Why Cherry Diamonds?

Because when I was growing up, and I wanted to be rockstar, I didn't want to be a guitar hero or a prancing lead singer, and definitely not a drummer. I played bass - sort of - and there were a limited number of bass players that had any sort of image that I was interested in. 

Paul Simenon of course was the coolest bass player ever, did anyone ever sling their bass lower? Not only the subject of the best rock photo of all time, the smashing the bass one that appeared on the cover of London Calling but when it was all over, happily stepping off to a successful career as an artist

And judging by his recent appearances with The Good, The Bad And The Queen, he's still got all the moves, still looks a million bucks, and still can't play bass to save his life

And there was Jean-Jacques Burnel of course, and Dee Dee Ramone. But thats about it. So my image was of the studio based, multi instrumentalist. Like Matt Johnson, of The The. And my dream project would be called The Cherry Diamonds.

So I did get to play in a few bands - mostly very bad ones - but never got the chance to to use the name. And as I still think its a great name - here we go

But that doesn't mean this is going to be a music blog. I am going to blog about music but, anything else that interests me, culture, politics, art, living in Singapore and whatever....