Published by Jyoti May 17th, 2010
in DJing.
Woah, sorry for the long break before posting this up, I’ve just finished my first year at Uni, essays all over the shop! 
Trying to remember back… that night’s top new track was ‘Sooner If You Let Me’ by His Statue Falls. If you like shouty metalness + ravey synths, I think you’ll love this band’s album. I can’t get enough of ‘em! They are fucking brilliant!
The best old tune was ‘Time Bomb’ by The Format. If you’ve recently seen Paramore on tour, you may have seen fun. which is the Nate Format’s new thingy. If you like fun., check out the awesome band he was in before. And this ramble of mine!
This is what you heard:
Sally Seltmann - Dream About Changing
Kettel - Kitana
Beyond This Point Are Monsters - Meggie Myagi
Hybrid - Disappear Here Original
A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow
Damien Lott - Erase And Fall
Freeway & Jake One - Throw Your Hands Up
Dabs - Submorph feat. Maize
Admiral Fallow - Squealing Pigs
Funfun - The Trouble With Harry
Jurassic 5 - The influence
From First to Last - Chyeaa
Brasstronaut - Lo Hi Hopes
6BLOCC - Buddy Buddy
In Defence - Don’t Call Me A Moshist
Swanton Bombs - Who’s Asking?
DOOM - Gazzillion Ear
DEFRAG - the stones
Upon A Burning Body - Carlito’s Way
We Have Band - Divisive
Envy - Set Yourself On Fire
Screaming Maldini - Secret Sounds
PMtoday - Goodbye, Blue Monday
Copywrite - O.D. (Overdose) Feat. Royce Da 5′ 9"
Jaguar Love - Cherry Soda
last dinosaurs - Honolulu
Medications - Seasons
KOAN Sound - Garden Of Buddha
K’naan - T.I.A.
His Statue Falls - Sooner If You Let Me
Chris T-T - Stop Listening
Face of Reality - Police Bastard
Bilel - Ca Va Trop Vite feat Seven
Anarbor - Drugstore Diet
Blood Brothers - Ambulance Vs. Ambulance
Salem Al Fakir - Virgin Mary
Chairlift - Bruises
Foxy Shazam - Connect
Pelican - Ephemeral
Young Buck - Pulling Me Back
Hello Saferide - Anna
Daughters - Our Queens (One Is Many, Many Is One)
Akira Kiteshi - pinball
Ghostface Killah - Iron Maiden
Fang Island - Daisy
Operator Please - Volcanic
The Answering Machine - Oh, Christina
Stars and Sons - Out Of View
Mystic Man & Eshamanjaro - New Jack Swing
Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
The Format - Time Bomb
The Get Up Kids - Tommy Gentle
Gloria Cycles - Chancer
Kempi - ik ben du baas
Published by Jyoti April 25th, 2010
in Photos.
Click the pic to see some more snaps of Nat and some awesomely colour co-ordinated cherry blossom! 
Published by Jyoti April 21st, 2010
in Rambling.
I saw this lovely tee in town so I snapped a pic of it. I think if I ever saw any girl wearing it, it’d be instant love!
I posted it onto the relentless maw that is Facebook and my friend Sandy pointed me towards this:
It’s by one of her fave artists, Gemma Corell. And it pre-dates the TopShop shirt. As far as I know, they didn’t ask her about it or pay anything or whatnot.
Now, when I sample something, I have to pay the person who originally came up with the idea.
Of course, I’m not saying that TopShop did nick this, perish the thought! That could be a very expensive thing to accuse them of.
It’s probably just great minds thinking alike. Yep.
That’s definitely it!
Published by Jyoti April 14th, 2010
in Photos.
It’s turquoise now, orange to follow. Wheeee!
Published by Jyoti April 13th, 2010
in Photos.
Girl number two in my rather idiosyncratic campaign against make-up and excessive photoshopping: Kelly.
I’ve done loads of pics of Kelly before and I think you can see that in how relaxed she is. Every portrait you take is, of course, not a photo of a person but a photo of your relationship with that person. And I think you can tell we’re mates.
Since the photoshoot, Kell’s stopped wearing make-up! She didn’t wear loads before but now she feels confident enough not to wear any. I call that a positive result!
She’s sitting at my dining table right now and says:
“Even though I feel slightly more vulnerable, I still feel very pretty. And when people see me now, they see the real me, not a façade.”
Published by Jyoti April 13th, 2010
in Photos.
I have a dislike of extreme photoshoppery of portraits. Particularly of women. You know the ones I mean: where every blemish and wrinkle is removed, leaving an image that looks like some uncanny android rather than a living, breathing human being. I find these images disturbing on many levels.
I also, like most blokes, think make-up is generally gilding the lily. Women are naturally beautiful, and make-up nearly always obscures that beauty. Very rarely, when it does succeed, it’s because the applier knows that less is more.
To that end, I’ve started a photo project called No Make-Up, No Photoshop which I’ll be posting onto Flickr and here. I’ll be using women and girls I know and shooting them with zero make-up and no photoshopping. The only adjustments to the images will be cropping and contrast changes. I won’t even boost saturation to falsely alter their natural colours.
Click the image above to see more of natural beauty, Nat!
Published by Jyoti April 13th, 2010
in Gig.
On Saturday, I managed to catch a couple of bands out of a multi-band bill at Big Blue.
Aged Yummy were extremely twiddly and have very much a liking of the silly time sig change. But I’ll let them off because the three-piece also have a deft melodic sensibility and lovely lyrics. Result! Put it this way, they were giving away their CDR but I paid them a fiver for it as I enjoyed the gig so much.
Ice, Sea, Dead People were another trio and, again, they managed to make a massive sound. Not least because lead shouty/guitarist bloke is a fucking demon on the guitar. He raked his hands over it, knocked it round the room like a sailor in a barfight and still managed to make it sing. And scream. They reminded me of ‘Flames’-era Refused and that can only be good.
Talking to both bands briefly afterwards, I can also say that they were lovely lads. So, great music and totally not-wankers. Please, send them your money now!
Published by Jyoti April 8th, 2010
in Music.
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