Ericland

I have an online interview to do for a Swedish magazine.

I don’t like the vertical format.

We were in Hebden Bridge the other weekend, about to play in the Trades Club.

As we rolled on down the road towards Suffolk, Amy wondered why an open top car is cool, whereas driving a car with all the windows down marks you out as a loser.

I grew some purple sprouting brocolli.

I was worried.

I was driving to Birmingham - that’s Birmingham in the middle of England, not in Alabama.

Apparently it’s a milestone.

A house can take it out of you.

I would have said architrave but no one seems to know the word, so I’ll just say door trim instead.

In the end there was nothing scary about cataract surgery but it was a big inconvenience.

The rain stopped as I arrived in Manchester.

I remember feeling overwhelmed.

Hastings seems like an age ago.

As I drive along all kinds of things run through my mind.

I used to have it down, hardly had to think about it, I knew exactly what time to set off to get to places on time, almost by instinct, but it’s been four years since I toured here in the UK and I’m out of practice.

I’ve always thought of myself as the kind of artist who would never appear on Later With Jools Holland.

I think we were on a high security alert.

I’m very sad for the passing of Wilko Johnson.

I have a gig this coming weekend playing with my wife, Amy Rigby.

I used to take it all in my stride but getting ready to go and do shows was always a quietly fraught business for me.

When the brakes failed at seventy miles an hour in rush hour on the M25 I didn’t panic, I calmly said the word 'no' as if in response to an incorrectly answered question.

I had a run-in with a gun person who attempted to explain to me how it all works: Someone points a gun at you, he’s the bad guy, I’m pointing a gun at him, I’m the good guy - see how it works?

I keep writing stuff and not posting any of it - the world lurches from crisis to crisis and what I write quickly becomes irrelevant, inappropriate at at the very least just plain glib.

The Monkees TV show was first shown in England in September 1966.