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Re: 3 minutes of fame « Result #1 Yesterday at 1:38pm »
Thomas Truax is shooting the video for his song 'It's All Happening Now' in Eastbourne this Sunday (3rd Jan) and is after zombie extras. Details are on his MySpace Blog if you want to take part www.myspace.com/thomastruax
New thread- miscellaneous but interesting articles « Result #2 Yesterday at 9:46am »
This is an interesting piece written by Jonathan Coe on his love of Virago books - it's old but encapsulates that thrill of finding a book by a particular publisher, easily identifiable by spine e.g. Picador 70's books (now the book could just as easily be Bridget Jones's Diary as say...Trout Fishing in America). Anway, I digress....
My phone's playing-up, so I'm having trouble texting to find out, so what's all this I hear from Reuben about Rumiko Jr being in the Hastings Observer's Top 10 Gigs of the Year?
Ok, not just gigs, but Top Ten Shows Of 2009 (not in any order):
Rob Brydon, White Rock Theatre. Rumiko Jr & Regular John, Smugglers. Tinchy Stryder, Vibes, St Mary In The Castle. Jim Jeffries, Venuu. Ash, The Crypt. Drop Dead Dolls Burlesk, Venuu. The Show 2009, Reach Out & Give, White Rock Theatre. Jaguar Skills, The Crypt. Heritage Orchestra, De La Warr Pavilion. The Chapman Brothers, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery.
An interesting, varied mix (weighted more towards the end of the year), and, quite possibly, put together from several staff members' favourites. Not sure exactly which Smugglers gig they're thinking of, but I'd assume it was one of the 'closing down' events (maybe the 26th June gig?)
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Re: Rumiko Jr & friends « Result #9 on Dec 26, 2009, 11:49am »
Morning, Hope everyone's having a good Christmas.
My phone's playing-up, so I'm having trouble texting to find out, so what's all this I hear from Reuben about Rumiko Jr being in the Hastings Observer's Top 10 Gigs of the Year?
Which gig?
[By the way, Michael should now have a burnt CD of the first Donkey Kong EPs off of me; and Carolyn gave me some computer software for Xmas that will enable us to convert all our old vinyl & tapes to mp3, if anyone's got anything they're desperate to have in digital format.]
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Re: Pantograph interview « Result #10 on Dec 23, 2009, 2:16pm »
By the by, Richard mentions the above interview again in the current issue of Pantograph #12, along with a photo he's lifted from Facebook of me in Noeleen's flat on my birthday this year. It's quite a murky picture in the colour-printed issues, so I'll probably just be a silhouette in the photocopied ones for the record shops.
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Re: Noise Annoys « Result #11 on Dec 23, 2009, 1:10pm »
I thought Sunn O))) had permenantly buggered up my hearing the other weekend at ATP. When I got back to the chalet the noise (howling and whistling) in my ears was almost exactly the same as when I was in the venue with the band playing - it was quite scary. But then when I woke up they were fine. Odd.
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Re: Ongoing De La Warr Pavilion thread - « Result #18 on Dec 15, 2009, 7:11pm »
Right then, that's Speech Debelle/Micachu & The Shapes, and now Vampire Weekend confirmed for the De La Warr in the spring (along with The Leisure Society, a promising Portico Quartet/Sweet Billy Pilgram gig, and Hastings' semi-own Acoustic Ladyland), plus Simon Bookish for Feb's Random Friday.
There's another decent gig lined-up for the spring too, which they've not announced yet - but it's on the same sort of lines & level as those mentioned above (and some of the previous De La Warr gigs). Any guesses (except for Carolyn, and possibly Reuben, who may already know...)?
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Re: New Venue « Result #20 on Dec 10, 2009, 1:45pm »
Just bumping this OLD thread about The Rooms (still thriving despite our initial reservations, eh?) 'cos I was just on the phone to Rob there, and he's got a few spare gig slots for January if anyone fancies playing (he even asked me) as well as a live band vacancy on New Year's Eve. 01424 713555
(There's a different new website now too, but I think it's virussey at the moment, so maybe check things out on the MySpace instead www.myspace.com/theroomscafebarstudios)
(And no, I can't remember who I was referring to at the end of the previous post on this thread. Tara, probably)
The short film our friends Vicky and George (The Garden Films) made of White Night, which Carolyn & I submitted footage and photos for, is showing in the 1-2pm programme at the Sallis Benney Theatre on Sun 6th Dec, by the way. We've not seen it yet, but Vicky mentioned online that it's completed.
