The Mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's Giant Poisoned Electric Head

Not Long Now Before Lollipop Men Are Called Darren...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:06:19 GMT

Top Ten Actual Listens of 2009 from last.fm:

1 Half Man Half Biscuit – Totnes Bickering Fair 60
2 Steely Dan – My Old School 42
3 Drew – ZERO TO PHANTOM (song fight) 39
4 The Lemonheads – Alison's Starting to Happen 38
4 Mark Ronson – Outversion 38
6 The Smiths – Cemetry Gates 29
7 Kevin Rowland – Thunder Road 28
7 Madder Rose – Pocket Fulla Medicine 28
7 The Lemonheads – It's A Shame About Ray 28
10 The Lucksmiths – The Sandringham Line 27
10 Belle and Sebastian – Dirty Dream Number Two 27

ETA GRAPH, as promised to ms_bracken

I'm not sure how right it is, it seems to double up some stuff from my itouch, which eventually started scrobbling after 3 years of fiddling...

only new entry in top 20 artistes: DUCKWORTH-LEWIS METHOD, which i thought was aces, but seems to have missed most of the end of year lists...

KWIZ!

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:13:33 GMT

i am doing data entry and listening to ipod music, so i thought i'd do a first lines:

1. I do nothing at all and let my legs go fizzy
2. it's 1am and I can't see straight, how am I, how am I gonna get home
~~3. stone love, she kneels before the grave, her brave son~~ soul love - Dame David Bowie freakytigger and dr_f_dellamorte just about tied for that.
~~4. you work in a village shop, putting a poster up, dreaming of anything~~ lazy line painter jane (live at bowlie actually, FVCKIN HIT IT BEANS!) - belle and sebastian curiousbadger
5. now here comes a brand new ting (effectively an instrumental this one)
6. she said she show me the secret of virtue, I don't want to hurt you or set you free
7. I always admitted pity cos I was getting lonely, oh I was lonely baby without you
~~8. tired of being what you want me to be, feeling so faithless, it's under the surface~~ NUMB - jamelia version freakytigger got that
9. well she's up against the register, an apron and a spatula
~~10. [cowbell going da da da da dada da dada]~~ soul limbo - booker t and the mgs, dubdobdee really actually got this!
11. get off my bunk (?) cos I'll take you out for a ride, tell you about the cuban's 8 foot stride
~~12. I tried to break away from you, from the spics and blacks and the gum you chew~~ more Dame David, sweet head which friend_of_tofu got
13. don't say a word, don't make this even more absurd
14. Good morning madam. Good Mornign, I wish to buy a red flower.
~~15. I want somebody to share, share the rest of my life, share my innermost thoughts, know my intimate details~~ somebody - depeche mode, freakytigger is a sekrit teenage g0th at heart ;)
16. [in malawian!]
17. there once was an old captain who wished nothing more, than to relive his old voyages and walk by the shore
~~18. all my friends are talking to me, what's this love I see, I know you can't make it right, I'm still waiting now. RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE, AH!~~ the night - SCOOTER freakytigger
~~19. she's giving it some thought and it's giving her some grief, could it be she's bored beyond belief?~~ the sandringham line - the lucksmiths cis gets there eventually ;)
~~20. sometimes you're better off dead, there's a gun in your hand pointing at your head.~~ west end girls - petshop boys curiousbadger again!

some easy, some hard, some unknown, go for it!!!

Vampire Weekend UK Tour Pre-sale link

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:15:31 GMT

http://www.seetickets.com/gat/event.asp?n|showname=coming&showname=vampire+weekend&e%7Cpromoter=372&orderby=date&filler1=gigsandtours&filler2=vampireweekend

this is the link to the Vampire Weekend Pre-Sale for their Feb 2010 Tour of the UK.

(i have nabbed links to other concerts from links on random websites, so I am Doing My Bit and returning the favour)

AIOTM!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:55:14 GMT

anyone fancy going to see Mr Herring doing "As It Occurs To Me" next monday?

http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/lqt/show/S1251303475/

basically an hour or so of him pratting about with TV's Emma Kennedy doing stuff that has occurred to him during the week. I've listened to one of the podcasts and it was pretty good. you can listen here:

http://www.comedy.org.uk/podcasts/as_it_occurs_to_me/

if you would like, and then decide :)

related:

1. h1tl3r m0ust4che is at leicester square theatre in February and having missed it in edinburgh i am VERY KEEN to see it

2. poo-art wee is there also doing ~~panto~~ "if you prefer a milder comedian" 7 Dec to 17th Jan, i would also like to go to this.

