I love nothing, ooh and Goldheart Assembly

nobody@vox.com(Indieboy) — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:21:10 +0100

Hello,

Another bank holiday snuck up on me which I was totally unprepared for. Which was good as it forced me to relax for once. I even did stuff in the garden (mainly bash the crap oot me heavy bag and scare the neighbours).

Friday was excellent. A mate of mine is driving a motorised rickshaw from the top to the bottom of India for charity n that. To raise the profile (an excuse for a pissup I think) she organised a gig at the world famous Troubadour. Well.... I don't know if it's world famous but it is where Dylan had his first UK gig (I think).

Goldheart Assembly

There were some excellent acts there. One of which I've tried booking previously called Goldheart Assembly. If this band were about in the 70's, Eric Clapton would have played in the band at least twice shortly followed by Jimmy Page I think.

If you've ever watched The Last Waltz and enjoyed it then you should see this band. A lot. I was half expecting Neil Young to shuffle out with a 12 string at one point. Now don't get me wrong. This is no 'music was sooo much better 40 years ago' faux tribute act. There's a lot of contemporary influences in there. But overall the music, image and performance gave the warm anologue fuzzy feeling of bearded folk rock. It done in such a way that everyone in that room could be left nothing but a feeling of being impressed, and wondering if they had just witnessed one of 'those' gigs that you incessently irritate your mates years later about how you were there.

A bit like pretty much any Smashing Pumpkins UK gig.

Apart from that it was a quiet weekend as I'm economising and recovering from my first allergic reaction to anything in my life. Ugh. Minging. Wont go into too much detail.

Apologies to those who have been trying to get hold of me for over a week now. I will get there eventually. I have 400 emails to get through and vast amounts of Vox messages too. Plus video editing, gig organising, gig attendance, management meetings, artist meetings, 2 months laundry, online meetings, seminar attending, n stuff. Though I will catch up I promise.

Hope all is non-allergic with you.

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I'm not just binning them... and collaborations

nobody@vox.com(Indieboy) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:57:48 +0000

To those upset people who emailed me with the 'What's the point in trying anymore' messages regaring the picture of my recycling box, please don't worry. I've written to each person's demo in that box with details of this platform so they can upload their tracks and have their stuff listened to. Simply going though them for their contact details is time-consuming enough but to give them a proper listen aswell would take forever. That picture was showing pretty much a day's work and the box wasn't that full. Luckily since starting the blogs we don't get as many mail submissions in preference of the online thing.

Update on that lyric book I was sent, it's actually from the woman in that picture. I managed to work out the return address, it belongs to someone called Mary in Trowbridge. Full of some great folk tunes. Trowbridge has one of the best folk festivals in the UK apparently, I'm wondering if this woman ever went to them. Anyhow, I'm going to photocopy the pages so I can carry on getting the better songs out of it for forwarding onto the sites that collect that sort of thing. Then I will either send it back with a letter or see if it can make it's way to Dylan's people in the states.

Looks like I may be getting my meeting with LastFM this week. How many of you out there are into LastFM? I'm only really just getting into using it as I used to be a Pandora person but the more I use it the more useful I find it. I'm still investigating possible methods of interaction between the two platforms but as always I'd be happy to pass on any suggestions you may have as regards functionality you'd like to see.

Anyway, I'm going to keep the post short today so I can get on and become an expert in various subjects I'm going to talk about tomorrow which is going to be fun.

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Gigs - 12/11/2007

Just the one tonight, but what a gig. Fox Cubs are playing the Hope and Anchor. If you've not had a listen to these chaps make sure you head over to their page and check out Beasts of England or I Could Be Wrong.

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Feeling Better, Thanks

nobody@vox.com(Indieboy) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:38:26 +0100

Howdy,

I should be ill more often as I got more done than I usually do and most of it was from bed.

Watched the Scorsesee Bob Dylan documentary last night. I'd forgotten how fanastic it is, if you haven't seen it then stop whatever you're doing (including reading this post) go home and watch it. I could write a 30 paragraph post just on that so I will stop it here, go watch it now.

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For those of you who've already seen it (or just come back) the rest of my evening was good. I was stuffed full of Beechams and taken to the theatre to see The Taming of the Shrew, I felt rubbish going in there but as soon as the play unfolded I'd almost forgotten I was sick.

Looking at the venue guide it looks like they do music there, so I may see if I can put anything on there. Seems like the perfect singer songwriter/small esemble sort of place.

Another good place I considering is the electro acoutsic club. Very nice atmosphere in the basement of the slaughtered lamb.

Right, I'm going to go through some bands today, and some groups and start listing stuff that I like, I PROMISE. So watch this space as your music may well be posted up here.

Let me know what's going on out there. Infact, if you can recommend good little acoustic venues in London that would be great:.

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