Tuesday 4th December 1984

Happy birthday to you, dear diary. You are two years old today.

Recording IBM T5 is harder than I expected. I am having to make backing tracks for all the vocal songs on Side 2 ("Electricity", "8 days a week", "Embarrassing situation", "The way we were", "Fond regards...") and it's very time consuming. *

While on the subject of IBM, Newton wants me to record Bk 13. I'd have to change most of the entries, including this one.

Screaming Blue Messiahs on Whistle Test tonight. Should be good. I hope they're on before 8:10pm cos Mum and Dad change channels then and goodbye Whistle Test!

I should stop.

I haven't written a song about Bev yet. I am giving up on the "Insult / We should / You say" rubbish as the latter song was condemned by Newton yesterday. **

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A totally negative response to the aforementioned Screaming Blue Messiahs slot on Whistle Test. Dad has decided he's not buying their LP for me for Christmas so I'll buy it myself. ***

I'm learning to play "Sensoria" so could Rachel laugh at the beginning for me? She wouldn't, I'm sure.

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Footnotes

* You'd never guess by all this time wasting recording songs and writing lengthy diary entries that I had important exams within a few days.

** This is why I can't remember the songs, I ditched them just before I started recording so they disappeared.

*** Are you fucking kidding me? The Screaming Blue Messiahs on Whistle Test was absolutely immense. Bill Carter at his bug eyed best, making his TV debut and fighting against dodgy equipment and feedback, changing his guitar mid song to find it's the cable that's fucked not the guitar, then falling off stage and looking like his world has ended. And yet the music is short and sharp and brilliant. The mess makes it more memorable.  This was an important milestone in my gradually increasing love for guitars along with "How soon is now?" and "Upside down".

Seeing is believing here 

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