She's Not Herneschase... shes a very naughty girl

Are here we are at last. This must be Sauda Arabia
“Hey You!” “Yeah, You with the Tea Towel. Do you know where I can find the King Abdullah?”

“No, I’m not selling Tupperware. Laura deals with that side of things on these trips. No, these here are military weapons.
Yeah the best in the business and very good value for money ”

“Ah hello King Abdullah Nice to see you again. I promised to drop in so that you could be part of my tour promoting, democracy and peace in the Middle East. That’s it, peace ”

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look between you and me I really have had enough of that namby-pamby peace crap. Perhaps you would like to take a look in this big case. These are what we in the United Snakes call hardware… military hardware".

"Now I think it would be sensible to broker a similar sort of deal to those we have made in the past with your neighbouring countries. As far as I can remember, the system works like this:
I sell you these nice shiny weapons and then in, let’s say 10 to 20 years’ time, one of my successors will accuse you of warmongering and harbouring lethal weapons, The US will invade your country and bomb the hell out of your innocent citizens? Perfect! Now look at this lovely green one it has an orange button here…..”

Today I trolled off to the Library, intent on doing some poor impoverished musicians out of a decent sized royalty. I quite quickly decided that our library CD collection is either seriously, seriously, crap or the Kiwis have a dodgy taste in music… until

I discovered an Asian Dub Foundation compilation album of Sinead O’Connor singing with the likes of Terry Hall, Massive Attack, Pete Gabriel, Jah Wobblyman etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Then, I found the CD of a band of whom I had never heard (yes me truly, I'd never heard of them They were called 'Nouvelle Vague'. and for $2.00 a CD I decided to wing it ‘cos it contained a cover version of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'.

One of my unofficial hobbies, over the years, has become the collection of cover versions of Johnny Be Good - you’d be surprised (and probably disinterested ) at how many there are. Recently I have progressed to Love Will Tear Us Apart covers. This is all the fault of Yat-Kha a Tuvan group who released a brilliant album of Tuvan throat music cover versions of various toons.

Well 'Nouvelle Vague' have produced the French equivalent of Yat-Kha’s Albert Kuvezin . A wistful female vocalist called Camille () executes the covers in the style of Inspector Clouseau sings Elevator Musak. It is fantastic. It’s all going on the i-Pod!

Anorak off now, it is getting a bit hot in here