Three gigs upcoming:
- 17 Nov, Fox & Firkin in Lewisham with Dirty Electric - free entry
- 26 Nov, Buffalo Bar in Highbury with Silvery and Villette - dress up
- 1 Dec, Ryan's Bar in Stoke Newington with Miss Pain, Sunny Day Sets Fire and Charles Campbell Jones.
New EP due early next year...
the sense of event may be lost from broadcasts (but I don't see that this is necessarily true; the Olympic opening/closing ceremony, counting the points on Eurovision, waiting for the Crazy Frog to kick Coldplay's ass on the radio), but it is ever present in live performances, especially when...
The charge of fogeyism wasn't meant without humour!
But I'd still argue it:
youth rebellion is a fairly pointless pursuit. leading a "sensible" life
When you get to the point where you have thoughts like this you're lost to childhood and therefore lost to youth rebellion, the ideal, and a...
young people ain't playing it safe, they're happy slapping old people! or posting at drownedinsound, nu-generation forums etc - from where it's clear that music changes people's lives.
this must be old farts corner! are you going to be grumbling about this when yours get to their teens?
I was talking about the motive for altruism rather than the outcome, it is the action that is rewarding regardless of whether when the karma comes around it is in the form of getting something back from that specific person or community
I am not unhappy about being 'not very realistic and...
as humans are pack animals, altruism is always self interest, in my book. That's what makes it so rewarding.
(on holiday in turkey recently, every time the mosques broadcast the call to prayer, i wished good for each of the people I'd encountered recently, one by one. it made me happy)
funnily enough i was debating the nature of the true bohemian revolutionary the other day.
freedom, beauty, truth and love, that's wot i say.
anyway wot you mean by 'bohemian music'? nonconformist? "A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of...
a play about AIDS and stuff by jonathan harvey, saw it at Sussex Uni a few years ago with Egg from This Life in it, it was great.
refs Judy Garland (probably obviously)
have you not seen it lately? it's graced by some outstanding writers including jonathan 'gimme gimme gimme' harvey and daran little. perhaps less good on tragedy but it is pretty much as reliably hilarious as 'my parents are aliens'
mixmag, touch, muzik, downlow, source, dj, generator, jockey slut, blah. I'm clearing out - anyone wants 'em from the historicalcultural angle let me know.
I'm located in hastings, be in brighton saturday, visiting leicester/nottingham/leeds on monday/tuesday, possibly driving out west...
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