http://www.pleasantdinners.com/rss.xmlThe Pleasant Dinners Cricket Club, bringing you real cricket news since 1997!Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTinfo@pleasantdinners.comen-gbWed, 10 Mar 2010 09:10:00 GMTCopyright: (C) Pleasant Dinners Cricket Club (PDCC), see http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Legal for terms and conditions of reuse.10Hoggshire league bowler Norman Loveday has announced that he is to sue rock musician Adrian Gurvitz for copyright infringement. Loveday claims that Gurvitz's current hit single ''Classic'' bears an uncanny resemblance to his own song ''Car Sick''. Loveday said: '' I wrote the song years ago and I have been playing it regularly in the clubs ever since. It's about a unique situation I once found myself in when I took two wickets with the last two balls of the days play. I was returning the next day to try and get a hat trick when I was violently sick in the car after eating a dodgy Scotch Egg.'' The legal action centres around the lyrics that open Gurvitz's song. ''Got to write a classic Got to write it in an attic Babe, I'm an addict now An addict for your love'' Compare that to Loveday's opening lines from his song ''Car Sick" ''God, I'm going to be car sick Going to miss out on a hat trick Maybe It will be cathartic . Damn that rank Scotch Egg.'' Loveday has had legal disputes with well known songwriters before. In 1972 he unsuccessfully sued ex Beatle George Harrison because of similarities between Harrison's hit ''My Sweet Lord'' and Loveday's song about losing a bag of wine gums at a Benson and Hedges Final: ''My Sweets At Lord's''.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/On_This_Day_In_Cricket/March/10Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTOn This Day In CricketForty years ago four university students set forth on a path that would lead to the creation of an experimental brand of Rock and Bowl known as 'Progressive Block'. After a decade of critical acclaim they sought their financial dues and became Rock and Bowls first international phenomenon. Many hits later they were credited with killing the genre.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Rock_and_Bowl/1998_the_year_that_Rock_and_Bowl_died_The_legacy_of_GenesixFri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMTRock and BowlAfter tragedy struck Aussie metal legends AC/DC in 1980 little did they know that their new member was more into cricket and cake than chicks and coke.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Rock_and_Bowl/A_schoolboy_errorFri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:02 GMTRock and BowlIn 1976 the state of English cricket caused a growing group of disenchanted youngsters to form a movement that would create chaos and confrontation across the country. It became known as Punk. This is its story.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Rock_and_Bowl/Robert_Key_in_the_UKFri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:03 GMTRock and BowlBy 1972, producer Gubby Melon was concerned that the James Bond format had grown tired. In a move that would prove to be disastrous for reasons he could not have possibly foreseen, he cast aside the Ian Fleming catalogue and enlisted Minor Counties umpire Seth Buckles to write a fresh and modern script.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Rock_and_Bowl/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gunn_and_MooreFri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:04 GMTRock and BowlTake a bunch of out of work umpires, a leaky ship and a box of records - modern radio is born on the high seas.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Rock_and_Bowl/Ship_of_Hits_The_Radio_Dorothy_storyFri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:05 GMTRock and BowlIn 1965, The Bowling Stones burst upon the rock and bowl scene with what would become the ubiquitous anthem of that summer: Talking About My Declaration. More modest hits followed including And Your Third Man Can Sing, Jumping Jack Hobbs, and All You Need is Gloves.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Rock_and_Bowl/The_Bowling_Stones_InterviewFri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:06 GMTRock and BowlIn this special edition of PDCC we take a detailed look at the movers and shakers of Rock and Bowl, its history and how it changed the world for ever. Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Bowl.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Rock_and_Bowl/Rock_and_BowlFri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:07 GMTRock and BowlPDCC tells the story of how a boy's sporting adventure comic belatedly discovered cricket and launched a host of exciting characters to a generation of young readers.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Features/Bye_gones_No_4_Tiger_comicWed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTFeaturesThere are few things in life more satisfying than blowing the dust off an old cricket related artefact that has been lost in the mist of time. This month we remember the film that time forgot - the dinosaur meets cricket epic - MCC Million Years BC.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Features/MCC_Million_Years_BC_1967Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTFeaturesPDCC is about to start a major new series on cricket's relationship with popular music - Rock and Bowl. As a taster we tell the story of one man's efforts to improve the lives of umpires everywhere through the power of song. Sir Bob Geldof stole the ideas - and the song - but he isn't bitter.http://www.pleasantdinners.com/Features/Charity_begins_at_HoveFri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMTFeatures