Suicide is painless right enough (in financial terms) Mr Rafferty reports that FOPP is selling the following Rev - Vega delights at a fiver each for the nice blast first doublepacks :

Suicide, with live at cgbgb's 1977 and 23 minutes over brussels

and

The Second Suicide Album with The First Rehearsal Tapes

cannae be bad...

Pete Myers was the mad, MAD DADDY... (thanks to Larry Shell for the tip off)

and Ben has just made me aware of this MICHAEL WELDON Hillbilly Hollywood story on the WFMU site.