Recent content by Alonso Moseley

Horace and Enola

There’s a crazy one near Billingshurst where, once you read the sign which I did eventually, you have to open the near gate inwards then the other outwards obviously crossing over. Then go back to the motor, drive over and close them again. Then do it all again as I was delivering and...

Steve Jones’ bio Lonely Boy has quite a lot on Sid, ‘I wish we’d called him something nicer and he wouldn’t have played up to it so much’ and it’s quite sad how it went for him. Good book, very funny and honest.

‘I’ve been up to Villiers Terrace…’

The detective in the fabulous film Midnight Run.

‘You’re Own Personal Cheezus’ is the slogan on the Depeché Mode cheese shop’s awning in NY.

The album Party Of One by NL is very good indeed. Great blues with at the time hugely poingnant lyrics.

Barco

IPlayer 19.35 starts I saw somewhere

I highly recommend a towelling Moroccan Berber style hooded cloak, like mine. Red. I did buy it about twenty years ago in Essouira so could be tricky to find another.

I was in the very busy Coach and Horses in Soho one evening when a fight broke out. Drinks flying everywhere. Me and my friend had just bought full pints so we covered them and went for the exit, dodging the craziness. Just as we got to the (double) doors they flew open in our faces and there...

Joe the Waiter. I do love a handclap in a song.

McGuire

Had my first and hopefully only ‘episode’ earlier this year in March, thought my foot was going to explode (it was three in the morning). I’ve been taking 1500 mg Montmorency cherry tablets every day and drink a lot more water now, especially if I drink any booze.

I foresee this method hijacked as an epic scene in a forthcoming Bond film