<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4879caec-e74c-4ca9-bbe6-fc3ab13a41ad/BD41930C-6FBF-46C3-8083-85CAD0253818/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2179554,00.html" href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2179554,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">books.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2179554,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/books.guardian.co.uk/img/4775FA70-B2A5-4640-8758-60480F0F6F24" alt="Simon Armitage" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2179554,00.html"><FONT size="1" face="Geneva,Arial,sans-serif">'Got a name yet? How about Midlife Crisis?' ... Simon Armitage gets ready to rock<BR /> </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2179554,00.html"><DIV> <FONT size="3" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What happened when a 44-year-old award-winning poet and novelist decided the time had come to fulfil his rock'n'roll fantasies and form a band? Simon Armitage reveals all</FONT> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2179554,00.html">So one day my mate Craig Smith phones up and says something like, "Why didn't we ever get that band together when we had the chance?" And I say something like, "Don't know. A shame, really." And he says, "Yeah. Well, why don't we do it now?" And because I can't think of a logical response to his question (there are dozens of logical responses to his question - I just can't think of one immediately), I say, "OK, let's do it."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BD41930C-6FBF-46C3-8083-85CAD0253818/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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