art

I've been doing a lot of weird drawing so here is some of them.

I'm not much of a blogger

I'm not much of a blogger.

fractured blog

This is a fractured blog

Bits and pieces of sentences and phrases that emerge from my fractured brain

The Plinths have done a new pop video inspired by the John Hughes film The Breakfast Club you can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0F4R7jW1w

That was a good film

I wonder what I am doing here

I wonder what you are doing there

Recently I have been doing a lot of weird cartoons and sketchings which you can see on my instagram account

I have now stopped doing them

I wonder what  I am doing here

I wonder what you are doing there

Our recent DredgeLand podcast can be heard somewhere

Probably best to go and have a look at DredgeLand.com

It is really stupid

Apparently I wasn’t loud enough

I am too quiet

You can hear the final instalment of our sports-based adventure serial Cram and Coe

We have finished it as I can’t be bothered to write any more

I am currently watching every episode of The Goodies ever made. Of the 15 episodes I have seen so far only two have been any good

The rest have been bad

Mark is working on some new Plinths arrangements

I say arrangements, he’s putting a bit more guitar on them

I wonder what  I am doing here

I wonder what you are doing there

The sky is pink

My legs are puce

DredgeLand are doing another of our radio shows on wandsworth radio on thursday at 7pm

It will be a load of incoherent babbling and records

I don’t like people walking behind me

I don't like people walking in front of me

I wonder what I am doing here

I wonder what you are doing there

This blog is at an end

The End

See?

Today's schedule

Today’s schedule:
2.am get up
2.01 go back to bed when I’ve realised it’s too early
3am get up again...
3.01 see 2.01
4am get up again
4.01 prayer time
4.02 argue on phone with vicar for not being up at 4.01
4.03 prayer time (by myself)
4.05 breakfast
8.05 finish breakfast
8.06 pre-workout workout
8.20 workout
8.40 post-workout workout
8.42 post-workout meal
10.42 post-meal snack
10.43 open post
10.45 post open-post workout
11 shower
11.15 post-shower shower
12 cryo chamber recovery
12.10 post-cryo chamber recovery
12.20 lunch
14.00 family time
14.01 post family time snack
15.00 work calls/meetings
15.01 post traumatic stress disorder
15.15 workout 2
1600 post-workout workout 2
16.12 workout 2 nottingham forest 1
16.15 pick up kids from school
16.20 remember I don’t have kids
16.25 wonder who’s kids I have picked up from school
16..30 return kids to school
16.35 dinner/family time/meetings/work calls/workout/post workout work call workout
1700 bed
17.01 post-bed sleep
1715 cryo chamber post-bed sleep recovery workout

New video by John Dredge and The Plinths out today!

John Dredge & The Plinths release a new video for the track 'Learn To Ignore' today, taken from their debut, 'The Emergency EP'.

 

Learn To Ignore video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2PDPogDINE

 

This is the follow-up to 'Going Down' and ‘Rose Tinted Glasses’ which were featured on radio stations and podcasts around the country, notably on Dandelion Radio and Iain Lee's Talk Radio show. Louder Than War called the EP ‘highly recommended for lovers of power pop and hummable ditties, ’ referring to Learn to Ignore as ‘the real nugget in the collection.’  The new video was created by John and co-songwriter Mark Hibbett, and is the latest in a series of short films by the duo. Previous films have been shown at LOCO and Kino London by accident.

 

 

'The Emergency EP' is available on iTunes, Amazon, and all download sites, as well as directly from the band via their Bandcamp site  http://johndredgetheplinths.bandcamp.com.

 

"Sounding great - I LOVE breezy pop!" - Danny Baker
"Too good for words!" - Aron Smith, ShmuFM

Dredge's Dictionary

Today in Dredge's Dictionary we're up to C which stands for Cardboard Containers, Charles In Charge and of course CAR PARKS.

Car Parks

Car parks were invented in 1801 by Brian Carparks who lived in a shed near an allotment.

One day Brian noticed a car driving down a road.  The next day he noticed a local park.  Putting the two together was a stroke of genius.  The first car park was basic in form, permitting only one car to park at a time.  From these humble beginnings, however, car parks were to flourish.  Or were they? 

The 'Nash Car Park' was so-called because Brian had been forced to go into business with Rice Krispie heir Eric Nash, who later went on to die.  Spacious yet no good, it paved the way for less rubbish designs. 

Here we see the more modern car park, with it's special iron girders and fancy pillars and that.  Cars of all shapes and sizes are now able to access this type of car park, although triangular vehicles are still spurned.  This has led to protests by the head of Triangular Autos and Audio Ltd, Rick Gnitts, seen here within a van. 

Despite this sort of jiggery-pokery, car parks are very much in the vanguard of the modern day thing.  And it's not too fanciful to suggest that in 2018, car parks are here to stay. Or are they?  Goodbye.

 

NEW VIDEO FOR 'ROSE TINTED GLASSES' BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS RELEASED TODAY!

