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Little Jo

aka Alcoholic Rat

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator Little Jo, Alcoholic Rat (albeit lightweight nowadays), mother, wife, teacher, ex scooter girl, huge fan of the Guana Batz and King Kurt, biggest passion is live music. Mostly into psychobilly and garage/trash, the odd bit of punk, rockabilly, ska, 2Tone, mod revival, motown and northern soul.

I run the Alcoholic Rat's website which is a collection of my own personal photos and reviews of gigs and scooter rallies from the 80s til present day. It is also the home of the official King Kurt website.

Alcoholic Rats Galleries and Messageboard

My Interests



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Going to gigs
Music
Coloured hair
Tattoos
Men wearing tartan
Dr Martens
Chocolate
chat

I'd like to meet:

People who enjoy going to gigs, like decent music, scooter events and having a laugh, but if I dont already know you personally, send friends requests to my other page please, cheers

Alcoholic Rats Myspace

Music:

Guana Batz
King Kurt
Long Tall Texans
Frantic Flintstones
Torment
The Milkshakes (and any band with Billy Childish in)
The Stingrays
The Prisoners
The Caravans
Coffin Nails
The Highliners
Restless
Stray Cats
The Go-Getters
Elvis
The Cramps
The Duel
Goldblade
Tenpole Tudor
Rock-It Dogs
The Beat
The Specials
2 Tonic
The Truth

Movies:

Quadrophenia
The Wanderers
Blues Brothers
Shag
The Full Monty
Sound of Music
Mary Poppins

Television:

Shameless
Nip Tuck
Desperate Housewives
The Shield
CSI
Property Developing shows

Books:

Books about the scooter/music scene interest me but if I want to loose myself for a couple of days there's nothing I like more than a good old corny bit of Chic Lit. I must be an old romantic at heart.

My Blog

A week and a day

It's been a week and a day since I LAST SMOKED A CIGARETTE. Ironically, I had decided I'd have another stab at giving up again after Bedlam Pychoiblly Alldayer anyway.  I'd just finished all...
Posted by Little Jo on Mon, 07 May 2007 04:44:00 PST

Guana Batz and Frenzy at Islington Acadamy

Guana Batz 25th Anniversary Gig - Islington Acadamy (with support from Frenzy, Thee Exit Wounds and Rock-It Dogs)   We went to the Academy early, with the intention of catching the Rock-It Dogs a...
Posted by Little Jo on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:51:00 PST

My 40th birthday part 2

Last night was the best birthday ever.  Mick booked King Kurt and Miniskirt Blues to play at the Ace so I got to celebrate again with some of my favourite people and one of my favourite bands of ...
Posted by Little Jo on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:39:00 PST

This is our music

This is Our Music, a 95 minute documentary filmed at The Speedfreaks Ball 2005, where 100s of psychobillies, punks, skinheads and rockabillies, invaded the sleepy seaside town of Hemsby to participate...
Posted by Little Jo on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:29:00 PST

King Kurt play my 40th birthday bash ;-)

That nice Mr Speedfreak has gone and done it again, top man!I've hijacked this for my 40th birthday celebrations. Would be well chuffed to see as many of you as possible at this one.   ----------...
Posted by Little Jo on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:30:00 PST

Latest gig photos

Two gigs in one night yesterday.  First up was The Spacewasters, Astro Zombies and Restless (last ever UK gig) at The Scala, then we hot footed it over to The Ace Cafe just in time to catch Nevil...
Posted by Little Jo on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:28:00 PST

Review of Speedfreaks 2

I had been looking forward to this all year and was like a kid on Xmas Eve in the weeks prior to Speedfreaks2, a 3 day alternative music festival hosting some of the best bands from the psychobilly, r...
Posted by Little Jo on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:19:00 PST

Being a lady for Children in Need

For those of you that sponsored me to wear a dress and heels on Friday night at Speedfreaks 2 for Children in Need, here's the evidence. Got changed into it at 9pm and lasted til 2.30 in the morning. ...
Posted by Little Jo on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:33:00 PST

Bands I've seen

The first few gigs I ever went to were local community centre/church hall type affairs to see a local punk band called Lethal Dose at about the age of 13 or 14.  Within a year or so I was allowed...
Posted by Little Jo on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:26:00 PST

Sold my scooter

Well yesterday I reluctantly sold my scooter, was really sad to see it go (infact I wept buckets) but I think it was the right time to sell it.   Dont intend to loose touch with the sco...
Posted by Little Jo on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:18:00 PST