Have a listen to this song by Eric Idle, a very nice Python indeed.
How much more punk is this posh 62-year-old than the hordes of screaming fools currently clogging up “alternative” radio and TV? Oooh, look how loud and scary and metal we are! What are we shouting about? FUCK ALL! What are we doing [...]
Archive for July, 2005
Yesterday was my birthday. I got:
Cake by Ele!
From my Mum.
From my Dad.
From my sis.
From Paul.
From Matty.
My big presssie from Ele, with loads of help from Matty.
This one takes a bit of explaining. My fave game to play when mates are round is Pop Quiz, basically name that tune with forgotten pop gems, via iTunes. The [...]
Today, I swapped my standard PowerMac keyboard and Microsoft optical mouse for the Keysonic ACK 540 Alu above.
One of the constant annoyances of being a computer-based musician is the lack of any proper ergonomic way to work. If, like me, you like composing at an 88 note controller keyboard, how do you fit that [...]
Laura spotted this little feller scurrying off the patio. I managed to get a few shots but the poor thing looked too terrified so I left it alone (I wasn’t very close to it as I was using my 350mm zoom).
Later, Ele and I tried to puzzle out if it was a mouse or a [...]
Microscope photographs of lenses incubated in organ culture conditions for 12 days. Right frame shows Control lens with no damage. Bottom frame demonstrates the effect of microwave radiation on bovine lens sutures for a total exposure of 192 cycles (1.1GHz, 2.22mW).Each cycle lasts 50min followed by 10 min pause. In the absence of microwave radiation, [...]
The war in Iraq has heightened the threat of terrorist attacks in Britain, the former Prime Minister Sir John Major has claimed.
His intervention is a setback to Tony Blair’s attempt to play down any link between the London bombings and the Iraq conflict. Sir John told BBC Radio 4 yesterday: “I think what has [...]
I’ve been a fan of Sludgefeast since stumbling across their CD in Soundclash way back when I lived in Norwich. Here’s a little review of their debut album.
So I was chuffed when Andre from The Parents emailed me and said they were playing with the rock masters at The Vic. I popped down and had [...]
Whenever there’s an interview with an indie rock band, the band always says things like:
We’re just after something different, y’know? We don’t want to sound like anyone else.
Or
We spent ages trying out different things for this album, that’s how we got this unique sound!
Or
We just make music for ourselves, if anyone else likes it, that’s [...]
Just got this email:
Hello–
Since we have succeeded you may not get mails from me quite as often in future (though I will keep in contact until it is time to call in the pledge), but I did promise to let you know when the follow-up pledge was launched…
It is now online at http://www.pledgebank.com/resist
It reads:
“I will [...]
(This pic is nicked from UK Resistance. Send them your money)
I am so fucking bored of all the war games out there. Especially since all the non-WWII games seem to be from the viewpoint of white Americans shooting brown/black/yellow people in the head from a great distance away.
Can you imagine a war game from [...]