Ooooh
Well, the big news is that I'm 21 tommorow. There will be a party at my house, accessable from 7:30. There will be drinking and partyage on Saturday as well - at the Gunpowder Plot, upon which I shall expand later.
Today I went to the drum shop, but it wasn't open, so I went to the comic shop instead. Birthday magic, it seems, really is limited to your birthday. I had hoped I may be able to use a bit of it today, alas, travelling man had not news of the Strangers in Paradise pocket book 5. Bah. I got a few other books though: MOME summer 2005, I was someone dead by Jamie S. Rich (which is more novel than graphic), a free little sample comic called Guide Dog Detective in "All in a days work" which is a preview of the forthcoming comic by Jess who works there, and another comic, which shall remain nameless, cos it's gonna be a present for someone.
Yesterday I had/put on a gig with Robin. It cost 99p entry, with the option of a penny or a penny sweet for change. I later gave out more sweets. This puts people in a good mood. There was good music too, by The Inconsolable (robin) Jar (me - I didn't play tooooo badly) and SJ Esau - who we all sang along to. Added to the fact it was in the cosy downstairs of Cafe Bar Unlimited, and it all added up to one lovely little evening.
It somewhat made up for that fact that earlier that day I'd done my first proper days work at Debenhams (I'd had my induction on Friday) and in the morning I'd woken up at 10:43, paniked, cos I was supposed to be there at 11 (needed to leave 1/2 hour to walk there comfortably) and it was my first day and I was going to make a terrible impression. I flung clothes on. I poked contacts in my eyes. I went "I don't need breakfast, I don't need to wash, I need to get going" and proceeded to half run/half walk with stitch all the way to Broadmead. When I got there, after 10 mins of so of confusion. I discovered the clocks had gone back, and I was 40 mins early. Then, cos I wasn't till trained, and knew nothing about the products, I spent the rest of the day straightening mug handles. Ah well, it's still better than working in a bar.
What may have contributed slightly to my sleeping through alarms, was that I'd gone to a halloween party the previous night. That was fun. I met a few more people from my course, mainly dressed in drag. I was careful not to go to bed any later than I would've done had I just stayed in - honest guv! I've just not been getting to bed very easily lately...
So yes, this Saturday, come to:
Venue presents...
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
The Blue Mountain Club & Casablancas
Stokes Croft, Bristol
Saturday 5th November
3 Stages
2 Venues
28 Bands & Artists
Live Music from 2 pm - midnight
DJs til really late
£6 Advance
Tickets on sale now at Bristol Ticket Shop and Replay.
CASABLANCA
2.15 - The Girl From Headquarters (come watch us! Oh, and I didnt' write this blurb - I compiled it from a couple o'places)
Brand new group sounding something like The Fall if they had recorded film soundtracks during a Californian surfing phase in the late 50's. Bristol's discovery of 2005?
3.00 - 3 Hos, 2 Mexicans & A Tin of Spanners
Self-proclaimed musical terroists blasting out precision-aimed riffage and punk rock rants. Loud, opinionated, guitar-toting spleenrock at its incendiary best.
4.00 - SJ Esau (I thoroughly reccomend this chappie, so much so I've released his album on my record label)
Now with a full live band, widely lauded Sam's imagination is a treasure chest of bendy pop diamonds
5.00 - Mea Culpa
Electro/hardcore/metal fiends peddling wanton, exhilerating noise. Knocking out screaming metallic hardcore with noise to go. If your ears are bleeding, these boys are probably to blame.
6.00 - Bad : Science
Outstanding Bush-baiting conscious hip hop band now resident in Brighton who have supported the likes of AIM and Nightmares On Wax.
7.00 - Fortune Drive
Soulful, hard-kicking with a slew of ace new material. Much loved melodic, soulful rockers who have recently supported the likes of Soulwax and Jimmy Eat World. Proper rock stars in the making?
8.00 - Babel
Thrilling, upbeat acoustic folk-rock with one of the most intense frontmen around. Room-rousing pliers of acoustic aceness and dreamy melancholia, whierein folk is lead through graceful hairpin bends into honking fugues of light klezmer, or redneck country. And all topped by arguably the strongest voice in town.
9.00 - The Scrub
Ska-punk-dub-hoppers with a massive cult following. One of the biggest live draws in Bristol.