Now on YouTube (that's Transformer's Cinema Car on the soundtrack) and worth five minutes of your time.
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Re: All Tomorrow's Parties « Result #24 on Dec 4, 2009, 11:50am »
Here's both killer ATP line-ups for the next two weekends. Hopefully I'll make it to MBV later this afternoon, and then be back for 10 Years the following week. Crazily, MBV played a public warm-up show on site yesterday evening, which, coupled with the In Between Days events in Butlins between the weekends, means some (any?) lucky punters are having an epic 12 day/11 night festival...
Curated by My Bloody Valentine:
my bloody valentine Sonic Youth De La Soul E.P.M.D. Sun Ra Arkestra The Horrors Buzzcocks Spectrum Fucked Up Le Volume Courbe The Wounded Knees The Pastels J Mascis And The Fog Lilys A Place To Bury Strangers Witch Bob Mould Swervedriver Dirty Three Primal Scream Yo La Tengo Brightblack Morning Light Serena Maneesh The Membranes Ariel Pink Josh T. Pearson Lightning Bolt That Petrol Emotion mum Harmony Rockets - Performing Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void Th' Faith Healers School of Seven Bells Robin Guthrie No Age The Robert Coyne Outfit The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Television Personalities Gemma Hayes The Tyde + Art-Snob Eat Shit - Exhibition by Tim Biskup Soft Focus Live with Ian Svenonius Bingo Pop Quiz
Ten Years Of ATP:
Explosions In The Sky Tortoise Shellac Dirty Three Melvins Mudhoney The For Carnation Papa M - Performing Live From A Shark Cage Deerhoof Fuck Buttons The Drones Sleepy Sun Bardo Pond Battles Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks Sunn O))) - Performing The GrimmRobe Demos + Monoliths & Dimensions J Mascis And The Fog APSE Alexander Tucker & Decomposed Orchestra Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Performing Fever To Tell & more Modest Mouse The Breeders Lightning Bolt mum The Magic Band Edan (The Dee Jay) Om Porn Tall Firs The Mars Volta BEAK> Afrirampo Devendra Banhart and the Grogs Polvo Growing Six Organs Of Admittance Josh T. Pearson + Crispin Glover's Big Slide Show Ricky Powell's World Famous Slideshow Mick Turner Art Exhibition Belle and Sebastian DJs Knitting With Kelley
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Re: Hastings Observer « Result #25 on Dec 4, 2009, 10:17am »
Here's my Ragged Trousered Hedonist guest blog (it's true, I do have ragged trousers). As most of you know, the phone app mentioned is the free one over at the www.on-uk.com site. It got edited down, but I had included the point that anyone can add their events info the the app free-of-charge on that site, if you want to give it a go anytime. All the public submissions just get checked-over for accuracy by me or Adam and that lot at the office before they go live.
Worth noting: Hastings Observer's new The Ragged Trousered Hedonist ents blogger, Rob Alderson. He's offering space for plugs below his column.
I'm lined-up to guest edit this column next week, so make sure people let me know if they've got events coming up during Dec 4th-10th.
It's an online-only column, so hopefully the industry stories that local paper publishers Johnston Press are gonna start trialing some of their titles' sites pay-only as of next week don't apply to the Observer yet!
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Re: Tweet? « Result #30 on Nov 25, 2009, 11:27pm »
For those of you who don't Tweet, this just in (well, an hour ago) from @eddieizzard: "Just eating some very good Thai food. Tomorrow I will be opening the Bexhill museum, just by Egerton Park, at 3pm. See you there " (Did people know this?)
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Re: Waving, I'm Waving « Result #32 on Nov 25, 2009, 6:18pm »
Google Wave's really not doing it for me so far. All the start-up info is in video tutorials, none of which I can watch because (depite trying it out in Internet Explorer and Safari, installing Google Chrome Frame and various Adobe Flash & Shockwave things) I still get 'The required plugin is not installed' messages.
