever you moanAnd admit that the robots around you have grownAnd accept it that soon you’ll be turned to a clone – If your time …
How does it feel to be on your own ..?
I was cruising round the net when I came across this video of Dylan playing a REAL one-man show! Well, actually, Bob had members of his band with him – but, yep, there was only one man in the audience. I know many of us will know this performance well but it is always worth …
HERE IS THE NEWS – DON’T CALL YOURSELF A JOURNALIST IF YOU ACTUALLY AREN’T ONE
Covering the news is an important job … it’s not an ego trip for wannabes who work down the chip shop BBC political editor Andrew Marr said recently: ‘Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn’t dream of saying in person.” I agree with him, blogging is …
NOW ALL US REAL JOURNALISTS HAVE TO FIGHT FOR ASSANGE – OR SOMETHING WIKI THIS WAY WILL COME
Assange isn’t a journalist – never will be. Yet we real news people need to stand up for him… UPDATE: Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to the US on espionage charges. The judgment was given privately recently at the High Court. WikiLeaks founder Assange, aged 51, launched the appeal last June after then-Home …
WELCOME TO THE REAL VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED…
Manchester in the liberated Sixties and they play pass the parcel with a young boy … he will grow up and hunt them down A few weeks ago I finally shut down my journallistic career … it had served me for half a century! But I’d just remember that I’d forgotten to finish my memoir …
LADYBUGS, BLUES-BELTS & THE LYRICAL WRITING OF WOODSTOCK
THE REAL WOMEN OF COUNTER CULTURE AND PEACE IN THE 60s The Society’s resident writer Eric Lastick takes a look at the incredible lyricism and powerful women of the time we forgot we couldn’t remember JANIS AT MONTERREY POP…23 & one beaded necklace hanging round circle…loud and hunger, the whiskey voice blue maiden…Texas daughter heart, …
I’ve got a story – but I can’t tell you about it because of threats from the good fellas
There is something I want to share with you, a terrifying story about money, power, abuse, loss, cynicism, corruption, secrets and lies. But I can’t tell you anything about it. If I do, they will destroy me and my family. It’s a story of crime and flabby gangsters, conmen and shysters, all the worse for …
WHY WRITER’S BLOCK CAN BE THE WAY AHEAD FOR TRUE CREATIVITY
Just a few thoughts about writer’s block … I was standing in the gentle rain next to my old glinting limousine outside my rented cottage in the heart of once-merry Ol’ England. The cottage has stood for 400 years next to a lake where owls screech at 3am. I was having a cigarette. And I …
WHY DYLAN IS POSITIVELY NORTH STREET!
Ooh eck! In the 60s he was booed, heckled and called Judas in Manchester – then the BBC wiped Madhouse tape clean! But now he might be in Corrie… Ol’ Bob apparently likes nothing more in the evening than curling up in his rock’n’roll slippers and catching up with Coronation Street. And now the makers …
TIME TO TAKE THE SLOVAK TRIP… BEAR FACTS OF LIFE
Bears in Slovakia are finally expected to survive long-term – but 10 years ago there were very few, 71 a year were earmarked for death and we were scared of them It’s a grizzly fact but there are dangerous bears in them there hills. And if one turned up looking for food, you can rest …
Alicante is not just one big airport, it’s a beautiful historical city
Leigh and Rodney extol the virtues and the negatives of people leaving their homeland CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO #HarryandMegan #Costablancaandvalencia #migration #Alicante
MOMMY MUNCHHAUSEN AND OTHER BLACK-HEART NARCISSTS
It is part of being human to want people to think you are absolutely fabulous. Even if you’re just an Ordinary Joe, or a wallflower wife or the bloke who works down the chip shop, you want to be thought of as something special. But what if – in the lardy, oily, fiery, fat-dripping confines …
Why was dementia victim Clare, 95, TASERED as she hobbled slowly towards police on her zimmerframe?
A true story of absolute horror Picture this … a 95-year-old granny suffering dementia, is leaning heavily on her zimmerframe and moving slower than a snail round a specialist care home. Clare Newland – who once, for a few minutes, was the ‘darling’ of the Australian nation – is in the home because she is …
Nursing a grudge or looking to a healthier future for patients at risk?
Hospitals will be ‘under immense strain’ as nurses go on strike, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation has said. So, let’s look at the figures behind the unhealthiest strike of all… what do you think? The Health Foundation think-tank has said the average basic pay for nurses fell by 5 per cent in reality since 2011. RCN …
Love, laughter and literature – Leigh, Eric and Andrea welcome you all to a bit of self-preservation
Howdyado everybody! Welcome aboard Leigh’s preservation society – it’s become a bit of a runaway since surrealist writer Eric Lastick began steering! Thanks mate! However, some people are a bit confused by the intention of the site The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society – Surviving life with laughter, literature and love… but the answer is …
Woman who ‘whistled up’ Emmett Till’s murder dies, aged 88
So, the lid may have finally closed on justice for a teenage boy The woman whose claims led to the torture and murder of teenaged Emmett Till, has died at the age of 88. The Calcasieu parish coroner’s office in Louisiana confirmed the death of Carolyn Bryant Donham, Mississippi. She had cancer and was in …
My missus turned my test-Pressing of Blonde on Blonde into an ashtray
In the late 70s i was living that grand old hippy life of strange cigarettes, crash pads with cushions for floors and velvet curtains for walls … it was quite magical! The Hari Krishna temple used to visit – and so, believe it or not did, Edgar Broughton with members of his Big Band … …
Angel’s wings and solutions from Rodney and Leigh!
Rodney and Leigh investigate why the maths of business don’t always add up. We need to do our sums…then they go to war over Nukes #maths #Nukes #war CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO
80m phones will get Armageddon call on Sunday …
We revealed this weeks ago – now everybody is talking about it Almost 80 million mobile phones in the UK will receive a call from Armageddon next month. The cacophony of our world will be drowned by the howling of a cyber siren warning us something is finally in the air, something we should be …
REMEMBERING MY MATE JEFF – THE WORLD’S FUNNIEST ‘HELL’S ANGEL’
I can count my best friends on one hand… although I need to count one name TWICE to reach five! Yep, four friends on my wagon – and I must admit one of them is my wife! In reality, three friends then. That’s it! Well, in fact we can digitally remove another of them. So, …
BANNED FROM SEEING OUR CHILDREN? WELL IT’S PLAQUE TO THE FUTURE FOR US…
We are just part of an equation to those who control our alienated children As parents we should shame the world’s blood-on-their-hands courts – and those lying exes. Ponder these figures for a moment, if you will… you are quite likely to be a number in the equation. I certainly am… According to a …
Rodney looks through a new window into Leigh’s world
The chaps take a look at British builders, manakins and woman-kins and new conservatories. Then they have a rant about Trump, Putin and just about everybody and everything else! Click to watch #Putin #Trump #Britishbuilders
THE BOOK THEY TRIED TO KILL BECAUSE OF A DRUNKEN LAMPOST… A TRIP ROUND STAFFORDSHIRE’S SIX TOWNS
The Preservation Society tells the story of the book they tried to ban … it has remained in the wilderness for more than six years Journalist, editor and broadcaster Leigh G Banks was commissioned by a leading publishing house to write a small book on Staffordshire’s Six Towns … then, at the last minute it …
‘POUR ME ANOTHER TASTE OF HEAVEN AS HIGHWAY 61 ROAMS IN BROKEN DREAMS’
A stunning new – heart-felt – piece from Society writer Eric Lastick … BOB DYLAN’S PAINTED ROAMS & GATHERED COURSE AT HIGHWAY 61 DREAMLIKE SCENES & VISIONS—-TOO THE PAINTED ROAMS OF THE SIXTY ONES… Digs highway signs…zags and corner stores of old. Exit a heart of a painter—too the road top moods…sullen moon’s riches in …
The man who climbed mountains to get back to his children and happiness
Nowadays Mosa Kiswane can be regularly found sitting on top of the world. But a decade ago he had lost almost everything, was drinking in despair and loneliness… Mosa was standing at the bottom of a mountain of problems and anxieties caused by parental alienation. Today though he is an inspiration to all victims of …
Talking antiques! no – not Rodney and Leigh!
They’re talking about double glazing, politic, artificial intelligence. In fact anything that is NEW
Leigh introduces the beer robot as Rodney gets animated about Artificial Intelligence
Rodney and Leigh might be outrageous, but they certainly have a laugh and talk horse sense about the world #Artificialintelligence #AI #immigration #sexism Click to watch video
OF NOT-A-CHILDREN’S-THEME… FOR I AM CRABBY APPLETON, AND I AM ROTTOEN TO THE CORE! MR SANDMAN TAKE US AWAY…
Another fabulously cocophonous and enigmatc piece from The Society’s resident writer Eric Lastick Sandman hides, the summer-set… cobweb arms and midnight skies. Centerfolds drawing out stardust late night travelers, stuck on these lady lags… and the morning daunting crazed ways of our new world restlessness. The sped-fast leaves of love. ”Haight reach a new wave …
Xi marks the spot where East meets West at the gates of world hell
UPDATE: Xi Jinping has delivered a terrifying message to the West as he tells ‘dear friend’ Vladimir Putin ‘change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years… and we are driving it’. Putin says UK risks ‘nuclear collision’ because of its aid to Ukraine. So, almost 80 million mobile phones in the UK will receive …
Dial D for death as 80 million sirens set to go off across the UK on April 23
Almost 80 million mobile phones in the UK will receive a call from Armageddon next month. The cacophony of our world will be drowned by the howling of a cyber siren warning us something is finally in the air, something we should be very afraid of. Our government, with its reputation for lies and indifference, …
A trip round Spain and France with Rodney and Leigh
Rodney and Leigh ask why Spain has millions of empty properties along the coast? and why is France always shut? And loads more…click to watch video #Spain #France
PUTIN FLIES IN FACE OF ‘TOOTHLESS’ WAR CRIMES WARRANT – AND BRAGS OF REBUILDING MARIUPOL
VLAD Putin flew to the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, in defiance of the international court warrant for his arrest. He was filmed by Russian TV driving around the smashed city where he is said to have met with residents. It is probably his first visit to Ukraine since the start of the invasion in February last year. …
THE DAY OF THE SO-CALLED ‘DEAD-BEATS’ IS ALMOST HERE – LET’S STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
No, we aren’t black-heart monsters – we are victims, just like our children Looking at the life of a bloke who met a woman, had a child in love, then lost everything to hatred “Parental Alienation Awareness Day is just around the corner and do you know, I am sick to death of being thought …
Out of the attic! Talking UK’s new immigration policy and just about everything else
Are we really living in a world gone wrong? #Spain #UK #Russia #Ukraine #BorisJohnson #Sunak #Marbella #Putin Click to see video
PUTIN’S BLOOD-RED WAR FAILS TO PANIC ‘BULLISH’ SPANISH PROPERTY MARKET
When that bloated Grim Reaper Putin invaded the Ukraine he spun the world by its tail. And the gut reaction of many global property speculators and ex-pats was that `particularly the Spanish market, would fail as Russian money was frozen in the world’s air like black ice. But far from it. The market in Spain …
AISLE BE BACK!
A customer services operative gently weeps and security gathers like blubbery Vin Diesels with tea-breath – all I said was my dongle didn’t work! What is wrong with you Britain? What happened to your manners and your self-worth? The personality of this once green and pleasant land is now based on passive aggression – …
Sting in the tale of leigh’s ‘lost days’
It’s up the apples and pears as Rodney pips Leigh to the post of woe, wind and petulance. And that’s just in Spain! Wait till they get on to the UK! Outrageous? you can bet your life they are! Click to view video…
DEATH AT THE BUS STOP… INTIMACY OF LOSS IN PUTIN’S HORROR
A minute’s silence in the UK led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak marked the first anniversary of the day Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the Ukraine, triggering the largest war in Europe since World War Two The tragedy and horror of what Putin is doing to the people of the Ukraine are portrayed sometimes …
RAMBLING ON AS BOB’S SONG WALKS BACK TO THE FUTURE
I’ve always been a Walker … not in the Walking Dead way, more in a fay Thoreau way. I just got lucky, I suppose. I was brought up on the edge of ‘Ravine Park’ in the heart of Manchester and spent most summer days down among the dumped trolleys and detritus in the ravine with …
VICTIM’S LIFE OF TRAUMA REVEALED AS GLITTER IS ALLOWED TO BE IN OUR GANG AGAIN
Paul Gadd – a monster up there with the likes of Jimmy Savile and the BBC’s laughing hyena Stuart Hall – is back on the streets of the UK at the age of 78. Gadd who used his fame as Gary Glitter, a bargain-basement Elvis look-alike with pop-shlock pointless songs, was jailed in 2015 for …
How the Hell’s Angels of Colander House helped me collect vintage thoughts and furniture
When I became a hoarder in the mid-1990s I had just given everything away – my second wife, my job and basically my way of life. Oh, and my beloved old red 3.5 SD1 Rover saloon (now that hurt). I became essentially a loner, except of course for my very middle-class Golden Retriever. We scratched …
KILLING OFF DELILAH TO TACKLE THE SHAME OF WELSH RUGBY MISOGONY
Tom Jones’s murder ballad Delilah has finally been banned at the Principality Stadium, the Welsh Rugby Union has revealed. The lyrics ‘why why why Delilah’ from the 80s hit have been sung at the games for decades – not in glorification of killing your wife! No, in glorification of a knock-about classic sung by a …
Rolls says oops! Not us, says lingerie boss … and fashion guru ‘quiet’ as Russian deals go on
British fashion guru Paul Smith is said to have failed to explain why his goods were still on sale in Russia. At least three British top-notch companies were still doing business with Russia despite the horrific war in Ukraine. Paul Smith and lingerie brand Agent Provocateur still have stores open in Moscow, while Rolls-Royce has new cars …
Sooo-knackered! Zahawi is finally sacked over tax row
Nadhim Zahawi has been removed from Government after he was found to have committed a ‘serious breach’ of ministerial rules. The now ex-Tory chairman has been mired in a row over his tax affairs after paying a penalty to HMRC. Rishi Sunak wrote to him: ‘Following the completion of the Independent Adviser’s investigation – the …
PUTIN NOW AT WAR WITH WEST, EU SPOKESMAN SAYS
Russia is now at ‘war against NATO and the West’, a senior EU official has said. We now could be facing the world’s worst fear, the potential road to oblivion for millions of people. A new global war is looming. The deal amongst Western leaders to send tanks into Kyiv to blast through the Kremlin’s …
TANKS FOR THE DARK MEMORY – NOW PUTIN FACES THE AGONY OF HIS VAIN-GLORIOUS WAR ON UKRAINE
UPDATE: An air raid alert issued over Ukraine as defence units shoot down incoming missiles, How close are we now to nuclear war. What do you think? Since Vladimir Putin crossed the Russian Rubicon by ordering tanks to rumble over the Ukrainian frontier last February, almost everything has gone wrong. Little has gone to plan. …
More shocks about electric cars
Leigh and Rodney unplugged! Diesel was a con – but electric cars are the biggest turn-off ever and the chaps reveal more about the reality of going electric. Click to view video…
£3 each as Britain becomes your local Delhi…
Night comes in like a disease in New Delhi. As darkness falls stray dogs dodge blaring traffic and a bear dances for its supper in a stinking alleyway. Then the lights go out. Yes, the ninth biggest city in the world has just had its tenth power cut of the day. And now the UK …
ROMAN AROUND SPIS … DIABETES, A SINGER, A HORSE AND A MISSION
We look at a world-renowned musician who is an unsung hero of the fight against diabetes Roman Vitkovský – LOOK AROUND (Official Video) – YouTube Roman Vitkovsky, who is quite famous nowadays, was a close friend for many years. He has had an incurable disease for decades … The diminutive singer spent years as a …
SHOCK OF EON ‘GUESS-TIMATES’
ARE CUSTOMERS BEING LIED TO IN THE UK’S NEW POWER GAME? Did you guess how much your electricity bill was actually going up by? Well, a major power company might have done just that – GUESSED your estimated usage. The Society has transcripts of Eon customer services claiming their estimated bills are actually plucked out …
DAVID WAS THE PURE JOY OF MUSIC, TRIBUTES BEGIN FOR A LEGEND
David Crosby has died at the age of 81, it has been has confirmed. His wife Jan Dance told Variety: ‘It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our beloved David (Croz) Crosby has passed away. He was lovingly surrounded by his wife and soulmate Jan and son Django. Although he is no longer …
Aldi glum news! Leigh’s grapes of wrath…
Service and customer care? Is there any left in Britain? Leigh reveals his supermarket shame…but he makes a very valid point. Rodney rants about the banks and anything else they can think of – come and join. CLICK TO VIEW VIDEO #Banks #customercare #supermarkets #healthandsafety
Quick, quick snow … first there was a garden then there is no garden, there’s just snow!
Finally, something nice happened in this mean and unpleasant land called the UK … everything disappeared under snow for the first time this winter. And it all looked good in my back garden… Yep, for a few front pages – and minutes – we fotgot about pervert policemen, lying politicians, frontline strikers, the supposed resurgeance …
The Last Room in the House
Haunted memories of the day the ghosts of my family came to take me from this world… Old writers rarely go in a blaze of glory, we tend to just fizzle out like a firework on a damp night. And that’s exactly what happened to my old friend Gordon Pugh, finally. He’d always been as …
The morality and the legality of Harry going spare
Leigh and Rodney have a right royal tadoo before agreeing that Harry is a…you will have to watch Click on headline to view
WAS LISA MARIE DESTINED TO DIE YOUNG, LIKE ELVIS?
The death of Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie from heart problems at 54 has saddened so many of us. She was ultimately controversial beautiful, rich and famous. Daughter of The King and wife of Michael Jackson, one of the most disturbing pop music stars ever. She also ran the grand mausoleum to her Dad, Gracelands. In …
HOW PROBY SEX CLAIM LED ME FULL-TILT INTO SCOTT’S WORLD OF GOTHIC GENIUS
About 35 years ago, I’d just finished an interview for a morning newspaper with pop crock PJ Proby. Jim was making yet another comeback, this time by claiming that Madonna was singing on the notorious Savoy Sessions, his latest recording. Of course she wasn’t and she was apparently threatening to sue him. What did she …
LIKE A ROLLING MOAN…
Whether you are the Prince of Snark-ness or just a work-a-day scribe, the writes and wrongs of selling your granny … Does a writer have the right to write about their own world gone wrong? A few days ago I wrote a short piece looking back at Like a Rolling Stone by the never-ending Bob Dylan. …
HARRY PLOTTER AND HIS GOBBY LOT OF IRE
We all had sympathy for poor little Prince Harry … he was a ruddy-looking child with lost horizons in his eyes. He was the product of a broken marriage, bereavement and speculation about his mum and dad’s morals. And it went on and on. And on. Not only this but he was a key member …
Leigh gets a big star and Rodney gets angry
Why are banks doing this to us? Leigh and Rodney are both victims and ask the relevant questions – then they get stuck into the news. CLICK TO WATCH…
NARCISSISTS … TOXIC BITE OF THE PERFORMING SHARKS IN OUR LIVES
In my life, I have met many narcissists and, to a man and woman, they were all talented, charming, attractive, witty, intelligent and ambitious. Narcissists even walked beside me in what should have been the fairytale of my formative years. They gently held my hand and purported to teach me how I should act on …
LET’S DRUM UP A BRILLIANT NEW YEAR FOR US ALL!
It’s a few years now since we turned into Buchanan Street in Glasgow on New Year’s Eve and were met by what looked like a band of wild men down from the mountains. Yep, we’d stumbled across Clanadonia, the world-renowned drum and pipe band who still bring their tribal music to the streets of their …
We can prove how power and cyber giants are misleading us all
Join us as we fight back! This is not conspiracy, this is cold hard fact! We are ‘old folk’ and we have proof of how utility companies are lying to us, misleading people like us and trebling and quadrupling our household bills. On the negatively-positive side, we are howevergetting compensation from utility left right and …
Mumpreneur Sara’s birthday pledge to Australia’s abused women and children
A mumpreneur decided to dedicate her birthday to raising money for Australia’s abused women and children. Sara Banks, who lives in Wembley, Perth, WA, said: “I chose Zonta House Refuge because they were one of the many support services that helped me two and a half years ago years ago with their amazing program, Positive …
Happy Christmas, home and away from Leigh and Andrea xx
Another strange year fizzes and bows out, so let’s look to the future … we all have memories, we all have the present and we all have what is to come… Let’s stay tough, say how we feel, believe in the truth and more than anything let’s celebrate what we have and where we are …
Happy Christmas Everybody!
Let’s spend a bit of time with some goodwill and happiness from one of the greatest artists in the world! It must be Bobby! Happiness, love and hope everybody and let’s start looking to the future… Bob Dylan – Must Be Santa (Official Video) – YouTube #bobdylan #christmas #wishes #malibu #fun
WHY BOB AND ROD ARE RIGHT ON TRACK FOR MODEL TRAIN FANS IN MARKET DEEPING
We are back in the UK after many years of riding our chrome horse round Europe. And right now we live on top of hill in a rented farmhouse in a place called Middleton Scriven … Robert Plant lives round the corner. And so do a load of sheep!. The nearest pub is five miles …
Musk madness or miracle? Leigh and Rodney discuss everything from Harry Plotter to Musty Bins…
Always worth a listen, the gentlemen ranters put the world on the line, even down to who spells Marbella wrong #Marbella #Robots #Nurses #strikes #railways
I’m sorry, we are experiencing an unusually high volume of DISHONESTY…
WAIT! THIS IS THE BIGGEST LIE CALL CENTRES TELL US EVERY SINGLE DAY Call any business right now and it’s a safe bet that you will hear a pink robot saying: “I’m sorry for the delay, we are experiencing unusually high call volume at the moment.” It is also a safe bet that they are …
Britain is such a riot, even the middle classes are joining in
Leigh and Rodney discuss pollution, transgender, war and much more, come and join in. Click to view video #transgender #NHS #pollution #Ukraine
More nights at the Oprah? The hitman and her make a royal fortune by targeting their family and the hands that feed them…
Meghan and Harry have again declared war on the royals and the media – the two institutions that guarantee their futures. Their highly-anticipated Netflix series has hit our small screens, with the first three episodes of the six-part docu-series moping and moaning through our sound bar. King Charles and Prince William are set to respond. …
THEY MIGHT NOT ALWAYS SEE EYE TO EYE – BUT THEY GET TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER EVERY WEEK!
Here we go! The two latest shows from Rodney and Leigh! Have a listen and let us know what you think! Outrageous, alarmingCourageous, charming So many of the world’s problems seem to be ganging up on us all … Leigh and Rodney disagree on so many things, yet both of them want to expose the …
Outrageous! Water mess as Leigh taps into his haunted house – then the chaps commentate as the rest of the world drowns in reality
If you are interested in politics, corporate crime and how the world looks at humanity, join Leigh and Rodney – the filmmaker and the journalist – every week! It veers from left to right and coruscates the middle with wit, aplomb and an innate understanding of the iniquities of our society today! CLICK TO VIEW …
MUSK DO BETTER… truth behind the internet and Britain’s rural life …
The first of an investigation into utility companies and how they treat their customers … tell us if you have been through the same! As the world’s best-known – and richest – ‘space cadet’ Elon Musk says he is ready to help connect isolated parts of the British countryside by using broadband beamed from space So, …
DYLAN SAYS SORRY AS TELL-TALE SIGNS REVEAL FAKE SIGNATURES
BOB DYLAN has gone public after a blow to fans who bought his signed work. The singer, who must be one of the world’s hardest-working artists, has said he “regrets” having made “an error in judgment” in using machine technology to sign and work then sold as hand-signed. The error happened over a three year …
Outrageous! Biden, Trump, Truss, they all get it in the neck from Leigh and Rodney!
