Guest post this week from one of my closest pals, musician, painter, fashionista, and all-around wickedly wonderful guy, Karl Mullen:

Dear Kate,

Thanks for the request to be a guest blogger. This is my first …. though back in the late 70’s early 80’s as an illegal alien I played in the punk band Carsickness under the nom de guerre ‘Joe Bloggs’.

But that was old schooling blogging,……. ‘banging and shouting like a kid gone wrong’ ….remember Patrik Fitzgerald? I had his record which was LP size so we used play it at 33 speed until some sober guest read the cover and informed us it was to be played at 45.

Those were the days when we lived in the old Hare Krishna house in Pittsburgh and at least 4 bands rehearsed there….all at once. Which is how I still like to listen….. to many different styles at the same time.

Love the ipod shuffle …… the Sultans of Ping and then John Mc Cormac… Thin Lizzy to Moondog, Rachel Unthank to Midlake. Brilliant!

And in no particular order…. just shuffle.. here is just a few of the recent artists I’ve been listening to:

http://www.myspace.com/honestjonsrecords where I buy my CD’s
http://www.myspace.com/gillespeterson
http://www.myspace.com/thelasttownchorus
http://www.myspace.com/louismoondoghardin
http://www.myspace.com/loscampesinos all the way from cardif!
http://www.myspace.com/robertwyatt
http://www.myspace.com/johnnyflynn
http://www.myspace.com/bellx1… someday we’ll all wear the crown
http://www.myspace.com/raphaelsaadiq
http://www.myspace.com/soilpimpuk
http://www.myspace.com/boniver
http://www.myspace.com/samamidon
http://www.myspace.com/rachelunthank cant wait to see them live.
http://www.myspace.com/muhly
http://www.myspace.com/bedroomcommunity
http://www.myspace.com/christineantoinette

All the best, Joe Bloggs a.k.a Henry Flower