10.00 - Geisha
The nastiest, most life-affirmingly beautiful racket in the world.
11.00 - Termites
Gaping death pop for the hard of living - one of the most witty and imaginative indie rock bands around. Could well be massive. Art rockers with a distinct pop sensibility. 'Short smart songs with energy and humour', said Drowned in Sound. We'll go with that.
+ DJs from Crash, Shake and Monkey Knife Fight + Gary & Richard from Bristol Uncovered
BLUE MOUNTAIN - Main Stage
2.30 - Figment (don't watch them - watch us!)
Sulky vocals, insolent swaggers and nasty growly antique guitars being elegantly massacred. Colossal all-meat-and-no-veg rocking sound from a tight-wound trio laced with enough energy to bust a dam.
3.30 - Ivory Springer
Impossibly taut time sig-challengin rock, and utterly compelling live. A precision-tooled Dreadnought of all-conquering manrock. Last show for a while for one of Bristol's best loved bands.
4.30 - Treehouse Burning
Ace pop-punkers featuring bubblegum riffs tripping over themselves with excitement, titles like 'Chicks Dig Scars' reinforcing the whole scabbed-knee and torn-school-jumper thrill of it all, tugging at your sleeve untill you give it your full attention.
5.30 - Bronnt Industries Kapital
Sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal, but always dark, blackened beats and suicidal soundscapes. Pioneering, hypnotic electronica from Dusseldorf ex-pats with a John Carpenter fixation.
6.30 - Hunting Lodge
Jaw-dropping disco-punk lunacy. Like Studio 54 being held at gunpoint by circus freaks with a grudge against tunes. Prepare to be pummelled
7.20 - Big Joan (my word, you HAVE to see this band)
Three Englishmen, a lady from Berlin and a collective imbalance of hormones. Bass-beats slashing troupe. More bass! More noise! Damn fine racket, in short.
8.15 - The Fog Band
Headed by a formidable sparksian frontman, Bobby Grindrod, marshalled by guitarist/cheif songwriter Oli Daltrey, and purveyous of nagular and complex sets evidently inspired by the golden age of 1980s Mancunian rant. Critically lauded art-schoolers signed to Bath's superb Purr Records. Frontman, Bobby Grindrod, has easily the best name in rock.
9.05 - The Mighty Stars
Brilliant, dumb-ass, testosterone-flavoured, gril-obsessed garage, beat-pop perfection from the kings of the two-minute chorus.
10. 05 - Patrick Duff & Emily Breeze
The iconic former Strangelove singer teams up with the new voice on the block. A sneak preview of their countrified work together can be summed up thus: unmissable.
11.00 - The Fabrics
All conquering, genre-slaying party band - like an illegal rave kicking off in a New Orleans jazz club. 1930's jazz merged with cutting-edge electronica, swing-time electro with bossanova breaks. Don't even try not to dance.
+ DJs from Toxic Dancehall + Choke + Monkey Knife Fight
THE INCENDIARY FRINGE - (Blue Mountain - 2nd Stage)
3.15 - Hacksaw
Reliably shambolic duo playing short, fast, hilarious punk rock anthems about baggy trousers and geese.
4.15 - Papa Molasses & The Dane County Paragons (very entertaining - and features Steve - the guitarist from The Girl From Headquarters)
Wonky country hell supergroup featuring the hard-fighting, hard-loving cousins of members of Hunting Lodge, Geisha, Hacksaw, etc.
5.15 - Steveless (very entertaing - and features Dan - the singer from The Girl From Headquarters)
John Peel's last great musical love. Mouthy, ramshackle and completely inspired: think Beefheart songs arranged by The White Stripes and performed by a drowning Welsh Lonnie Donnegan. Or something.
6.15 - Bucky (It has been scientifically proven impossible not to love this band, oh wait, the blurb says that too)
Adorably manic country-rock two piece with awesome tunes and hilarious lyrics. Probably the only band in Bristol that is loved by everyone in town.
7.15 - Santa Dog
Taut, literate, driving pop 'n' roll.
8.15 - The New Acoustics
Pastoral gems and the kind of inspired playing that by now should be taken for granated.
