Caught the end of Baby Dee (never heard of him / her!) which had some pounding piano but not to my taste. However the band was very tight and controlled, and went on to become the Current 93 band for the main performance ( Read more... )

First Hinouema gig for almost a year it seems! Slightly underwhelming on the outfits front, despite it being halloween it seemed that there was little effort expended (apart from panzerpenguin in a rather rakish hat ( Read more... )

Having failed to write reviews for lots of things, thought that I'd combine into an arts editorial

• Howard Hodgkin @ Fitzwilliam Museum - some quite interesting pieces, somewhat let down by infant school fake gold brick wallpaper on the partition walls of the exhibition. the best pieces had some degree of recognisable elements emerging from the ( Read more... )

For fashionistas some top tips at the event included: black suit with white tie and white patent shoes; a couple where the woman had a black dress and a black shoulder animal, and the man had a tweed suit and hat (they were both very short); and minus one million points for the gay couple with orange diamond pattern socks, tweed shorts with turnups ( Read more... )

The Water Rats is an excellent venue, being about 3 minutes walk from Kings X (apart from getting very hot inside when filled with NeoFolk fans). The CD stall was very good, at least it made me spend lots of money ( Read more... )

very briefly, you can get sol invictus tickets for december, it's in kings cross and so is quite easy to reach. just go to the cold spring page and search for sol invictus (you may have to scroll down a bit).

Pleasant journey down with casilda and lovelyoliver, as we decided to drive, and though we got there in just under two hours including detours and traffic, we got home in just over an hour. So we may try driving to some tube station on the victoria line for other gigs in london, definitely if there are a few people in the car.

Once there bumped into compilerbitch, panzerpenguin, augeas, and kekhmet, it ( Read more... )

Had a fun night, thinking that I didn't know anyone there, I bumped into a few folks that I'd met before, including panzerpenguin who was manfully manning the stalls despite bad wrists. Also augeas was there wearing a red gown and carrying his own portable bar, and met kekhmet who had an indepth knowledge of both industrial bands and intelligent agents! Saw my buddy from ( Read more... )