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Re: Waving, I'm Waving « Result #33 on Nov 25, 2009, 3:05pm »
I've added you to a couple of waves that I have started. A good way in is to put the following into the search bar with:public it will then show you all the public waves to narrow it down you just add a search term eg with:public dizzy tiger
to make a wave public add he following contact easypublic@appspot.com
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Re: Waving, I'm Waving « Result #34 on Nov 24, 2009, 11:39pm »
I've got Google Wave now Neil - I was worried it would alter the layout of the laptop view and toolbars, but it hasn't, which is good.
At the moment I've got no idea what to do with it though! I'm sure in a month or two we'll all be dabbling with it, but at the moment it's just... there.
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Re: T.V.O.D. « Result #35 on Nov 24, 2009, 8:27pm »
Did anyone watch School Of Saatchi when it started last night? Next Monday's show is all about constructing large artworks on Hastings seafront (you may have seen the trailer).
This completely passed me by in reality. Didn't even notice the Hastings Observer pick up on it. Does anyone know when the artworks and filming were actually done (assuming, from the trailers & press photos, that it can't be happening right now)?
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Re: Waving, I'm Waving « Result #36 on Nov 24, 2009, 8:11pm »
Chrome is an excellent browser and much faster than Firefox (well on my mac it is anyway) I haven't noticed that I've had to add anything else extra so not really sure what you mean? I've had no problems with it at all
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Re: Waving, I'm Waving « Result #37 on Nov 24, 2009, 7:10pm »
Does installing the Google Chrome Frame bit first make much difference to how your computer runs? I really didn't like all those toolbars etc that Google keep trying to add to the laptop, so I'm wary about swamping it with more add-on nonsense.
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Re: The band who cried wolf... « Result #38 on Nov 24, 2009, 7:07pm »
Check out A Factory Night at Brussels' Plan K venue next month: ACR, Section 25, Biting Tongues, The Wake and The Names, plus afterparty with New Order tribute group Re:Order (recognise 'Gillian' anyone?)
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Re: All Tomorrow's Parties « Result #43 on Nov 22, 2009, 6:34pm »
Check the inital confirmations for Matt Groening's ATP, 2/7 of them are (vaguely, co-incidentally) Hastings based, namely James Blackshaw and Viv Albertine's Limerence (still featuring Katherine). Which is nice.
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Re: Cine City, Brighton « Result #44 on Nov 21, 2009, 10:43am »
CineCity is underway in Brighton again (17th Nov - 6th Dec). They've already shown the new Jim Jarmusch and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) films, but there's plenty of stuff to come that might be worth making the trip for, especially ones with Q&As afterwards, including The Road (John Hillcoat & Nick Cave), Bronco Bullfrog etc.
If you pick up the physical programme in Brighton at any point, you'll see Carolyn & I are thanked again, I think for our help in setting up CineCity's involvement with the White Night Festival last month (swimming in the Prince Regent while they worked out safe lighting levels to project films at the pool, and distributing the ATP posters).
The short film our friends Vicky and George (The Garden Films) made of White Night, which Carolyn & I submitted footage and photos for, is showing in the 1-2pm programme at the Sallis Benney Theatre on Sun 6th Dec, by the way. We've not seen it yet, but Vicky mentioned online that it's completed.
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December 09 « Result #46 on Nov 18, 2009, 7:07pm »
Wed 2nd Dec - Tim Hoyte (experimental loop set), The Rooms (I Scare You, You Scare Me exhibition). 8pm, private view #2, free.
Fri 4th Dec - Let's Shake Hands, The Rooms - ie Reuben and Fred, I think?
Fri 11th Dec - Cirkus Toe (aka Minotaur Waiting), The Rooms - Love Music Hate Racism benefit (To The Moon Alice, Dusty Rosko, Katdog, Woodface), The Pig In Paradise. £2.
Sat 12th Dec - Doctor Fonda, The Borderline, London. £tbc
Mon 14th Dec - Electric Six & To The Moon Alice, The Crypt. £10.
Thu 17th Dec - Tim Hoyte, First In Last Out - Day 1 of the FILO's Xmas Beer Festival (ongoing 'til Xmas Eve)
Sat 19th Dec - This Is My Xmascentre, Three Graces, Hove. Free. Overhead Wires Xmas party with The Dan Markland Band, Nick McKenna, The Stars Down To Earth, The Unreliable Narrator.
