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I am going to see Regina Spektor play on The Culture Show tomorrow and apparently there's space to bring another person - does anyone want to come? It's being recorded from 9.30 to 3.30 and you get a free BBC lunch (good times!) and limitless soft drinks... It's Mark Kermode and Lauren Laverne.

If you do want to come, let me know asap! Anyone is

What insane idiotic bloody ticket selling people thought it would be a good idea to sell the tickets for not one, not two, but THREE popular bands on the SAME DAY?!!! Those websites can barely cope with one band. Fucking idiots. I must have filled in the seeticket form 10 times and didn't get a confirmation at all. It kept saying there was a ( Read more... )

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Merry bloomin' Christmas to the lot of yer. 

For everyone who bought The Indelicates single (and if you didn't Shame On You) solve the riddle and find hidden C-sides on the site, it is entirely worth the time you will spend thinking it's impossible. They were brilliant on Saturday again, despite the sound problems. Plus any band that has riddles (yes there's more than one) to solve on its ( Read more... )

Okay, someone please reassure me this isn't true before I plunge myself into a pit of despair.

I swear the man on BBC3 just said that HOTS had announced Reading and Leeds as their last two gigs and they were splitting up because enough people hadn't bought the album.

Please tell me this isn't true. Please please please. 

The Indelicates have their first single out this week on limited 7". I can't remember being this excited about a band since... well since a long while ago. I listen to them and I get that little tight bubble in my chest that I've missed so much the last few months as I was delving further and further back to find new (for me) music I liked. ( Read more... )

Pirates of the Caribbean the Second is amazing.

I am running away to sea to become Captain Jack Sparrow's mistress.

Someone please text me the World Cup final result.

Goodbye!

Note to self: Masochistic urges to watch Requiem for a Dream should not be fulfilled between the hours of 10pm and 10 am, and also 10am and 10pm (even if Rachel supports the urges and Alison hasn't seen it). Don't do it to yourself. It might be amazingly fantastic but the general sense of despair/self-loathing it inspires will only be partially ( Read more... )