19.07.06
MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE

Luks like av missed art on a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize. What's tha all abart then? Wi year av ad tha'd think ad bi first name art er at wun't tha? Thers just no pleasin sum folk.

26.05.06
NEW LODGE TO NEW CROSS

Am darn London nar, but am back up north on er few weekends. Am just like Arctic Monkeys arn't a. Darn wi t'bright city leets, just like er moth t'a flame. Am gunna try an get sum gigs on darn ere an get sum tarn bands t'come an play. A reckon it'd bi a reight oppener for em.

May 8th 2006
BRING ON THE PEBBLEDASH!

Ayup then. Mi album's mooer or less ready nar. Av just got one mooer song t'sewert art an then am gunna burn off a few. A'll probly ev it available t'buy on mi website sooin enough. Ar just dun't care what them big companies ar tranna do t'mi. Mi songs are gunna be art theear an they carn't stop em.

April 26th 2006
There worra gud chance tharra wer gunna mek an appearance at t'Carling Live 24 event darn in London, but t'production company had to clear t'performance wi Arctic Monkey's record company, cos although mi songs are "independent work", according t'production company's music executive they bare enough of a resemblance ter t'Arctic's tracks for em t'av t'run it past EMI. So t'in't a gooer nar. The nail that stands art will bi hammered darn.

March 10th 2006:
Ayup, am w'kin on sum mewer songs fo'thi t'darnload. mi bathroom is doublin up as mi rekewerdin studio at mo (gerrin sum reight good sarnd art er it). an as tha can imagine, it dun't smell like roses in theer at times. ar suffer fo'mi art me. an av allus got mi alpine forest air freshner.

March 10th 2006:
Toneet av just done two mewer songs, al probly av em on mi site in t'next cuppler days. am still waitin on all t'a n r men to gerrin touch. av even gorra spare barge pole if they daren't come any closer. Al av t'start buskin rarnd tarn t'cover mi expenses. Ar best not bi brekkin oppen mi charity box f'blind kids. i carn't do that agen, norrafter last time ...it took mi ages t'sellotape it back up wi art anybody knowin."

March 10th 2006:
Mebbi ar shud gerra backin group. Mebbi Brian May an rest o'breathin members o'Queen ed doit. Or mebbi a supergroup, am shewer thed all wanna gi it a gu. Am gunna rekewrd sum new uns sooin, cos I knoz thas gerrin reight inter um really. s'gerron mi bandwagon, befoor wheels fall off.

March 7th 2006:
Ar went t'same college in Barnsley as two er Arctic Monkeys, nor at same time like. So it must bi a reight musical goldmine rarnd ere wun't yer seh. a meyern what's chance o'that appenin? ...a million t'one they said"

March 5th 2006:
"Just for t'record ...Arctic Monkeys ar mi favrite band. Ar darnloaded all t'demos early last year, an I went t'see mi first gig last August (effin great!) ...an better still mi ticket cost less than a tenner.

February 14th 2006:
"Folks ar allus purrin albums back so a thort it'd bi reight good fun t'bring mine forrad. An manufacturin will be cheaper than ar thort it would cos ar gorrolder sum reight cheap blank cds on market in tarn. An mi thinkin is that albums ar gunna do mooer gud if they're art there ratha than sat on mi hifi system. An sunner folks can ear these songs the better."

September 2005:
"A first started writing mi songs late last September. It were reight cold one morning, a wer gunna gooin in t'tarn t'see if parnd shop ad gorrowt new in, but mi bus din't turn up so a went back ooam. Ad just fitted some new strings on mi guitar, an a lukked art er mi winder an thought ad come up wi sum songs."