It's been a while

Howdy All, everything has been a hectic whirl around here, time flies by and before you know it six months has passed without us updating you on what is going on in our shirty world.

Well as you will hopefully have noticed we have not been wasting our time, if you check out the House of Spoons shirt site you will see lots of tasty new shirts have been added to the collection.

First thanks to the wonders of modern science you can now take part in the most thrilling sport to walk the earth since the Jurassic period, the thrills, the spills, the occassional small animal eaten whole, nothing matches the excitement of dinosaur Rodeo, tell the world you love it with our new Jurassic County rodeo shirt:



You like "electro"? Does it make you sexy? Well snap out of your 'jazz trance' and check what we have for you. Whether it's four to the floor or funky old school, if an 808 gets you hot and bothered then this is the shirt for all you Electro Sexuals:



Think they are tasty? Well stay tuned there are more on their way very shortly... Tune in tomorrow — same shirt-time, same shirt-channel!

Town Not Gown? Gown Not Town?

So it's the 36th Cambridge beer festival this week, the oldest continuously running beer festival in the country and the second largest beer festival outside London. A festival of beards, tankards, cheese, pork pies, morris dancing and last but not least murky pints of old head stomper, badger botherer, stoat fancier and whatever other whimsical names have been attached to the alcoholic weapons of head destruction they have on offer this year.

Although I'm a lager man at heart I always like to head down for a spot of people watching, some quality cheese and and a few pints of worryingly strong continental "biers".

Every year the festival has an theme, this years is Town and Gown a subject close to our hearts at Cambridge T-Shirts. They have carrried this motif to the beer glasses.. The gown one shows the character drinking beer with a mortarboard, playing cricket and rugby, and with a spade. The locals one shows the mascot drinking beer. Is this a metaphor for student life? Who knows?

Anyway while we are on this subject it seems like an appropriate opportunity to recomend you abotu a couple of our choice local T-Shirts:

For those of you of a Town persuasion we have this lovely little beauty where you can proudly declare your allegiance to Town Not Gown.

For those of you on the other side of Reality Checkpoint we proudly present this other tasty T-Shirty morsal allowing you to proudly tell people you are Gown Not Town

Stop dreaming of the quiet life cos it's one we'll never know.....

A Town Called Malice was and still is the one for me that started it all. I wanted to start dancing and never stop, but more importantly I wanted to be him, I wanted to make that noise, the bumping, pumping, insistent, infectious bass line that underlined the whole thing, the engine room that dragged the song forward by the scruff of its neck. Together with the poignant lyrics it seemed that, in just 2:55, it offered that rarest of things to anybody left with the imagination to hear it, namely things don’t have to be shit if you want them to change. I worshipped at its bass altar.

It was only as I got older, mellower and my musical tastes started to broaden that I realised that the very bass gods I worshipped might have gods of their own. All roads lead to James...... The ultra-catchy bass line was in fact pretty heavily influenced by "I'm ready for love" by Martha and the Vandellas. Check it out.

Yet even when I realised that perhaps after all nothing is new, even when I realised he was singing about Woking, this still warms my heart every time I hear it, join me and worship.