3 posts tagged “brighton”
"Where's your blog? You'll be loosing readers!"
Is the message I got from mum on the phone last night. I've not been ignoring it, it's just been there, like an unpaid bill (which reminds me, must sort the gas out). Actually it's not like that as I enjoy writing posts, just been really amazingly busy this week.
On Friday I was in Brighton filming The Electric City as I want to do an 'Indieboy Special' or something. Thinking about it that sounds like a sandwich or a cocktail maybe. Anyhow, I've really got into this band and want to capture where they're at now before things really kick off for them as I'm certain they're going to get somewhere relatively soon. Speaking of which, I've just found out we've got a signing off the blogs. More details on that as things are finalised.
Saturday was another End Of Camden. Can of worms anyone? Christ, that was the worst night ever. Don't get me wrong, the bands were great. In fact it was the most consistent lineup I've ever had and I got it all to tape (see preview left). But everything that could have gone wrong did. My door person didn;t turn up and my last min replacement was an hour and a half late. The first hour and a half is where I make my money back. So one heavy loss that night. Plus I had an extra band turn up?!?!? Slight lack of communication there, but I also had one band drop out so it all worked, sort of. My regular engineer didn't turn up so I had to break a new guy in etc etc. So I'm a little greyer, but looking at the footage I really got some great stuff off the bands.
Sunday I got food poisoning.
Monday I got better (and lighter)
Tuesday was Jujitsu, luckily all traces of my illness were gone as I have to wear a white outfit and I couldn't face the disgrace of an embarrassing accident. In fact in ancient Japan you would probably be expected to commit Hara Kiri as a result. THere's a really good (or bad) video of a guy doing just that on youtube.
After Jujitsu on Tuesday I went to see The Hoosiers (see, I'm well busy). It was great. I hardly ever get to see signed talent as I'm always out and about in London's high spots trying to find the next big thing n such. They're very pop and they've also been voted 'Worst Band' by the NME which I think they should be very proud of. Very ELO in places which I like and the live show is great, had the audience standing and generally jumping around. Ran into my old boss from royalties and a couple of the chaps from finance which was great. I was drinking the pints quite quickly as a result though.
As a result of the shananigans at the venue, by the time I got to the aftershow (ooh get me) I was already half plastered. On arriving I realised I really should have gone home first. I tend to dress for comfort when I know I'm not going anywhere, everone looked uber trendy. I was wearing my 'I'm a bit ill' blue sweater and geography teacher-esque cords. Also, the girls with the trays of canopes worked out if they came by me they could pretty much clear their tray and bugger off to wherever they were hiding the rest of the time. I must have looked like a right tramp.
Anyway, several bottles of Sol later I was introducing myself to everyone, getting on my soapbox about this and that and had found a new best friend in the world, who's name I can't remember. When the 'you're talking crap' bell rang in the back of my head I made my exit into the harsh realities of Shepherds Bush bus stops. Wish I'd smuggled and canope picnic out with me. Took ages to get home.
Wednesday was another jujitsu class preparing me for this competition thing. Got thrown around by big Andy, got landed on a couple of times and really messed up my hair. Once I sucessfully got myself looking like Ed Norton, complete with bruises, I had to head to camden (for a change) to see Zut Alors at Barfly then say hello to Kojo at the Dublin Castle. YOU NEED TO GET TO KNOW THIS BAND. They are fantastic. Sooo good live. They got more gigs coming up and I really think you should get hold of some of their stuff somehow. There's also real character in the band too.
Last night was spent on Medival:Total War. Yep, I have proven myself as a complete geek. I actually found myself thinking "I'll just see if I can conquer eastern Europe then I'll head to bed" :-/ Hmm. Time to get a girlfriend or something I think.
Tonight I'll be heading to see a band my friend is managing. They're great, need a little development but are superb live. I will do a feature on them here. Will give you more info soon.