~~3. i got a bit over-excited and booked four tickets for Christmas Karaoke Circus at Bethnal Green WMC, Thursday 3 December and I only need two of them, if anyone would like to bagsy them...~~ soz, gone now!

1001 days!

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:42:23 GMT

I am DIFFERENT and SPECIAL, so mine goes like this:

In 1001 days i want to:

1. Be part of the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

srsly though, if i can do this in three and a bit years it will mean more to me than reading a stack of books, making the garden not rubbish, doing some half-proper studying and y'know all those other good things youse people do :)

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:25:11 GMT

right, i am having a cr@ppy time at work due to RANK INCOMPETENCE OF OTHERS and i need cheering up between now and beer o'clock (5.01), so lets have an exciting anonocomments afternoon y/y?

(beer at the horse, what with it being poptimism and all)

SHUNT!

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:30:39 GMT

right, we are DOING THIS THING on Friday:

http://www.shunt.co.uk/events.php

ooh look, there's more stuff on now including BRAINDEAD COLLECTIVE on friday, hurray for noise/jazz nonsense, also peotry and installations and stuff.

i suggest meeting in the shipwrights:

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub476.html

round the corner from post-work o'clock, going round to shunt about 8ish/8.30ish?

remember you need photo id to get in!

View Poll: SHUNT!

EDIT Also, please to be inviting Like-Minded People who I might not know innit ;)

boooooooooooooooooored

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:25:37 GMT

anonocomments?

or send me something interesting, pls :)

linkdump

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:39:58 GMT

Today! Today the internet is full of excellent stuff!!!

Tim talks about his reality show (also, broken world now out in paperback, did i mention that i liked this book quite a bit?)

yes, i know everyone read pass/agg notes anyway, but this is a doozy

Ned compares Hibbett to Jay-Z, pretty much

pete makes tasty, tasty icecream

hurray! also it is POPTIMISM on friday, but you all knew that anyway, right?

CRICKET!

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:21:45 GMT

oh cookie, cookie, cookie, cookster, cookie...

CRICKET DISCUSSION HERE PLS.

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:54:51 GMT

so despite being only back at work for One Single Day, today i have a day off due to there being NO ELECTRICITY at work today, and thus, 0 for me to do (i don't really have filing).

so, apart from the hoovering, WHAT SHOULD I DO? seems to be a waste just faffing around on the internets all day ~~when i can do that at work~~...

also, send me links of things (music preferably) to download as it feels like i've heard 0 new music for aaaaaaages.

90 minutes to go...

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:31:40 GMT

will attempt to update at some point over the next ten days, if only to show you pictures of me terrifying small children on the royal mile ;)

anyway:

woo!!!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:10:13 GMT

blimey, cricket!

aus all out for 263 after onions and anderson rip through this morning's session.

eng now 2 for 1, cook wafting at one.

in other news boycott is bibbling on like there's no tomorrow (although looking at the forecast, there may not be!)

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:46:33 GMT

it's friday

i'm bored

let's do ANONO-COMMENTS!

ip logging etcetc off, let's go crazy eh?

more festival tales

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:12:52 GMT

hello! i went to latitude and it was good and even though it rained it didn't get muddy (the suffolk soil is MAGIC) and i can't remember exactly what i saw when, but i know it included:

(basically, where there are gaps, assume we are listening to robin
ince shouting about natasha kaplinsky)

fri: richard dedomenici, quite a lot of sitting, DUCKWORTH/LEWIS METHOD who are GREAT,"bedtime story" which is Robin reading out a Horrid Henry story to 50 or 60 3-7 year olds and getting them to scream and shout (and SCREAM A BIT MORE) and invade the stage and leave them higher than kites just when perhaps they should be going to bed, the socialist trifecta of Mark Steel, Mark Thomas and Jeremy Hardy in the same day, pretenders, pet shop boys, mystery fax machine orchestra in a tent so small they take up more room than the audience.

sat: clive stafford-smith, david quantick talking to jonathon coe, stuart maconie talking to david morrisey and miranda sawyer, jeanne gruffalo DYING ON HER @SS and leaving the stage after 6 minutes (it would've been 3.5 minutes if the MC hadn't gone for a weewee), fever ray in stupid costumes, patrick wolf (where i bonded with the young man next to me who actually said "facepalm" to describe PW's incredible overreaching pretension), five minutes in the big tent where Guilty Pleasures was happening which is SO VERY SCARY (and also, frankly, skool disco, not GP) that we have to run away to the woods where club du fromage are playing pretty much the same records but to far fewer people.

sun: jake chapman (including hilarious "artists deaths" video and massive ten minute downpour), maggie philbin sheltering from the rain under a tree, kevin cummins talking about why he's fallen out with hooky, sean lock, slow club (the indie ting-tings, no come back, they are pretty good), karaoke circus which, despite my not getting to do pulp, is basically Indie Comedians Do Stars In Their Eyes, in a good way.

and loads and loads and loads of Book Club including nekkid pappy's fun club...

