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Live at the Forum, 27/5/8. Was a good gig, dispite the first set from the newest three albums, and I didnt even know it was them playing!
then the first encore was hits, NWO, Breathe, just one fix, Thieves and So What, which is below. I mean it was awesome! Then we left but the next encore they played covers including the doors, ZZ Top and what a wonderful world.

a muggy london day- where is summer?

This week is lagging even though its a day shorter! where is the justice?

I have found new blogs of note today and have entered them over there in the land of blogs and other sites you should visit before you die.

In other news I am reading Michael Chabon's "Kavalier & Clay", and although not yet a third of the way in, I am very excited with it. Being the third MC Book I have read this year (!) I am a fan! READ HIM! And of course the cover art is excellent in this new =WARNING SHAMELESS PLUG WITHIN= format by HarperCollins.

Long weekend!

woohoo! not that I have had such a long week this week!
Minehead was awesome, just the best time, watching bands, hanging out at the chalet, waterslides, more bands. pretty cool.

Highlights were ghostface killer and silver jews. good fun.

I burnt my mouth so took a couple of days off getting better, and here i am on a Friday before bank holiday haha.

I am off to the Ministry gig on Tuesday. Thats going to Rock!

I will put some pix and videos up when we add them to you tube. the ones on at the moment have awful sound quality!

out

off to the parties tomorrow

ALL Tomorrows Parties.

Minehead. Tomorrow. Party. Tomorrow. Minehead.

How exciting is it going to be? pretty damn exciting.
The gig starts and ends really really well. Constantines first and ends with Envy.

Soon enough- great song, the video is obviously fan made but I like it.


and to end, Japanese hardcore band Envy


and heres some of those crazy NZers...

falling down...

Sun floods the desk as I type these words. May bursts into its second week with sun and smiles and job interviews.

Just heard this for the first time, and as a dedicated Scarlet fan thought I would highlight her debut single.

I think its pretty awesome.
Of course if you dont know the original it should sound like this.


So really no comparrison between them, but scarlets does have a low fi attractiveness...

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk

Went to the Vaudeville theatre last night, watched Importance of being Earnest with Penelope Keith. Awesome. She is great, the others were cool, theatre is just fun.
And I love the old buildings, and ordering your interval drinks, and how they have boxes for the stubbs of everyones tickets so to easily tell if a seats been double booked. Magic.

oh I took a photo of the roof, but bloggers not letting me post.
will edit it later, coz I am sure you are keen!

come back and check!

Hey- its FRIDAY!

23 April 2008. London.

23 April is always a big day in my family. Hayds birthday yesterday- Happy Birthday bro! Nicks birthday tomorrow- again Happy Birthday bro!
And today is a special day as well. Friday is of course ANZAC day and I am not sure to go to the service or not?! I would like to because its always good to make an effort, it is on my bike ride to work and I haven’t seen the Paul Dibble statue yet.



I don’t want to go because- its too early! I will have to be at work an extra 2 hours early, its always borringly christian (as if the church isnt responsible enough for encouraging them to go fight for the motherland in uh, Turkey) and L. is planning to make ANZAC biscuits! YUM! Which means if I want to see the service I will miss the cookies!

apologies for relying on wikipedia a bit heavily there. Pictures of buscuits to follow.

Here is some art for sale at the Animation Art Gallery that I want to buy. One is affordable at only a hundred quid, and one is a bit much for me thank you very much at four hundred. But oh well!

Midlake

So good this band is (have turned into yoda!)
Very good tune this, just turn it up and sit back!

ATP Ear Feast

Soooo, with All Tomorrows Parties looming above us next week, we have fully charged up with Nitrus and listening to a whole lot of new music. I thought I would share. So the above band is Beach House.

The Below is Jens Lekman..

lamentable

Oh why, oh why wont those pictures load? hmmm, well if you care enough you can double click into them I think. let me know if you cant. I loaded them directly from flickr, so maybe I wont do that in the future.

I bought my guitar in the weekend. how exciting! so much fun you know, relearning ac/dc - iron maiden licks. using words like licks as a noun.

back!

There is something about holidays that makes it very difficult to hook back into the blog. is that just me? I bet if I had a lap top this would not be an issue, but say- going to NZ with their relativly slow internet speeds often leads me to check the emails, facebook and then arseblog, then get the hell off it. however I am constantly using the camera etc, so there is plenty of stuff to blog. How interesting is other peoples holiday photos though? I find them interesting, but do you? well too bad if you dont chuck, here is a couple i just thought of.

This is a picture of the central plateau, a land of mountains and heather, and a stretch of road running like an artery between north and south.

This is the four square man. A face you can trust. The thumbs up of the convienence shopper.

this is when I caught about 7 snapper, one eel and one shark.

And this is me and my brothers but three Kauri trees.

But that pretty much sums it all up, other than the wedding but hey, its not really that sort of blog. check out the family one soon, we will be all over that.

Anyway- along with the snow it seems that the thames has been so redeveloped that now sea horses are growing along its shores! how awesome is that?

MasterChef Thursday

I might ban myself from reality tv shows. I am just getting too emotional with them, as some smug producer plays with my feelings, like I am a puppet to their cathrode ray tube strings.
Last night it was MasterChef. I mean its not as lame as it sounds. We had three contestants, all with good cooking ability and each had learned so much in the journey through the programme. Each with dreams of opening their own kitchen.

