The Health & Care Bill is back in the Commons tmrw.

It divides the NHS into 42 areas led by Integrated Care Boards which - incredibly - private companies will be allowed to sit on.

I believe private companies should *never* get a say in how the NHS is run.

Pls RT if you do too

Woman with orange umbrella
Listening to Marc Riley ⚽️🍺🐳 and enjoying mad session from Fat White Family
Also music by Vic Godard and Little Storping in the Swuff, have gigged with both superstars, and Margaret Glaspy
Good show as always

Write-up of gigs in Newcastle and Levenshulme
mccookerybook.blogspot.com

Get your guitar out from under the bed, crayons out from the drawer, paints out from the cupboard, pencil & paper you bought just in case! Live, create, document your feelings & life. Encourage others: there's room for us all. It's the best way to Fight Back Against The Baddies!

Note the now-alarming connotation of DEADline.

A review of last night's gig at The Talleyrand with David Lance Callahan by Cazz Blase
cazzblase.blogspot.com/2024/04/helen-…

Our lovely mum died this morning 💔 some relief after 15 years of Alzheimer’s but great sorrow at her finally leaving us

Woohoo!

Good news this week as our friend Mike Scottish Post-Punk announces the release date of his Roots Rock Rebels - When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982 comp & we return (🥴) back to the high seas @ 4pm this Wednesday The BoAt Pod with a new GC Punk & New Wave Show.

👂
m.mixcloud.com/live/theboatpo…

......thank you to the girl with the replaceable head / Sylvia Hughes / Taffy Hughes / Mick Porter / Lindy Morrison / David Lance Callahan / Daren Garratt / Helen McCookerybook / Ian Evans / The Cumberland Arms and all the girls and boys who came out of the dark and into the light on Friday night!

Helen McCookerybook Hi Helen, as promised, you’ve joined the chosen ones!! - thanks, Rob

Helen McCookerybook needs a bigger post than I can put here, immense craft in her songs, worlds of emotion distilled down to short sly pop songs. 💜 a really brilliant opener.

With Lindy Morrison earlier this evening. What a superb gig!
Packed venue, great one from David Lance Callahan and then a set of amazing songs from the new album by The Girl With The Replaceable Head.
Mint!

We’re at the Music Producers Guild Awards 2024! We’ve been NOMINATED! Self-producing artist of the year! Fingers crossed ❤️

……The Cumberland Arms Helen McCookerybook David Lance Callahan
approx times: 7.30PM DOORS
8PM HELEN McCOOKERYBOOK
8.45PM DAVID LANCE CALLAHAN
9.45PM the girl with the replaceable head
Times are approx, things run late, so these times are just a guide and the earliest everyone is likely to appear.

Fab ghettotrack track that uses one of my jingles!
Feminist ghettotech remix 💥 youtu.be/etmPCOPr8Ck?si… via YouTube

On tonight’s @bbcfrontrow.. 715pm R4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

'The Early Green Hairy Gooseberry', engraved by S Watts (fl 1820-45) after an original by Augusta Withers (c.1791-1876) for The Pomological Magazine, London, 1828, Plate 22.

This is soon and I can’t wait to go play music in a beautiful church in Wrexham! FOCUS Wales