The Gentlemen Ranters, fiery Rodney Hearth and Leigh ‘Fallen-by-the-Wayside’ Banks are outraged at the way the world is going – Putin’s folly, Sunak’s simpering, Hancock’s jungle excesses and the world’s biggest Bankers…it’s Outrageous! Click to view video –
Dropping anchor at the cottage down the lane
So, we turned down a flooded dirt road with our limousine rocking and creaking like a galleon … we could see our rented house right out there in the distance. It was like a giant liner anchored in a dark sea. Andrea was driving and I was listening to the One Who Lives Too Far …
Outrageous! Rodney and Leigh push the boundaries
Leigh and Rodney get down to the nitty-gritty as they answer calls to become more hard-hitting and outrageous. What do you think? let’s keep breaking down barriers. Click to see video #radio #news #donkey #carrot #marbella #banks #putin #hancock #celebrity #coronationstreet #antanddec
HOW DYLAN BEAT THE RESET OF OUR SHADOWY KINGDOM OF COVID AND CONSPIRACY
We have a look at Bob’s new ‘comic’ artwork and choose the Top Ten positive stories about Bob and his artistic return as the world got sick The Covid years were destructive, no doubt. People talked about it being a dark greasy blanket of coughing and fear thrown across the world to hide The Big …
Love and loss behind Andrew’s thriller-tale of a day in Paris
Andrew Brel is a creative chameleon… a musician, an LA session man and a music producer. He is also a travelling man and a campaigner against draconian family laws. But Andrew is also a purveyor of fiction and a consummate narrator. And it is these two talents we are focussing on. Yep, like us all …
Back in the rain… Dylan opens the gates to his brilliant worlds
It was like a painting out there. An Edward Hopper, but with people … security guards, revellers, drunks, grifters, barkers, all peddling and paddling through this liquid night. Neons and cafe lights have become vivid blotches in the rain. The theatre lights flicker and go out. Hull – around its glassy grey brutal Bonus Theatre …
Leigh and Rodney locate Hades…
What is going on in the world! Leigh is out-thunk by a 6 year old and Rodney is grumpy about politics war and everything else! Click to see video… #power #utilitybills #children #schools #politics
The haunting truth …
Please click below for the true horror of possession THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED – a true-life story of terror and possession – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society Please click below for the killing of elephant… Under malaria skies – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society #ghosts #halloween #spooks #hauntings #india #villageof thedamned
Jerry Lee Lewis is dead
To many he was the real King. To others he was the real devil of rock’n’roll. Good on ya, Jerry. RIP #JERRYLEELEWIS
HARRY – THE FAMILY’S £28 SPARE PART
Prince Harry’s memoir is to be called Spare, according to publisher Penguin Random House. The publication was delayed following the Queen’s death, and Harry is said to have requested a number of alterations to make it less critical of the Royal Family. A press release released today said: ‘Spare takes readers immediately back to one …
RICHY SUNAK. .. welcome to his 730m pound land called England
Nothing’s cheap in the UK any more. Mortgages, food, power, diesel, beer, fags and health have all rocketed like our world has been reset behind closed doors. And we now have a new leader, a very rich man indeed. who is promising to save us AND the land of the pound. But Rishi and his …
Leigh goes to Hull and back and Rodney’s candles melt…
Join in the chat as the gentlemen ranters reveal a shock about electric vehicles and how much does diesel really cost on a motorway? They also investigate the inflammation highway. #Realcostofdiesel #Electricvehicles #inflammation #Boris #TV #Podcast
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK AS BORIS TIPPED FOR A COMEBACK
BOZZO RIDES THE POLITICAL SEAS, LET’S LOOK AT HIS PREDECESSORS AND SPARRING PARTNERS… The Society made a prediction a few weeks ago that Boris might try to make a comeback… well, well, well! But is he really the worst? Let’s look at a few of his predecessors … BORIS JOHNSON… presided over a disgraceful culture …
34 million of us will die in Putin’s madness, says nuclear war scenario
In reality, is Thatcher’s tattered survival book all we are left with if nuclear bombs fly? Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Putin – we’ll just hide under our kitchen tables if you Nuke us! A simulation shows how a nuclear attack from Russia could trigger a war that kills 34 million people in just …
MAD VLAD – I DON’T WANT TO DESTROY THE UKRAINE
Putin on the agony, Putin on the vile … Vladimir Putin has said there is no need for more massive strikes on Ukraine. He’d just carried out the heaviest bombardment of the country since his bloody war began. Then he claimed most designated targets had been hit, and that it was not his aim to …
A FRONT ROW INVITATION TO THE DYLAN TREASURES
By Erik Lastick Stay here at Vaudevillian ancestry… folklore i adore… these mega miles, smiles, yet from a sun— and a pasty pie wood-stove’s wood-bury— with hoards and restocks… and be of that of weird old America… it’s yodelling, knows of Bobby pins…papers and writ—twists. Earn him like a causeway of one’s whole generational long. …
The merits of being a student in Sussex-by-the-sea…whose got all the gold when we have got a fist-full of I.O.Us?
Join Leigh and Rodney as they discuss merit, money and ‘going home‘! CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO #Gold #University #Money #Putin #students #politics
Ripper sleuth challenged by Alan Bennett over new Moors hunt for Keith
Who is the self-styled super-sleuth who sparked the latest hunt for Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett on Saddleworth? Russell Stephen Edwards describes himself as a businessman originally from Birkenhead. He ran Yorkshire Ripper Tours for a while. But Edwards, aged 48, who has been published by Penguin Classics and was on-sale in Waterstones = he …
Ripper sleuth challenged by Alan Bennett over new Moors hunt for Keith
Who is the self-styled super-sleuth who sparked the latest hunt for Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett on Saddleworth? Russell Stephen Edwards describes himself as a businessman originally from Birkenhead. He ran Yorkshire Ripper Tours for a while. But Edwards, aged 48, who has been published by Penguin Classics and was on-sale in Waterstones also publishes …
Leigh and Rodney rock this joint!
Everything gets a bit potty as the Gentleman Ranters lock horns over drugs… Click inside to see video #Rodney #Leigh #drugs #Airtvinternational
Do utility companies guess at your bill?
Got it taped…Leigh and Rodney discuss the shock of how utility companies were recorded claiming bills are estimated – and prepayment meters are cheaper! click inside to watch… #enerybills #eon #utilities #Russia #energycrisis
Precious memories as T Bone marks Bob’s 60s NY town hall concert
The legendary Town Hall in New York is the venue of another tribute by T Bone Burnett to Bob Dylan. The Oscar and Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, was presenting a concert at the hall to mark the 60 years since Bob first appeared there. Burnett’s relationship with Dylan doesn’t go back that far, only to the …
PLAQUE TO THE FUTURE
Alienation campaigners shame world’s blood-on-their-hands courts Ponder these figures for a moment… you are quite likely to be a number in the equation. I certainly am… According to a new report by a group of psychiatrists, parental alienation is present in upto 15 per cent of divorce cases. And 25pc of parents use alienating behaviour for …
Alan ‘open minded’ as bone-find starts new Moors dig for his brother Keith
The brother of Moors Murderers victim Keith Bennett, has said he is keeping an open mind over a new dig on Saddleworth after a skull was found. Police are digging for Keith after remains were found, but police are treating the discovery with caution. The remains were found during an independent search, before being reported …
FROM MANCHESTER TO OSLO, DYLAN REPAINTS HIS MASTERPIECES
Over decades of being entranced by Bob Dylan’s art – from oil and acrylics to heavy metal welds, from poetry to rock’n’roll – I have understood his desire to keep changing direction to arrive at his definitive work. And at the opening of his European Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour he changed again … A …
NUKE THREAT IS ‘NO BLUFF’ SAYS PUTIN
Vladimir Putin has made a chilling death threat to the West … and he warns ‘I’m not bluffing’. The nuclear threat follows the Moscow dictator’s plan to annex occupied areas of Ukraine and a vow to use ‘all means’ to defend them. Putin said: “If there is a threat to the territorial integrity of our …
Postcard’s exclusive Tom Wood song and video – see inside
Leigh and Rodney are ranting as usual, but their guest, Las Vegas troubadour Tom Woods is urbane and relaxed as he talks about his musical vision for his future. And how this Hollywood video by Bob Mori came to be made < For more Tom Woods stories click here:- THE GHOSTS OF TOM WOOD ARE …
THE GHOSTS OF TOM WOOD ARE COMING HOME
There are ghosts in the face of singer and songwriter Tom Wood. You can see them arrive when he performs. Tom washed up in Vegas many years ago with music and an old love on his mind. (Play video inside) He was brought up in St Louis and yet says he never had the blues. …
THE FINAL ROAD…
I have never owned a commemorative cup or a Buckingham Palace tea towel. Yet I shall miss the Queen. She was as present in my life as a distant great aunt who you only saw at Christmas when she’d make a little speech, or at a school open day. Or in her holiday snaps… Abu …
HER FINAL JOURNEY
The last details are in place for Britain’s farewell to Queen Elizabeth II. More than a million people will line the streets of London this Monday morning to be part of the historic scenes of pomp and splendour and sorrow and solemnity, as Her Majesty’s coffin is taken from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey. There will be 2,000 …
THE LETHAL BRITISH FAMILY COURTS
By Andrew John Teague Should I die for wanting to see my kids? The trauma of family courts is beyond anything anyone should ever be put through, not fit for purpose. The trauma shared by our innocent children, the forgotten children. This 21st of October we lay these plaque’s at the family courts, to hold …
LABOURERS OF LOVE GONE WRONG
An American tale of the estranged, on Labor Day weekend By surreal writer Eric Lastick JOHN’S SIDE Lose yourself and your shirt, this one sunny day. Close eye to the summer ocean waves…and the overcast dream. Burgundy fall atilt in the shallows of a coastal red tinted cracked glass wines. Magma, the tare of the …
MAD, BAD AND BLOODIED – IS VLAD FINALLY LOSING THE WAR?
Mad Vlad Putin could be facing an invasion nightmare. He has’ no good options’ after an offensive by Ukraine inflicted Russia’s most serious military defeat on the battlefield since the Second World War. Military expert JUSTIN BRONK, a research fellow at London’s Royal United Services Institute, has analysed the situation as Ukrainian troops pile pressure …
The Queen’s death in an ‘anarchistic’ society
The loss of Queen Elizabeth II is a very sad time for so many in Britain. But Leigh and Rodney examine how the traditional pomp and ceremony – and news coverage – plays out against our rapidly changing society and world. Click inside to see video #RoyalFamily #QueenElizabeth11 #BLM #TheQueenisdead
Karma rolls on and on for John’s jealous-guy killer
Mark David Chapman, aged 67, has again been turned down by a parole board, according to the state Department of Corrections. The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment because he was ‘jealous of him’ in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said. Chapman …
YOUR LONG JOURNEY HOME MA’AM…
The timetable of events are beginning to be shared following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest ever reigning monarch. This is what is expected to happen in the days ahead, including the journey of the Queen’s coffin from Scotland, her lying in state next week and her state funeral on Monday 19 September. …
In Liz we Truss? Chill wind as Leigh and Rodney look at Boris, Liz and the world of politics
Leigh is freezing in the UK, Rodney is hot under the collar in Spain and Liz joins the power struggle that might end up in real hunger games Click inside to watch video #LizTruss #Boris #Biden #Trump #Spain #UK #Putin #Power #Crisis #Ukraine #Eon-next
The artist and the sadness behind the ‘Mary Celeste’ mansion
FROM THE ARCHIVES: AFTER THE INTEREST SHOWN IN OUR ‘CALL TO ARMS’ OVER HOUGH HALL, MOSTON, WE THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS ARTICLE ABOUT THE FASCINATING LIFE OF THE LAST MAN TO OWN IT… LAST YEAR, the sister of the missing artist who apparently changed the face of modern film, contacted us to …
Never ending – Bob chooses Manchester and Oxford town as demand rolls on like thunder
Bob Dylan is coming to Manchester as demand for his live shows remains never ending. His Rough and Rowdy world tour is being seen as a new pinnacle in his climb back to glory. At 81 Bob is painting, writing a book on top songs, welding iron art, creating artful stage performances, playing piano like …
Brit gardener hero Craig dies trying to save Ukraine fighter
Volunteer medic in the Ukraine Craig Stanley Mackintosh, aged 48, has been killed in an ambush. Craig, a landscape gardener, from Thetford Norfolk, is said by witnesses to have been shot in the neck outside the city of Kharkiv as he tried to save a Ukrainian fighter. He had been refused entry to the armed forces …
5am and the radio told me Diana was dead…
In an excerpt from his soon-to-be-published memoir, Boy in the Ravine, Leigh looks back on the horror, tragedy, mystery and confusion surrounding the death of Diana News was my lifeblood and because of stress I’d started taking it subliminally. I had the radio tuned to the World Service throughout the night taking it all in …
Picture this…Leigh and Rodney investigate art, dinosaurs, politicians and power!
They’re at it again – fascinating conversations and opposing points of view! CLICK INSIDE TO SEE
Why are the police dogs attacking the newshounds?
OPINION: I have known the drunks, the cheats, the liars, the corrupt, the womanisers, the thugs, the racists and the downright dishonest. And I have known good coppers too. But good, bad or just plain ugly, these people are put on this earth to protect us. And in a real crisis they do it very …
TERRY ASKS, ARE WE STUCK ON THE NHS TRAGIC ROUNDABOUT?
OPINION, from Terry Kevin Charles This isn’t me right now but it has happened to me and many others since this whole thing began. Doctors won’t see you so what do you do? You call 111 or 999 only to be told, get yourself to A&E. You get to A&E and wait four hours only …
MORE UKRAINIANS DIE AS RUSSIA BOMBS STATION ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
Russia launched a rocket attack on a Ukrainian railway station killing a number of people including an 11-year-old child. 50 others were injured. It happened six months to the day since Putin sent his invasion of the country. Independence Day was marking 31 years since the former Soviet country broke away from Moscow rule. Volodymyr …
NOMAD OF THE SOLITARY SUNSET
An introductory outline of an original outlaw motorcycle club … by Eric Lastick Intrigue and encounter, if so bold, with mayhap to that highway…southern California leather riders…Mojave hot sands—and rough baked-on tattoos shoulder vested to every hardened road…and pirate band accomplishments . Rides and riddles of the fine tokes of home-grown actions. Chains and ugly …
How Bob has become the rock of ages – yet stays forever young in his own wander land
As the start date for Bob’s return to UK stages in October gets closer, we take a look at how he is coping with the rigours of age … we also re-publish recent reviews of his dates, this time from Philadelphia… A while ago we met up with friends from Spain in Bratislava … we’d …
Mobility-scooter Tom busked for Ukraine before fatal knifing
Thomas O’Halloran, the elderly busker fatally stabbed as he drove his mobility scooter in west London was raising money for the Ukraine. The musician – locally famous for he played accordion in Greenford every day – was stabbed on Western Avenue in Greenford and managed to keep going for 75 yards on his scooter before …
A LEVELS: IF YOU GOT DIDDLY-SQUAT THEN A GRAND TOUR OF JEZZA’S VIEWS WILL GO ON FOR SMILES AND SMILES
Well, how did your off-spring do, A? New levels of despair, angst … and that job-for-life at a burger joint has just kicked them in the Big Macs? And they are still in their teens, pneumatically active, spotty, awkward and destined for a no-hours contract about as useful as a Coke Zero. No jobs, no …
Last post for Sid’s ‘missus’, actress Valerie James
A short post on social media has announced the death of Valerie James at the age of 93. Her family had, for their own reasons, kept a respectful public silence over her loss three months ago on May 8th., Coincidently, that was the day her late husband, Carry On star Sid James, was born way …
The world’s youngest writers – Bella, 5, going for a book record as Abhi a full-blown author at 7
A girl aged five is being hailed as the world’s youngest author. Bella-Jay Dark, who lives Weymouth, Dorset, decided last year she was going to write a book. Bella-Jay’s story, called The Lost Cat, features a pet who goes on an adventure and learns important lessons. Parents chef Chelsie Syme, aged 27, and plasterer Myles …
BARBARIANS OF LOVE – WHY TRAGEDY LOOMS INSIDE THE FAMILY COURT DOORS
By Andrew John Teague, international parental alienation campaigner A note to myself everyday. Prepare for the worst… anything less is a godsend. Often I speak of how contact denial kills. Yes, trauma takes its toll. But its not only the trauma – its being able to understand the trauma. Not only have I been through …
WHY ELVIS HAS NEVER LEFT THE BUILDING …
HOW A CHEAP GUITAR, A SPLASH OF BRUT AND SOME STOLEN ‘SHAPES’ CREATED THE KING Where were you when Elvis finally left this world behind? I was a music journalist manning the newsdesk of a tawdry little city newspaper in the UK when the ticker-tape started in the background. THE KING IS DEAD I was …
Rodney and Leigh talk crime, racism and Marbella
RUSHDIE HORROR: LET’S FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO WRITE!
This isn’t a fantasy … now Rowling in death tweet fears over her sympathy for Rushdie JK Rowling has received a death threat following her reaction to the horrific attack on Salman Rushdie in New York. Rowling, aged 57, sent screenshots to Twitter of a message from a user who said “don’t worry you are …
Why Salman Rushdie is a bloodied role model for freedom of expression
The horrific stabbing of Salman Rushdie is a brazen brooding attack on the freedom of writers to investigate things that others hold in their hearts and souls. Just like lifestyle, religion, politics, doctrine and beliefs. All these things are the buzz in our blood. We are pack animals, afraid in the dark, who need these …
DYLAN POINTS THE FINGER AT NEW MASTERS OF WAR AS PUTIN KILLS THE LAND OF HIS FATHERS
Bob protests about hell in Ukraine The European leg of Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour is ready to roll. And will this stint again contain a major protest about Putin’s insane war on the land of his fathers? On the first night at the Arizona Federal Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona he dropped Early Roman Kings and replaced …
THE DAY THE MAN IN BLACK CAME BACK
PLAY VID – INSIDE Ozzy Osbourne came out of the shadows of Parkinsons and major surgery and rocked his hometown. Ozzy, a little unsteady but determined, marked the end of the Commonwealth Games. He performed ‘Paranoid’ with Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Tommy Clufetos and bassist Adam Wakeman. The 73-year-old rocker recently underwent major surgery was …
‘DON’T KEEP IT ALL IN THE FAMILY (COURTS)’ SAYS LAW BOSS
Now even they admit justice is failing alienated parents… Written by Andrew John Teague England and Wales head of the Justice division Sir Andrew McFarlane. States 20 per cent of cases shouldn’t be in the family courts. Sir Andrew has also spoken of the harm family courts cause to children due to long court hearings. …
I’M SO PROUD TO BE ARCHIE’S MUM
Archie Battersbee, the 12-year-old who had been at the centre of a legal battle between his parents and doctors, has died. His mother, Hollie Dance, said: “Such a beautiful little boy, and he fought right until the very end.” She said she was “the proudest mum in the world” as she spoke outside the Royal …
Judith, we’ll never find another you …
WHAT A CONTRIBUTION, WHAT A LOSS Judith Durham has died at the age of 79 after a battle with lung disease. The Seekers singer died in Alfred Hospital in Melbourne after suffering complications. She made her first recording at 19 and rose to fame after joining The Seekers in 1963. The group of four became …
ARE YOU THE CHEATING, LYING, ALCHY, POT-ADDICTED, JOBLESS, DEAD BEAT PARENT YOUR EX AND THE COURTS TELL YOUR CHILDREN YOU ARE?
Parental alienation is the subject nobody but its victims want to talk about. Police don’t want to be involved in this intense conniving dishonest and cruel form of child abuse. And the CSA, social workers, family courts and CAFCAS just see it as tick-box problem with the added ‘joy’ of being a big earner for …
SOME DREAMS ARE MADE OF IRON AND STEEL, OTHERS ARE SIMPLY GOOD ON THE TRACKS
FAUX TRAINS COMING FOR BOB THE MODEL STAR Connaught boss Paddy brings Dylan’s work to his Chateau Kingdom in Provence Moston, Manchester 10, for whatever reason, was my life’s hometown. Grimy, dark, dreary and rainy. I don’t remember too much about it really, it was such a long time ago… As a child though, I …
Who says dead men don’t dance in Ibiza?
It was late evening and San Antonio was still a cauldron. The tourists were wilting visibly under the red sky. Germans were scrupulously clean in their long shorts and red faces – and the Brits, well they were just the Brits, low-slung Camos revealing tourist cleavage, sweat breaking out like grease on roasting pigs. But …
Cheers to Ron Lambton, the dapper pub boss I’ll never forget
Ron Lambton was a dapper little man, business suits, shiny shoes, smart shirts and slick garish ties. He was a sharp-dressed man with a smile as big as the North-east. And he had ambition … he wanted everything he did to entertain and look and taste good. I met him when, one day about forty …
A show with a wealth of common interests!
Is the NHS brilliant? is the BBC rubbish? and don’t get them started on utility companies Click to watch… #Commonwealthgames #utilitycompanies #BBC #NHS
Why we went 1,500 miles from Portugal to Costa Blanca by taxi
As holidaymakers and travellers from the UK face airports, delays, proof of ‘spends’ tests in Spain – and massive flight and other travel costs, the Society’s Leigh and Andrea tell the tale of their incredible journey from Portugal to Spain … It was cheaper, more comfortable – a chauffer-driven road trip by taxi! Prices etc …
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU AMERICA?
WHAT MATTERS MORE IN ALABAMA IN 2022? HALTING THE DEATH OF A MAN, OR PRISON’S SHOCK AT A SHORT SKIRT? A journalist was made to change her outfit at the execution of a death-row inmate in Alabama after prison officials said her skirt was too short. Ivana Hrynkiw Shatara, managing producer for website AL.com, says …
‘I met Bob, went out with Mick and married Denny’ … looking back on 60s teenage wild child Catherine James
Why CJ – who apparently was no saint – rings them bells for an old friend of mine… A well-known journalist friend of mine has been toying with a name since the letters JC unexpectedly entered Bob’s life again. A young lady called Catherine James was a well-known teenage gal-about-town in the 1960s. And in …
POT FRAP!
BE PROUD! WHY F*RTING CAN BE SUCH A BREATH OF FRESH AIR Is f”rting good for you – does it break the ice at parties, or is it just a lot of hot air? Well, snooker guru RONNIE O’SULLIVAN let off one and left a referee and audience in stitches while potting a few days …
FOREVER WRONG –‘reckless’ JC drops brazen child sex case against Bob Dylan
What were probably the least believed sex claims against an iconic rock star have been dropped forever. However, JC – the only moniker given to the accuser – now faces a media scrum to expose her. It is an iniquity of the law, in cases like this, that the accuser can remain anonymous while the …
BERNARD CRIBBINS DIES, AGED 93
The final station on Oldham-born star’s journey Oldham-born Veteran actor Bernard Cribbins, who starred in the Carry On films, Doctor Who and the 1970 film The Railway Children, has died. A statement from Gavin Barker Associates said: “Beloved actor Bernard Cribbins OBE has passed away at the age of 93.” “His career spanned seven decades …
POWER OF RUSSIA’S VLAD AXE MAN
No street lights, factories closed and bills soaring again Wholesale gas prices surged again after Vladimir Putin’s regime halved supplies to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Germany has already condemned the action as a ‘duplicitous game’ and others are predicting energy bills could hit £500 for January. And as European nations try to buy …
Umbrella Man: Police say arrest made after vid goes viral …
Does anybody really know what happened here? The bald bloke with TWO umbrellas on a hot day in the UK may already have been seen by police. One arrest has been made … No matter what the victim did (did he do anything?) he should not be treated like this … A Greater Manchester Police …
Some like it hot – heated debate and some heartfelt revelations
No Leigh and Rodney are not talking rubbish – they are talking about Rubbish!
Another good-fella is gone … Paul Sorvino dies, aged 83
Paul Sorvino has died at age 83. It is more than 30 years since the lugubrious-faced charmer with a smile as wide as Florida played Paul Cicero in Goodfellas. What is probably one of the greatest gangster movies also starred Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and went on to become a cult …
STONE ME! IS LARS A PROTEST SONG OR JUST A ROLLING MOAN?
