Cluttered Like My Head

 It's taken me a while, but I'm back to Issue 3 of the Daredevils. Again, there's an excellent Moore / Davis Captain Britain at the start of the issue, featuring Brian Braddock's sister Betsy, and a load of her psychic colleagues being tracked and eliminated by a character from Captain Britain's past.  Especially notable is that some of the action takes place in a shop off of Denmark Street. Anybody who was dipping their toes into the British Comics scene around that time will know that the shop is Forbidden Planet in its original location and I wonder if the two staffers that Davis illustrates in the story were based in people who actually worked there at the time.  There's a continuation of the Daredevil / Bullseye story later n. Again this is excellent stuff, despite the 4 page interlude for Parker Brothers videogames in the middle of it, and it show Ben Urich getting more evidence of his suspicions about Matt Murdock. It remains a treat.  There's another...

  Mew played a show last night at the Camden Roundhouse. It was brilliant.  Technically it wasn't just any show though - frontman Jonas Bjerre announced that after 30 years, he felt it time to move on from the band, so they were going to play some farewell shows in Copenhagen.  This then became a farewell tour, which was due to end in London.  Towards the end of the year, he lost his voice, so the shows got rescheduled, and the final show remained as London but it moved to February.  I go back a long way with this band - they've been important to me off and on throughout the last 20 years or so, and I wasn't going to miss this show.  I guess they were important to a lot of people there - it was an emotional show.  It's weird going to a farewell show when it's only the singer saying farewell.  In 2003, I spent a month or two in ny sisters spare room between houses - they had Sky, and there was a new music channel called 'The Amp', which played a lo...