
John Otway is a name most people might not be familiar with. In his own words, he is one of music's most successful losers. He's been playing since 1976, starting his career with Mr. Wild Willy Barrett on guitar. They first appeared on TV's "Old Grey Whistle Test" back in 1977-78 ish. This video clip shows how random John's gigs were. I was at that gig. It was at the Portsmouth Guildhall for a music film being made called "Urgh A Music War". I thought John looked [...]

First things first - RIP Lux Interior... Now, onto the business, and this business was much, much delayed. In April of 2006 I put up the soundtrack Urgh! to much fanfare around the blogosphere (God I hate that "word") so much so that I had to get a server upgrade. Unfortunately, as it was pointed out to me several months ago those files were recorded on a turntable that spun too fucking fast. Since then I had been meaning to re-record the tracks and repost them, but life can be a bitch. Well, I [...]
I got an email from someone asking about Urgh! and I thought that in an effort to make things a bit more streamlined and easy to navigate, Id make this post which includes every single song from the Urgh! soundtrack as well as some bonus ones. I'm not the most organized person in the world, and it shows in the haphazard nature in which these tracks were originally put up. I hope this makes things a little easier for everyone. And if anyone is still looking for the long-deleted Urgh! Yahoo! Group (wow [...]