I am astounded to discover that Manuskript have a web page again (http://manuskript.club/) and furthermore a Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/manuskript-2/). Evenfurthermore, so do Slimelight (Read more... )

...or do I want to pay £63 for a ticket ( Read more... )

I have literally no idea what I did in the week following my last post. However after that were:

• Eastercon, at which I had a small staff role, a couple of panels, and a lot of pigeon-making to do
• an unexpected but excellent Moulettes gig
• Whitby, at which we managed to acquire last-minute NMA tickets
• Norwich, for an art book fair
• London, for the Sci-Fi ( Read more... )

WGW tickets this time are 60 quid. They have 8 bands; 1 really good band, 1 good band, 2 who are moderately entertaining but not musically amazing, 1 on probation, and 3 who sound like complete dross. (Also they have sold out of 1-day tickets; that would have been an easier decision ( Read more... )

Whitby has many old-fashioned sweetshops. On my most recent visit I found one of these in the window of one:


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• Fangs on Fur - early Siouxsie imitators
  
• Inertia - cross between Apoptygma Berzerk and Pro-Jekt, but lacking something. Passable.
  
• Dutch Order - style still not very well defined, but good.
  
• Alien Sex Fiend - seminal but irritating.
  
• Blitzkid - can't decide whether to be metal or psychobilly. Jolly good fun though!
  
• All Living Fear - trad in the ( Read more... )

For my birthday, BT dug me a hole! This was very exciting, no-one has ever dug me a hole before (though the number of people who have offered since is quite alarming).

( subterranean depths )

* In The Nursery - film music, dull dull dull ( Read more... )

Traitional Whitby pre-review time again ( Read more... )

Look what I made: Whitby edition, part 2 of 2

( The trousers, not the model )