I dunno though, i liked it as a festival, but i don't rly see why ppl prefer places with only 25,000 people there in comparison to ones (ok, one) with 150,000. it's just a bit cosy and weird to me, but then glastonbury is my one true festival love and there's not a lot i can do about it.

also, for those of us going through the pleb gates the insistance that NO LIQUIDS could be taken in (i had to throw away half a cup of coffee) was a complete pain in the arse, also the compulsory bag searches. I can understand them not wanting glass in the arena, or people lugging in cases of carlsberg, but i really think the Lords way (as in the cricket ground, not "The Lord") of being able to take a couple of cans or a bottle of wine in is the best compromise, they can't be predicating their income on wet sales anyway, can they?

ALSO don't forget that it is DINOSAUR PLANET at the Wilmington tonight!!!

other people's dream's are still boring

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:22:07 GMT

BUT

i was in/preparing to go to edinburgh to tech/direct @trevandsimon's show (can't imagine WHERE that came from...) BUT i'd also booked in to redo the show i took up in 1995 and there was discussion as to whether i could even remember any of it and i was like it'll be FINE and i think i added some half-interesting things (now unrememberable) into what was, frankly, a not very good show that in reality i can remember very little of...

SO

off to get rained on at latitude tomorrow and then, next tuesday, the DINOSAUR PLANET press launch at the Wilmington! do come, it is ACES and only £5 (for which you get added Chris T-T and AN BADGE and everything)

Annoying Glastonbury Post That I'm Never Going to Finish

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:10:08 GMT

look it was all conceptual and everything, which i think is why i only go to the end of WEDNESDAY...

Tuesday:
At paddington with pint of tribute, this is the way to start a holiday :)
11:37 AM Jun 23rd from txt
For some reason Alix and Matt have great difficulty finding the Mad Bear & Bishop (just up the escalators by yo! sushi), so I meet them on the concourse, with Robin and Emily and Katie. Paddington surprisingly full of people obviously going to glastonbury, but once we get on the train I realise that, like the kids sat next to us, most of them must be stewards/bar staff and other workers. Lend my clashfinder to the kids who are Very Excited about seeing lots of bands, bless them. Get picked up by Harold the taxi driver (recommended by Matt's b&b) and drive through the back lanes from Castle Cary to Glastonbury itself. Drop gear in Matt's slightly odd b&b (too many cuddly toys by some distance) then ho! for The Tor where we get Quite Excited by being able to see the site, try not to chuck incredibly loud and boring girl off the side and listen to ppl playing didges in the ruined tower at the top. Back down, sort out gear into our b&b, then off to the pub for some lovely beer and accidental HECKS cider which is gorgeous but hella strong and leads to much giggling, do a bit of a pub crawl round glasto which ends up with me and Emily reciting HMHB lyrics at each other for 20 minutes, oh dear.

Wednesday:
Up early for reasonable cooked breakfast then to the entirely unorganised bus stop for the shuttle bus to the site. Wait 45 minutes increasingly convinced we're in the wrong place, even though we very clearly weren't. Just as Matt gets his phone out to ring Harold, the bus appears.
Bus pulls away from carpark. ONE MORE TIME comes on the radio. Result.
11:15 AM Jun 24th from txt
Takes about 90 minutes to travel the 7 miles, but nothing compared to the madness at castle cary where they are overwhelmed by the idea that everyone might turn up early... Tramp across the site to dairy ground where we pitch camp, cat herding begins. Wander up to the park but the bar is closed, and everyone's getting a bit peckish at this point...
Drinking PERRY in a FIELD! #perryinafield
3:46 PM Jun 24th from txt
People come and go to meet others then come back with them until we get a pretty good sized gang including almost everyone I know on site. Switch to lovely ale after my fourth perry, having seen what happens When Perry Goes Bad. Having said that...
I'm at the cider bus, i'm at the brothers bar...
10:30 PM Jun 24th from txt
I'm at the combination cider bus and brothers bar
10:31 PM Jun 24th from txt
End up wandering up the stone circle in the dark, with funny balloons and an odd cigarette and then a slightly circuitous route back to the tent...