Emily was full of creative inventions but also youthful pretensions on food as art, “composition of the plate” etc. She had the world ahead of her, and even getting to the final was a great achievement for an 18 year old.

Jonny wanted to serve up food with saleability, and his ideal kitchen, it seemed to me would not need a Gordon Ramsey make over, as he was after serving up food the customers would want. He also was a single Dad, and tugged at the heart stings the most. I wanted him to win by the end of it, however he did not.
James won it, and to be honest his dish at the end deserved to win it.

So that was my main event of the evening, other than tacos- and I am pleased to say, because I found James so unlikeable, and John Torode some sort of coke fuelled Geronimo spinning wilder and wilder out of control with ever increasing adjectives, I didn’t cry once.

Bloglist

So dinner was unfortunately postponed tonight, so I am at a loose end. M. rang though and he and G might come round. Thats G with a G and not a J. they wont be long but it will be productive.

But I want to have something finished tonight. I have to do some text on NBOT and then thats finished I think.

Then I will begin the backing up of all our photos onto dvd. There are an awful lot.

oh I printed out some photos the other day. its wierd that feeling, going into the shop to pick up your photos, and then pick up some hard copy! How very 80's!

quick you tube dump

Freeze! I love this stuff- unfortunately its improv "actors" but thats what makes it so good, I also love the ipod dancers but this actively freaks people out.




and here we have knowledge city. Could you wish to come from a less naff city?

V Day

L brought me this fantastic book of short stories!!

the raising of the great whore

Spring in February is a scary concept. Without jumping on any global warming band wagon, it is something that I am experiencing for the first time. Sure I have only been in the northern hemisphere for 7 years, but still this is the loveliest warmest days that usually appear in April. So what does this mean? Will it be a long drawn out heat fest? Will I be loathing the heat of May? Will August be droughts, water bans and trips to Norway?

The very real effect was a fantastic bike ride into work today. Regents park was glorious, the sun was rising over those amazing buildings that flank the park, and the fields held a veil of fog against them, with people walking their dogs amongst their dewy grasses. Oh for a camera- I thought. I will bring mine tomorrow, but of course tomorrow will not be the same. Lets hope though!

So there was a fire in Camden the other night, and I didn’t even know about it. Bearing in mind it is only half an hour walk from my house, is pretty lame of me. It reminded me of that song…

“Black or white turn it on, face the new religion
Everybody's sitting 'round watching television!

London's burning with boredom now
London's burning dial 99999”



So the guy who put this on the mighty you tube thinks it might be the great whore of babylon burning mentioned in revelations and many reggae songs.
so hes not that paranoid

The days are getting longer.

A song for the summer?

LEGO!

I guess you have heard that lego is now 50 years old! I know! but with such a simple and productive item you knew it would kick off. And in many ways is the start of the consumer age, with plastic beating mechano... sigh. I wasnt born at this time, lets get that straight. I did get a big bucket of lego from older cousins though. that was AWESOME>

To commerate (he says, straightening his tie and getting back to the subject) the anniversary they have a cool art deco set going. I want that cinema!



and because lego is not all about gimicky cheap shots at an audience who will buy anything just because it reminds you of your child hood


and just because I get a bit carried away sometimes

a way of life that calls for another way of living.

Toast. Is there anything that smells as good in the morning? Its like Leonard Cohen for the nose.

Anyway, there comes a time whenever I do things like this that I begin to doubt myself, begin to think,- well why update when I haven’t done anything? Well I think the reason is only to document, and when life doesn’t involve bigger happenings, there’s no need to belittle, the already little happenings.

So, lets see. Would have blogged about Morrissey, had he not suffered from a throat infection, postponing our concert. But better pulling out than giving a substandard performance I say, but imagine if you travelled in? We checked in the morning what time it started, and found out that it wasn’t on. Good old internet! In the dark old days we would’ve just turned up for a big sandwich of disappointment.

I went to the Tate the other day, but missed the LB exhibit because there were three of us and the card will only let two in. I saw the crack though. And its pretty cool! As mentioned earlier Juan Munoz starts this week, so cant wait for a bit of that.

I don’t like to finish books on the tube. You are left with a finished book weighing down your man bag, and it doesn’t feel that you are giving the words the attention they deserve. So I had two books I had to finish as well as two 2000AD comics I hadn’t finished (but for lack of time, I don’t mind finishing comics on the tube). So on Sunday I sat down and finished Lords of the Bow and Mister B Gone both quite great, but ultimately unsatisfying books. The first is foremost an in between book, that so often happens in a trilogy. It’s a stepping stone between the page turning excitement on the first one and is full of presentiment of the third instalment, which I fear is going to be a sad story. Oh its about Ghengis Khan if you didn’t know. Cool. And the second, though a nice neat little story, lacks the bite that say “the yattering and jack” welds – a random example of how Barker has handled the life of a demon before.

So the end of one book only means a start to another, so I have indeed started two books! They both have started off with intriguing but dry ideas. The one I have bought with me, (and is noted at the foot of the blog) is about one mans forty *(warning- pun alert) plus career at the Natural History Museum. I am enjoying the first few chapters, and makes me want to go again! So look out for some photo shoots in the summer.

Anyway I will leave you here with one of the greatest scenes of 80’s Cinema.

Tate Visit

here is the famous crack in the floor for the uni lever series. will they keep it? or fill it back in?

Here is a sneaky picture taken. I know they are too dark, but thats a part of the new style.
dont you know.