I'M LEAVING YOU IN THE CARE OF SOME VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE...

I dont go on holiday until the 16th May - two lovely weeks on the beach pictured above in St Kitts with Mrs Villain - but such was the magnificent response to the request for guest postings while I'm away that TVV is being handed over to various 'villains' throughout May and the early part of June.

Quite a lot of the mp3s that will be featured here over the next 6 weeks or so are quite different to what you would normally find, and to be perfectly honest, that was what I was hoping the outcome would be. Everyone has contributed in a way that is personal and unique. Some of the words will have you laughing out loud, others will leave you extremely moved. Some folk have contributed lengthy, entertaining and thought-provoking pieces, while others have captured exactly what they want to say in a handful of lines.

Many of the contributors will be dipping their toe into the wonderful world of blogging for the first ever time, and I hope that having done so and enjoyed the experience some of them will find the time and energy to start up something of their own.

I'm in the fortunate position of knowing exactly what is coming over the next few weeks, and given that I'm not the best at keeping secrets, I'm finding it difficult keeping quiet about the many highlights. But I'm going to say nowt....

Other than a couple of contributors who asked for specific dates to coincide with a special event in their lives, everything was put together at random, and I reckon it works out quite well in terms of no two posts on consecutive days being all that similar.

Amazingly, no-one requested the same songs be posted (although a handful of groups will appear more than once). I'm still waiting on 4 more posts arriving - all from some of my closest friends and confidantes as it turns out (John Greer, Comrade Colin, Mike from Manic Pop Thrills and Jacques the Kipper), so I cant say precisely how many songs and artists will eventually be featured.

In many ways, its like a gigantic festival on the one revolving stage....there will be great headlining acts doing familiar stuff......there will be some acts that wont be to the taste of everyone.....there will lots of acts you may well be hearing for the first time and who you will fall in love with.....and there's some acts that will may leave you wondering why the festival organisers went to the trouble of booking them.

I do hope that everyone who is a regular reader will offer words of support and encouragement via the comments page when they come across a posting that strikes a chord. I'll certainly be chipping in a few words and thoughts before I head off to my fantasy island, and even while I'm away I'm intending to go on-line every now and then to see what's been happening.

I'll be back with my own brand of rubbish in early June. In the meantime, this series will spare you live reviews of Lloyd Cole, Morrissey, Martin Stephenson and Maximo Park, all of whom I'm going along to see over the next fortnight.

I'll leave you for now with these variations on a theme:-

mp3 : Weezer - Island In The Sun
mp3 : Albert Hammond Jr - Holiday
mp3 : Kirsty McColl - He's On The Beach
mp3 : Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
mp3 : Urusei Yatsura - King Of Lazy

Happy Listening. See you in a while, but please keep on coming in......each new posting will appear at 0700 hours, UK time....