Working on the exhibition - probably find some pictures of the Camino...oops!

Just lately, I realised I've got to get it together. Anyone remember the Slider, a great wee club from 1983. The same year Keith and I traipsed up to Inverness icerink to watch Mr Echo and his bunny men before interviewing Will Sergeant on the freezing ice about themes from the grind and all things Arctic Ocean Rain. Very topical it was and 40 years on we wished we'd put more in about the icebergs.

The clock's always been ticking but you feel the impending explosion.

The Deadbeat is 40 project has a new name. 45 is the new 40.

So what I want to do is showcase some of the best stuff and then take it from there.

It seems to me these are genius wee artefacts from time and after the spell in the museum humana evolution the past 40-45 years are fairly insignificant. 

They are however the only bit of time I've got to draw on. More specifically 1982-86 and the history of the music industry.

When we interviewed Big Country and Roy was with his hero Stuart Adamson we had no idea 40 years on that he'd be dead and have missed the last 20 years. That his sound would continue to carry on says everything about his pals. It resonates, the past really does resonate.

When we saw then interviewed the Smiths, we had no idea in those 4 years that Morrissey's chat would be to do a Cilla number on the b side of Girlfriend in a coma. Little things like that really resonate with me in capturing how big is now.

So its time to plan an exhibition.