We've decided to throw the towel in... it's been a funny old experience moving to the Legion... maybe the venue isn't quite right... maybe it's the credit crunch... maybe it was time for a rest anyway. Certainly I've had enough of firing myself up on a Monday night for the sake of a 3/4 empty room... it's a shame cos EVERY week has been a blast act-wise, and I'm hugely grateful to all the fantastic and foetal entertainers who have kept the job fun and funny and ludicrous and yet in the main stimulating and satisfying. Those shitters from Russia can **** off though. But even then I was honoured they chose MY open-mic ;-o

It seemed an excellent time to draw it to a close, with so many anti-folkers (without whom we'd quite possibly never have really got off the ground in the first place back in 2005) lined up as featured acts in June and Kunt & the Gang, who can always be relied upon to bring a quality rowdy crowd with him and to keep the tone appropriately low, booked for his first appearance at the new Spoonful on July 6th - so that's gonna be the last one. And with regular guest and occasional deputy MC Richard Tyrone Jones also on the bill, along with anti-folk heroes Paul Hawkins and David Cronenburg's Wife, hilarious funnyman Daniel Simondsen and long serving DJ come chief heckler and MC sidekick Call-Centa all in attendance it should be a monumental farewell.

There are 3 more between now and the last one, hopefully you can make it down to one of them...

and then, at some point after the summer, maybe I'll think about doing it again, in a scuzzier, cosier venue, on a night that isn't Monday. Or Sunday. or Tuesday. and it can't be Wednesday. and Thursday's a little bit tricky too.