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Looking for A Certain Ratio « Result #47 on Nov 18, 2009, 5:09pm »
ACR are playing the Concorde 2 on March 7th next year, along with Brighton's Transformer (who I always said sounded quite a lot like Life's A Scream -era ACR), DJs including Danny Rampling and Justing Robertson... £15 advance (& booking fee), but it's a long one (5pm-2am) and for charity.
Re: Last FM « Result #56 on Nov 16, 2009, 11:52am »
Really? Damn. I know that the file we uploaded was ok because I bought a copy to test and it checks out fine so I guess it's a problem with Apple. Try and get your money back and I will moan as well. If you have an ftp address I can send you the files.
Re: Last FM « Result #57 on Nov 14, 2009, 9:42pm »
there is a problem with the itunes download, there are lots of silent glitches in the tracks. Marcus you should probably re-upload it. I emailed Apple about it.
The only thing that I wasn't sure about was the vocal techniques that several artists used - a kind of fake language. Stu - what was the technique called?
My mind's gone blank on this actually.
Anyway, Geoff's linked to this YouTube video on Facebook - the entirety of COOS shrunk into 8'40". Enjoy, it's hard-going!
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Re: 3 minutes of fame « Result #63 on Nov 11, 2009, 6:14pm »
I really like this video of our friends The Dan Markland Band (on Richard's Overhead Wires label) - Just a short compilation of gig/rehearsal/travel moments, but it really makes being young and in a band look like the best idea ever.
Am looking forward to it arriving this week, hopefully.
Probably not: Amazon have emailed their standard 'awaiting stock' message. Delayed, I think, 'cos Warp might have shifted the release date back to honour their promise that customers ordering direct from the Warp Film Store would get theirs first.
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Re: ATP Film « Result #72 on Nov 9, 2009, 1:25pm »
I'd really recommend this to anyone. Obviously you'd probably be more interested if you'd been to the festival but I think it is a good film either way. Lots of fun.
Am looking forward to it arriving this week, hopefully.
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Re: Colour Out Of Space « Result #73 on Nov 9, 2009, 1:23pm »
This festival was really very good this year. I would recommend it to anyone who might be thinking of going next year.
The only thing that I wasn't sure about was the vocal techniques that several artists used - a kind of fake language. Stu - what was the technique called?
Anyhoo - there was a little bit too much of that for my liking - but generally really enjoyable festival.
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Re: A Decade Ends « Result #74 on Nov 9, 2009, 1:19pm »
I cannot remember a lot of detail of the last decade but remember seeing it in in a small village in West Wales watching my ex drunkenly play the banjo all night. I was a bit depressed watching the coverage on the news of the world celebrating!!
Best film probably 24 Hour Party People - it's certainly the one I've watched the most. When I first saw it I wanted to go straight back into the next viewing.
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A Decade Ends « Result #75 on Nov 8, 2009, 1:07am »
Not long 'til 2010! I'd love to hear people's thoughts on the music etc of 2000-2009 sometime. I'll post some of my top tunes soonish, so feel free to do the same (also film, TV and whatever else takes your fancy)
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November '09 « Result #80 on Nov 4, 2009, 6:20pm »
Fri 6th - Via Rosa & The Long Goodbye, The Brunswick, Hove
Sat 7th - The Long Goodbye, The Dun Horse, Horsham
Tue 10th - To The Moon Alice, Brass Monkey. Possibly free.
Wed 11th - BOTB quarter finals (inc. To The Moon Alice), Crypt, Hastings £3
Thu 12th - Dan Markland acoustic at Soundfactory Stripped, The Providence, Hove. £1.
Fri 13th - The Long Goodbye, the Jenny Lind, Hastings
Sat 14th - The Electric Blowhole (P For Persia, Sand Rabbit etc), Pine Gallery Basement, Claremont, Hastings. - This Is My Epicentre (Orchid Thieves, Paul Diello, Ian Mark Burzio & Steve Thresher), The Three Graces, Hove. Free (Overhead Wires night).