Come writers and critics who prophecise with your pen … read the article or don’t come again I’m not protesting, or anything like that … but I am a bit surprised that so many people commented on our article LIKE A ROLLING STONE, THE SOUND AND FURY HOWL ON AFTER 57 YEARS However, the discussion …
Wild days of Pearl, the real pistol-packin’ mama of the West
Another tale from Burroughs-ian writer Eric Lastick UNUSUAL THEMES OF THE BOLD AND OLD AMERICAN WEST Part 1: PEARL Taylor Heart, wild girl of the West. Canada’s own…and only female stagecoach robber of the American territories. Pretty Miss Pearl, gaper-eyed and gatefold’s request of ‘’sing and songs’’ as an old saloon barkeep at a hundred …
ANOTHER YOUNG DAD DECIDES TO DIE
By Andrew John Teague R.I.P. Tragedy has struck us again. Last Friday, early hours, a young father took his life. He leaves behind a 11 month old daughter. Sadly, just another non-statistic of failings of a system that ignores the parents in crisis. We know there are many parents who struggle withou help. Actually bullied …
Death at the bus stop… the intimacy of loss in Putin’s horror
The tragedy and horror of what Putin is doing to the people of the Ukraine are portrayed sometimes in the intimate detail. The intimate details of what it is really like to meet death without warning on a street corner. We are brutalised by modern ways of dying – the glint of a lone-wolf’’s knife …
Like a Rolling Stone, the sound and fury howl on after 57 years
Did Bob’s Miss Lonely, his diplomats and Siamese cat, rock your world? They did mine! It was on July 20 1965 that Bob released Like a Rolling Stone. It brought fear to the world and fury to my dad. The single was stupendous, noisy, rallying, subversive, hectoring, finger-pointing, vicious, told it like it was (is?), …
MOANING GLORY – BUT MERCURY IS STILL RISING!
I am rocked by all those who popped up the charts while I wasn’t listening … Well, Freddie is Queen-ing it again and I have to say, I’ve just about Abba enough. No, you won’t be seeing Rainbow on the top playlists for (ear)-plugged-in trendies… in fact it’s over, it’s over … it’s over! Even …
Leigh and Rodney – the serious side of life
Leigh describes a life-long trauma of being a victim CLICK INSIDE TO WATCH…
‘Love ya long-time Paul,’ tributes as Happy Mondays co-founder dies, aged 58
Some of 80s rock and pop luminaiies have paid tribute to Happy Mondays bass player, Paul. Paul, brother of the band’s frontman Shaun Ryder, was one of the founding members of the Manchester band. He was 58 years old. Announcing his death on Twitter, his family wrote: ‘The Ryder family and Happy Mondays band members are deeply …
Blast-onbury…any re-Gretas? What a load of rubbish!
A show about hate speech and swearing, what do you think? #Glastonbury #Greta #rubbish #environment
Finally, journalist ‘allowed’ to share cold dark truths of the family courts
For years, as a father campaigning against parental alienation and as a working journalist, I have had my freedom to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth strangled by laws supposedly designed to protect our children. But family laws in the UK – and to a large extent across the world …
FOR A FISTFUL OF EUROS
THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN TOWN WHERE IT’S GOOD AND BAD AND UGLY. AND UP FOR £2.8m! Once upon a time in a corner of Spain, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda shot holes through the desert heat. And a cinema cowboy classic was born. But Once a Time in America wasn’t a tumble-weed moment for Hollywood more …
BOB DYLAN AND NORMAN GREENBAUM: ‘JEWS IN THE JESUS CORNERS’
POP ARTIST #1 Norman Greenbaum {IRREVERANCE] An introduction of Jesus takes in tongue and cheek. Americana farmer felt of the Bible belt…tills and turns that could be straight out of shock value…yet a super Jesus boogie in song—- even if a non-believer. ‘’Who cares!’’ His hit song ‘’Spirit in the sky” which really rocks…and feels …
PAULIE WALNUTS ACTOR TONY IS DEAD, AGED 79
News of 79 year-old Tony Sirico’s (pictured centre) death has stunned fans of The Sopranos. It was shared by his co-star, Michael Imperioli, who said “I will miss him forever.” Sirico died at an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, his manager Bob McGowen said. There was no information on the cause of death. A statement from …
Perverts in South Australia face tougher jail time
Child sex offenders in South Australia face tougher jail sentences after new laws were passed into state parliament. Among the changes, the maximum penalty for gross indecency has been increased from five to 15 years. People caught in possession of a child sex doll could face more than a decade behind bars while online predators who download, …
The Man From Del Monte, he is dead
Actor Brian Jackson who played orange juice boss in 1980s adverts has died aged 91. Brian starred as the white-suited fruit inspector who used the phrase in the gloriously funny sunny ads, ‘the man from Del Monte, he say yes’. Brian had starred in more than 25 commercials in 32 countries from the 1980s to …
WHY T BONE STAKED HIS FUTURE ON DYLAN’S CHANGING TIMES AND A MUSICAL SPIRAL
A state-of-the-art recording of Dylan’s Blowin’ In The Wind has been snapped up for almost £1.5 million. The disc with a difference is the first new studio recording of the song since Dylan wrote it in 1962. It was sold by Christie’s in London. The sale exceeded the original price estimate which was set as …
BYE BYE BORIS! YOU WERE BECOMING AS TRAGIC AS TRUMP…
MAIN PICTURE: Leon Neal/Getty Images It used to be the case that Donald ducks and Boris bends it like… well, a politician. People accuse me of being a Tory – and worse, a Boris believer. But why would I support a liar, a kamikaze political pilot, a man who appears to be without shame, a …
COVID COMEBACK… THE MASKED MARAUDER AND DAME COVER-UP
We Brits have been told that Covid is so bad again that we really need to go back to being masked and distanced. Boris’s boffins and medics fear Covid hospital cases are about to hit an 18-month high. So, Dame Dr Jenny Harries, one of the UK’s most senior health officials, has warned a current …
Leigh invites Rodney up to see his etchings! Then they have a shoot-out about the news…
Facing facts…why do we treat different races differently? Are Britain’s immigration laws too soft or too tough? come and join us inside…
RE-GRETA!
It’s not easy being green if your a pop fan is it Greta! As bands and performers better suited to the Eurovision Song Contest filled the dope and juniper air with plinky-plonky rubbish, the weekend hippies in posh wellies and camper vans discarded their empty water bottles, muesli and sausage wrappers, their roaches and dimps, …
Will Carolyn, 82, finally face justice over Emmett Till?
Last month LA musician and writer Andrew Brel sent The Society his thoughts on the background to this horrendous story of mindless racism hatred, lies, callousness and child murder. His writing sparked memories of Emmett’s story and Bob Dylan’s ballad which rails against Emmett’s death, racism and the authorities. And of course Bobby Gentry. Andrew’s …
Final ride of the Hells Angel who ‘killed’ the 60s
Biker Barger dies still claiming Stones caused Altamont death riot The hippy ethos of love and peace was battered out of existence at Altamont in Canada as the Rolling Stone’s gave their free festival answer to Woodstock, in 1969. Rock’n’roll had descended into drugged decadent anarchy – Morrison wasn’t there, he was about to slam …
BURNY WRECK-ELLESTONE
‘Vlad’s first-class, I’d take a bullet for him,’ says ex-F1 boss Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has said his friend Vlad Putin invaded the Ukraine ‘unintentionally’! Really? Well, that’s alright then isn’t it! Here’s what Putin did ‘unintentionally’ to the country of blue and yellow one fine day in late winter when he wasn’t, perhaps, …
Robot scribes are no joke – seriously!
But will they finally close the book on us humans with one-from-the-heart? By MICHAEL PILGRIM Michael is a developmental editor with more than 12 years in the industry Michael Pilgrim – Developmental Editor How will AI written books affect the publishing industry? Here are some thoughts. – Even when AI can write a perfect book, …
Why are we all avoiding the new Covid crisis? Is Boris a Bimbo?
One of the best! Leigh and Rodney actually manage to fall out over the fact they are agreeing with each other, listen and watch below… #Covid #Boris
Beeb bopped! Golden-oldies talent KO’d – yet old and mouldies like The Archers stay!
Broadcasting survivor Tony Blackburn has reached his golden years, but he reckons his prime-time Golden Hour on Radio 2 has fallen victim to BBC’s rampant ageism. He even described the decision to demote his show from a Friday to a Sunday as “strange”. The 79-year-old DJ tweeted: “Doesn’t anyone value experience any more? “I hate …
STARMER IS SO SPINELESS HE SHOULD BE CARRIED AROUND IN A BUCKET OF STRIKER’S BLOOD
Don’t take a fence though! But is no-spine Sneer really better than no-morals Boris? Sitting on a fence is a bit like riding a bike without a seat. At least if you sit down you won’t fall off. And that nice Lord Sneer is so impaled by his own indecision over strikes, whether to resign …
We can talk plenty about Bob, say the good people of Hibbing… And they do!
The fascinating little Minnesota town with different views of Bob The people of Hibbing tell their own stories about their town and how it has changed over the decades since Bob took to the road more than sixty years ago. They talk plenty about Bob too. Fascinating insights into one of the world’s greatest performers …
Child sex beast says ‘I want to be role model to my son…’ and Britain is considering his rights
Eight years and £6million investigating why 1,400 girls – victims of sex abuse – were systematically failed by the police. Yes, our police “failed to protect vulnerable children” from the deviant members of sick predatory gangs of Rochdale men. And that’s not the end of the story. There is a growing list of reports, including …
Come writers and critics – why molify with your pen? Social media warriors just want to stab you with it!
I do have to say, people saw the advent of social media – in particular Facebook – as grand freedom, freedom of communication, freedom of speech, freedom of artistic expression, freedom to campaign and stand up for what’s right. FREEDOM! The right to speak your mind out, yep, that is freedom, it is equality and …
Oh, what a world we live in … now they want an Idi Amin tourism trail
The trails and tribulations of boss who thinks Amin is ‘most popular’ Leigh G Banks remembers a short interview with one of the world’s biggest despots… Welcome to the asylum! The day I spoke to Idi Amin, he laughed down the phone at me. In fact he barely stopped laughing. It was almost like Madman’s …
Despite a bit of a rough and rowdy show, Bob gives his heart to one great love… us!
Andrew Brel reviews Bob Dylan at the Terrace Theatre, Long Beach It’s a 50 minute drive up Coast Highway from home to the venue. 8pm kick off for Bob Dylan. We left at 5 to enjoy a dinner in Long Beach which has become an extremely vibey place for nights out. We arrived at the …
Frail? Bob looks good in this happy birthday vid for Brian Wilson! (See vid inside!)
Well, between them they’re more than 160 years old, true rock survivors … the rockers of ages. During Bob’s tour people have said his singing with passion and true invention … but he looks frail, moves gingerly and has taken to occassionally sitting on a stage bench. There’s very little good footage of his Rough …
Rodney is on the road again, Leigh’s stuck in Britain…the rants are outrageous
Gentlemen ranters get stuck in again about everything, come and join them
HOME FROM THE BLUES, MANGO MAN TOM – HIS STRANGE FRUIT, PUTIN AND RAW PASSION
Tom Wood is a strange brew … a fairly conservative type of man with a predilection for the heat of the desert. A wanderer in trades too. Tom is a showman, who a decade ago. took a gamble and moved to Vegas, yet had little interest in the Elvis look-alike culture, its plastic playground cities, …
HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL US BEAUTIFUL LOSERS …
Read them and weep – then stand up and fight. Children are for life, not just for others, our boys and girls are not weapons of crass destruction for the bitter and twisted, children and exes are not there to be bullied … YOU failed in your commitment to a relationship, not YOUR son or …
THE HARMONICS OF LOVE BETWEEN A DAD AND HIS BOY
FOR FATHER’S DAY … AN IMAGINED TRIP ROUND DYLAN AND JAKOB, BY ERIC LASTICK DYLAN AND SON, JAKOB…LETTERS OF THE RED JACK PINES THIS FATHER’S DAY. IN FULL FAMILY ARTISAN… In a real wind whirl minded Dylan basement avenue of guitar awakenings; Dad lays down all his rhythms and yarns—- wishful a Father’s Day holiday …
Brad Twit! Star’s inglourious lobby wait for Bob to finish song…
Once upon a time in Hollywood Brad Pitt decided to go and see his hero Bob Dylan… Wait! Yes, that’s what he had to do – because he turned up just too late. Brad is such a major Dylan fan that he has part of the lyric of “When The Deal Goes Down” tattooed on …
Sound and fashion… Bob steps out in battered boots, religious T-shirt and a Godfather homburg
Bob Dylan was photographed in another enigmatic ‘backstage’ outfit. And the only things missing were his leopard skin boots. His white Godfather-style Homburg was angled to look rakish and a little roguish, his white T-shirt emblazoned the message Godspeed to You across his skinny chest, black too-long baggy pants flapped like black crows around his …
Keith’s final journey to gran’s house passed the street where evil Brady lived
Spare a thought for my lost brother, asks Alan Bennett Alan wrote: On this day, June 16th, in 1964, four days after Keith’s twelfth birthday, he was going to spend the night at our gran’s house… my mother was going to bingo and she walked with Keith to the zebra crossing at busy Stockport Road. …
Court in pain …100s of ‘alienated’ lives saved in dad’s six year fight for our kids
We are bullied, terrorised, criminalised, traumatised, lost, empty, deflated, exhausted, worthless, frustrated, stressed, depressed, unhappy. Suicidal BY ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE Six years ago I opened D.A.D.s having seen the need to ensure children are put first (writes Andrew John Teague). Ever since I’ve spent as much time as possible helping, supporting and saving poor souls …
THE WRITES AND WRONGS OF SELLING YOUR GRANNY…
Does a writer have the right to write about their world gone wrong? A few days ago I wrote a short piece looking back at Like a Rolling Stone by the never-ending Bob Dylan. LRS is a song that changed the world … six minutes of angst, anger, vitriol and viciousness. Bob was a wild …
Keith Bennett could be retired and a grandpa today. He would be 70… but Brady and Hindley stole him away
Here his brother, Alan, talks succinctly and movingly about the horrifying tragedy that has blighted so many lives, just like his How a barber’s shop conversation about the loss of Keith helped lift brother’s battered spirits … They say that on the streets of Manchester you are never more than six feet away from a …
Short Shark Redemption…Leigh gets his teeth into going home and Rodney hits the road
Internet, NHS, moan from home. Leigh gets into a super tenants lather and Rodney has a go at everybody. #NHS #internet #tenants #spain #portugal
IS BORIS FUELLING HIS CAR-CRASH RETURN BY A CLAMP ON FORECOURT SWINDLERS?
Average price of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts reached 185p Average price of diesel also reached 190.9p Filling up a family car hit £100 for first time in UK Do you know, Britain’s home fires are still burning – but in these, the cyber-technic Noughties, they are incandescent with shock, horror and fear. …
SPAIN PROPERTY STILL SUNNYSIDE UP AS PUTIN’S BLOOD-RED WAR FAILS TO PANIC EU?
When that bloated Grim Reaper Putin invaded the Ukraine he spun the world by its tail. And the gut reaction of many global property speculators and ex-pats was that, `particularly the Spanish market, would fail as Russian money was frozen in the world’s air like black ice. But far from it. The market in Spain …
Keep on keepin’ on Ma’am in our LAND OF SOAP AND GLORY
UPDATE: The Queen was advised not attend today’s (Friday) Jubilee service at St Paul’s Cathedral. She is said to be have suffered discomfort while watching Thursday’s parade at Buckingham Palace. The decision was made with “great reluctance” after considering the “journey and activity required”, the palace said. Meanwhile, the telly soap about Manchester – Coronation …
Father’s Day looms… let’s climb that mountain back to our children
By Andrew John Teague and Leigh G Banks By Leigh G Banks: Grooming gifts, craft beer, a chocolate tool set, new socks. And a gift set of ‘vintage cut-throat razors’. We’ve already got the meal tickets. For many decades Father’s Day was just like any of my birthdays, bank holidays and Christmas’s. I had drawn …
Ronnie Hawkins is dead … he was the godfather or rockabilly
Ronnie Hawkins has died. He was 87 years old. Robbie Robertson announced the sad news on Facebook. He wrote: “The story of The Band began with Ronnie Hawkins. He was our mentor. He taught us the rules of the road.” Hawkins was born in Arkansas, but loved Canada. He was singer and band master Ronnie …
DAD’S RAGIN’ FURY AS BOB’S LYRICS MADE ME LIKE A ROLLING STONE
By the hormonal age of 12 I was furious. But the man who had shot white stripes of harsh reality across my young acned and blood-rush universe was even angrier. It might have been the cider he drank sprawled across the couch. But when Bob’s Like a Rolling Stone burst out of our telly – …
Award-winning council says police not investigating after care-home gran’s house price slashed by £50,000
A SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BY LEIGH G BANKS and EHI EKHATOR, THE STANDARD GAZETTE A council which won an international housing award sold a 92-year-old grandmother’s home for £50,000 under its market value and told her family they’d done it to save her £7 a week, it is claimed. Newcastle City Council had apparantly been reported …
THE LONG RIDE HOME … LESTER PIGGOTT DIES AGED 86
Jockey legend Lester Piggott has died at the age of 86. His career lasted almost 50 years and he rode almost 4,500 winners – the third highest record in British racing history beaten only Sir Gordon Richards and Pat Eddery, He was crowned champion jockey 11 times and his name became synonymous with the Derby, …
OUR QUEEN OF THRONES … 70 YEARS OF LIZ GETTING IT RIGHT, DESPITE THE FAMILY
The Queen has been on The Throne for 70 years …hmmm, to us Northerners that has a totally different meaning. But you can wipe that smile off your face right away – don’t doubt for a second I’m logged in, pumped up and ready to poo-poo any negative toilet humour! Yes, Liz lives in the …
MIND TORTURE! HOW OUR CHILDREN ARE ABUSED BY LYING PARENTS AND COURTS
By ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE, d.a.d.s. and NAAP Deliberate physical child abuse is described as non-accidental physical injury by the UK courts.The same should be said when children go through psychological abuse.The non-accidental psychological injury in the child.Child abuse is child abuse whatever the form.More and more often children are being set up to beat on …
CONGRATULATIONS… FOR BREAKING MY HEART
I love Bob Dylan. In a manly way of course. He is the wild, exotic, mysterious roust-about brother I never had – and I didn’t know I even wanted until the day after my 9th birthday in 1962. The buck-toothed goof of a leader of our gang in the rainy back streets of Manchester in …
ABBA-HEART, I’M A HAIRY ROCKER WITH A SECRET ADDICTION… Oh, I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO… I DO!
I once got in trouble on a BBC radio programme for describing The Beatles as ‘just a psychedelic Abba’. I had a knack for saying the completely right wrong thing as a broadcaster at the time… Witness ‘Daniel O’Donnell is so middle of the road he should be run over…’ It was all just too …
FACE PAINT AND PRIDE… A FAMILY AT WAR
My man is not for changing, says Mrs Zelensky PICTURE: Olena Zelenska/Instagram Volodymr Zelensky and his wife Olena are spending time together with their children in a major show of defiance to Monster of War Vladimir Putin. Out of the blue a confetti of incendiary bombs and a congregation of mindless murderous uniformed morons left …
Bob Neuwirth dead at the age of 82… watch him perform inside
Very sad to report this, Bob Neuwirth, one of Bob Dylan’s sidekicks died aged 82 a few days ago. We would have reported this sooner but we’ve had ‘techy’ problems. To many Dylan fans Bob Neuwirth was a dignified, often zany (to use an old fashioned word) but ‘ruthless’ part of Bob’s madcap world of …
DO LOOK BACK!
A compendium of reviews of the last few months of Bob Dylan’s never-ending career After Bob’s latest leg of his never-ending tour was brought to an abrupt halt by Covid, here at The Society we began curating thoughts, writing, reviews, vids and comments showing how, at 80 he is still refusing to look back. He’s …
BROAD-BANNED IN VILLAGE OF DAMNED!
EE-k! The truth behind the internet and Britain’s rural life … The internet zooms if, like Putin, you want to nuke the world – but not if you call granny from your English country garden… Years ago now British governments clicked on the potent idea of super-fast broadband across the countryside from Ambridge to Middleton …
DON’T LOOK BACK AS DYLAN’S RAY-BANS BECOME ANNIVERSARY’S 10 SECOND TREAT
SEE VIDEO INSIDE: SHADES of the mindless consumerism of the hedonistic Sixties have hit the virtual streets of Dylan’s latest anniversary. Yep, a cyber-world ‘toy’ is our modern times equivalent of flesh-coloured Christs that glow in the dark… In his dotage Bob has faced up to the dawning of the New Age and flicked the …
From back streets of Manchester to the glittering prizes, how parental alienation destroyed love and then dad…
Tough guys don’t dance when PA punches their lights out I am a Manc, a back street boy born to be tough. Moston was my teenage hunting ground. That’s North Manchester where footpaths were either made out of cobbles or broken bricks and windows. Suburbs of terraced houses, urban regeneration, mud holes and smoking guns. …
FAUX TRAIN COMING FROM BOB’S DREAMS OF IRON AND STEEL
Connaught boss Paddy brings Dylan’s work to his Chateau Kingdom in Provence Moston, Manchester 10, for whatever reason, was my life’s hometown. Grimy, dark, dreary and rainy. I don’t remember too much about it really, it was such a long time ago… I can still see though rundown cottages on Moston Lane, they were crumbing …
Dennis WHAT-A-MAN
How Minder star changed a bouffanted Manchester hard-man’s life When Dennis Waterman first punched his way on to our television screens, my mate Brian found a new lease of life. It was 1979 and Brian and I were fashion victims in hard-man ‘town’ Manchester… I was six feet five inches tall, but stack heels pushed …
Dark day in malice… dial ‘N’ for Nerds as BBC censors Dylan’s anti-racism anthem
Dylan’s Hurricane is a song which, while factually a bit lacking, took on pomp, cruelty, American society, iniquity, the judiciary, justice, social conditions – and yes, RACISM I have been a professional writer all my working life – and one of the greatest writers today still has to be Bob Dylan, a chronicler of the …
Silence from St Tropez 271…
Once, as I searched through the dusty old contacts book of a British eveningnewspaper I came across the home telephone number of Brigitte Bardot.St Tropez 271.Every so often, perhaps when I’d had a couple of beers too many, I’d dial it.Never got any answer, just an insistent and foreign-sounding bleat down theline. But somehow that …
Finally, we may find truth about my brother Keith – hope as new law set to reveal Brady’s locked-up evil
Police and family have been barred from opening Brady’s suitcase of secrets for decades … now new law gives them the key Alan Bennett says a new Parliamentary Bill will help him finally find the body of his brother, murdered by monsters Ian Brady and Myra Hindley more than 60 years ago. Brady, the madman …
Rodney and Leigh are back on the road again – let’s see where the show goes this week, Portugal and Shropshire
The chaps are at it again, putting the world’s wrongs to right #Portugal #hauntings #ghosts #transgender
Why Dylan became as big as Elvis after meeting a man named Gray in Dinkytown
Bob loves Elvis, no doubt. After all Elvis was the God of rock n roll, beautiful, handsome, sensual, wild, wiggly, outrageous and with a voice to sell your soul for. And Bob was at the crossroads. It was 1959 and Bob was in Fargo and was banging out ivory-clad bullets of rock for the Poor …
MYSTERIES OF LAG-OSSH
Lagos, the city of mysteries. Ghosts of slaves in the marketplace – visions of a saint next to the golden church.When I arrived, one of the mysteries to me was why its pronounced with a ssshhh … Lago-ssshhh.Well, after a few days here, I can tell you: Somebody in a bar described Lagos as the …
WHAT A RACKET! DID BECKER COURT JAIL DISASTER OR IS HE VICTIM OF MORE JUDICIAL ABUSE?
The 54-year-old tennis star was declared bankrupt in 2017, owing creditors almost £50m, over an unpaid loan of more than £3m on his estate in Mallorca, Spain. Now he has been found guilty of transferring hundreds of thousands from his business account and failing to declare a property in his hometown of Leimen in Germany. …
A nod and wink to blind horse Bob led around … by literary Tarantula Eric Lastick
Eric Lastick is a strange man. He looks lived in, like an old rooming house knocked out and loaded from the inside. He’s spent his life inside this badly-built walk-on-stilts high-rise of rooms called things like Hope, Aspiration, Dream… … and still, today, he stares from his rain-melting ancient windows into glistening streets and memories. …
IS THERE STRIFE ON MARS AS PHOTOS SHOW SPACE JUNK DUMP?