9.15 - Rose Kemp
One of the most powerful and arresting voices on the scene with soul-searching, folky melodies and razor sharp hooks. Garnering nation attention by melding the purity of the finest folk with rock aggression, drawing much inspiration from new-prog.
10.00 - Knowledge of Bugs
Producer of an array of brilliantly oddball electronic devices, deployed to warm and magical effect. Warm, wonderful, innovative music lovingly crafted from loops of acoustic, electric and electronic sound.
10.45 - Caroline Martin
Chilling, darkly comic, beautifully sung creations. Debut album 'I had a hundred more reasons to stay by the fire' (Small Dog) was quite accuratly reviewed by Q thus: 'as if PJ Harvey had inhabited the body of Gillian Welch'. Numerous sessions for Peel and Rob Da Bank are testament to the quality of her chilling, darkly comic, beautifully sung creations.
+ DJs from Float and MC Miles the Munter
Today I went to the drum shop, but it wasn't open, so I went to the comic shop instead. Birthday magic, it seems, really is limited to your birthday. I had hoped I may be able to use a bit of it today, alas, travelling man had not news of the Strangers in Paradise pocket book 5. Bah. I got a few other books though: MOME summer 2005, I was someone dead by Jamie S. Rich (which is more novel than graphic), a free little sample comic called Guide Dog Detective in "All in a days work" which is a preview of the forthcoming comic by Jess who works there, and another comic, which shall remain nameless, cos it's gonna be a present for someone.
Yesterday I had/put on a gig with Robin. It cost 99p entry, with the option of a penny or a penny sweet for change. I later gave out more sweets. This puts people in a good mood. There was good music too, by The Inconsolable (robin) Jar (me - I didn't play tooooo badly) and SJ Esau - who we all sang along to. Added to the fact it was in the cosy downstairs of Cafe Bar Unlimited, and it all added up to one lovely little evening.
It somewhat made up for that fact that earlier that day I'd done my first proper days work at Debenhams (I'd had my induction on Friday) and in the morning I'd woken up at 10:43, paniked, cos I was supposed to be there at 11 (needed to leave 1/2 hour to walk there comfortably) and it was my first day and I was going to make a terrible impression. I flung clothes on. I poked contacts in my eyes. I went "I don't need breakfast, I don't need to wash, I need to get going" and proceeded to half run/half walk with stitch all the way to Broadmead. When I got there, after 10 mins of so of confusion. I discovered the clocks had gone back, and I was 40 mins early. Then, cos I wasn't till trained, and knew nothing about the products, I spent the rest of the day straightening mug handles. Ah well, it's still better than working in a bar.
What may have contributed slightly to my sleeping through alarms, was that I'd gone to a halloween party the previous night. That was fun. I met a few more people from my course, mainly dressed in drag. I was careful not to go to bed any later than I would've done had I just stayed in - honest guv! I've just not been getting to bed very easily lately...
So yes, this Saturday, come to:
Venue presents...
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
The Blue Mountain Club & Casablancas
Stokes Croft, Bristol
Saturday 5th November
3 Stages
2 Venues
28 Bands & Artists
Live Music from 2 pm - midnight
DJs til really late
£6 Advance
Tickets on sale now at Bristol Ticket Shop and Replay.
CASABLANCA
2.15 - The Girl From Headquarters (come watch us! Oh, and I didnt' write this blurb - I compiled it from a couple o'places)
Brand new group sounding something like The Fall if they had recorded film soundtracks during a Californian surfing phase in the late 50's. Bristol's discovery of 2005?
3.00 - 3 Hos, 2 Mexicans & A Tin of Spanners
Self-proclaimed musical terroists blasting out precision-aimed riffage and punk rock rants. Loud, opinionated, guitar-toting spleenrock at its incendiary best.
4.00 - SJ Esau (I thoroughly reccomend this chappie, so much so I've released his album on my record label)
Now with a full live band, widely lauded Sam's imagination is a treasure chest of bendy pop diamonds
5.00 - Mea Culpa
Electro/hardcore/metal fiends peddling wanton, exhilerating noise. Knocking out screaming metallic hardcore with noise to go. If your ears are bleeding, these boys are probably to blame.
6.00 - Bad : Science
Outstanding Bush-baiting conscious hip hop band now resident in Brighton who have supported the likes of AIM and Nightmares On Wax.
