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I have started this blog because so many people keep telling me to write about and post pictures from my band PO! so here goes.

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Making 'Little Stones' PO!'s first album

My blogging history of PO! got stuck around 1989. That's when 'Little Stones' was made. I'm hoping to re-release it soon, so here's a little information about it.  PO!'s first album, Little Stones, was recorded by Terri Lowe of The Originals on his  Tascam 1/4" reel to reel 4-track machine at a cost of £20. Members of The Originals played the backing tracks, recorded at Leicester's Chatham Street basement. This was because the former members of PO! had left me with with no musicians. The vocals, extra guitars and other instruments were recorded at the Originals' house on Aylestone Road (on the corner of Rutland Avenue) over a number of weekends when there were no Leicester City home matches. (Terri Lowe went to the home games).  I had written most of the songs over a period of a few months. Usually I composed on acoustic guitar with a pad and pen to write down chords and vocal melodies down before evolving the lyrics. I can remember livin...
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Looks like it could be the Royal Mail, Leicester? Today I am in the mood for lists, so here it is: A list of 80 songs written by Ruth Miller A Lovely Letter A New Grandma A Page a Day Albert Stole My Heart Appleseed Alley Better Bigger Wall Bus Shelter  Confidence Danny's Girl Early Hours of Summertime Elephant Chains Empty Vessels Engineering Ever Been Had Failed Inventor Farmyard Fay First Foot George Orwell's on the Trail Ghost of the Green Grass Glamour Glass King Good Behaviour Good Boy Jacob Haunt You Higher Than Your Smile I took my Head on a Date I Won't Stay In a Mermaid Tail in My Dream In the Rain Ipswich Jacqueline's House Jennifer Television Kitchen Sink Drama Northampton Labour Club Last Bus Home Leopard Lips That Are Not Mine Loneliness Look for the Holes Lying on my Side Milksop My Head's on Fire No Flowers Northern Wonder One Last Thrill Plastic Charity Girl Poor Old John Pop Stars Wives...
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Guitar for PO!

When I started PO! I had some thoughts that could have been principles but I never stuck to them. 1. It's important that females play instruments in bands and girls shouldn't just be the singer. 2. Girl guitarists are particularly cool when they can play interestingly well. 3. Don't form a band with someone you're in a relationship with. 4. Don't have a relationship with anyone in the band. 5. Don't get in a more competent male player to cover up any female lack of ability. These ideas came from punk, from bands like The Raincoats and The Au Pairs which I liked when I was younger. It has proven hard to stick with them and I'm not even sure that they're right. The original version of PO! (Ruth, Julian Marc) and the second version of PO! (Ruth, Jan, Mary) hit my targets, only to be disrupted by the much more tuneful, jangly and downright competent sound when Terri Lowe joined the band, countering principles 4 and 5. From Ducks and Dr...
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