Taking place this Saturday 19 May 2012. KO 2:00pm – Teams from South Wales, the services and England.

‘No Regrets’ sees Dowd thumbing through his ‘little black book’ to measure his memories of his past loves against their reminiscences. Each song is titled with the lady in question’s name and tells a tale, never really fondly. Dowd’s discordant growl and equally discordant guitar, keyboard and drums epitomises each relationship. Great fun to listen to each relationship and I’m glad I did’nt have half his worries. Will Mrs Dowd be impressed? Is this a sign of a man in mid life crisis?

6Music have done me again! Listening to Marc Riley the other day I was rather taken by a session from ‘Shrag’. The sound is ‘clearsil, teenage girl-rock angst’ with delightful ditties on being pregnant, shoplifting and having a boyfriend push forward their own musical tastes. When the CD arrived and I was not disappointed by the shout-rock reminiscent of girly punk and the B-52s. Great stuff.

Really pleasant ‘Lee & Nancy’ or ‘Isobel & Mark’ duo sing some modern ballards. Nice!

Unashamed plug for the film that my son worked on as Costume Supervisor. Showing in Cardiff Cineworld from 2 March!

I will be mostly listening to ‘old gravel-voice for hire’ Mark Lanegan, with his latest band, waxing lyrical; for the next few days!

You can add in your own text for hours of fun – and it’s free…

Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenings down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you

Fantastic evening out!

…..the ‘Lady with Ermine’ at the Royal Palace, Madrid.