just one story

horsemouth is back from watching grandmaster flash play in docklands (and amazing it was too). right at the end horsemouth got chatted up  (hot damn). she's going back for jocelyn brown she told him. she looked strangely familiar. 

horsemouth first saw grandmaster flash with denise up in walthamstow years ago. since then the show has become more epic, more stadium rock, more history lesson. but it is still 'the best part of the record' hip-hop karaoke show. grandmaster flash comes down to the front of the stage - he wants to know if he can tell us a story, just one story.  

people (of course) want to get back to normal, they want to par-tay, they want to sing along (and everybody seemed to know the words). horsemouth still tries to hide out. as he remarked to a friend that he may live in london but he hasn't been out since he don't know when. but hey, he went out to a gig, do you know how rare that is these days. 

before grandmaster flash there was DJ andy smith (of portishead) doing a vinyl set (and proper great it was too). there seemed to be lots of small kids running around. he ended up with a spanish language version of the message. 

now (of course) horsemouth waits to see if he gets ill. 

it is the anniversary of robbie basho playing sinclair auditorium, coe college in 1978. there are two sets (and there's the coffee house gig recorded the night before with moving up a ways). 

it's friday morning. the bin-men dance is going on. horsemouth put out the bag of recycling yesterday. 

the other musician of bremen (you know the one horsemouth means)   is up in hackney dong bike stuff at some point this afternoon. saturday the anniversary of alice coltrane's berkley gig (1972), sunday sona jobarteh in docklands, the week after horsemouth is away cat-sitting again (in multiple locations).