In posting those old film links I was giving you my own personal Chocolate Box image - the Utopia of my inner dreaming that was once my home. What I wouldn't give to be able to feel the heat off one of the old saddle tank engines of a winters morning (when I should have been at school) or else stand in my Uncle Ken's garden of a moonlit November night gazing up at the chimneys of Blyth Power Station belching God knows what into the stars whilst the dirty old engines shunted coal trucks on the staiths. Next time you're watching Get Carter keep your eyes peeled - you'll catch a glimpse of it there. For my personal paean (and a free download!): Blyth Requiem / Autumn 2003.

That was my England - my perfect paradise - and they fucked it over without mercy. The demolishing of Blyth Power Station was the last straw - I now live in Lancashire where everything is new to me.

Jesus, just listen to me! How many old folkies does it take to change a light-bulb anyway????

Now back to NEU!, which was one of the albums we used to listen to in those far off times on my old Fidelity stereo powered by good old fashioned Northumbrian coal-fired electricity...