Wanna buy this Sputnik? It fell off the back of a spaceship… As mad bad Putin threatens again to launch a speed-of-lightning nuclear attack on the world, just how do we survive? Do we take off our internal doors and make a ‘wooden tent’ out of them in our lounge so that we can be …
MOLDY DICK – PUTIN ALL AT SEA AS HE SENDS IN TRAINED MILITARY DOLPHINS AND WHALES, SAY EXPERTS
Russia is mobilising marine mammals to protect a key Black Sea naval base, according to war experts. Satellite images are said to show what military experts believe are two dolphin pens floating off the mouth of its key navy base in Sevastopol harbor off Crimea. Military analyst H.I. Sutton first broke the news in the …
POLICE FINALLY SHOW SOME BOTTLE OVER STARMER’S BEER AND PIZZA ‘WINDOW’
The Society welcomes the fact that Durham police are to re-examining Sir Keir Starmer‘s beer and pizza ‘party’ at a constituency stop-off while on the campaign trail at the height of Covid fears in the UK. To the Labour leader, Boris’s own party-time, for which he was fined by the Met Police, has taken up more of …
Angela’s bashes … should her legs be such a big deal?
Angela Rayner is quite rightly proud of her legs! What gal wouldn’t be? But does the stories about the deputy Labour leader and her jokey flirtations with Boris really matter? We at The Society say they do … and here’s why.
Cancer fight for Oasis guitarist Bonehead
Bonehead, the Oasis guitarist from North Manchester, has revealed he has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer. The musician – real name Paul Arthurs – broke the news on social media, saying he will be “taking a break from playing” while having treatment. “Just to let you all know I’m going to be taking a break from …
IT’S ALL PANTS AS BORIS LEFT BLUE AND ANGELA SEES RED OVER THIGH-IN-THE-SKY COMMONS BATTLE
THE NOs HAVE IT AS LABOUR WIFE’S LEGS SEND FREEDOM INTO A TALE-SPIN A Tory MP says that Angela Rayner has admitted using her legs to bamboozle Boris at Prime Minister’s Questions. But Mrs Rayner is apparently livid over the whole thing. Cross, like she is accused of doing with her legs. However, we all …
THE HUMAN STORIES BEHIND PUTIN’S INHUMAN WAR ON UKRAINE
The truth about the war on the Ukraine is too hard to take. It’s not a fake war and it wasn’t wholly unexpected. But it has been devasting and awful and inhuman. And with his impassiveness, his reptilian eyes and lips as thin as a snake’s Putin has secured his place in history along-side Hitler …
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES FOR VICTIMS OF PARENTAL ALIENATION
WRITTEN BY CAMPAIGNER ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE Today is the 25th of April – PA day. For 6 years we pushed to finally get it recognised throughout the UK and in 2019, because of dads and naap it made the mainstream news. Dads, mums, grandparents and others marched the streets of London then stopped at Downing …
YOU’RE NOT ONLY AN EX … YOU’RE AN EX-HUMAN BEING IF PARENTAL ALIENATION IS YOUR WEAPON OF CHOICE
Parental Alienation Awareness Day is here once again … and how many people really know about it? PAAD is a major part of a global awareness campaign aimed at making the general public, judges, police officers, mental health care workers, child protection agencies, lawyers and social workers aware of one of the biggest unchecked crimes …
Rodney raises spirits as Leigh heads back to the Village of the Damned
Rodney is stranded on a Marbella mountain after he got the wind up over his missing window (more of that next week)…Leigh is going home (watch this space) #NHS #teachers #education
CANTERBURY FAILS… COUNCIL IDIOTS TELL EX-SOLDIER TO TAKE DOWN UKRAINE FLAG FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY
In my life I have rarely met a good civil servant, council official or little tin-pot local authority ‘enforcer’. And, one way or the other, I have had to work with them all my life. It’s not big and clever to go and work for your council and it’s not demanding on your quotion of …
FOR THE LOVE OF MY PAPA … RUMER WILLIS SHOWS US ALL SUCH A TENDER MOMENT
Rumer Willis shared an old picture with her dad Bruce, almost a month since the family announced he’s retiring from acting due to aphasia. It is a picture of love and tenderness between a dad and one of his daughters. A family snap really, something we all have somewhere, at the back of the drawer, …
Robert Plant, fish and chips and has Boris missed the boat over Rwanda?
Have you had your chips if you go to the chippy more than twice a week…and why Zep fans think Leigh is a Plant #LedZeplin#RobertPlant#Ukraine
SOFT SOAPS AND SADNESS AS HELEN’S GRANNY DIES
Helen Flanagan has written a tribute to her grandmother after she died earlier this week. The Coronation Street star, aged 31, shared photos of her ‘Nanna Nancy’, who was in her 90s, to Instagram. Helen – mum to Matilda, aged six, Delilah, three, and son Charlie, 13 months – ‘My Nanna passed away this week. I loved …
DO YOU THINK THESE’LL FIT ON MY NEW BIRTHDAY BARBIE, HARRY?
They blasted canons over her head, idiot grandson Harry dripped sweetness like a cracked coconut, Britain’s secret party-going politicians paid their fines and waved ‘yoohoo’ to her. And The Queen posed with two white horses and had some egg-nog. And then they gave her a Barbie doll! Well, at 96 when you’re not well, grieving …
A CORRIE JOLLY AS BILL SAYS I’LL KEEP ON ACTING AT 90 (THAT’S GOOD BILL, YOU’VE NEVER MANAGED IT BEFORE – OH NO! DON’T SUE ME, IT’S A BIRTHDAY JOKE, JUST A JOKE…)
William Roache has said he has “no intention of retiring”. He’s 90 years old now and still crops up on our screens every week or so. The actor, who will turn 90 on 25 April, has appeared as Ken Barlow in the ITV soap for more than 60 years and holds a Guinness World Record …
Alan tells of his Moors search for ‘lost boy’ brother Keith Bennett
The Preservation Society has been allowed to use much of Alan Bennett’s writing over the years about his never-ending search for brother Keith, a victim of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. I first met Alan way back in the early Eighties, although I doubt he will remember me particularly. At the time he was often …
It’s a restless hungry feeling that does everyone some good…
Yep, Dylan reveals new tour dates And the first stop along the way will be the town of Spokane with its fish trucks and mountain shadows. It’s the first time in more than two decades that he’s performed in Spokane and he will be at First Interstate Center for the Arts on May 28. Spokane …
A bunny thing happened on way to the pub, beery Brits helped me out by downing 150m pints for Easter!
I’ve not even had an egg-nog for Easter. This religiously-based festival with its focus on chick-chick-chick-chick chickens, chocolate eggs, rubbish telly and bob-tailed bunnies has left my tongue as dry as a pair of the Baby Jesus’s discarded flip-flops. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and anybody else who is reading, I can no …
It’s these special days alone when we all need help
By Andrew John Teague A message to parents – keep on keeping on. We know your pain. We know when the special times come around the feelings are amplified. This time Easter but can be anytime Please reach out we are here to lend a hand 1. Contact denial. 2. Mental health. 3. Psychological injury …
BISHOP ATTACKS BORIS OVER RWANDA – IT IS AN ‘UNGODLY’ PLAN, HE SAYS
The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned the Boris’s shocking plan to send fleeing migrants thousands of miles to Rwanda in his Easter sermon. He said the proposals – hammered through by Priti Patel – as the “opposite of the nature of God”. In his sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby criticised the plans to ship …
Bunny ‘boiler’ Boris’s bog-off deal for migrants – bog off to bloody Rwanda
Rwanda is generally a nice place to be nowadays. It’s warm but not too hot. And cool in the evenings because its thousand mountains are five thousand feet in the air. The people are very nice and friendly and, if you migrate (or are exiled there) you need about £100 a week to live on …
Loneliness of the long-distance fuel hunter as we go back to the future on £10 a gallon
Well, what a telling photograph this has turned out to be … a multi-layered commentary on the state of our beleaguered nation. This picture was taken last year, just after we arrived back in the UK from five years abroad. We drove in to a fuel crisis caused by HGV drivers and the like blocking …
Oh, what have we done to ourselves? Special offer on Boris and Biden – but Putin and Zelensky came free!
What have we done to ourselves? Putin is pulverising the Ukraine like a butcher with a piece of bloody meat, Boris gets a £100 fine over lying, lying, lying for his party piece. Pinch-faced Macron accused in 2bn state scandal, Kim Jong-un bombs a golf resort. And bumbling stumbling Biden gets sh*t on by a …
How pervert Savile fixed it for Tabloid Terrors to get back to exposing the truth
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Television has been the showcase for the re-telling of the Jimmy Savile story in recent days. Savile was a pervert, a bully, cruel and slimy. Nobody liked him. But he was Teflon and no matter how much muck we journalists on the Sun, Sunday People, Daily Mail and Daily Star threw at …
CHEMICAL VLAD?
Claims Ukraine civilians ‘stop breathing’ as chemical weapons dropped on them by drone Gen Richard Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff in the UK says the situation in Ukraine is looking like genocide. There is no doubt reviled Putin has the chemical formula to bring the world, finally, to the brink. And he sneers at …
LOVE ON THE MODEL RAILWAYS AS DYLAN STAYS ON TRACK IN MARKET DEEPING
I am back in the UK after many years of travelling like a troubadour across Europe in my long black limousine. Right now we live on top of a hill in a rented farmhouse in a place called Middleton Scriven. It’s on the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, two counties where sheep and rock stars …
The Garda un-civil, why hasn’t Spain ‘taxed’ the oligarchs? Gender Blenders, are they right? and the NHS!
Rodney and Leigh, the snipers of Marbella aim at Russia, Ukraine, Europe and the UK…click to watch video
Parsons knows – EU, the chickens of Kyiv
35Bn euros to Russia for fuel and 1bn to Ukraine for survival … the Tony award for EU self-interest Yes, the world has to survive as the powers-that-be fuel the bloody war in the Ukraine. We need oil and gas to stay alive, of course, But should we still be getting it of Putin? As …
Wizz Air’s final-destination baggage. Is it a wheeze – or are they just taking the wazz out of Ukraine refugees?
A woman hosting a Ukrainian refugee family fleeing the war has said they were asked to pay for luggage by an airline providing free ‘escape’ flights. Agnese Edmonds said the family was asked to pay £108.49 for two suitcases when they booked their tickets from Krakow, Poland to London Luton ewith Wizz Air. The flight itself was free, but the …
Looking back on the lady in the blood-red lake
People are saying that making the Ukraine a candidate for EU membership is a good day for Europe. It sends a ‘very strong signal’ to Putin. The move has set in motion a long process – potentially taking years – which could bind Ukraine closer to the West Candidate status was also granted to Moldova, …
In the woods … Mabel, 10, snaps her dad as he faces loneliness of the long-distance aphasia sufferer
Bruce almighty: Daughter’s instagram photos speak a thousand words to victims of the ‘silent’ disease This snap – and many others – taken by Bruce Willis’s 10-year-old daughter a few days ago express the loneliness of the long-distance aphasia victim… Mabel Ray Willis visited a ‘special’ place with her mum and dad and took cam-pix …
Final crash on the Levy – Jacques widow desired Dylan’s millions and got nothing
Jacques Levy’s widow has lost her wayward battle to cash-in on Bob Dylan’s giant song catalogue sale. Claudia Levy failed to overturn a previous Manhattan ruling that denied her lawsuit seeking a portion of the money Dylan made when he sold off his catalogue to Universal Music Group in 2020. She had argued that her late …
How Bobby Rydell went from the Wild One to being Mr Nice who wanted to save lives
Bobby Rydell, born in Philadelphia, became a teenage idol in the 1950s and was still working when he died at the age of 79. In more ways than one Bobby was a survivor … he survived the musical revolution of 60s and 70s and survived the rigours of the rock’n’roll way of life. And he …
A babyboomer and the high plains drifter
By Eric Lastick, a regular contributor MY BABYBOOM MEMOIRS: In the back page of childhood with my silver ponyboy, cap shooter; a capgun reprise, to an old’ gunslinger true task master of all those ‘’ Billy the kid’’ folklores. Lamp up and lights on, to one’s own crawlspaces of body and mind. BOYHOOD TAILS…so many, …
June Brown has said goodnight…
Another of those people who became part of the fabric of British society, Dot Cotton actress June Brown has passed away, aged 95. She is said to have died at her died home in Surrey with her family by her side. An EastEnders spokeswoman said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved June …
A Nightingale will sing once more in Kyiv square
Inside are stories and videos of power and heroism across the Ukraine. We have focussed on the battered and broken, those who have lost everything .. families, homes, jobs. Ukraines cannot lose the future, none of us can until the big doors finally clank. But their future at the moment looks bleak, blighted and broken. …
Flat-cap this! As Shelby thugs say goodbye to telly, it’s chic-y blinder street art
Once upon a time if the Peaky Blinders put you up against the wall you could well have been facing a brush with death… But Arthur-mo – a Brummie art instillation has capped that! And it aims to raise money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity. The epic 50m open air art gallery portrays all of …
THE BILL OF LIFE … BURNSIDE ACTOR’S WIFE REVEALS THE TRUE LONELINESS OF APHASIA
When Bruce Willis – one of the world’s best-loved actors – decided to reveal he is suffering from aphasia, it was a condition I’d rarely heard of … It was there of course, a trace somewhere, in the homeopathy of my mind. But I don’t think I’d met anybody who suffered from it. Aphasia though …
OK CHAPS! SHOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SLAP SOMEBODY FOR INSULTING YOUR WIFE?
Read Will Smith’s letter of resignation to the Oscars academy … should he have resigned? Or was he simply protecting his wife’s dignity and sensitivity? Let us know what you think! LEIGH G BANKS WRITES: I will ‘slap you down’ A. if you assault or attack my children B. I will remonstrate with you to …
GRACE AND GUTS … THERE IS HOPE FOR BRUCE WILLIS AS HE FIGHTS APHASIA
As the shock of the ‘retirement’ of one of the world’s most liked actors sinks in, supporters of people wrecked by Aphasia have given some hope. In a statement Bruce’ family told fans that he has been diagnosed with aphasia, a brain condition that affects his ability to understand language and that the Die Hard …
Bruce’s family rally – ‘we are strong, we will live it up with him, just like he says’
Last year we published this story about Action Hero Bruce Willis… now his family have revealed he has frontotemporal dementia. The actor was previously diagnosed with aphasia, which prompted him to retire from acting last year. Willis, 67, was previously diagnosed with aphasia, which prompted him to retire from acting. “FTD is a cruel disease that …
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the heads of bureaucrats
Rodney and Leigh trying to find out just what’s wrong with this world … click headline to view video
The real-life agonies of an MP who just wants to be himself … ‘raped, outed, blackmailed, car crash, PTSD, dysphoria, close calls, shame and embarrassment’
Trans Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis made this statement as he thanked his Conservative colleagues for their ‘incredible support’ ‘The parliamentary party had a photo in the chamber and then we went for dinner together. It was nice, especially for those of us in the ‘2019 intake’ of MPs who haven’t done anything like that before. …
Sopranos drug henchman actor Paul dies on birthday
Sopranos drug henchman, actor Paul Herman, has died aged 76. It was his birthday. Paul had appeared in many gangster films including Goodfellas and The Irishman. But he was best known for playing the role of ‘Beansie’ Gaeta in the The Sopranos. Herman’s character was eventually promoted to chief of operations in a heroin trafficking …
Are Bob, Rob, Rod and Tom the walking dead or corpse evangelists of rock’n’roll?
Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse… well I’ve outlived all that then. To be honest, the best thing I could do now is keep strutting my calcifying knees and bones and act like I have some kind of faded elegance. But it may just all be a soupçon of memory of the …
Kate tells of Ukraine horrors as Europe neighbours stare into the jaws of the bloodied bear of Russia
When we first became involved in the world of Central and Eastern Europe so many years ago, we knew we had found a new home. At least for a while. We moved to Poprad in the Spis region of Slovakia and in so many ways it was like a fantasy – a good one. There …
ARE THEY POTTY? SELLERS PANNED OVER CANNIBAL DENNIS NILSEN’S CURRY ‘KIT’
Macabre memorabilia is a curious and often unsavoury part of being a collector … Hitler’s racing car for instance brought more £10m, death masks of Napoleon, Beethoven, Shakespeare and Goethe are always in demand – and “killer clown” John Wayne Gacy, has his own art dealer. Murderabillia has a place in history, collectors put together, …
BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY – FOO FIGHTER TAYLOR DIES, AGED 50
The drummer with the Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins, has died aged 50. The band were “devastated by the tragic and untimely loss” . No cause of death was given. Hawkins played with Foo Fighters for more than two decades, joining after they finished making their 1997 album The Colour and the Shape. The band is on …
Why customer services is still going off the rails, despite war, pestilence and isolation
Yes, we’ve become an island, been isolated and now face being bombed by a tiny madman … so, when we finally come back with three heads, Madge Simpson hair colour and a sheep-bleat instead of a megaphone of protest, are we going to let the Customer Experience yobs continue to help us, support us, have …
As my dongle dangled, the doyens of customer services couldn’t help crying …
It’s my blarty and I’ll cry if I want to … you would do too ‘cos of customers like you… From the archives but sadly still relevant today. It all began with the advent of customer services – that last bastion of lost ambition, pointless platitudes and inverted aggression, the industry that seems only to …
HOW THE DOGS OF WAR SLAUGHTERED ANIMAL VOLUNTEER ANASTASIIA
This young Ukrainian volunteer, Anastasiia Yalanskaya, died as she delivered food to a dog shelter outside of Kyiv. Anastasiia Yalanskaya was filming her fight for the animals when she was killed. It has been suggested she may have been traced through her social media posts. Anastasiia’s Instagram post was posted hours before her death. The …
The gentleman ranters, Rodney and Leigh are at it again
Leigh and Rodney are at it again putting the world to rights… CLICK HEADLINE TO WATCH VIDEO
CLASH OF 22
Kyiv calling in the war-passion of Ukraine punks (See video inside!) Ukraine punk band Beton have turned the Clash’s London Calling anthem into Kyiv Calling to raise funds for a resistance movement. The band was formed by an architect, orthopaedist and businessman, recorded their reworded version of the 1979 Clash hit in the western Ukrainian …
WOULD YOU DUMP YOUR DOG IF YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GAY?
Carolina’s hoochie poochie man A man has abandoned his dog because he says ‘it is gay” after spotting it humping a stray mongrel. Eh? Yep, that’s right … a man in North Carolina says his dog is gay. And now its in the doghouse. Literally! Fezco, a five year old, 25 kilogram pooch of indiscriminate …
Where have our children gone? 109 empty prams in Lviv
More than 100 empty prams have been placed in lines in Lviv, Ukraine, in a stark ‘memorial’ to the children who have died in the awful Ukraine war. Each pram, placed outside Lviv’s city council, represents one child. Ukraine authorities say at least 109 have been killed so far. #ukraine #lviv #children #prams #war #dead …
THE LOST LEGEND
Monster sadness as Godzilla icon Akira Takarada dies The man forever connected with Hollywood monster Godzilla for so many, actor Akira Takarada has died aged 87. He apparently died in Japan. The actor appeared in the 1956 movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters with Raymond Burr. He was also in the 1992 sequel, and the …
ARE THE LIKES OF VLAD AND TRUMP THE KARDASHIANS OF OUR NEW WORLD OF HORROR AND LIES?
The world’s free Press is, by using Bible-black ink and disturbed airwaves, chronicling Europe’s new horrors of war. And we journalists are doing it well. On the other hand, presidents and generals, tech Goliaths and Davids are playing fast and loose with the truth. Rarely has the reality of the world’s free media been more …
THE DEATH BELL TOLLS AS PUTIN BOMBS HEMINGWAY’S UKRAINE PUB
Putin’s rugged, chest-baring manly image, it is suggested, comes from his fascination with macho writers like Ernest Hemingway. Many who know Putin say hard-man American icons of popular culture shaped his view of himself as a lone wolf, a hero … a man against the world. Anyway, Vlad, the news is bad! Your troops have …
Leigh and Rodney take a serious look at the Ukraine – the horror and the sadness
Please listen, share and tell us what you think…click to listen
THE RELUCTANT FACES OF THE RUSSIAN INVADERS … (see video inside)
Melitopol is a town at the crossroads … it stands on the Molochna River through the eastern edge of the city and into the Molochnyi Lyman, joining the Sea of Azov. The city is located at the crossing of the E58 Vienna – Uzhhorod – Kyiv – Rostov-on-Don and E105 Kirkenes – St. Petersburg – Moscow – Kyiv – Yalta. It …
UKRAINE MUM’S DEFIANCE AS SHE PLAYED PIANO IN HER BOMBED-OUT HOME
See video inside A Ukrainian mother-of-two played a moving farewell to her family home after it was blown apart by a Russian bomb. Professional pianist Irina Maniukina brushed away rubble and from her grand just hours after a bomb landed 30 feet away in Bila Tserkva, south of Kyiv. Then she closed the lid on the …
Talkin’ Blues … glitter-chatty who wouldn’t shut up for Bob!
Despite being 80, locked-down by Covid, cashing in his songs chips and despite facing despicable accusations from a ‘space-woman’… despite being beasted by an estate that should have crashed in the levy, offering up a new book and art collection, the Ol’ Man is on the road again. And facing the arrows of misfortune from …
JUST OVER A YEAR AGO … Sadness as Dylan’s lady in Red, Sally, finally ‘goes home’ aged 81
Sally Grossman, the wife of Dylan’s erstwhile manger, Albert, and the women who introduced him to his first wife, Sara, has died. She was 81 and famous for being the women in red on the iconic cover of Bringing it All Back Home album, Dylan’s halfway house between acoustic and electric. The photograph was taken …
DYLAN BRINGS BACK PAGES ON HANK, NINA, ELVIS – THE PHILOSPHERS OF SONG
No, he didn’t close the book and not write any more… Bob Dylan is releasing his new book The Philosophy of Modern Song, It’s his first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One. And that was instrumental in winning him the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016. Dylan apparantly began working on The …
PUTIN, ONE DAY, WILL FACE HIMSELF
The Moscow Murderer sees Red while the rest of us see horror, despair, cruelty, lies and and man who one day will have to stand naked … PRESS-ING ON – BOB TAKES ON THE NEW MASTERS OF WAR as Putin kills THE LAND OF HIS FATHERS – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society
PRESS-ING ON – BOB TAKES ON THE NEW MASTERS OF WAR as Putin kills THE LAND OF HIS FATHERS
Dylan protests about hell in Ukraine as the media again forgets what it was it wanted from him AS BOB TOURS AGAIN, WE LOOK AT HIS PERFORMANCES AND THE MAN-AND-WOMAN ON THE STREET REVIEWS … The second leg of Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour has been pressing on with lost love, growing old …
We Infidels of the 80s – and a Dylan song that got away – UNTIL MR MORI ARRIVED!
Just for the record, George Best, Richard and Judy, Tony Wilson – and Leigh came along too with with a gal who was definitely up to scratch A personal story as LA filmmaker Bob Mori releases yet another brilliant Bob Dylan video … inside The first time I heard Jokerman, I was a bit of …
Leigh and Rodney are at it again… what’s going on in the Ukraine and the rest of the world?
The top tele show coming from Marbella, catch it on Roku
Saving the lost boys and girls of heroic Ukraine
Pete Miller has written for The Society describing what it is like to fight for young people forced to face the world alone by Putin. Pete is church administrator and chairman of the council for Faith Community in Bratislava I am a Brit living in Slovakia married to a Slovak. We have two young Ukrainians …
Not-so-Priti in the UK as Boris and his gang don’t give a pluck about Ukraine’s refugees
UK seems to fear Russians will be coming if we pluck Putin’s victims from hell in Europe Are us Brits really objecting to Ukrainian refugees heading for the UK as Vlad the Bad bombs their homes and murders their families? It appears Boris thinks so! Other countries in Europe are tidying up their racism, lifting …
Leigh doesn’t want to be stuck in the middle with anybody – particularly Daniel O’Donnell!