Wed 18th - Spirit Of Gravity (Ryan Jordan, Gus Garside & Dan Powell, Sunday Mourning), Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton £5 - Noisepilots, Trinity Bar, Harrow. £3, NSPCC benefit. - Battle Of The Bands semi-final, The Crypt: To The Moon Alice, Killing The Senses, The Junk & Maid Of Ace. £3. - Wrong Music: Whatever! new night at The Globe pub, Brighton, 9pm-1am. Devil Man, Nurse Guy's Marvellous Metal Medicine, Aneenanong & Wrong Music DJs. Free.
Fri 20th - The Dan Markland Band, Chichester Zee (SU) Bar. - Club Seal DJs, The Penthouse, The Freebutt with guest Oli Spleen.
Sat 21st-Sun 22nd - The Audiophonic Cabaret, F-ISH Gallery, Robertson Street, Hastings. Unspecified events currently, awaiting confirmation.
Wed 25th - I Scare You, You Scare Me exhibition launch, The Rooms, 7pm. Work by Leofwin, Reuben, Fred, Wookie & Chris Watson (No.1 Fake 'zine). Ongoing 'til 13th Dec. - Wrong Music at the Cowley Club, Brighton (inc Horatio Pollard, The 55th Flotilla, Steger Luxenbourg, The Funeral Of King Olav & Deepkiss720), £2 suggested entry, members & guests only.
Thu 26th - The Long Goodbye, Piries Bar, Horsham.
Fri 27th - The Infernal Salon (Madonna Over Yorkshire, Noteherder & McCloud, Hereharehere), upstairs at the Caroline Of Brunswick, Brighton. £tbc
Sat 28th - Eat The Party (debut for Del's new band), The Crypt
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Re: Poll Index. « Result #81 on Nov 2, 2009, 3:18pm »
Not strictly a poll, but East are asking for people's Best Live Band experiences on their site here (Includes YouTube clip of Daphne & Celeste outclassing everyone at the Reading Festival)
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Re: Colour Out Of Space « Result #84 on Oct 28, 2009, 8:43pm »
We're hoping to get paid around Friday, and just get in on the door, if anyone does come over. Kieren Hebden's DJing down the road at Audio on the Friday night too, which might tie-in, although I think we'll be too tired and stuff.
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Re: Film club « Result #85 on Oct 28, 2009, 8:40pm »
Our A-Z film club ground to a halt a while ago when we reached 'Q', so in the meantime Carolyn, Laura & I are starting a Woody Allen-a-thon - Watching all his old films (which we've collectively got most of on various DVDs and VHS tapes) in order. Starts tomorrow.
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Re: Gigs please! « Result #86 on Oct 28, 2009, 8:34pm »
If you didn't see me post it elsewhere, the whole of The Monster Season gig last week is on YouTube here, or you can see that with all the rehearals and odds and ends on our MySpace www.myspace.com/themonsterseason
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Re: The band who cried wolf... « Result #87 on Oct 28, 2009, 8:30pm »
Digital is loud! Apart from a lot of the Bad Lieutenant album (most of which sounded like the more guitarry Electronic songs, unsuprisingly), we got a small handful of New Order (Waiting For The Sirens Call, Crystal), an Electronic song (fans' favourite Tighten Up), a Joy Division encore (Transmission) and even the Barney/Chemical Brothers collaboration (Out Of Control, which segued into Temptation).
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Re: ATP Film « Result #88 on Oct 28, 2009, 8:26pm »
Finally saw the ATP Film at the weekend - lots and lots of fun and nonsense. No sign of anyone we know (not us, our friends, bands we met, label owners, etc) from any of the Camber events in the film, perhaps suprisingly. But there is a lot of Camber stuff for nostalgic purposes (the rest is all Minehead, nothing from any of the US or Australian events, or indeed any other non-festival ATP gigs). DVD out soon anyway, which I'll pre-order, if anyone wants to watch it.
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Re: More YouTube hi-jinks! « Result #91 on Oct 21, 2009, 8:43pm »
The Fall in car-crash TV interview non-shock! This one's from German TV, 1989. Proper excruciating: "What do you think about Phillip Boa?" etc. Check the Front 242 decor in the background.
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Re: ATP Film « Result #92 on Oct 21, 2009, 1:35pm »
The Sticks now playing at the Duke Of Yorks for the ATP Film screening. Check the latest Camber Sands-heavy clip here, it's great. Really hoping Warp Films pull their finger out and confirm our tickets!
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