NEW VIDEO FOR 'ROSE TINTED GLASSES' BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS RELEASED TODAY!

John Dredge and The Plinths release a new video for 'Rose Tinted Glasses' today, the second track taken from their debut, 'The Emergency EP'.

'We are often compared to Duran Duran,' lied John, 'so like them we are planning to release a video for every song on our EP. We also intend to lurk around on a yacht.' 

This is the follow-up to lead track 'Going Down', which was featured on radio stations and podcasts around the country, notably on Dandelion Radio and Iain Lee's Talk Radio show. The video was created by John and co-songwriter Mark Hibbett, and is the latest in a series of short films by the award winning duo*. Previous films have been shown at LOCO and Kino London.

'May the plinth be with you,' said Dredge.  We are unable to offer further comment on this matter. 

'The Emergency EP' is available on iTunes, Amazon, and all download sites, as well as directly from the band via their Bandcamp site  http://johndredgetheplinths.bandcamp.com.

“Sounding great!” Danny Baker

“Too good for words!” Aron Smith, ShmuFM

 
Video for Rose Tinted Glasses  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OdC4xsgz7w

 

*John was awarded the 60m swimming badge in 1977 and Mark won Best Turnip That Looks Like A Person at the 1997 Theydon Bois Village Fete

Coming soon - new video from John Dredge and The Plinths

 Coming soon - new video from John Dredge and The Plinths

We've done quite well with 'Going Down,' our debut song, managing to get on Iain Lee's show and the John Peel inspired Dandelion Radio, plus we had Track of the Week on Wandsworth Radio and airplay on many other fab places.  High profile fans such as Danny Baker have also helped us out, and our next video will be released on Monday 26th February.  It's a short film so stand by your computer screens for that one.  Our EP is available from Bandcamp and all the usual internet-type-places...


John x

Debut video 'Going Down'  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUeBxGszppg


http://johndredgetheplinths.bandcamp.com

‘THE EMERGENCY EP’ BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS OUT NOW!

‘THE EMERGENCY EP’ BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS OUT NOW!
 

When Look-In Magazine expert and singer John Dredge met Doctor Doom expert and guitarist MJ Hibbett, a songwriting partnership was born.  With the addition of Star Wars enthusiast Andy Harland on drums and mystery man Bob Burgons on bass, John Dredge and The Plinths emerged, closely followed by 'The Emergency EP.' 

The four songs are out now, accompanied by a video for lead track 'Going Down' filmed by the band themselves in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Other tracks on the EP include 'Alison Alien', a homage to John Hughes' legendary movie 'The Breakfast Club', and 'Rose Tinted Glasses', which features a full marching kazoo band.

'The Plinths cannot be gainsayed,' says Dredge, although nobody is quite sure what he means.

'The Emergency EP' is available on iTunes, Amazon, and all download sites, as well as directly from the band via their Bandcamp site  http://johndredgetheplinths.bandcamp.com.

‘THE EMERGENCY EP’ BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS RELEASED TODAY!

‘THE EMERGENCY EP’ BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS RELEASED TODAY!

‘THE EMERGENCY EP’ BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS RELEASED TODAY!

When Look-In Magazine expert and singer John Dredge met Doctor Doom expert and guitarist MJ Hibbett, a songwriting partnership was born.  With the addition of Star Wars enthusiast Andy Harland on drums and mystery man Bob Burgons on bass, John Dredge and The Plinths emerged, closely followed by 'The Emergency EP.' 

The four songs are released today, accompanied by a video for lead track 'Going Down' filmed by the band themselves in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Other tracks on the EP include 'Alison Alien', a homage to John Hughes' legendary movie 'The Breakfast Club', and 'Rose Tinted Glasses', which features a full marching kazoo band.

'The Plinths cannot be gainsayed,' says Dredge, although nobody is quite sure what he means.

'The Emergency EP' is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and all download sites, as well as directly from the band via their Bandcamp site  http://johndredgetheplinths.bandcamp.com.

‘THE EMERGENCY EP’ BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS RELEASED TOMORROW!

‘THE EMERGENCY EP’ BY JOHN DREDGE AND THE PLINTHS RELEASED TOMORROW!

When Look-In Magazine expert and singer John Dredge met Doctor Doom expert and guitarist MJ Hibbett, a songwriting partnership was born.  With the addition of Star Wars enthusiast Andy Harland on drums and mystery man Bob Burgons on bass, John Dredge and The Plinths emerged, closely followed by 'The Emergency EP.' 

The four songs are released on 29th January, accompanied by a video for lead track 'Going Down' filmed by the band themselves in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Other tracks on the EP include 'Alison Alien', a homage to John Hughes' legendary movie 'The Breakfast Club', and 'Rose Tinted Glasses', which features a full marching kazoo band.

'The Plinths cannot be gainsayed,' says Dredge, although nobody is quite sure what he means.

'The Emergency EP' will be available on iTunes, Amazon, and all download sites, as well as directly from the band via their Bandcamp site  http://johndredgetheplinths.bandcamp.com.