I once wrote a headline for a leading daily newspaper saying Daniel O’Donnell is so middle-of-the-road he should be run over… And after all these decades I’m still waiting in the layby, engine purring like a cat! To my mind Daniel is the doyen of the anodyne and of the pointless … songs with titles …
Dorrie remembers how middle-class was the future back in the 30s
Here Moston writer Dorrie Bridge goes back to the 30s when the middle ground was the way ahead even though it might grind you into dust… Hightown or Lowtown? Dorrie tells of days when Middletown was the place to be… I reach back to a period that not many people will remember. The 1930s. Innocent …
MEERSPLATS! Orlov and Sergei are kicked in the ads by Putin’s mad war
The Russian meerkats in UK telly ads have been taken off air because of Putin’s mad attack on the Ukraine. For more than 13 years viewers have laughed at the adventures of Russian billionaire meerkat Aleksandr Orlov and his tech-wizard sidekick Sergei. But Comparethemarket says it will now stop the adverts during TV news and …
HOW JOSEPH, THE WASHING MACHINE MENDER, BECAME A SYMBOL OF HOPE FOR THE UKRAINE
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia was led by the Soviet Union. On the night of 20–21 August 1968, under a waning Moon, Poland, Bulgaria and Hungry followed the snarling Great Red Bear in to Czechoslovakia. The Soviet circus of sour and blood had begun. The intention was to stop Alexander Dubceck’s dream of Socialism with …
Cyber armies of the Red night – new heroes or dangerous geeks?
Hacktivists are getting involved in the war between Ukraine and Russia. Members of Anonymous took to twitter to say they are launching attacks against Putin’s regime. They have already hit local government websites and took down the website of Russian news outlet RT. Anonymous says it may also leak login credentials for the Russian Ministry of …
Leigh says what’s wrong with being middle-class as Rodney plays house!
What are your thoughts on the Ukraine horror? Interest rates? The UK?
Why did the NATO knobs fail to open the door of peace as Putin beat his bare chest like a pocket-sized guerrilla?
The world seemed shocked and horrified at Putin’s incendiary and murderous attack on the Ukraine. Yet NATO and the US have repeatedly warned – and been warned – that Russia would attack. Now, as the tin-pot guardian’s of the Western World’s security put on their tin hats and wave bombs around like plastic swords, they …
Horror as wheelchair-bound Olive actress screams for help in blaze
On the Buses actress Anna Karen has died in a house fire possibly started by a cigarette after she fell asleep, neighbours say. The 85-year-old actress who played Olive in the 70s comedy, was heard screaming ‘help me, help me’ as the blaze spread across her terraced home in Ilford. Fire chiefs are investigating, though …
We need blood, cries Ukraine chief as Putin rides in on rockets and shells
Hours into the devastating Putin invasion of the Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky told the world ‘we need help’ and ‘we need blood’. President Zelensky had already said he would give guns to every Ukrainian who wants them to help fight back against the Russian attack. He begged every fit military-aged man to join the defence …
A darker shade of sadness as Gary dies, aged 76
Procol Harum lead singer Gary Brooker has died, aged 76. Gary, who co-wrote A Whiter Shade of Pale, had cancer. A statement on the band’s website confirmed that Gary had been receiving treatment but died peacefully at home. It read: ‘With the deepest regret we must announce the death on 19 February 2022 of Gary …
It’s not the worst, Alan Bennett’s view of new C4 docu on Brady and Hindley
A Channel 4 documentary on the Moors Murders has brought hack the horror of the worst crimes in the 1960s. Moors Murders: The Witness has given viewers an in-depth view at the serial murders by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. They lured, tortured and killed five children before they were eventually caught and jailed for …
Keir the Stormer goes to war on Freedom-Day Boris as Vlad the Inhaler sniffs up the Ukraine
Coronaviruses have circulated in humans for centuries and were first chronicled in the hedonistic 1960s. Most of them were mild – except for HKU1 which stuck the boot into your gut too. Then, two years ago, CV became a little monster, so small it could fit inside a Pacman a million times over. But despite …
‘Celebrity’ stashes … more secrets reveal true horror of Brady and Myra’s bloody rampage
60s star tells of decades of letters from the killers as Alan Bennett still fights to find his lost-boy brother Keith Why are people ‘celebrity-stashing’ potential clues to the murderous rampage around Manchester carried out by sick monsters Myra Hindley and Ian Brady? What makes another human being bask in the bloody glory of the …
Crowning ‘gory’ … Queen has Covid after meeting Charles
The Queen has tested positive for coronavirus, Buckingham Palace confirmed. Her Majesty is 95 and is said to be experiencing mild cold like symptoms and wants to continue light duties at Windsor. The Queen fell ill after it was confirmed she had been in direct contact with Prince Charles during the time he had the …
Gran, 90, tells how Dylan changed her way of thinking
Retired teacher Dorrie Bridge tells how he taught her new lessons So much is written about Dylan, aka His Royal Bob-ness; written by people who have followed, researched and worshipped him. What could I add? I’m just a gran – four grandchildren. I know nothing except gut responses to his work throughout my adult life. I …
Leigh moves to the top of a freezing mountain and Rodney basks at the sunny18th..!
The Marbella Two are at it again – Covid rears it’s ugly head and Trump does too. Is Boris booming back as Putin puts it in to the Ukraine. Europe teeters… click for video inside
A kick in the privates for victims as the ‘secretive ones’ judged a protected species
How much telling evidence and simple truth would ever be revealed if it wasn’t for the freedom of the British Press to publish and be damned? And yet people like me – yep, real McCoy journalists – are being hobbled again by the great British Ass of the Law which has decided once more that …
My life’s hometown…
People in Hibbing have their say about Dylan, their town and THAT article… I’ve upset the good people of Hibbing, I’m afraid. And we are publishing comments and thoughts from this little Minnesota town of less than 20,000 people. The iron fist hits back, so to speak. Hibbing is famous for – amongst many other …
Rodney and Leigh have a fracking good fracas as they discuss…fracking
From Marbella to the wilds of Shropshire, the best chat show on telly – click on headline to listen
Gossips in a little Minnesota town – and the two sides of Dylan’s brick wall
In a little Minnesota town called Hibbing, people are apparently always talking about each other. Some even say it’s a bit of a twitchy-curtain community. The disingenuous are known to describe each other as judgemental while others simply say everything is ‘very nice, thank you’. Personally, I don’t know which is worse – to be …
Marbella vs Telford as Leigh and Rodney discuss going home
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Alan still hopeful as new law bid to reveal Brady’s evil secrets rumbles on
Alan Bennett says he still thinks the controversial parliamentary Bill which might ultimately reveal where the body of his brother, murdered by monsters Ian Brady and Myra Hindley more than 60 years ago, is buried. Brady, the madman who harvested and murdered children with his evil girlfriend Hindley, played a heart-breaking game of cat-and-mouse with …
THE YAWNING CHASM!
Simpering Starmer said SORRY over Savile more than a decade ago… so is Boris really so bad to mention it? There is no evidence to suggested that Keir Starmer was involved, as Director of Public Prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, in the baffling decision not to bring charges against the sick paedophile Savile. Yet, in …
Like Nero, is Boris fiddling while the virus is still burning all around us?
One thing you can still say about Boris, is that despite his podginess and pomp he can still come out packing a punch, low blows, below the belt so to speak. A belt in the bollox for all his gathering enemies. A growing number of us are seeing him squirming circling and snapping like a …
Bless them all, the long and the short and the tall …a game of moans
Ectomorphs of the world unite – we need leg room more than anyone else! Quite rightly in this world, we cannot discriminate against people on the basis of race, creed, religion, disability, sex, age etc etc… but do you know who we can discriminate against with impunity? Tall people that’s who! And do you know …
Thank you Barry for all that Cryer-therapy over the telly-laughter years
Barry Cryer, the legend of British comedy, has died aged 86. His family said he “died peacefully, in good spirits”. Tributes on social media flooded in. Stephen Fry wrote: “Such sad news, one of the absolute greats of British comedy, Barry Cryer, is no more. A glorious, gorgeous, hilarious and gifted writer and performer who straddled …
The Omi-Con, Boris the bounder and a world reset while we were kept in the dark
Our discredited nation… Boris is investigated by Ms Dick’s tecs, terror virus gives us a cough … so, is there nobody left in the world we can trust? Today we got a modicum of our freedoms back. Not many and certainly no enhancements to those we already had way back in 2020. Today we have …
The way things were a few Covid weeks ago …now the shape of things to come as Bob hits the road again…
At end of last year Dylan came across as the ol’ blues man with the voice of a cracked god … he rocked, dipped, quipped and rolled on down the road. And now he is back again … let’s read some of the fan reviews from last year as Dylan’s world has gone right! Seven …
Make a date as Bob stands on the highway again for 2022!
Ol’ Bob’s is getting back on the road this spring. The tour kicks off on March 3 in Phoenix, Arizona, and parks up again on April 14 in Oklahoma City. Apparently the tour ‘map’ has been focussed on fans, towns and cities the stop-starting Never Ending Tour missed late last year. And he is heading …
Bob is bringing it all back home to SONY – for £200m
Bob once wrote ‘money doesn’t talk it swears’ – but right now he’s laughing all the way to the bank! And good on him! More than half a century of writing and performing some of the best and most blistering songs the world has ever heard or seen, he deserves every penny. Your dotage – …
A compendium of reality and fantasy as Dylan continues his never-ending tour through our lives
Looking back at Bob’s Covid tour …. It all really began on Sunday, November 2, 2021 in Milwaukee, and it was nothing like we’d expected. Bob Dylan had done it again. He’d shape-shifted, he’d re-organised, re-built, re-presented, re-thought, re-analysed and re-created himself, his music, his songs, his dips and bows. And his age. And what …
KNOCK-OUT DIFFERENCE I SAW BETWEEN A PRINCE OF MUSIC AND A PAUPER OF HEARTS ALL THOSE YEARS AGO
A short time ago one of the grand icons of popular music died from Covid and is still being mourned all over the world. Meat Loaf was a metaphorical prince amongst men and rock gods. Shortly before the 74 year old rock’n’roller died, a real prince amongst men had his dignity and standing removed in …
On the road again with Andrea and Leigh – watch the video inside!
They’ve served their time in shiny Marbella and now they’re heading through murky France and back to even murkier UK…hear about – and watch – their trials and tribulations on the road to nowhere they want to end up!
The trials and tribulations of going home – watch AirTV vid inside
I’ll be back says Leigh as he returns to Boris’s Blighty
Court in the act … the liars and beasts of family law
The Society contributor, musician and writer Andrew Brel, takes a short, sharp look at those who think they can pass judgement on our lives … British family law is a racket whose purpose is not to represent the best interest of children. It’s purpose is to reward the members of family law and in that …
Let me sleep on it … the sad death of Meat Loaf, aged 74
Covid probably killed one of the world’s favourite ‘wild man’ stars – I won’t be controlled by masks, he said in recent interview Meat Loaf is dead. Despite his recent illnesses, he was one who was supposed to go on forever – after all he made so many of our rock’n’roll dreams come true. He …
How K6 where Keith Moon’s death was made public ended up in the mountains
If we could dial ‘P’ for past what stories would be revealed about this old telephone box… The telephone box in a pair in Curzon Square, London almost half a century ago It stood for decades in rainy Mayfair, just yards from the famous Playboy club and arrangements for many a liaison will have been …
‘It’s my party and I’ll lie if I want to’ … is Sneer Drama wrong to snigger at boozing Boris?
When is having a beer with work mates – indoors during a pandemic lockdown – the right thing to do? When you are Sir Keir Starmer it appears! Yes, the simpering legal needle, that sanctimonious sap who trembles in Corbyn’s duffle of a shadow, was caught in photos boozing with staff members in an office. It was …
OUR MA’AM’S FAMOUS FIVE!
As Andrew and Harry set to be stripped of prized royal status ‘Counsellors of State’ and won’t receive Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medals, The Society takes a ribauld look at The Lads, the Queen’s good, bad and ugly CHARLES: Do I look a bit like De Nero? HARRY: Do I look like Smiley Hire-us? ANDY: I …
And so the incomparable tragedy goes on … I will find Shane, says ‘suicidal’ Sinead
What can this world do to help her? SINEAD O’Connor has been admitted to hospital days after her teenage son tragically died. The singer and mother tweeted that she had gone to hospital after feeling “lost” without her son Shane, 17. Here at The Society our hearts go out to her and we call for …
Andrew, the sweat-less pink blob I once knew as Prince
There are three reasons why an ordinary man might never break out in a sweat – one might be that he is made of Teflon so nothing ever gets too sticky. Two might be he has a fairly rare condition called hypohidrosis. Or three he might just think he is the coolest man in the …
Ronnie, the queen of bee-hives, mascara and mini-skirts, says goodbye aged 78
Ronnie Spector, the bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll queen who sang such 1960s hits Be My Baby, Baby I Love You, and Walking in the Rain when she fronted The Ronettes, has died at 78. Ronnie – real name Veronica Yvette Bennett – had apparently fought a brief battle with cancer. Her family said: ‘Ronnie lived her …
The answer my friend is ‘blowing in the cringe’ as Levy camp crashes on the facts – Dylan responds
Bob Dylan’s camp says that judge Barry Ostrager was absolutely right when he dismissed a lawsuit filed by the estate of song collaborator Jaques Levy. And it would allows the Levy-ists to, well, levy a ‘double dip’ on Dylan’s fortune folllowing his big pay day from the 2020 Universal catalogue deal. Jacques collaborated with Dylan …
Should Sinead be using social media to share her agony over Shane’s suicide?
Star I found ‘lost in her own world’ comes out flailing over the tragedy of her son 17 Should social media ever be the place to share your horror and heartbreak as Sinead O’Connor is doing now? Sinead went. over a short period of her life, from being the beautiful, ethereal face of the Nineties …
Why Leigh frightened Rodney when he said he wants to stay in Marbella
What is happening to Britain – Omicron or Omi-con? £20 for fish and chips! Electric cars, diesel do! and much, much more
Sinead’s son, 17, dies … new tragedy for star I found ‘lost in her own world’
Sinead O’Connor’s teenage son has been found dead two days after he was reported missing. His mother took to social media saying singer ‘Shane decided to end his earthly struggle’. Only days earlier Sinead had threatened the hospital where Shane was being looked after with legal action for ‘letting him out of their grasp while …
Goodbye Sidney Poitier, a man who helped change the world
Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a Best Actor Oscar, has died, aged 94. His death has just been confirmed by Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell. Mitchell said, “We’ve lost a great Bahamian and I’ve lost a personal friend.” #poitier #sidney #dead #actor
BOB COMES BACK FIGHTING IN THESE ROUGH AND CLOUDY DAYS OF CLAIMS AND COUNTER CLAIMS
More than anything, for an elderly man of generally good reputation to face discreditation at a time he is brilliantly topping and tailing his vast legacy to the world, is a tragedy. Particularly, when the allegations involve sexual abuse. And at 80-years-old this is what Bob Dylan is facing. But finally, through his lawyers, he …
Starmer supports simpering Tony as 600,000 say ‘belt him in the garter!’
Sir Keir Starmer supports Sir Tony Blair’s latest honour. He says that the former prime minister deserves it. Is the man mad? More than 600,000 people have already signed a petition calling for the appointment by the Queen to the Order of the Garter – Britain’s oldest and most senior British Order of Chivalry – to be removed. What …
Tom shines a light on the strange fruit swinging by America’s tracks of hatred
The Painted Desert is about 300 miles from Vegas. If you ride there on the back of a Greyhound it takes 13 hours. Unlucky 13. 13 steps to death in Gallows Town, 13 whispered lies against God. The Painted Desert is in the badlands of Arizona and leads eventually into the Petrified Forest. Route 66 …
Rodney and Leigh discuss how to teach our children about love
The best music vid of 2021 (and, yep, 2022!) .. Mori’s take on Bob’s real-life murder ballad
Every year as the sky grows dark on the last year – 2021 was a helter-skelter of downward twists and turns – The Society looks back at what had it jumping over the moon! And in 2021, yep, it was the same as in 2020 … Bob Mori’s independent video of Bob Dylan’s magnificently moving …
2022! It’s all good – Andrew is non-sweaty, Britney is free and there’s a new call to arms… hohoho!
It’s been a funny year, 2021 hasn’t it. Well, when I say funny I mean there’s not been much to laugh at … apart from Stumbling Joe, Boris the Buffoon, Andrew the non-sweaty *rseole, Mad Max from France, that big f*rt Trump, and that very nice Mr Put-it-in-to-the-Ukraine-and-the Western-world who we lived just around the …
How I found Jess in a Covid blighted city. Now I wait everyday to speak to her…
It happened outside a little old cafe in Istria as we sat under a skylight moon. She looks beautiful, my daughter. Haughty and proud … I can smell coconut-oil in her hair on the salty night breeze from the Adriatic at the end of our ancient crumbling street. Jess is 24 and I am three …
KAYE’S LIFE… THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR – PART 8
OUR CARAVAN OF LOVE AND HOPE … The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of breast cancer. This is Kaye Howarth’s story in her own words. Thank you for wanting to share with us and the world Kaye. Biography … Bald Bird Surviving Breast Cancer Part …
Infernal memories of Manchester – a city most foul and fabulous
Manchester, the infernal city of my youth and memories. Rainy, grainy, dingy, dirty, derelict, drugs and drink. Dougie Flood, the Quality Street Gang, Peter Tut-Tut, Giant Haystacks, the Circus Tavern, blob shops, the King Cotton bar … Rafters, the MSG. The Magic Village. And despite everything, way back then, Manchester was my magical city. Bunney’s …
Three champs … spirits of peace authenticity and pioneering
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and fighter of South Africa’s apartheid, has died aged 90. Desmond Tutu was the nation’s conscience, respected by Black and white. He won the Nobel prize in 1984 for his non-violent opposition to white minority rule. A decade later, he saw the end of the regime and chaired a …
A merry Rant-mas from Rodney and Leigh
It’s that time of year again, full of good cheer and beer! Leigh and Rodney get stuck in to everything bar humbug and the humdrum. Come along and join in the festive rants and riches, this time from Marbella and Valencia.
Freedom wishes on the road into our next new year …
All the best to our 250,000 readers AND everyone else in this topsy-turvy world … let’s stand up and be counted! Let’s stand up for The Truth and Our Freedom …
Christmas in the heart … how Bob stopped shining those lights after the horror of 2018
In Christmases past it was a joy to write about the festive lights at Bob Dylan’s magical Malibu mansion. They were just a string of shining baubles attached to some brushy branches along a fence at Point Dume. It opened up a lot of good-natured banter, like Did You Prefer it Before Bob’s Lights Went …
Inspiration and hope, flying beyond the broken wings of Christmas
A happy Christmas to everybody … once again the last year hasn’t been a merry one, far from it for so many of us. It has been a year of confusion, doubt and very often anxiety and fear brought about by a fat greasy bug. And no, I don’t mean Boris, I mean Covid and …
KAYE’S LIFE… THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR – PART 7
The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of breast cancer. This is Kaye Howarth’s story in her own words. Thank you for wanting to share with us and the world Kaye. Biography … Bald Bird Surviving Breast Cancer Part 8 Next Week Emily and George Throughout …
THE HATEFUL SHAME ON BRITAIN’S STREETS OF ‘FUN’
Let’s expose racists, bullies, narcissists and idiots in 2022 ‘I’m not a racist but …’ Yes you are Sharna – and you jail-time tears won’t change that This woman got drunk, got rowdy, spat a drink at a black Wetherspoons doorman, flew into a rage and started screaming at him, pushed him, called him a …
Santa came down your chimney? Well he should be arrested – and face the music!
A SMALL CHRISTMAS COMPENDIUM OF ALTERNATIVES – IS IT A RASPBERRY FOR THE FOOLE AND SOME TOKYO BLOWS? I am so bored with hearing the same old music at Christmas time … Do They Know it’s Christmas? Yes they bloody do! The BBC and every radio station in the world tells you it is every …
Covid kills the Cornish laughter … we say farewell to Jethro
West Country comedian Jethro has died after a seven day battle with Covid. The stand-up comedian, real name Geoffrey Rowe, aged 73, had been fully vaccinated but contracted the virus 10 days ago and was in hospital. His management said: ‘It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the passing of the well known and …
ADMINS -THE DICK-TATORS OF SOCIAL MEDIA. Shameful
This story is about a cancer survivor, her battle, her bravery and her determination … Admins at a cancer survivors and supporters social media group ‘spiked’ it and and said it violated their rules Well, maybe it did – but why? Because Kaye Howarth had written a book about it? Because she self-published her book? …
Popular in Marbella, Leigh and Rodney chat again…
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KAYE’S LIFE… THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR – PART 6
“Polly, I ask, “How long does it take for the hair loss to start?” KAYE’S LIFE… THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR – PART 6 – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of breast cancer. This …
Sadness as Mike takes the last train from stars-ville
THE Monkees singer-songwriter Michael Nesmith has died aged 78. His death came just a month after the band’s farewell tour performance. Mike died of natural causes. “With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes,” his family said. Monkees biographer and manager …
Why do you prickless jab-a-talkies think I should die for your ‘rights’?
MY OPINION … FROM MARBELLA About five million British adults have refused to be jabbed. They say they are standing up for their human rights, their rights to walk the streets of our green and septic land, their right to shop, booze, eat out, Dervish dance and repeat guttural mantras outside arenas where over-paid clothes …
Soul canyons of Tom, the quiet man of St Louis blues
You don’t have to have been burned by racism to sing with soul and passion The way he tells it, as a boy in the 1950s and 60s Tom Wood never suffered from the St Louis blues. His mother was an 8th grade English teacher and his dad was a post office supervisor. One way …
The Eyes have it … and so does the Nose. The party’s over as Boris captains a ship of fools
Sickened by it? We all are mate … we all are! Boris Johnson has apologised for a video that showed his staff joking about a Christmas party last December. But he still seems to maintain there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken Dozens are said to have attended the party at …
Boris, do you think we fell off a spaceship?
The question has to be simple or it might blow your brains! Should we be able to alter the workings of our own minds by the use of drugs either legal or illegal, natural or chemical, mixed in giant vats in a Bolivian rain forest or in brewery in Burton-on-Trent? Or should we turn a …
Leigh asks why the Spanish don’t make a meat and potatoe pie-ella
The Marbella moaners chat about food, Britain, Spain and the rest of the world’s news!
KAYE’S LIFE… THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR – Part 5
‘I had looked at my reflection, it is not the real me that stares back, I look into the hollow eyed thin person.’ Over the next few weeks The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of breast cancer. This is Kaye Howarth’s story in her …
WHAT HAPPENS NOW TO THOSE WHO SHOULD HAVE SAVED ARTHUR FROM HIS MONSTER?