Thursday:
Rain. SAD FACE
11:15 AM Jun 25th from txt

Friday:
Just got 2 replays on bride of pinbot am king of the world
5:48 PM Jun 26th from txt

Saturday (spot when i recharged my phone):

Just spotted 98 and 97 shirts in quick succession. Acoustic field, there, for men of a certain age...
4:47 PM Jun 27th from txt
Random futureheads set!
5:32 PM Jun 27th from txt
Carter draw level with stone roses in old band t-shirt league. Everton ahead in footie shirts
7:41 PM Jun 27th from txt
srsly considering going to see the wonderstuff. Fear sunstroke may have set in...
8:30 PM Jun 27th from txt
Oh, that's what penduluum sound like. A poor man's enter shakiri...
9:23 PM Jun 27th from txt
Tom middleton old school rave set = ritalin addled LOLs x 1000000
9:58 PM Jun 27th from txt
tom middleton so good had to buy glowsticks
10:25 PM Jun 27th from txt
In case you hadn't guessed i'm wandering alone with a full phone battery hence many msgs :)
11:01 PM Jun 27th from txt
jarvis can still perform, just a shame about the songs #sodgoingtoseetheboss
11:24 PM Jun 27th from txt

Sunday:

Watching uk busking champs. Much better than you'd suspect...
2:14 PM Jun 28th from txt
Ok am now watching morris dancing. It's too late for me, save yourselves!!!
5:37 PM Jun 28th from txt
Officer 532, please stop chatting up the fire stewards...
6:02 PM Jun 28th from txt
Will young is GRATE, eff all the hatas :)
6:32 PM Jun 28th from txt
Feel bad for not lying down in front of the camp kerela SUV i just saw (although it may have had will young's mum in...)
7:35 PM Jun 28th from txt
Have bought bottle of red from wine bar "just in case". Fear error may be close
8:37 PM Jun 28th from txt
Spent 20 minutes getting everyone together for blur then lost them in 90 seconds
9:55 PM Jun 28th from txt
Dear crowd tender is like #blur's 30th best song. Stop it.
10:44 PM Jun 28th from txt
They'd better play popscene after that debacle that's all i'm saying #grumpy90sboy
10:47 PM Jun 28th from txt
Well i think that proves conclusively that "modern life is rub" is the best blur album...
11:37 PM Jun 28th from txt
I want to stay here forever, by which i mean i want to go home, and yet...
12:28 AM Jun 29th from txt

Monday:
At bus station
9:30 AM Jun 29th from txt
At station
10:58 AM Jun 29th from txt
On train, perched on dad stool
11:21 AM Jun 29th from txt
Hurray have seat now, well done ppl getting off at westbury
11:45 AM Jun 29th from txt
Home again, home again, jiggety jig
3:16 PM Jun 29th from txt

Maybe I'll come back and fill in the gaps at some point...

trailer time!

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:53:59 GMT

pretty much all you need to know, right there :)

there is a SEKRIT DRESS REHEARSAL tomorrow night at the Lamb on Lamb's Conduit St, which is FREE, but for a reason as it's the first time it's been done all at once in front of an audience of more than 2 people and thus might need a bit of tweaking...

alternatively there is the Official Launch Party at the Wilmington on Tuesday 21st which also features CHRIS T-T doing his Improvised Piano Solos (no, really). you can buy tickets if you want as well.

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:55:34 GMT

plumsbitch did a meme, and ultraruby did a meme and roy_dcour did a meme and exliontamer did a meme, so i thought, why not? it'll make this giant pile of data entry/checking more fun...

(1) Turn on your music player or computer
(2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode,
(3) Write down the first 30 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating, please. ...

OR RATHER BLAH BLAH RULES: DO WHAT YOU LIKE, DO IT, OR NOT, BUT I'M INTERESTED IN PEOPLES PLAYLISTS....

The only important rule is, I think: NO EDITS FOR CREDIBILITY, RIGHT?"

