Now the schedule is out, let the planning begin!

Friday
Easy decision.
Victorian Picnic, Diamanda Galas, Deine Lakeien

Saturday
Also easy.
Werk II all day (Cinema Strange, Squishy Squid, Damned, Last Days Of Jesus etc).

Sunday
Hard to decide.
Either Noise at Werk II or Neofolk at Anker or Ambient at Schaubühne
Definitely Recoil at the Agra.

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I've been boring a lot of you recently with strange tales of grapes grown in our pocket sized little walled garden and plans for turning said grapes into an intoxicating liquid that may or may not deserve the name "wine". Well, the moment of truth came last weekend. I just couldn't avoid any longer actually tasting the results of our efforts in ( Read more... )

And again back in old blighty again.

A quick update before I get completely swept away by work. We got back from Paris yesterday evening and it was a fab and muchly needed break. We managed a few exhibitions/museums (Gold of the Incas @ The Pinacotheque, Heinrich Kühn [1] @ The Orangerie, France 1500 @ The Grand Palais), finally did Versailles (including the two exhibitions going on ( Read more... )

A quick update from a moving platform. On the way to Paris. A trip that was planned long ago for a reason that has since disappeared (couldn't get tickets for the ballet we really, really wanted to see on any of the days) and then threatened by my recently muchly increased workload. But then, suddenly, an unlikely saviour! BT in their infinite ( Read more... )

My iPhone suddenly seems to be very steadfast in believing it's 5:28 on Sunday 7th of November.

Odd that. Did I miss a time warp somewhere?

[Update] Turning the bloody thing off and on again seems to have fixed it.

Before I post about more recent things I really should work through my backlog of events. And Shadowdaze is certainly worth posting about as it was one of these increasingly rare events in the UK where you actually are able to see interesting, new and rarely seen goth bands perform. It was also put on by friends and in a city I hadn't been to ( Read more... )

I am more than a bit puzzled by our electricity usage. The last bill already was unusually high, but the one we got today is only 10% less than that and after the last bill I did make a real effort to save some electricity. This time our usage in kWh for the last three months is apparently nearly two and a half times as much as it was in the same ( Read more... )

Finally I can see the wondrous world wide web through my proper screen again instead of having to squint at my iPhone and put up with Jobsian restrictions ( Read more... )

Apparently the sad case of our missing broadband connection is now with a "specialist back room team" at BT. I expect them to parachute into our back room any minute now ( Read more... )