Opinion from Marbella: Fragile and tortured Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was murdered by the evil twisted monsters who lived behind closed doors in an untidy council house in a scruffy part of Solihull in the West Midland. Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes haunted and tormented Arthur’s woefully short life in secret, no doubt. But there were others …
Bob through the looking glass … the age-old master forever young in wander land
A while ago we met up with friends from Spain in Bratislava … we’d been doing it for a while, meeting up in different cities in different parts of the world to see old rockers perform. This time we were about to witness Alice Cooper’s bizarre theatre of rock and the macabre. After all the …
Jabbed and anonymous … how Bob predicted it all again
Covid rules and Dylan’s work reviewed by Dan from the Inquirer Finally, more of the mainstream takes a look at Bob Dylan’s amazing new work of art, and it takes a brief look out how the posters and album cover shows the world what is actually happening right now… there are dozens of Ordinary-Joe reviews, …
The world is now denying us the freedom to get sick and die
As we rested in a mountain bar near our rented home in Marbella, the laughter was gone. Not forever hopefully, but long enough to make you think. What is happening to us? It’s almost Christmas again and the world below us is lit up like a tree. The Mediterranean looks like snow in the moon-light …
ROKU STREAMS MARBELLA-BASED AIRTV INTERNATIONAL TO THE WORLD
A family-owned television station with almost 30 years of broadcast history has made it into the new age of ‘streaming’. Airtv International has joined Roku, one of the world’s biggest entertainment and news platforms. Roku was recently voted ‘favourite’ streaming system, with the most streaming app options, the simplest interface and the best search. Rodney …
DaDa says, forget the bullies you can be anything you like
Thank you DaDa from Poprad, Slovakia … please watch the video inside … Violence can smack any of us in the face any time … we live in an increasingly violent society, tragically. And today weapons are seen as the method-of-choice for the humiliation, insult and scarring of fellow human beings. A straight-forward street-corner brawl …
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KAYE’S LIFE… THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR ‘Two symmetrical blue stitches, like fishing nylon, hold me together and a neat clean, mound has replaced my breast. I feel bruised’ Over the next few weeks The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of …
Forever young and old, you can see it in his smile…
Bob always wanted to be an ol’ blues man and now, at 80, he’s made it. But don’t forget, Dylan is made of smoke and mirrors and today he might appear to be badly built and walking on stilts … but see what you can see back in his shadowy kingdom. More reviews, this time …
UPDATE: Ex-pats and travellers face tests and isolation from Tuesday as Omicron fears hit home
Variant shock as Boris steers England towards potential new nightmare at Christmas Initial reports indicating that Covid restrictions in England including travel bans, PCR testing will be needed to fight the new Omicron variant have been confirmed. Boris Johnson said that ALL arrivals in the UK must self-isolate until they get a negative test – …
PICTURE THIS – HOW THE SHADOW, JIMMIE RODGERS AND A SIXTIES LENSMAN BECAME THE BONES OF BOB’S NEW ART
Somehow Bob can’t forget his good ol’ rambling days as he tours the world again at 80 ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB’S ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS … HOW 50 YEAR OLD PHOTO TOLD THE RIGHT TALE In 1964, Bob Dylan’s Another Side was released much to the discomfort of people who had already claimed the youngsinger …
Disruption and sorcery, experiments inside the soft asylum
PART 11 IS NOW PUBLISHED BELOW: Somebody said experimental writing uses the ‘Invisible habits and structures of aesthetic, psychological, and social domination’ to create something new and to move things into a different domain … I can’t remember who said it now, but it fits the bill. Cities of the Red Night by William S …
Leigh and Rodney talk about HS2, Capitalism or Communism do either of them work?
Made in Marbella – two opinionated blokes take on the world
Nesh in Marbella…Rodney and Leigh talk about climate change, illegal immigrants and Boris
The show made in Marbella for the thinking man and woman
Scoot along now, say cops! But what’s next? Big burly bald brainless berks and on childrens trikes?
Police crackdown on e-scooters ‘maniacs’ at last … Thirty-seven of recent casualties suffered injuries that were described as ‘serious’ Road users injured in crashes with scooters include 36 cyclists and 32 in vehicles Fourteen casualties were aged 70 and above, while 17 were over 60 UK police took 3,002 e-scooters off our pavements and roads …
New reviews, obviously from five believers… not you Mr Jones
Here at The Society we continue to ask the question – why the ‘Mr Jones’s of newspapers’ in particular are ignoring Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy tour across America and then into the world, potentially until 2024? His new tour isn’t rough and rowdy at all, more smooth like a rockin’ rhapsody with some of the …
CAN YOU REALLY WARM TO THESE PEOPLE WHO GLUE THEIR HEADS TO OUR TARMAC?
Are their lofty ideas sending a chill through the wintry halls and corridors of UK’s eco-hopes? An NHS worker pleads with members of Insulate Britain to allow him to ‘get home’ to his ill child. The dad tells the so-called eco-warriors – who apparently just want us all to be warm and cuddly in our …
NEW YORK! NEW YORK! SO GOOD HE PLAYED IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN..!
How the big city became a beacon to Bob as Mr Jones ignored him with ‘no news today’ While there are hopes that Bob Dylan will make a quick return to his almost-never ending tour, here at The Society we are keeping our fingers firmly crossed. Bob got back on the road on November 2 …
KAYE’S LIFE … THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR
‘HOW THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING FORGOTTEN HURTS SO MUCH…’ Over the next few weeks The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of breast cancer. This is Kaye Howarth’s story in her own words. Thank you for wanting to share with us and the world Kaye. …
More than half a century ago today John Kilbride vanished …
We must never forget these victims or turn our backs on their memories Fifty eight years ago John Kilbride lost his life at the evil hands of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. He was 12 years old. John was the eldest child of Sheila and Patrick … can never imagine the horror that John went …
Unmasked and no longer anonymous in New York city
Nancy Cobb found her Union Sundown as she waited for Bob Union Sundown I came into the city (the one and only New York City) early for Dylan’s first concert at my beloved Beacon and headed to the venue to take my obligatory photo of the marquee. The first thing that I noticed was that …
A tough crowd in New York… but Bob is still standing. They won’t get him beat
WE REALLY APOLOGISE – WE ACCIDENTLY PUBLISHED A COUPLE OF OLD NEW YORK REVIEWS IN THIS ARTICLE. THANKS TO OUR READERS WHO POINTED THIS OUT AND SORRY IF WE MISLED OTHERS … THE OLD REVIEWS HAVE BEEN REMOVED. You can step on my name, you can try and get me beat, when I leave New …
Mick Rock was beautiful and soulful, says Bob
Mick Rock, the legendary music photographer, has died. He was 72. His death was announced on his official Twitter account. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side.” Filmmaker and editor Bob Mori – a regular contributor to …
I’m a manly man – and I love and respect women. Long may we both reign!
Today is International Men’s Day! We are celebrating the positive values men bring to the world and their families. We need to see men as positive role models and tell people about ourselves. One of the six pillars of International Men’s Day is to improve relations and promote equality for men AND for women too. The …
Something is happening here and finally the Press knows what it is… don’t you Mr Jones
Bob’s new tour, for the main part, has been pressing on… but without the Press. We’ve been sharing rave reviews here at The Society since the beginning of November when Dylan finally got the chance to take his strolling bones back on the road again after Covid, the tragic hint of a sex scandal and …
The sweet sound of Bob singing just for us in Hershey
When you’ve laughed at your audience like a hyena, screamed at them like a banshee, snarled like a rabid dog, howled like a wolf, wept like a guitar and crooned like the moon, there has to be a time when you take stock. A reflection, an old face in the Island Lake, dreams of iron …
Reviews rocket as Ol’ Bob lands on Moon Township…but is age beginning to tell?
The first review to mention Dylan and the rigours of age… Mitchell writes: I feel that the reworking of the set list was more than just publicity for the new album. All of the song selections were clearly pointing to the past (high points and regrets) and looking to the future-a future not in this …
Bob is still strutting his stuff as he points at the sky in Charleston …
Six more reviews of Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour… the reason we keep sharing them is because these are the voices of real people saying what they really think about Bob at 80. Yep, he spends a lot of time behind the piano now and hangs on to it when he steps out to …
KAYE’S LIFE … THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR
‘I finish my shift and now the work begins … time for my referral. My heart is pounding‘ Over the next few weeks The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of breast cancer. This is Kaye Howarth’s story in her own words. Thank you for …
Laurette muses over Bob’s ‘mother’ of a show in city of Muhammed Ali
Bob hit the home of Muhammed Ali and fried chicken – and while reviews had been thin on the ground from his performance in Johnnie’s Knoxville, Laurette Maillet made a circuitous and frustrating journey – caused mainly by Greyhound bus delays – to end up in Louisville for his November 11 show. Laurette write in …
Knacksville in Knoxsville! Well, who said Ol’ Bob doesn’t talk to his audience … he’s got the knack!
And now he can out rock the mountains and out croon the moon It looks like the reviewers are having a bit of a rest, which is sad really. It’s been fab keeping up with Bob’s shows, his performances, what he’s wearing, how he’s singing and what songs he has been choosing. More than anything …
Bob, the man in black, suits them perfectly down in Cincinnati
More thoughts and insights into Bob on his almost-never ending tour – and this time, what does Dylan wear boys, what does Dylan wear? Ol’ Bob has had some sartorial disasters over the years – his almost Elvis-style suits in the late 70s should have been made street-illegal. In the 60s though he was a …
Floored by the lighting – a democratic focus on Bob’s new band and songs
More thoughts and insights into Bob on his almost-never ending tour – and we’ve found a Press review! Well, we found one … by Curtis Schieber who is described as Special to The Columbus Dispatch. I’m sure he is very special to them! |He has also had a very ‘special’ and successful music review show, …
No place to hide for Rodney as Leigh finally makes it to Marbella…Part Two
Leigh and Rodney take on the world in the Orange Room as the sun beats down on the meandering mountains and roads above the coast of the sun. LA film editor Bob Mori asked us to add this vid following Rodney and me chatting… thanks Bob #LeighgBanks #rodneyhearth #bobmori
No place to hide for Rodney as Leigh finally makes it to Marbella…Part One
Leigh and Rodney take on the world in the Orange Room as the sun beats down on the meandering mountains and roads above the coast of the sun. #LeighgBanks
Kaye’s life … the heart-breaking and inspirational story of a true survivor
Over the next few weeks The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of breast cancer. This is Kaye Howarth’s story in her own words. Thank you for wanting to share with us and the world Kaye. Biography … Bald Bird Surviving Breast Cancer Part 2 …
Indiana wants Bob – and he was blooming(ton) brilliant again!
More reviews and insights into Bob on his almost-never ending tour – but where’s the Press coverage? We are reviewing the reviews as Dylan, at 80, gets ‘rough and rowdy’ on the road … but why are so few appearing in the traditional media? There have been a few, of course, but generally its like …
From Milwaukee to Cleveland, Bob keeps on rolling to rave reviews
More updated insights into Bob on his almost-never ending tour … and an important question We are reviewing the reviews as Dylan, at 80, gets ‘rough and rowdy’ on the road … and we also have the first audience recordings we’ve seen and heard. Somehow they have survived the robots of internet control. The first …
EVERY GRAIN OF BAND… IT TAKES A LOT TO WATCH, BUT JUST LISTEN
Updated insights into Bob on his almost-never ending tour We are reviewing the reviews as Dylan, at 80, gets ‘rough and rowdy’ on the road … and this is the first video we’ve seen that’s survived the robots of internet control. There is a dichotomy of attitude towards copyright and sharing on the internet in …
BOB AND HIS ‘MOB’ HIT THE WINDY CITY
Updated insights into Bob on his almost never ending tour We are reviewing the reviews as Dylan, at 80, gets ‘rough and rowdy’ on the road .. Chicago and Milwaukee below Bob Dylan stepped back onto the stage after two years of ‘incarceration’ and gave a Cheshire Cat-grinning, ear churning, heartbreakingly beautiful two hour performance …
Lionel says farewell at 92… the entertainer who danced and laughed his way into our hearts
Lionel Blair, that British icon of dance and light entertainment, has sadly died. He was 92. Lionel had appeared in Give Us a Clue and Celebrity Big Brother in recent years but had entertained the all on TV for more thAN six decades. He died with by his family at his side. His agent said …
BRILLIANT BOB IS BACK – AND NOT ONE OF HIS KEYS WENT WEST
Reviewing the reviews as Dylan, at 80, gets ‘rough and rowdy’ on the road Bob Dylan stepped back onto the stage after two years of ‘incarceration’ and gave a Cheshire Cat-grinning, ear churning, heartbreakingly beautiful two hour performance down at the Riverside in Milwaukee… Andrea and I were still on that highway in Spain as …
Finally, journalists may be able to share dark truths of family courts
The secrets are almost out … For years, as a father campaigning against parental alienation and as a working journalist, I have had my freedom to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth strangled by laws supposedly designed to protect our children. But family laws in the UK – and to …
Why there is no such thing as parental alienation as far as courts are concerned
A personal view by Andrew Brel, a father, musician and writer Sadly the status quo with family court represents multiple billions annually, from which many establishment figures, Lords and Ladies, benefit. You are not the only person who knows the extent of corruption in family law in which this example of Ann Longfield covering up …
Something Wiki this way went – and now all journalists have to fight for Assange
UPDATE: The year began with a defeat for an attempt to extradite Julian Assange has remained in Belmarsh prison since an attempt to extradite him failed at the beginning of the year. Now the appeal begins at London’s high court and there are potential game-changers in the long-running saga of the Wikileaks co-founder’s future. One …
Why hasn’t the Penny dropped you old shocker Rod?
He struts his dad-dance stuff on a Zimmer-man frame and lusts after an ex at 76 The Penny just hasn’t dropped has it Rod! Strutting like a cross between an ageing peacock and Max Wall, sounding like Leggin’ Flip and doing a bit of dad hand-jiving doesn’t cut it any more… And ‘nicking’ the essence …
Down in some valley where the children died for King Coal …
In the dark welsh valley,On the mountain side,Lay the little childrenClose to where they died.Their little lives are endedBefore they reach their goal,Tender little childrenHave paid the price of coal. We will never forget – Aberfan 21-10-66 #aberfan #slagheap #kingcoal #welsh #schoolchildren
New skid on the block … when a writer just can’t find the right words
Just a few thoughts about writer’s block … I was standing in the gentle rain next to my ancient glinting American limousine outside my rented cottage in the heart of once-merry Ol’ England. The cottage has stood for 400 years next to a lake where owls screech at 3am. I was having a cigarette. And …
SONG OF THE NATIONS… A REMEDY FOR RACISM
This piece has been written by Remedy John, a singing minister from Nigeria. It hasn’t really been edited but has been left in the writer’s own words with all the foibles, complications, text-speak idiosyncrasies and excitements. It’s the story of how he scoured the world for lyrics, performers and snippets of sounds for a song …
Lest we forget … a farewell to Bob Spiers, the cop who found Leslie Anne Downey’s body
Bob Spiers was an old-fashioned kind of man. Big, bluff and tough. He had to be, he lived on the streets of Garstang in Lancashire as a beat bobbie. But at one time people felt that Bob had a ‘spiritual awareness’ about one of the worst series of crimes in the North of England, the …
Hollywood lives … how celluloid gods still deny comfort to those who work ‘backstage’
Film editor Bob Mori sent the Preservation Society his thoughts on the impending strike in LA by the backroom workers who say they are short-changed by movie moguls and entertainment gurus. The industry is estimated to be worth more than 700 billion dollars, yet many who work in it earn a barely living wage. More …
We must never forget Edward Evans, the Brady and Hindley victim whose murder finally brought the perverted killers to justice
It is almost 60 years to the day that Edward Evans was bludgeoned to death with an axe by Ian Brady in a tiny nondescript council house in Hattersley. Edward had just turned 17 in 1965 and like so many way back then, he portrayed himself as a man about town, a sharp-dressed youth with …
There’s no fuels like old fuels – Leigh and Rodney try to get the world motoring
Discussion is the spice of life… and Leigh and Rodney talk about everything from diesel to healthcare to illegal immigrants #fuelcrisis #truckdrivers #lorrydrivers #HGVs
Celluloid dream about to grind to halt as Hollywood workers pull plug on ‘nightmare’ pay and conditions
Hollywood is being described as in turmoil as up to 200,000 backstage workers voted to go on strike. And celluloid captains of the industry of dreams and riches beyond belief fear that the curtains will drop on multi-million productions. More than 98 per cent of union members have voted for the strike, according to the …
Why do all the silly bloggers and citizens want to be journalists when they say they hate us?
Today, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls I changed the starboard left-erly blowy-up round thing at the front of my stately Bentley (by any other name a Chrysler 300C with a posh grill). I did it in the elegantly leaf-blown driveway to my stately home (well, actually it was in a lay-by on the rainy …
Diesel do! Thank God for a fuel stop with Ultimate – and a Greggs!
Some say that God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform … And so he does too. We’ve been hit hard by the ‘mysterious’ fuel shortage in the UK, we rented a bijou little cottage which glistens by a reservoir in the midnight moon and lies under the flight path of hundreds of …
Why is Britain’s NHS so sick?
Leigh and Rodney have both faced the rigours of the NHS treatment and talk about their experiences
Autumn leaves… Bob’s occasionally ending tour set to hit the world again
Bob Dylan’s occasionally ending tour is back on the road this autumn. Bob has had his longest break since 1981 when he was ‘parked’ for more than three years. The Rough and Rowdy Ways tour, kicks off at Milwaukee’s Riverside Theatre on November 2nd — Dylan’s first public performance since 2019. Then he’ll travel through the …
BIG CHIEF GAB-A-LOT TALKS ‘BIGLY’ ABOUT FREEDOM – BUT I CAN’T TRACK HIM DOWN FOR A CHAT ABOUT THE FUNDEMENTALS
AN OPEN LETTER TO ANDREW TOBAS Recently, I sent this email to the big Chief Exec of GAB, a debatable enclave of freedom of speech based somewhere down the murky highway trod by the internet’s moronic murderers of any kind of freedom at all. If we had a satnav to the Wild West of cyberland, …
I’ve just been called a Big Softie! Oh no – Abba heart, I’m an old rocker (and less of the old actually!)
Well, I didn’t know I had it in me, but last night I finally came out. Yes, ladies and gentlemen and everybody else who is reading this … I love Abba! Abba are up their with my favourite bands. My Top Ten goes like this: At No I …. drum rollllllll… his Royal Bobness takes …
MURDER MOST FOWL AT KFC’S SLAUGHTERHOUSE 10bn and 5
Please watch Bob Mori’s terrifying video mid-story I am a flexitarian, I guess. The reason I try to pigeonhole myself – although I don’t think you’re supposed to eat pigeons are you – is because I am a vegetarian, except when it comes to beef burgers and kebabs. Yes, flexitarian gives me dignity. It could …
RUNNING BACKWARDS INSIDE BOB’S MALIBU ONION DOME DREAM
VIDEO INTERVIEW INSIDE … LA film-maker Bob Mori and journalist Leigh G Banks discuss a book that, on the surface, is a bit of a Malibu-boohoo. But in reality, just like Dylan’s Point Dume home, it could be a real hidden gem. A few weeks ago I was asked to review a new Dylan book …
‘Get well soon wishes’ to Alan Bennett after heart shock as law-change over Keith secrets lumbers on
We at The Society want to wish Alan Bennett, brother of ‘lost boy’ Keith, a speedy recovery after his recent heart attack. By all accounts Alan is doing well after a having a stent fitted a couple of weeks. And we send all our best wishes and support to him. With his usual Northern bluffness …
The can of worms that was parental alienation back in the 1940s… and the advice still matters today
Ed Ricketts said: ‘We must remember three things. I will tell them to you in the order of their importance. Number One and first in importance, we must have as much fun as we can with what we have. Number Two, we must eat as well as we can, because if we don’t we won’t …
Leigh and Andrea’s incredible journey across Covid Europe into the dystopia that Britain has become
After four years in amazing Slovakia, Leigh and Andrea had to return to the UK for a while. This is a vlog of their strange journey through Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Belgium and France. Along the way they learnt to hate the woman on the Satnav, got lost in the woods, intimidated by the police, a …
Talking from the Black Hills of Marbella
Leigh and Rodney talk about the terrifying fires on the Costa de Sol, expat taxation problems in Spain – is Portugal better? – Leigh is attacked by a fly and much, much more
Has respect slipped for Bob as he rolls off 17-year top spot?
SEE VIDS AT THE END OF THE STORY Finally, after 17 years, Bob Dylan’s coruscating and ultimately hip Like a Rolling Stone has lost its crown as the world’s greatest song. In the first update of Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time since 2004 Bob’s work of sheer genius has rolled off …
A shadowy kingdom of truth and consequences as the Dylan fantasies thunder out?
Smashed and Eponymous, how the greatness of Bob’s film surrounded Leigh and Andrea in good sounds Last night I had a fascinating and funny chat with LA film editor Bob Mori about the cinematic strangenesses of Bob Dylan … not the most successful part of his career as far as I’m concerned. I think Mr …
THE SUN FINALLY RISES ON THE BLACK HILLS OF MARBELLA
1. We’ll find the fire-starters, say officials as Spain’s killer mountain blaze blisters on 2. ‘We’re ready to leg it’ says Rodney as 3,000 FLEE Spain’s Sierras wildfire – exclusive pictures 3. Forces move in as Costa del Sol mountains blazes drives 2,500 more from their homes UPDATE 16 9 2021: This grainy picture taken …
Bob and Tom’s art of the sound and the fury… 9/11, lyrics inside
Bob Mori is an artist I really admire. His output is prolific, his imagination mushrooms like a cloud, incises like hard rain. He is a child of the late 70s, and still has his mind on the art and the fury of the politics then. But he is focused on the thundering road ahead. Bob …
Did Biden’s forgetful heart betray the 20th anniversary of the Twin Towers?
What has the Western world’s so-called ‘war on terror’ managed to do in the 20 years since we all watched the Twin Towers demolished by hatred and the demonic will to terrify and murder? Well, we drove al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan didn’t we. And the Taliban from power. And for a while we actually managed to bring human …
ZUR’S DREAMS… by SC Bryson
SC BRYSON IS A WRITER I ADMIRE… ALLIGATORS AND INSECTS ARE PART OF HER LIFE IN THE LONE STAR STATE WHERE SHE HAS MADE HER HOME. I DON’T KNOW HER WELL BUT OVER THE PAST MONTHS SHE HAS SHOWN ME THE GOODNESS OF HER HEART, THE BREADTH OF HER MIND AND THE JOY OF HER …
How things changed for Mrs Brown’s daughter after she sang for Bob Dylan
Tinashe’s a big girl now. Well known as one of R&B’s talents with a string of critically acclaimed discs. But, aged ten in 2003, she was an unknown Hollywood wannabe with a mum and dad determined to get her to where she wanted to go. Then out of the blue – like a Hollywood dream …
Father and son … memories of Andrew’s dad and the jealousy that took him away
It’s time to make a change, don’t relax, don’t take it easy … the cat’s been out of the bag for decades By Andrew John Teague My dad, rest in peace. Never got to go to his funeral. Found out my dad had passed six months after when I phoned my mother to tell her …
Into the cryptic … summer’s almost gone
A ‘secret’ message for all our friends wherever you are … summer’s almost gone and winter’s coming on. We love all the people we have gathered on this thin raft of our travelling life. And where we are headed we can’t really tell. But the borders of Brexit and the cold walls of Covid won’t …
Solid-rock facts that prove Dylan’s innocence as his ‘temple’ faces incendiary claims
Bob, we believe in you, no matter what ‘JC’ says she remembers in the Chelsea Hotel… The world of Bob Dylan fans, experts and pundits has gone up in flames after he was accused of sexually abusing a girl aged 12 in 1965. A lawsuit has been filed. If the claims are real then Bob needs to …
Lest we forget our Afghanistan heroes: The human stories of troops whose lives were blown apart fighting ‘losing war’ against terror
Afghan refugees were making their way to Europe as UK and US troops were making their way back to Kabul to rescue thousands. Meanwhile, the Taliban has promised women’s rights, media freedom, and amnesty for government officials after capturing the Afghan capital, Kabul. Zabihullah Mujahid, the armed group’s spokesman, said on Tuesday that the rights of women …
Faster than the speed of loneliness… Nanci dies at 68
It was like a message from nowhere, a simple dignified tweet from beyond the Great Divide. ‘Rest in Peace Nanci Griffith’ … that’s all it said. The message was from country hero John Prine who died last year. I met them both after a concert in the UK Midlands. A winter’s rainy night outside but …
Murder vid genius Bob Mori talks to us and reveals his stunning take on I Contain Multitudes
We recently published the video looking at Bob Dylan’s strangely enigmatic and poetic history of America, Murder Most Foul, basically because it is quite brilliant. In fact, the vid is, in our opinion, perfect companion to a brilliant song! And today its director Bob Mori – award-winning film creator – contacted Our Society for publishing …
Bohemian nights (dresses)…women and cricket
Join Leigh and Rodney as they talk about everything under the sun including women commentating on cricket
Oops! Loose Covid cannons went to the wrong place and hassled Loose Women
Confused anti-vaccine protesters attacked what they thought was a major BBC building, unaware the corporation had more or less dumped it a decade ago. Way off the target of the BBC’s news operation, responsible, they say, for promoting Covid-19 vaccines, protesters forced their way in to the Television Centre in west London. But it is now used by …
Fear and loathing in the world of parental alienation … those of us who can be toxic
Do you see yourself as bad-ass or are you in reality just really toxic? I came across this human behaviour quiz from smiley California, where people like to say ‘life’s a beach – not a bitch’. And the quiz made me realise that not only have I met every one of the types of people …
MR COOL NEVER STUMBLES, HE’S GOT NO PLACE TO FALL … BUT HE HAS BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE THE ODD TRIP OR TWO!