Tomorrow I'm doing Roman-Greco wrestling. Yes, it sounds very erm..... something. It conjures images of nearly naked musclemen groping and generally rolling around on the floor grunting. That's pretty much it but it's about sport rather than amusement. I've got to get better at submission grappling for competition and these chaps are experts. So that'll be fun.
Whoops, long post. WIll shut up now. For those of you interested in getting involved in the night I now have been given several dates in advance. So just pop me an email, private message, myspace message or whatever way you want to get in touch.
Hope all is well with you.
Hello,
Looks like a may have a lineup for Saturday
| Modernaire |
| The Dead Class |
| Momeraths |
| Death Can Dance |
| Melody Nelson |
| JB Newman |
Just got a call from my best mate Tony who's editing the footage for the podcast. I s hould get the finished results today which I'm really excited about. I'll stick it up on youtube/here. :-)
I finally set me up a myspace, mostly because I keep getting emails with myspace addresses on or people handing me demos that only has myspace contact details. So to message them about Vox I need an account to do it and I'm not using my old band one. That would just be wierd.
My organisatonal skills are possibly the worst on earth, hence the slap-dash methods of my gig organising. In fact if I were a little more organised it would probably be 'The End of Camden Festival' by now with big stage n that. However, for the first time in my life I now have a diary. For all the blackberries, cool software and jiggery pokery there is around here the most important piece of kit is my diary. Problem is, I'm now a slave to it. I feel naked without it, I start to panic. Is that normal?
I have to plan 'Early Night's and 'Beer Nights', kind of takes the surprise out of things. :-(
Anyhow, enough of that rubbish. I'm off to Brighton today to see The Electric City play at Concorde. I'm going to take a camera down and a mate to help me to film it as I want a record of this gig. I like the band and think they will be destined for bigger and better things and I want to get footage of them early in there career.
I think tomorrow's showcase is going to be excellent as the lineup (as always) is really good. It also see's the return of JB Newman which will be excellent. I want to get him in the podcast and his sort of stuff comes across really well. I hope you enjoy the results. Or even better, get yourself down and see the real thing. :-)
Anyway, I think this is quickly turning into a random and possibly crap post. So I'll head off, hope to see you on Saturday night.
Hope all is well with you.
Hello,
What's happening out there then? What are you all up to? I need DETAILS.
Off to visit the folks this weekend. Just got my train ticket. Except when they're packed, or I'm sat next to a nobhead, I really enjoy train journey's. It gives me the opportunity for a bit of reading, listening to albums I haven't heard in a while, bit of sketching. Anything like that really. Plus I'm always going to somewhere I really want to be when I head out by train. Manchester, Brighton, Nottingham (bear with me, it's who's there rather than the place) and such. Reading Michael Palin's diary at the mo. Excellent stuff.
Be sure to check out the RCA and Columbia label blogs today. There are a few artists featured on there. In fact, I should feature some here. So here we go:
The Beat Poets - Got in touch with me a while back and they are very busy boys. Have a listen to Post Pop War, has a teeth-grinding pogo anthemic quality. :-)
Lightningtype - Met one of them in a toilet at a gig. Wasn't pushing my wares, but whilst having a pee I was whinging about the band that was on, the state of the music industry, how Lion bars have gone crap/smaller and how I wanted to move to Canada. One of lightningtypes chaps contributed to my rant and subsquently got in touch. Luckily their music is pretty damn good. Listen to Pressure, Message Waiting and Poor You. Any band that has a lyric like "I like you like cannibals love people" is great in my book
Hansolo - Not a fan of the name, maybe I'm a starwars purist and want to hear refences in their music. Dispite the lack of Yoda quotes, I Could Be Wrong is a really decent track. I hear a Robert Smith quality to his voice which is probably what initally caught my ear.
So there you go, what you all listening to? This time tomorrow I will be stuffing my face full of bacon sarnies freshly prepared by my mum and heading off to Afflecks Palace. Will share the experience no doubt.
Keep the stuff coming in, it's getting really good. PM's an comments welcome as usual.x
