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i'm providing a video backdrop movie thingy for The Actionettes' 10th anniversary show at the 100 Club next Saturday and while I've got a great selection of clips, I'm short on any girl group footage (they don't tend to make the usual rock docs because we need extra time for people to wank on...

to go with my attempts to get some gigs / radio work up here in the north-east in my Stagger Lee guise, I've set up a kind of promo blog and started doing a weekly podcast to go with all the other bloody mixes and stuff I upload. The podcasts aren't particularly themed or anything, just a...

Went to the very bizarre but actually wonderful Vintage @ Goodwood festival this weekend, not often do you get to see People Like Us, Terry Riley's In C, The Rezillos, John Shuttleworth and Tony Hatch in the same day. For me the highlight was staged by the inimitable Johnny Trunk. Instead of...

excuse the preamble: my best friend is an english teacher out in Singapore who's introducing a basic Theory of Knowledge unit for certain GCSE-equivalent students. They're covering all the basics in that regard but his main push is regarding aesthetics, which he feels is taught as being...

i'm making a movie for the tent I'm running at a festival this year - just backdrop stuff, mostly dancing, performers, hot rods and the like (all ripped from downloaded movies or my own collection). I'm convinced there must be a decent zombie dance routine out there somewhere but I'm drawing a...

54 bloody years old :(

Died this morning of cancer. Poor little Frank

Anyone got any recommendations on portable turntables - ie amp built in, and possibly running on batteries as well (although with a mains option). Playing at about 6-7 festivals this summer and fancy having a turntable back at our Canvas Palace Of Delights. this one looks ok I'd rather have...

didn't think to mention this before, but an unpleasant bank statement has sharpened my wits: been selling a lot of my collection this year (on disability benefit so super broke, plus moving somewhere smaller, all a bit shit), started off just CDs but I'm also selling some vinyl now - quite a...

quick query - we're going to be knocking out some mix CDs at our festival dates over the summer and I was wondering what the most cost effective way was to label them? I've got an inkjet printer that will print on blank CD faces, so that's the obvious option but am I missing a trick? Can you...

Anyone on here au fait with Virtual Dub, because it's driving me batshit. It seems to be arbitrarily ignoring some edits I'm making, although that sounds counterintuitive or something. If I take a 60 second .avi clip and edit it by chopping bits out, tidying the ending and the beginning, stuff...

another worthwhile festival gets brought down by police / licensing intransigency and bullshit :( http://www.gladefestival.com/news/?p=72

Ello - advice needed. I want to get hold of a cheap, basic, EASY sampler for use when I play out (just to drop some spoken word bits, film samples and stuff between or over tunes). So it doesn't have to be flash, and I'm fairly broke. Any recommendations? :D

Ello - wanted to pick the brains of any movie-editing savvy posters. Please note: i'm NOT technical, don't have reams of software or processing power... Problem 1: Short summary: making a compilation movie to run as a backdrop at nights I run. So I've labouriously ripped appropriate scenes...

just in case any of you are heading to any festies this summer, I'm playing these: Glastonbury Festival, June 23-27th in the Pussy Parlure in the Danced Village, 11am-1pm every day, plus some other slots on random stages around and about The Glade, Matterley Bowl, July 15-18th This is another...

Just woke up grumpy on the sofa and).. Found out tht South Rakkas Crew, Heatwave ft Warrior Queen and some others are playing at the Hootenanny (aka the Hobgoblin if you're old skool, aka The George Canning if you're REALLY old skool and propah Brixton like what I am). TONIGHT. 9pm-3am and...

there's a very worthwhile benefit gig next Friday (Apr 23rd) down at the Grosvenor on the Brixton / Stockwell borders. It's to raise money to place books in African prisons. It's only 4 quid in, there are some great bands and acts on, and it's going to run "very late", apparently. I'll be...

.. I'm guessing Dissensus isn't exactly a key Glastonbury audience? :D

Anyone caught this yet? I just watched episode 1 and it was pretty damn good. If you don't know, it's David Simon and a lot of his Wire / Homicide regulars making a new drama about post-Katrina New Orleans (the Tremé district in particular), and with the focus on the music / jazz scene rather...