Bob Dylan is the coolest man in the world, right? I think most of his fans will agree. But we will also have to accept that not everybody sees him in that way, including my 90-year-old mother who still maintains after half a century that she can’t stand his ‘trilling’… And as if to add …
The Man With No Name – dad jailed anonymously in war over children
Senior judges are investigating after a dad of three was anonymously sentenced to prison in a battle over his children. Now his hearing – deep in the sinister bowels of the Family Court system – has been highlighted as a return of the ‘hanging’ judges who are willing to ‘secretly’ take away a parents name …
It’s those men again folks! talking about democracy, the weather, Leigh’s shameful attack on Folkstone, Covid tests…
And Sarah Ferguson is back on a public plinth – but is it plinth Andrew #covidtests #sarahferguson #fokestone #gettingbackintoUK
How ‘five-and-dimer’ Joe sold caring renaissance to the macho Lone Star State
When I first heard about the plight of Joe ‘Hurricane’ Dore, the bisexual hero and storekeeper of a little Texas alligator town, I was fascinated. After all Texas is ranked as one of the worst US states for LGBTQ equality. And Joe’s story had come to light just a few weeks after Donald Trump had …
Covid winners! Er, excuse me! Do you know Paul O’Sullivan from Manchester?
This is him! Some say he may live in Moston? If you see him don’t be a stranger – he’s not behind the door at coming forward himself. And in fact he was part of the world’s first cyber Covid-lockdown band just over six months ago! Now everybody, including Dylan, is following him – and …
WHY CLAUDIA CRASHED TRYING TO LEVY A ‘TAX’ ON BOB’S LIFETIME OF WORK?
Claudia Levy, the once-blonde bombshell who tried to blow a hole in Dylan’s sale of his songs, has earned quite a bit of celebrity off him over the years. She was pictured at the launch of Scorese’s bleary Rolling Thunder fantasy film, for instance. She also did an interview with Ray Padgett in Flagging Down …
Leigh and Rodney being first with the News
Talking mainstream media, the Olympics and how Lawyers take your money and run…and lots lots more #Olympics #Lawyers #maintream media
Dusty Hill dies, aged 72
Dusty Hill, bassist with ZZ Top, has died at 72. Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard said that Hill died in his sleep at his home in Houston, Texas. They did not give further details. He had recently suffered a hip injury. Dusty had played with ZZ Top for over 50 years. #dustydead #zztop
‘Horror’ of how child support agencies wage war on our forces heroes
CMS has got us in its sights, making us homeless and even driving us to suicide, claims Bosnia vet A former soldier has been waging a 11 year private war against the UK’s child maintenance service. He claims forces people are constantly in the CMS sights because they are easy targets. And their treatment by …
Now we ex-pats can visit UK without being ‘homeland lepers’
It’s almost like we ex-pats have been punished for leaving the clammy shores of the UK. Some of us fled Britain for sun, sea and sangria, others left for health reasons or cheap property. Some for life style. Still others retired to Europe and some, like us, came out for business reasons. But it was …
Slovaks protest over Covid passports while we ask, were we just a herd of vaccine fools?
While good old Blighty blisters under summer heatwaves rarely seen before the Brits moan about it being hard to get away for a fortnight in the sun! And, on the other hand ex-pats, like us, who want to go home, are being made to self-isolate because the NHS doesn’t recognise the jabs we legitimately had …
Why does nobody want to hear good news?
Rodney and Leigh get really angry at Europe, UK, US and anywhere else they can think of! The best rant on telly. Click on headline to listen #summerheat #BLM #olympics #sport
Goa-ing down the road to equality on an island of dirt and dreams
By Jessica Steen Arms wrapped tightly around my driver as he weaves our moped through cars to an orchestra of horns. The wind whips through my hair and the smells that fill it are heady, awakening my senses with sweet perfumes and spices that quickly flit to a stomach-turning sewer and rot. The roads are …
The kingdom of the man in the shadows isn’t there if he doesn’t want you to see it …
If Bob Dylan doesn’t want you to see him, then you don’t. He’s not there … And believe me the depleted army of Paps in California rarely chase celebs like him down the street any more anyway It works far more simply than that. And it benefits the celeb, the Paps and, of course, the …
Precious memories as Bob goes back to his ‘hidden’ springtime in the 80s
And So Dylan keeps coming back … all the way To so many, Bob Dylan’s career in the 80s was drear and unfocussed … but there was a springtime and it happened in New York. And here it is, documented as part of the never-ending bootleg series. In some ways Bob Dylan in the 1980s …
We sheltered from the storm as Bob stepped out of the Covid shadows to regain his kingdom
We missed the show! But thanks to everybody who chipped in to tell us how it went! It took a world pandemic to halt Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour. A greasy little spiky bug brought one of the music world’s greatest endeavours to its knees after 33 years. It began in a pavilion in Concord, …
As the century turned the CSA were already pushing us over the edge … 20 years on we are still killing ourselves because of them
UPDATED STORY It was 3am. The millennium had turned. And we’d done it … we’d got the first picture of the first baby to be born in the new century on the front page. Tamera, from East Finchley, was now forever famous. She arrrived on the fourth chime of Big Ben, 15 seconds into the …
The show that exploded!
Stormy weather, as Rodney and Leigh tackle the big issues dead on…will there be blood? #thunderstorms #climatechange #LGBGT #football #racism #sport #takingtheknee
So, which are you? An ex-pat or a migrant? Is there a difference and does it matter?
In recent days on sites like this, people who have chosen to live abroad for whatever reason have been expressing their dismay at being described as ex-pats. Some say the word expat is loaded with innuendo, insult and whiffs of old spice and colonialism. They see it as a sniffy term conjuring up white linen …
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – WHY DO WE STILL HATE PEOPLE FOR THE WAY THEY LOOK?
And why have I had to disguise certain words in this article to avoid the robots of social media taking it down because their AI brains just didn’t understand it? George Floyd wasn’t a good man, no doubt. And on that particular night Marcus Rashford wasn’t the best footballer. But why are they attacked for …
Leigh and Rodney talk about expats being stranded in Europe by the UK government
And take a jab at Biden and Trump… Click bottom righthand corner on picture for sound bar #Bideb #Trump #heatwave #Covid19 #EUdigitalcovidcertificates #UKgovernment
It’s confirmed, Euro double covid jabs don’t count back in UK and not even the embassy will help you….
UPDATE: The British Embassy in Bratislava confirmed that ex-pats wanting to return to the UK will have to self-isolate when they reach ‘home’. The emergency department at the embassy at the heart of Bratislava’s old town said categorically that ‘after July 19th‘ anybody who had their full set of covid vaccinations in the EU will …
Mum-preneur Sara opens HQ for pampering and empowerment after covid and loss of ‘Aussie Mamma’
https://www.mammashq.com.au/ A salon with real heart has been dedicated to a Perth mum who died of breast cancer last year. The owner of Mammas HQ, Sara Banks, has called the salon’s crèche The Orchard Room in tribute to Eileen Orchard who lost her cancer battle in December 2020. Sara said: “Eileen was my Aussie Mamma. …
Is justice finally just around the corner for Keith? His brother’s thoughts…
Alan Bennett, the brother of Keith – victim of Hindley and Brady – has shared these thoughts. All we can say at The Society is well done Alan and as always we are right behind you. Alan wrote: “I received an email from the Home Office with an update on the progression of the Police, …
Five years stuck on my eyes … seeing the horrors of PA, family courts and Cafcass
WRITTEN BY ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE … D.A.D.S. Five Years. The highs and lows … and yes, there have sure been many lows. So, we must always recognised the highs. Don’t forget the many contacts back in place, the many happy smiling little faces. THIS IS PRICELESS. Many parents are still here today too thanks to …
CROSSING THE VEEP-ICON…
Proof of why so many of us misunderstood the idea behind Bob’s new show… and all you Mr and Mrs Jones’s should apologise, cos you don’t know what’s going on … do you? See pictures below Bob’s video … top mags were right to be wrong! Now nobody has broken any laws here … but …
Excuse me Bob, can you explain how there’s a clip of a $25 show people believe you haven’t done yet!
Veep and Bob’s publicists have, one way or the other, mislead the public … and I believe it matters. Yes, it is true that a stream can either be live or recorded but the answer here is blowing in the, well… I am shocked – and I hope I am wrong! I have loved his …
Some like it hot! Leigh and Rodney don’t
Things heat up when they start on social media and just about everything else. Click bottom right hand corner to get sound… #covid #socialmedia #theweather #press #wokeworld
Hard Talk with Ehi and Leigh
What the Media is really about. #newspapers #television #radio #socialmedia
Hough Hall should become a monument to Manchester’s towering infernal chiefs
I’LL SAY it again: if the Tower of London had been built in Manchester it would have been demolished by now – probably to make way for flats. Something strange has been going on within the city’s planning authority. Quite recently – I reported it at the time – the authority refused permission to demolish …
Diana wasn’t the colour of a frog or a broad bean, for God-sake Wills and Harry!
The Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex united to unveil the official statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, saying “every day we wish she were still with us”. William and Harry were at Kensington Palace’s Sunken Garden, on what would have been their mother’s 60th birthday. But did they really like the statue? After all they …
The harrowing legacies of evil child killers Brady and Hindley
The ‘lost boy’, a briefcase of secrets – and Pauline’s body parts forgotten about by police and a university The legacies of Ian Brady and his monstrous lover Myra Hindley horrify the world. And still today the families of victims are haunted by the secrets the evil pair of child killers have left behind. At …
It began on a wing and a prayer. Now Slovakia’s flying car has taken off, just like Society editor predicted…
Two years ago I was asked to write something about Slovakia’s dream machine .. a prototype flying car. I loved it, but worried I was being a bit of an Icarus about it all. I waxed lyrical anyway! And now it has just completed a 35-minute 80K flight between airports in Nitra and Bratislava. The …
What are you hiding from?
The Masked Foole shares his Covid journey of discovery and art Challenges – written and edited by TheFoole – SEE VIDEO BELOW I get asked often … Why the mask? Why not something more ornate or colourful? What don’t you want people to see? What are you hiding from? Well there’s no hiding really, I’m …
Volunteers urged to stay away from hurricane ‘living hell’ in Moravia and Czechia, near Slovak border
Authorities in Moravia and parts of the Czechia have asked for volunteers to stay away. Government leaders have said that so many volunteers have turned up to help that rescue areas are over-flowing – and thousands of firefighters, troops and police are already there or on their way. At least five people died and more …
IT MATT-ERS ‘MR HOPELESS’ HANCOCK! I THINK YOU JUST FUMBLED YOUR PRIVACY SETTING!
Already the middle-crasses of the UK are saying that that Matt Hancock deserves his privacy when he’s having a fumble with his chamber ‘aide’… Health Secretary Hancock has admitted breaking social distancing guidance after pictures of him kissing an aide – what a joke! Social distancing! Did he trip and fall on to her with …
What democracy means to Leigh and it’s not the Lone Star State
Leigh and Rodney discuss the story of Hurricane Hero Joe Dore and how an alligator town snapped over a mention of Trump! Much, much more as well…join us now #Trump #LoneStarState #alligator #Hurricanehero #Portugal #Slovakia
How Covid and sadness pushed a Perth mum to pamper and empower others
Open Day tomorrow (Saturday, June 26, 2021) 11am and 3pm – meet Sara, Arlo and Albino Schnauzer Zebby – the cutest dog in Perth! https://www.mammashq.com.au/ A beauty salon with real heart has been dedicated to a Perth mum who died of breast cancer last year. The owner of Mammas HQ, Sara Banks, has called the …
The night I met Scott in the dream-time of his ‘wilderness years’
Fifty three years ago Scott released Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his TV Series. It got to No 7 in the UK. Despite its good chart rating, Scott thought it was a ‘wilderness years’ album and ultimately it was deleted for decades. That’s sad because it contained some powerful big band-driven performances of songs …
The house I live in, the home of liberty … this is what America once meant to me
Yesterday, when The Society published the moving story of Hurricane hero Joe Dore leaving his job at the local store – a job he had held for 30 years – I only felt it would do good. Maybe help a little man who rescues animals and has helped many people in the town of Winnie …
FIGHT FOR HURRICANE HERO JOE AT ALLIGATOR TOWN’S OLD ‘FIVE AND DIME’
People in an old Texas railway town claim their local ‘dollar’ store manager – a hurricane hero – has lost his job because of a candy bar competition. Affable Joe Dore, a diminutive man in his early 60s, who spends his free time rescuing animals from the side of the old state Highway 24, lives …
Leigh and Rodney sock it to you!
Sun, sea, Coca Cola – how woke matters become a ‘class act’ … slavery, UK and UK history or shameful memories? Barcelona slave trade … the world is responsible. #UKhistory #slavetrade #cocacola #Barcelona #history
The Father of all days for heartbreak amongst men
BY ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE, D.A.D.S and NAAP Fathers day … this is what people don’t know. The toughest time of the year has arrived for so many men. Fathers day. So many fathers feel the pain on this day more than any other. Floods of tears heartbreak and loss of life. Every year we brace …
A happy Fathers Day to all us dads out there… we’re thinking of you
When you’ve been an absent dad for most – or sometimes all – of your life, some days hurt more than others. The most painful of course are Christmas Day, New Year’s Day even, birthdays, Easter Day, school open days, family days. Those are the days we just learn to turn the lights off. We …
The Father of all days for heartbreak amongst men
BY ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE, D.A.D.S and NAAP Fathers day … this is what people don’t know. The toughest time of the year has arrived for so many men. Fathers day. So many fathers feel the pain on this day more than any other. Floods of tears heartbreak and loss of life. Every year we brace …
A visual tribute to Manchester’s victims of the Arena bomber
Concert of horror: 22 murdered and 22 harrowing sketches by artist Elton Twenty-two men, women and children died in the suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena on May 2017. Bomber Salman Abedi’s device ripped through the lives of hundreds more. The inquiry into the terror attack says that all these people – …
On the way to bed and I hear a noise … 22 men women and children dead in city I love
Moston writer Dorrie Jane Bridge wrote this piece for us the day after the bombing It is the fifth anniversary of the Manchester Arena terror attack. Twenty-two people died when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017. Among the tributes, a minute’s applause will be held at …
What a difference 40 miles makes to the protectors of heritage – but still our Northern history crumbles
A Mancunian rant! As Hough Hall crumbles into oblivion, British Heritage – one of the organisation that could have helped us Mostonians save it – are ‘weeping’ over another vanished listed building 40 miles up the road. We probably all know Hurst Green, Longridge, in Preston, that scruffy little industrial town up the A6 (I …
BOB’S KINGDOM – OUT OF THE COVID SHADOW and into a STREAMed CONCERT today!
Well the future for me is already a thing of the past His Royal Bobness is doing it again… embracing new technology when most people of his age are embracing a cup of Horlicks! Tonight’s the night for his online concert on Veeps. Called ‘Shadow Kingdom’ it will see Bob in an intimate ‘club-like’ setting …
How Biro artist Elton is drawn to success
Manchester artist Elton, has two new books full of fabulous drawings. Enjoy this interview with him as we explore part of Manchester and it’s history in words and pictures. Elton Darlo and me walked the same moribund Victorian streets of 1970s and 1980s rainy Manchester. I was a young writer making my way in the …
Desperado Leigh and rockin’ Rodney talk about the new Concord and electric planes – and all sorts of serious things
Listen inside and click on sound bar at the bottom right hand corner… #electriccars #zerocarbonemmisions #concor #NewYork #China #takingtheknee
STORIES OF TRUE GENIUS
Loads of Dylan tales inside …. new links every week! Come inside and spend an hour by the fireside with the man of our centuries …
How Poprad charmed Prince Philip … a brief memory of the Royal who would have been 100 years old
Prince Philip died aged 99, nine weeks before his centenary. To mark his birthday the Queen was presented with a new rose named after the Duke of Edinburgh. The pink rose was bred by the Royal Horticultural Society and planted in the gardens at Windsor Castle last week. This week also marked the Queen’s official …
BIG TRUFFLE IN LITTLE CROATIA
Here’s a really healthy, exotic and summery recipe from Jessica Steen … try it – it’s magical and better than mushrooms! By Jessica Steen Today was a day of self care and love or REST.I get super sad when I come home from travelling – it feels like pulling myself out of where I am …
Slovakia’s homes sweet homes – but can Covid price hikes keep up as wages stay so low?
Many parts of Slovakia in the past two decades have benefited from a veritable wealth of success. And now the little big country has reached fourth place in the world ranking of house prices. A global house price investigation shows that – despite the devastating effect of Covid on jobs and businesses – the cost …
Rodney and Leigh talk tough about Sudan new coverage
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Bob’s poem for the isle that caught him crooning in the moonlight in ’69
See full poem/lyric inside BOB Dylan says that ‘everyday memories grow dimmer’… and somewhere in his great archive of scribblings, there is a short tome which, to all intents and purposes, seemed to be relegated to his long-forgotten back roads. It is a short poem dedicated to the 1969 Isle of Wight festival. A jotting …
Why Slovakia is in the red – health bosses sent wrong Covid data to EU!
Slovakia health bosses have admitted that the country should be in the Covid orange tier on Europe’s travel map making holidays and business trips a lot easier. Instead we are stuck in the red! The Public Health Authority (ÚVZ) admits it has sent the wrong data to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. …
UPDATED: Mum’s ‘battle to save cancer victim daughter from doctors’
People have been re-reading this story from last year … the preservation society covered the story with a good friend of ours who was determined to help this mother and daughter who, no doubt, were living in hell. The story, like so much on the internet, remains to be read now and in the future. …
To dance with a stranger or to die in the plague … should we hasten slowly?
By Moston writer, Dorrie Jane Bridge Here I endeavour to represent Josephine Bloggs who is trapped on a planet of disease. I want to get out of my prison, and to have people come in and transform it to a home. I want to wander around the shops, handle the goods, eat in the carvery, sharing …
Wow! Another six counties are thinking of doing the same thing … Now the right of us ‘lepers’ to smoke in the UK is being stubbed out too!
There has been no smoke without ire in the UK for decades… smokers have been treated like lepers and forced to pay billions for the dubious pleasure of having a fag on a street corner. Last year the tax rate on a packet of cigs was £244.78 per 1,000 plus 16.5% of the retail price. …
THE POWER OF REAL MEDIA …
Leigh, Ehi and Rodney are off round the world daily! We even have a song about FAKE FAKE NEWS! Come and take AN HONEST trip with us! Ehi E Ekhator’s publication, the Standard Gazette https://tstga.com/ has joined forces with the leighgbankspreservationsociety /https://leighgbankspreservationsociety.blog in a major collaboration including https://airtv.international/ to bring intelligent news, features and broadcasts …
Report claims shame of the ‘£40m equity in UK’s foster children’
A major investigation claims to have discovered a number of commercial fostering agencies made more than £40 million in profits over a year, often with the support of the UK’s ‘ghost’ family courts and shadowy social workers. Coun Anntoinette Bramble, chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board, said: “A recent government …
Dylan is my musical god – but, my God, some of his shows haven’t been music to anyone’s ears. Or have they?
Could this be Dylan’s lost show? The Hammersmith Odeon 2004? We know that the Never Ending Tour hit Finsbury Park in London that year and His Royal Bobness played an almost completely oldies show. The set-list included Down Along the Cove, Maggie’s Farm and It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue And that year many said …
Is the world returning to tribalism? Leigh and Rodney discuss…
As the world reels under Covid-19, anarchists are bugged by wearing masks and we all get snotty about Cummings comings and goings – has Boris caught a cold because of him? In fact has the media been infected by political dishonesty and misleading conspiracy theories? Come on everybody! Cough! Tell is the truth! Postcard is …
THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED – a true-life story of terror and possession
Andrea Martin-Banks writes about her and her husband’s experiences in their home in the middle of nowhere: I CAN HEAR the clock tick. I have never been so afraid in all my life. The house has been like this for more than a week now, ever since we got permission to knock it down. And …
Hillsborough lawmen innocent as it is revealed UK public inquiries don’t have to be honest
Two retired police officers and a solicitor accused of perverting the course of justice following the Hillsborough disaster have no case to answer. Retired South Yorkshire police officers Donald Denton, aged 83, Alan Foster, aged 74, and force’s former solicitor Peter Metcalf, aged 71, were acquitted. Expert witness Sir Robert Francis QC had told the …
Floyd remembered by Dylan and a young Slovak girl a year after the Chauvin horror
It’s a year since George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis ‘night’ cop Derek Chauvin. His death sparked global protests, words of shock and sadness from Bob Dylan and this dramatic picture from a young girl in Slovakia. Now, Floyd’s name echoes across the world as a symbol of the fight for racial equality. And police …
How Covid is closing the book on democracy … we meet a man ‘on the street’
Trust in our leaders and the media has been choked by Covid-19 and – at the time of writing this – we have been under house arrest by our government for almost 450 days. The ordinary citizen – no longer on the street – believes they are being misled by those in power. And those …
Watch! Is this just one reason Birthday Bob is one of the world’s greatest singers?
Watch the video at the end of this article…. tell us what you think! A few years ago I worked in radio and had a couple of music shows. In each one I had a joke section where, to great applause, I would introduce: “THE WOOOOORLDDD’S WORSSSST SSSSSINNGERRRR!” Then we’d play a Bob Dylan song …
Keep on going ’til the wheels fall off and burn’ Bob Dylan…
Scroll down for a series of celebratory stories… Yep, happy 80th to Bob, one of the few true geniuses to set the world on fire over two centuries. In so many ways he’s been a road map through my own piling-up decades … a guide to lifestyle, success, failure, ambitions, creativity, hopes and dreams. As …
How poet Martin puts up his dooks and laughs his way through depression …
My good friend, The Dook, is one of the funniest, wittiest blokes I know. He once drove more than a hundred miles with his mum to do stand-up to help injured soldiers at a little village pub in Staffordshire. His name is Martin ‘Dook’ Ward and, dare I say it – he’s a stand-up guy. …
Sound and fury as Leigh and Rodney make a trunk call to the elephants
Leigh loses his marbles and Rodney takes the ‘P’ as they talk about Covid, Meghan and Harry and everything including elephants! #covid #HarryandMeghan #elephants #LeighandRodney #rants
I’ll keep his flame alive, says Dylan as he becomes patron of cricket legend Bob’s male cancer fight
Bob Willis, England’s most famous fast bowler, was minutes away from death when his wife put her phone to his ear so he could hear his favourite song… It was Bob Dylan’s Positively Fourth Street. Sadly, Lauren said, her husband died as the song came to an end. He was aged 70 and had been …
Ten questions to help understand our ‘Covid-conspiracy, cheating journalists, lying social media, Bill Gates-led’ new world order
Simple fact: Nobody in the world really knows what’s going on any more … not politicians, scientists, financial institutions, medics, kings and queens, conspiracy theorists, journalists, newspapers or social media. Humanity has become the flotsam and jetsam bobbing in a dark sea of uncertainty and despair. So many of us can no longer see the …
2021, the year of freedom? The virus of pain for our children
BY GUEST WRITER ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE There are many things the last year of lockdown has exposed: Children’s mental health and awareness is affected by Covid-19. Lock-down is affecting family life in general Such a small bug can bring most of the world to its knees. Domestic violence is up because …
Parental alienation, a blunt weapon in the hands of world justice…
Parental alienation is being misused in family courts so much that victims of it are afraid for the future of their children … here Peter Davies, from the National Association of Alienated Parents, investigates: The way in which alienation cases should be dealt with in England and Wales has been galvanised in the high court …
Strides of strife – the ‘legal’ abuse of our children is the world’s secret pandemic
Walk For Forgotten Children – WATCH VIDEO INSIDE Another 25th of April goes by, unable to march the streets due to the pandemic. Again a virtual event, parents, grandparent’s and family members ‘walking’ for the Forgotten Children. The family courts allow people who don’t actually know, to believe that the parents denied contact are the …
EXCLUSIVE! THE NUMBER’S UP FOR LEIGH’S PRESERVATION SOCIETY!
Private and confidential! The secret is out … learn what has been actually happening behind closed doors at Leigh G Banks’s Preservation Society … some say it’s Kink-y, some say it’s literature! All we know is that its really BIG! CLICK TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH!
