So at last a reason for a real update...

At the weekend anonypooh came to visit. We had two playdates planned. On Saturday evening we were heading down to Liquid cafe bar in town and watching Beneva play two 45 minute sets. And on Sunday heading over to Stratford for a bit of a pubcrawl and to watch what was billed as a piano recital of Schubert.

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5th November, Beneva, Camden Barfly.

£4 on the door, £3 with ticket or flier, £1 before 1pm.

Doors 12pm (noon), Open mic 12-1:30pm, 5 main acts 1:40pm til 5pm.

Who's joining myself and Jules???

Following a terrential downpour, I was picked up literally from my door to head down to London in the Beneva!bus, and twas a lovely journey listening to some demos of songs old and new. Arrival in London was pretty much on time, 5.30 ish and with phonecalls from muns and anonypooh and having a little difficulty in finding somewhere to park I jumped out and ( Read more... )

Pop Will Eat Itself have announced new dates in November! They need to be closer to home though, come back to Coventry Poppies please ( Read more... )

Okay, who on my flist is in London on 22 July? Who wants to join me to see Beneva play?

Come on you know you want to, I WILL BE THERE! :)

Please take a minute to go Vote for Beneva at NME! Thanks

If you don't wanna vote without knowing if you like them, please check out their myspace site!

or download this track I took of one of their songs: Stalker
I'll be adding a ysi link tonight rosamundeb cause I am POSITIVE you'll love them :)

If you like what you hear and are UK based why not join anonypooh ( Read more... )

THE GREAT READER’S DIGEST GLOBAL COURTESY TEST

New York City came in first place!

How wonderful and heartwarming is this extract:

The most beautiful thing you can give another human being is a genuine smile. Live your life by this motto and you will see wonderful results.

ps Jules, Beneva obviously live by this motto!

I think it's safe to say that anonypooh and I are well and truly addicted! I've been playing tracks off the album to anyone who comes anywhere near me ( Read more... )

What a great few days we've had, it's been excellent to have the company of anonypooh feels like an age since we did that :)

Thursday was Beneva at the Cross, report, pics and video elsewhere;)

Friday night was a yummy dinner at Browns, with Jules, Rachel and Neil for company. We had great conversations about all sorts, bumped into Little girl Screaming ( Read more... )

I took a short video on Thursday night of Beneva and Stalker, and here it is! If you like good live music have a listen :)

Stalker