Welcome, friends. Breathe if you detest Man.U., Boris and bumgob Dave!

Many of you will know of me from my work with the Kursaal Flyers and Eddie and the Hot Rods. Talking of the Kursaals, Paul, Vic and I, together with honorary Kursaals Bob Clouter, Andrew Farrell and Steve Oliver, played a short set at the Sheepwalk Club, Leytonstone, together with a more substantial set at the rebuilt Kursaal Function Suite. I'm in the process of editing some video footage of the shows. I hope to able to add that to the site before too long, although, as those of you who have been patiently waiting for my Kursaals bootleg DVD, you know that I work quite slowly. In the meantime, an unknown cameraman has provided me with a couple of clips which can be seen on the video pages, V3 and V4.

I'm currently working on a couple of projects. The first one is to write and record material for my new CD. Rough demos of songs under consideration are available on the New Songs page. I'm up to about 14 at the moment and still can't stop so there'll be a case for reader involvement in editing them down (I suppose I could always do a double CD!). I've used a new method of delivery for song files on this page, using Flash. Comments of any kind would be more than welcome, because new songs should be developed properly by criticism. (Apart from a couple of RealMedia song files, all the mp3s are played using a Flash plug-in on your browser - click here to download the Flash Player 9 for your particular browser.)

I'm also supplying a song or two and some background music for a film to be made by brother Andrew Douglas, based on a script by Steven Haisman, about the clearances of the East End of London after the second world war and the migration of the urbanites to the once-agricultural county of Essex. How they mutated into Thatcher's maximum-consumption children is a horror-story worth telling. You can find a couple of these on the Others page. Also featured is the original version of “Tonight before tonight”, featuring the beautiful sax playing of John Pugh.

I've finally gotten round to editing some press cuttings that deal with my time with the Kursaals and Hot Rods - I was a bit hot-headed in those days and said a lot of things which were unwise and which I, now, regret. No matter, what was said was, indeed, said by me. I present the cuttings in all their glory.

There are alternative mixes from my “G2” CD on the Songs from G2 .

Some surplus-to-requirements equipment is now on the Equipment for sale page. I've just reduced prices to clear the items.

For those amongst you who find My Space interesting, you can apply to be my friend on this link I will be happy to add you to my Friend list and send you a message for your MySpace page.

Photographs of the Kursaals at the Sheepwalk club are now on the Photographs page. They were taken by our greatest Swedish fan, Jan, who decided that this was one K's show that he would not miss, so flew over for the event. There are some new K's sweatshirts available from Jan's site. Follow this link to see he has on offer. As Paul might have said (and Richie Bull definitely would have said) “With friends like that, who needs enemas”? It's slightly worse than the joke at the beginning of the K's set, but not by much.

All music on the site is © Graeme Douglas Songs, and others. Images are used by kind permission of the various copyright holders.

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Welcome, friends. Breathe if you detest Man.U., Boris and bumgob Dave!