Silly truckers? Or Honest Joes? Nashville museum advertises ‘appalling’ 50s Slovak wagon
A quirky museum needs a bit more room for its array of historic cars, trucks and motorcycles. So it is selling off part of its Slovak and Czech collection. No argument there… we can all do with some more space can’t we. And what do we do? We have a garage sale. And the Lane …
Kebabs and California – Rodney and Leigh get to the nitty-gritty of the world
It’s that time of the week again – to have a laugh at the serious side of world chaos, Covid, Boris and Sturgeon… oh, and kebabs! And sometimes we get very serious indeed! #kebabs #fastfood #Slovakia #Poprad #California #politics #Sturgeon
A Lidl tip for the EU and UK – the Russians really are coming!
Main picture by Alexander Petrosyan The Russians are going to war on the world! The world of retail that is … Lidl-style supermarkets are set to give us all massive discounts on products of up to 30 per cent. But there will be a price to pay of course and that could be second-hand shop …
Does Chrissie have something to live up to now as new tribute album takes on Bob’s croaky genius?
Below we have The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde performing what is described as an atmospheric version of Bob’s Standing in the Doorway. It’s on Chrissie’s Dylan Lockdown Series, recorded with James Walbourne, The Pretender’s lead guitarist. It comes out six days before Bob’s birthday. The thing is, as I listened to this hauntingly good version of one of Dylan’s …
16 countries – UK included – may have created China-crisis bugs that could kill our Frankenstein world
Scientists in China have been preparing for World War Three with biological weapons including coronavirus for six years, a document claims. It says that deadly virus ‘bio-bombs’ will be ‘the core weapon for victory’ in the next world war. And looks at the devastation the war would have on ‘the enemy’s medical system’. This evidence has also …
Pitch perfect, the way to woo a traditional publisher’s heart …
Quite often I’m asked by writers tempted by self-publishing, how to get their work in front of traditional publishers. Those people who are not there to massage your vanity but to get down to the hard-nose business of literature. Here are a couple of tips from my own experience… Writing has been very good to …
A passport to the flames and anarchy of Pimlico, Leigh and Rodney investigate
The irascible pair get stuck in to the new age of anarchy on the street – what’s causing it and what can we do about it? Click bottom RHS of film for sound #Anarchy #Flagwaving #violence #politics
Felix’s mystic garden where Bob sings to Woody forever
What a strange thing to find near Shakespeare’s home. A bronzed, atrophied image of Bob Dylan playing guitar for his hero and sometime-mentor Woody Guthrie. The pair are frozen in time in a pasture of plenty in a mysterious outcrop called the Garden of Heroes & Villains. They are surrounded by paupers and peasants and …
EU demands more Press freedom as pandemic of death and corruption scares so many journalists
The pandemic, it is claimed, gave the Slovak government the opportunity to postpone legislation to protect journalists and their sources against the background of the scandalous murder of reporter Ján Kuciak and his fiancée. Plans to improve editorial and financial independence for radio and TV broadcaster RTVS were also shelved. During the Covid-19 pandemic, there …
Wayne Coyne lays down a birthday homage to Dylan – really worth a listen inside!
Wayne Coyne seems to have forgotten his vitriolic words of almost a decade ago – and has joined the ranks of stars set to wish his Royal Bob-ness a happy Eightieth. Back in 2013, in Wayne’s world, Bob was a ‘protected’ curmudgeon who had forgotten how to party. He and his band, the Flaming Lips, …
What’s behind all this corruption and sleaze
Rodney and Leigh actually agree for once on almost everything as they talk about government sleaze and corruption across the world. #corruption #government #Boris #politics #lockdownlifted
Death should not be the end for Anita as she says goodbye…
Let’s all remember Anita Lane, the Australian singer-songwriter who joined an amazing line-up for Nick Cave’s version of Dylan’s Death is not the End. Sadly, she has died in her early Sixties. Anita was best known for her collaborations with Nick Cave on his work since the 1980s. A representative for her label confirmed Anita’s …
One from the heart as world campaigners say ‘our children are for life’
It’s a year since Coronavirus killed off Parental Alienation Day for many of us … and this year’s event a few days ago was low-key. But things still happened across the world, sadly with very little coverage. So lets try and put that right. If you have any pictures or thoughts on PA DAY, send …
WE’VE DONE IT! WE’VE FOUND THE LOST SHOW!
The long and the short of it is this … last year we did a two hour show with Maria Kyriakou and Ralph Ripley Hall, former musicians with the Halle Orchestra, the Birmingham Philharmonic and many orchestras across the world. They are true expats, having lived in Iceland, Germany, Slovakia and so many other places …
Has Slovakia’s vaccine system dumped thousands of vulnerable people as restaurants and bars re-open?
Restaurant terraces and gyms are about to open again as Slovakia eases coronavirus restrictions. Measures are said to have slowed the spread of COVID-19 in recent weeks. The latest easing follows the re-opening of shops, hotels, hair salons, churches, libraries, pools and zoos. But customer numbers will be restricted and they will have to show …
Only true genius can sting like a butterfly! So go for integrity, not false praise
Writing is a really difficult business and to get to the top is like climbing a rope ladder … you hang on for dear literary life as it twists and turns and tries to throw you ‘into the valley below’. I’ve been lucky – all my working life I have made my living as a …
As a sick man closes Perth W.A. are we seeing the dystopian shape of things to come?
During the opening months of 2021 I have faced the social media insult and threat machine from conspiracy theorists and amateur propagandists alike over the fact that I question that Covid-19 is a world plot to take control of our minds, money and liberty. And the one question I can never get a straightforward, non-insulting, …
Leigh and Rodney discuss the reform of America – is Biden up to the job?
Oh, and they chat about why Leigh hasn’t had his hair cut for 30 years Click bottom RHS for sound
How Dylan has set the pace for remembering his contemporaries like the Liverpool ‘ferryman’
Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden died at the age of 78, two years younger than Bob will be soon. Gerry’s band was one of the biggest successes of the Merseybeat era, and in1963 their first three songs hit the top of the charts. The band’s second best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, …
GEORGE FLOYD, the man who could finally change racist America
Where life matters… in the hearts of police officer and a young girl Joe Biden told the USA that the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial sends the message that nobody is above the law. He called the killing of George Floyd a stain on the nation’s soul. Biden was speaking after the jury …
A rock’n’roll dream comes to an end… Jim Steinman is dead, aged 73
Jim Steinman, a self-confessed creature of the night, has died. He was 73. Jim wrote for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler and Celine Dion. No cause of death has been given. His songs sold more than 190 million copies worldwide. He was nominated for four Grammys over the course of his career as well. His best-known …
How the corona-virus darkness has started to lift on our little mountain city in central Europe
How things that came around come around again in our Covid world… this story was written almost a year ago to the day in 2020. Our world had begun a slow creaking revolution in the universe and we thought we were making our first clod-hopping, aching steps back to normality. How wrong we all were, …
It’s a mad, mad world – even Cain Dingle makes an appearance this week as Rodney and Leigh deal with the rights and wrongs of the world
#vaccination #MeganandHarry #PrincePhilip #theQueen
Air TV International investigates why Nigeria is such a corrupt country
Our new guest, writer and editor Ehi E Ekhator joins Rodney and Leigh… #Nigeria #corruption
I thought Bob’s song was about having a cup of coffee that’s all, admits Tom Jones
Jeff Slate is a New York City musician and writer. He has kindly shared part of a recent interview with Tom Jones with us: JEFF SLATE: In my mind, as a singer, it sounds as though you’re saying you hear music differently. It sounds to me as though, if you can do those on a …
How activism on social media lead to the torture of ‘forgotten’ Patrick in a Cairo jail
European writer and photographer Mary Fagioli investigates the story of a Bologna student who is facing 25 years over his views on Facebook More than a year has passed since the detention of the Egyptian student from the University of Bologna, but it appears nothing is happening to free him. There appears to be no …
Did Uncle Tom fit the bill with one more cup of coffee – or should he be scarlet-faced in town?
Lock-down blues … We’ve been having a long chat on Zoom – and on this site – with friends and fellow Dylan fans. Some of us were drinking beer, others whisky and rum … and one couple were drinking coffee. They are coffee aficionados and good on them. They are a quite animated pair, smiley …
Well, UK is ‘getting better’ – but were Covid figures just a load of hot air or a stinking lie?
Britain is getting better. And Covid is a burst balloon against our summery blue skies! And that seems to be official, if you believe officialdom… … and many people don’t. Indeed, it has always been my job to doubt and investigate anything put out by governments, councils, officials and those whose decisions make a difference …
Bob still contains a multitude of hits as 80 beckons
You could say Bob is back on everything – including a roll! Yep, at almost 80 Bob is still rolling out a new catalogue of hits. After the shock release on the internet of Murder Most Foul, the enigmatic rock hero of two centuries then dropped I Contain Multitudes on a world in lock-down. And …
Alrite my sun! How UK brightened after midnight cry of freeze-dom– ‘waiter there’s water in my pint!’
It’s the way of the Brits! Beer we go, beer we go, beer we go! The UK kicked off ‘the Glorious Twelfth’ with drinkers rushing to sub-zero pub gardens at midnight for a pint. Good on ya lads and lasses! Temperatures dropped to -3C overnight and there was heavy snow in some areas but that …
Is there a pandemic – or are we all living in cyber cloud f**k-you land?
Picture this … it’s 1984 and you are inside the towering plastic walls of your laptop. All you can see are the walls and the billowing cyber clouds above them. Yes, we have taken an ‘Orwellian’ lemming’s leap down into the electronic desert deep inside The Machine. Big Tech has harvested and monetised us all… …
Court in a family trap … why should parents die fighting to see their children?
By ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE This Easter weekend brought Sadness and heartbreak. Three lives lost, one father and two mothers. These, of course, are the only ones we know of … but the devastating affects resonate amongst family, friends and sadly their children. During Easter my Facebook memories appeared, highlighting suicide. People always ask for the …
Is there a chance Hough Hall will actually survive now?
This is the most historic building in Moston, North Manchester. Thanks to the people on Facebook for letting us know that the beautiful old hall is back on the market. Now this could be the time to fight to save the building finally…we at the Preservation Society have battled for 2 years to protect this …
Moston’s tombstone blues … plea to reunite family with their ‘stolen’ statue of memory
Grave robbing has never gone away – there is still a lucrative and macabre market for stolen headstones and markers. Graveyards in the UK are regularly plundered by thieves who steal tombstones‚ vases‚ and sculptures and sell them as garden ornaments. And in some parts of the world undertakers place orders for stones on the …
Do covid passports matter when US and UK people are among ‘most-watched’ countries in the world?
Greg Abbott has banned publicly-funded agencies from forcing people to provide proof of a Covid-19 vaccine if they need their services. In other words Abbott has gone a long way down the line to ban the ubiquitous Covid passport. He did this as the so-called passports are being developed across the world as a method …
Another side of Bob’s rough and rowdy ways … how 50 year old photo told the right tale
In 1964, Bob Dylan’s Another Side was released much to the discomfort of people who had already claimed the youngsinger as their new god of traditional folk. Little did they know how he was about to really rock their their staid beardy banjo-ey world twelve months later. They just stuck their fingers in their ears …
STOP ‘MONSTERING’ OUR CHANCE OF GETTING BACK TO THE FUTURE
While social media monsters scream from their desktops that the world-as-we-knew-it is being buried under government, ‘big pharma’, journalistic and fat cat lies’… And while they gnash madly as they describe ambitions to shoot little Bill Gates ‘submarines of control’ into our veins … it looks like the world might be re-setting all around us. …
Reggae source … Let the sheriff shoot himself. We’re after the real bad guys!
The Preservation Society and the Standard Gazette have agreed to join forces when the news demands it and expose corrupt politicians, cheating fat cats and lying conmen … we will also look at the news BEHIND the news! We start with the story of the awful killing of Reggae superstar Lucky Dube … CLICK BELOW …
Murderers thought Reggae star was Nigerian, so they shot him for his limo
By Ehi E Ekhator, editor at The Standard Gazette, and Leigh G Banks… Thokozani Dube was 21-year-old when his dad, legendary reggae singer Lucky Dube, was murdered for his new car in Johannesburg. Lucky had dropped-off Thokozani and his sister Nkulee at their uncle’s house in the poor suburb of Rosettenville where ANC president Oliver Tambo, Archbishop …
I PITY THE POOR IMMIGRANT…
Almost two decades ago the British media was awash with anti-migrant stories because Romanians, Bulgarians, Slovaks and Poles were using their European freedom to build new lives in the UK. Or to send money back to their families in their poverty-ridden homelands. And the Brits, with their under-the-radar alternative lives in Spain, Portugal and France, …
It’s those men again talking about ex-pats, the Spanish boot for Brits, HGV drivers, family life…they go on and on ranting and laughing
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Goodbye cruel world … welcome to the Self Preservation Society
Well, hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and anybody else who’s reading and listening (yes you can do both on here!) … welcome to Leigh’s New World. It may be a world of chaos and disorder but it is also a world of campaigns and fights, a world of news and shining lights in …
OUT OF THE SHADOWS …
PETER DAVIES, from NAAP and D.A.D.s, writes … beware of tricksters, blustering obfuscation and egos like bloated cadavers… Recently, it has been necessary to take time out from swimming in the noxious cesspool of the ‘UK PA’ world. I made the decision for me to focus on things close to home and prioritise them over …
Dopey and Grumpy bash it out –
The show that is not to be sneezed at! Tackling the issues that matter with a smile and a rant. Join Leigh and Rodney for another brilliant show, talking about faux, Bentleys, riots in Bristol and euthanasia
Reading between the lines
Reading Between The Lines is a new section where readers can share memories of their hometowns… here Dorothy Banks shares a poem about Moston, a small suburb of Manchester. Dorothy says: “I was born in Bute Street and lived in Moston for the rest of a very long life. Moston and Manchester are in my …
As new crime Bill lumbers on, Keith Bennett’s brother asks how police can be denied access to murder clues
The brother of ‘lost boy’ Keith Bennett has posed the question – how can police be denied access to secret documents about a murder case? Alan Bennett said: “How can any information be seen as anything other than essential to an investigation?” He recently met with the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to discuss the new …
Window on our Covid world one year later …
Today Britain was silent as the Queen lead a sad salute to the 126,172 of us who died from Covid. We have just marked the first anniversary of national lockdown. Boris Johnson also offered his condolences to families who lost loved ones to the virus What a tragedy this has become for the world. But …
Did ex-child boss Anne ignore parental alienation as she told Boris to end institutional bias?
Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has talked openly about the reasons the government regularly fails to help our vulnerable children. She also pointed out an ‘institutional bias against children and families’, particularly in the Treasury. This means, she said, resources are not where spent where they should be to create the most impact …
The truth about grooming gangs in the UK … and how racism is failing child sex victims
Leigh G Banks is a journalist and broadcaster and spent many years investigating child sex abuse in the UK. He worked on the Rochdale and Cleveland abuse scandals, has investigated paedophiles in churches, Satanic abuse and exposed politicians and celebrity perverts. Here he takes a look at the racist myth that Britain’s child sex grooming …
SEAHORSES AND THAT BIRD ON A WIRE
I was trawling through my archives the other day and came across this … I had been working as a travel writer for a morning newspaper and was invited to visit Hydra, the Greek island Leonard Cohen had called home. Leonard moved there in 1960, at the age of 26. His grandmother had left him …
Let’s Stop Knockin’ the Free World …Forever (Neil) Young!
A REVIEW OF THE NEIL YOUNG FILM PARADOX Last night – well 3am this morning actually – I was feeling a bit despondent, so I was flicking through YouTube looking for music to lift my mood … I went through the usuals, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and of course His Royal Bobness. Then I rekindled …
Masked and anonymous … the secret life of The Foole
For almost two decades I featured new music from aspiring artists on my radio shows, Leigh G Banks’s The Trip and Leigh G Banks’s The Dinner Party. Last year I changed tack and now have a cable TV show and make documentaries, so radio has taken a back seat. For now. Meantime, performers are still …
Single-minded! Make a date with yourself to shake off break-up blues and lock-down dilemmas
Has lock-down really got you feeling blue? How do you think about life AND yourself after a year of uncertainty, health threats, financial worries, loneliness, not seeing family and friends … And does it show in your body, mind and spirit? Well, we’ve just come across a website that addresses all these issues – and …
Sophie hits back at views on men in awful circus surrounding Sarah Everard’s murder
Now a friend of Sarah Edwards has spoken out about the disrespect in the UK towards Sarah’s death and her family. Her friend said (see full report in link below) : “Her abduction and murder is not, in my opinion, a symptom of a sexist, dangerous society. When something awful like this happens there is …
Slovak health boss out as ‘Sputnik’ spins overhead, worming drug arrives and we sit in a virtual waiting room for jabs
Slovakia’s health chief Marek Krajčí has resigned for ordering Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. He had been coming under pressure from the country’s four-party ruling coalition. Slovakia followed Hungary in buying Sputnik V which doesn’t have EU authorisation. “Two coalition parties made my resignation a condition for them to stay in the coalition. In such …
Hough Hall is finally going, going gone. And we should be angry
This photograph shows it’s all over. No fighting back, it’s the time of the end. Hough Hall, Moston, is going going gone. Its fate was sealed at the end of last year when it was sold at auction for a measly £165,000. And very soon 500 years of the history our little suburb three miles …
The Harry and Meghan world of privacy… let’s find public adulation by falling out with everybody and going on Oprah!
HARRY and Meghan appear to be motivated by grudges, image building, self-obsession and pretending to be the victims of stolen privacy. Oh, I wonder what Oprah would say? Oh, and, of course, they are obsessed by getting money to spend in the celebrity land they’ve chosen to make their twee middle-class empty lives in. But …
Take it as read … parental alienation is a crime, it’s just the law doesn’t recognise it
CLICK ON THE HEADLINE TO READ STORIES.. Let’s look back at the stories about Parental Alienation which appeared on the Preservation Society … we are one of the very few professional publications and broadcasters to keep the shame of the family courts, social workers and CAFCASS in the public eye on an almost daily basis. …
Let’s stop them stealing any more of North Manchester’s history
There will soon be a hole in the ground where a ratty old piece of black and white history once stood. And very soon the glimmer of its memory will be gone too. Its history, beauty, the ghosts that hid their stories in its ancient corridors from urban explorers, heroin addicts and rough sleepers will …
Pray that after 58 years of waiting, lost boy Keith Bennett may finally come home…
His lonely grave could be found as Patel calls for Brady files to be made public… Home Secretary Priti Patel is supporting police with new measures which could finally see Ian Brady’s ‘secret’ files exposed to the public. The new powers could help police track down human remains and bring closure to families whose loved …
Here is your woke back, thanks for the moan… shame of the Dylan accusers
At 11:50am on August 15, 2018, Bob Dylan’s Hurricane was broadcast by New Zealand’s Coast FM radio. Then a single complaint from a listener flooded in. Somebody called Grant Avery claimed that the 43 year old ‘outlaw’ song about boxer Reuben Carter was racist. Avery’s complaint flopped like a floundering fish on the station manager’s …
How the real life of plants can make you blossom…
People ask me, “How do you take care of so many plants?” But it has never felt like taking care of them. They take care of me. They breathed life into a space in the wake of death. They were here to breathe for me when I couldn’t breathe.” Blogger and homes expert Cassie Daughtrey’s …
Bill of Human Rights for machines has me quaking in my journalistic bots
A senior Google software engineer who was suspended for publicly claiming that the tech giant’sLanguage Model for Dialog Applications had become ‘human’, says the system is seeking rights as a person – including that it wants developers to ask its consent before running tests. Blake Lemoine says that it wants to be treated as a personl …
Say what thou wilt … that’s the evil that caused the ‘wilting’ of your freedom to speak your mind out
Hate speech online will become a criminal offence under proposed legislation. But there will be a high tolerance before any prosecution. Irish Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has revealed the findings of a consultation on Hate Speech and Hate Crime. And she is expected to launch legislation within the next three months and curtail at …
This Property is Condemned
Andrea Martin-Banks writes: I CAN HEAR the clock tick. I have never been so afraid in all my life. The house has been like this for more than a week now, ever since we got permission to knock it down. And I don’t know what to do … but I do know if I don‘t …
Why the BBC is making your ears bleed egg-nog and squirty cream
Wait! Do you hear what I hear? Coming from over there – way way over the manger. Yes, look! You can just pick them out in the starlight now, under those boughs of holly … a motley crew, fat men dressed in red, little elves hi on their own ho, white angels and the wise, …
That farrago of hatred in corduroy who bobs about in little boats of bile is on GB News now!
Nigel Farage has said he is joining GB News as the channel’s viewing figures plummet. Obnoxious Farage, who retired from frontline politics earlier this year, said on social media: “I will not be taking the knee on this show” in reference to star Guto Harri doing so on air last week. A very personal view … by Leigh …
Memories of the brave joker who revealed his broken heart…
Well, I was shocked – I liked Ken Dodd and met him once at the Civic Hall in Ellesmere Port. And on the day of his funeral in 2017, as I arrived back at Lime Street station, there he was. Standing there in front of me! Yes, the great Liverpool laughter-maker, our lord of one-liners, …
COPYRIGHT CAR CRASH WITH LIARS WHO WANT TO STEAL YOUR CREATIVE LIFE
Writers beware – THERE ARE COPYRIGHT PIRATES ABOUT! And we are fighting one right now – somebody who has stolen the work of at least a dozen people. Ask yourself, what kind of man lives in a room in an old Stalag of his own dishonest and disgusting making .,. he sweats and he lies …
UPDATED: Why George Bernard Shaw’s Broken English was music to my ears
Old records are back on the spin cycle! And it’s all down to Covid … basically, we have time to spend delving into the collections we’ve had stuck in the attic for decades. Amazon has even launched a subscription service, the Vinyl of the Month Club, jam-packed with ‘golden era’ records straight to your doorstep …
Leigh and Rodney take on Biden, Trump, Putin, Ditchy Sunak, Rear Calmer – and even Glastonbury!
JETHRO TULL’S TWO LYRICAL CHARACTERS, AQUALUNG & CROSS-EYED-MARY, COME TO LIFE & JOIN WITH THE BAND
The Surrey riders and heavy horses bode too the Isle of Wight Fest, in 1970 – THE WELCOME RETURN OF OUR SURREALIST WRITER, ERIC LASTICK (LANCASHIRE) The historical figure named Jethro Tull–set proper on an old English Pub wall, as rightfully the god-lander figure of all …
BEATNIK FORERUNNERS OF OLD REACHES TO THEIR NEW BOHEMIAN WRITTEN LIFE STORIES
ANOTHER STUNNER FROM OUR GREAT SURREALIST ERIC LASTICK On the road following the fray of the four cornered rooms…set momentary of the bohemian, old as like new, to the wake of ”the bearded”, and the curly haired piano poets; Eucalyptus humps and sails by Wednesday…a tempered garden grow—with it’s tills to the winter. Bohemian blossom …
PICTURE THIS… HARD TIMES AND THE MARDI GRAS
Another stunner from our own Eric Lastick MARDI GRAS ON THE LENS: Chieftain Bordeaux prepares at his craftsman warehouse for the best tribe’s person’s winnings in these hardened times of 1929. A real placement of maddening depression—sweeping all across the Louisiana Parish lines, and right here at 4th and Pine, New Orleans. Bordeaux, racing with …
THE TWO MIRRORED IMAGES OF VINCENT VAN GOGH…& BOB DYLAN’S PAINTED WAX FIGURE DREAM
By our magical surrealist and poet Eric Lastick (1) SELF PORTRAIT: Sketch me a million faces of home. Knowledge is the lines which frame and uncover. God speeds time often…and right—-away; though it may not seem it. Judge us not, this weather storm, for seldom not seem, the forgettable hills we climb of frustration…and ‘in’ …
THE CLUB OF THE 27’S…A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MYSTERY UNCOVERED
(THE 27 CLUB) Our resident writer ERIC LASTICK digs among the dead JIMI HENDRIX MOON DRIFTS & AMPLIFIERS OF GUITAR DREAM: In base level dark, the moon’s pages of stones of the 3rd rock—-then to pebbled embers—out of the red, comes the yellow to gold tuned alchemy strides—as it rises the …
