LThe Mummies are an American garage punk band formed in San Bruno, California, in 1988. Exhibiting a defiantly raw and lo-fi sound, dubbed “budget rock”, the Mummies’ rebellious attitude and distinctive performance costumes exerted a major influence on garage punk and garage rock revival acts later in the decade, as well as in the 1990s. Their recorded output was intentionally completed with poor, cheap equipment, including their first and only studio album Never Been Caught, which was released after the group’s initial break-up.

I had to do a seminar presentation today which I agonized over preparing and I did the equivalent of ripping up the setlist half the way through and improvising which was far better. I went to the Punk record store to celebrate this fact. PowerPoint is fucking awful and it’s always liberating to just abandon it.

The truly wonderful All Ages Records in Camden Town.

Hard audience. Tough crowd. Didn’t like the ballads “Explaining likelihood in HHSRS risk scoring” so I hit them with “Spread of Harms in Lighting Hazards” which was where the front row of housing professionals started crowd surfing.