It’s been a long time…

I went to see Chuck Prophet and Spanish Bombs playing the whole of London Calling last night. Apparently, the deal was a Spanish promoter contacted him and said they’d like him to cover someone else’s album for a show and he chose London Calling. The promoter also called Johnny Green, the Clash’s road manager who you ( Read more... )

I always had a problem with Big Audio Dynamite in that they really lacked the songs.  For the second album there was that exciting time when you had the Strummer/Jones songwriting team together and songs like V thirteen and especially Sightsee MC are by far the strongest and come from that songwriting period.

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I always liked the idea of the ( Read more... )

Last night I went with Alyssa (who’s birthday it was) to see Lord of the Dance 3D at cineworld.

I have always wanted to see a riverdance show for some inexplicable reason and having seen interviews with Michael Flatley, my impression is that like, say Stallone circa Rocky 4, he was a guy who has lost his mind in terms of how far to go in big ( Read more... )

Last night was pretty amazing.

I had a circular email saying that the Contemporary were giving away sets of tickets for a Paul Smith lecture and couldn’t remember it being advertised.  I’m not sure of the set up but I think it was a semi-corporate event to attract sponsors with some public availability so I joined the reserve list and on the ( Read more... )

Last night I was like a TV rummy. I did plan to watch a film and maybe do something more constructive but for some stupid reason found the Oz season FOUR box set and watched three of those, which unless it’s part of a whole thing run through is pretty sad as it had already started turning a bit ripe at that point (it took three years, so Sons ( Read more... )

Cool and busy weekend!

Friday night I went to see Steve (I can’t call him Steven) Severin provide live accompaniment to Cocteau’s Blood of a poet (it’s ART 24/7 for me).  The film was very beautiful.  Of course if you went down the giggle-at-the-surrealist route (a noble pursuit) it did have a man who woke up with a woman’s mouth on his hand ( Read more... )

What a night!  Thursday is the new weekend!  If I hadn’t been floor-dippingly tired from not sleeping well, I’d have risked the suicidal Thursday latey but by then we’d had three nights of fun already for one night.

Me and scot went to lecture club / art school / the building where we are studying fine art/whatever hilarious title we’re ( Read more... )

Last night was cool. Marek Kukula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Kukula from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich gave a talk entitled ‘Cosmos and Culture’ at the Contemporary.

His job is to engage the public in Astronomy  (I wonder if he gets asked whether a Capricorn should invest money today very often) so he produced a telly-quality talk ( Read more... )

I don’t really know how I’ve got out of the habit of updating, it’s not as though I don’t want to or cool things haven’t happened in fact the following have:

Me and Teej had a meeting with 20 year hurricane about doing a live album at  the Chameleon:

1. We had contracts with $50 trillion buy on fees
2. Gareth snorted kettle chips through his note
3. We ( Read more... )

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