1 Lazurus (Live at the Astoria) - Boo Radleys
2 Outversion - Mark Ronson
3 O Policelo - H Villa-Lobos, Lydia Kennedy (apparently, I've 0 idea where this came from, a beeCD maybe?)
4 band introductions - Steely Dan (from Live at The Rainbow, NB no actual song...)
5 Queen of Languages - Destroyer (really, where is all this stuff coming from???)
6 It's Grim Up North - The JAMMS (that's more like it!)
7 Dandy In the Underworld - T-Rex
8 Revolution in the Head - Girls Aloud
9 Stop Me Medley - Mark Ronson & Daniel Merryweather
10 Great Big No - Lemonheads
11 Smile Fades Fast - Boo Radleys
12 Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk - Rachel Unthank & the Winterset
13 Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys
14 How We Met - The Lucksmiths***
15 Trendy Discotheque - Pay-TV
16 Blah Blah Blah - Brooke Valentine ft Dirt McGirt
17 RUMBLE(D) - YOYOs
18 Telephone Thing - The Fall
19 Albert Hammond Bootleg (Live) - HMHB
20 Holocaust - Big Star
21 It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas - Pet Shop Boys
22 Dogs Were Barking - Gogol Bordello
23 We. Are. Your. Friends. - Simian Mobile Disco
24 A Warning To The Flies - Ivor Cutler
25 Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian
26 Lazy Day - Boo Radleys
27 One (Blake's Got A New Face) - Vampire Weekend
28 What You Deserve Is What You Get - Seeed
29 Kind Spirit - Steely Dan (Lost Gaucho version)
30 Inside - John Martyn (Peel Session)

Ha, that's surprisingly good I reckons ;) Although i still have a feeling my ipod hasn't really recovered from The Great Deletion Event and thus there's stacks of stuff that i *think* is on it that is, in fact, only on the computer...

***COME AND SEE THE LUCKSMITHS TOMORROW!!!! LAST EVER UK GIG!!!! TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE!!! support from allo darling and daniel kitson!!!

What is the haps?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:58:49 GMT

Ello babies

I went to Glastonbury and it was great and I'll tell you all about it later, but WHAT IS THE HAPS, dudes, as I doubt I'll get a chance to read a whole week of lj innit...

is, is it 2001?

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:47:35 GMT

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=330475&referral_id=mama_mailings

freelance hellraiser playing at international hifi at the garage????

(also, how the hell have they made the garage into three rooms???)

wirelesseseseses

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:27:24 GMT

So, because my work computer has no sound card in it i NEED some way of listening to Test Match Special at work (and other places not my house actually), but what is the best option? which is more likely to be switched off first, DAB or LW???? I read articles that says that DAB is bobbins and a betamaxy kind of product, and that it might be superceded...

View Poll: wireless

what i SHOULD'VE DONE was pick up one of the SIX radiogrammes* (actually 5 radiogrammes and one TELEVISIONRADIOGRAMME!!!!) that were being skipped up the road from my house last week, but i thought, nah, don't need more cr@p in my house. also not very portable...

*what do you mean "what's a radiogramme?"??? bloody kids...

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:55:35 GMT

facebook is broookken
like the first myyyyyyspace
twitter has spooookken
like the first, um, thing...

ANYWAYS the thing is, FB invites are TOTALLY NOT WORKING, which means that YOU do not know that myself and my good lady wife shall be tagteam DJing this sunday at the always delightful HANGOVER LOUNGE:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=102293761041

at the LEXINGTON on penton st from 2ish to 7ish. they have Lovely* American Beer and even an ale on tap now too.

there are sofas for lounging (or indeed lunging as i first typed) on and assorted newspapers to read. who knows, i might even bring my backgammon set if anyone fancies a game?

it would be lovely if you could pop along, even just for a bit :)

*reads: Strong

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:16:14 GMT

morning all!

we had our first Proper Meeting in the curiously deserted Banker last night, which was basically just a HEY, LET'S GET EXCITED ABOUT STUFF meeting as we already have:

venue
accommodation
travel
flyer (see above)

and SHOW

sorted (well, i haven't cast my directorly eye over the show yet, but hibbett is confident)

so it was all the fun things like previews and publicity and extra gigs (no to the royal mile, possibly yes to late and live type things if we can find them) and exactly how much IS too much to pay for a dinosaur costume for me...

also i think the brochure is out today, so will be tracking one down (donmar usually has a stash) and seeing if I can find Other Shows at least tenuously About Dinosaurs as if there are three it is A TREND and we can flog it to feature writers...

shuffle

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:39:22 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8084571.stm

so burnham's gone to health and denham's gone to communities & lg, so who's doing DCMS and DIUS then????

ETA: BEN BRADSHAW to DCMS!!!! blimey...

hold on, beckett "no longer housing", where's she going? not DIUS, pleeeeeeease...

Edit2 also is a projected share of Tories: 38%, Libs: 28%, Lab 23% enough for a tory government? i thought they HAD to be in the low 40s to get a majority?

Edit3 Mcnulty resigns from cabinet as well??? FFS, wouldn't it be a lot easier just to PUT THEM ALL IN PRAMS so they could throw their toys out, i really cannot see who any of this is helping.