7.00 - Fortune Drive
Soulful, hard-kicking with a slew of ace new material. Much loved melodic, soulful rockers who have recently supported the likes of Soulwax and Jimmy Eat World. Proper rock stars in the making?
8.00 - Babel
Thrilling, upbeat acoustic folk-rock with one of the most intense frontmen around. Room-rousing pliers of acoustic aceness and dreamy melancholia, whierein folk is lead through graceful hairpin bends into honking fugues of light klezmer, or redneck country. And all topped by arguably the strongest voice in town.
9.00 - The Scrub
Ska-punk-dub-hoppers with a massive cult following. One of the biggest live draws in Bristol.
10.00 - Geisha
The nastiest, most life-affirmingly beautiful racket in the world.
11.00 - Termites
Gaping death pop for the hard of living - one of the most witty and imaginative indie rock bands around. Could well be massive. Art rockers with a distinct pop sensibility. 'Short smart songs with energy and humour', said Drowned in Sound. We'll go with that.
+ DJs from Crash, Shake and Monkey Knife Fight + Gary & Richard from Bristol Uncovered
BLUE MOUNTAIN - Main Stage
2.30 - Figment (don't watch them - watch us!)
Sulky vocals, insolent swaggers and nasty growly antique guitars being elegantly massacred. Colossal all-meat-and-no-veg rocking sound from a tight-wound trio laced with enough energy to bust a dam.
3.30 - Ivory Springer
Impossibly taut time sig-challengin rock, and utterly compelling live. A precision-tooled Dreadnought of all-conquering manrock. Last show for a while for one of Bristol's best loved bands.
4.30 - Treehouse Burning
Ace pop-punkers featuring bubblegum riffs tripping over themselves with excitement, titles like 'Chicks Dig Scars' reinforcing the whole scabbed-knee and torn-school-jumper thrill of it all, tugging at your sleeve untill you give it your full attention.
5.30 - Bronnt Industries Kapital
Sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal, but always dark, blackened beats and suicidal soundscapes. Pioneering, hypnotic electronica from Dusseldorf ex-pats with a John Carpenter fixation.
6.30 - Hunting Lodge
Jaw-dropping disco-punk lunacy. Like Studio 54 being held at gunpoint by circus freaks with a grudge against tunes. Prepare to be pummelled
7.20 - Big Joan (my word, you HAVE to see this band)
Three Englishmen, a lady from Berlin and a collective imbalance of hormones. Bass-beats slashing troupe. More bass! More noise! Damn fine racket, in short.
8.15 - The Fog Band
Headed by a formidable sparksian frontman, Bobby Grindrod, marshalled by guitarist/cheif songwriter Oli Daltrey, and purveyous of nagular and complex sets evidently inspired by the golden age of 1980s Mancunian rant. Critically lauded art-schoolers signed to Bath's superb Purr Records. Frontman, Bobby Grindrod, has easily the best name in rock.
9.05 - The Mighty Stars
Brilliant, dumb-ass, testosterone-flavoured, gril-obsessed garage, beat-pop perfection from the kings of the two-minute chorus.
10. 05 - Patrick Duff & Emily Breeze
The iconic former Strangelove singer teams up with the new voice on the block. A sneak preview of their countrified work together can be summed up thus: unmissable.
11.00 - The Fabrics
All conquering, genre-slaying party band - like an illegal rave kicking off in a New Orleans jazz club. 1930's jazz merged with cutting-edge electronica, swing-time electro with bossanova breaks. Don't even try not to dance.
+ DJs from Toxic Dancehall + Choke + Monkey Knife Fight
THE INCENDIARY FRINGE - (Blue Mountain - 2nd Stage)
3.15 - Hacksaw
Reliably shambolic duo playing short, fast, hilarious punk rock anthems about baggy trousers and geese.
4.15 - Papa Molasses & The Dane County Paragons (very entertaining - and features Steve - the guitarist from The Girl From Headquarters)
Wonky country hell supergroup featuring the hard-fighting, hard-loving cousins of members of Hunting Lodge, Geisha, Hacksaw, etc.
5.15 - Steveless (very entertaing - and features Dan - the singer from The Girl From Headquarters)
John Peel's last great musical love. Mouthy, ramshackle and completely inspired: think Beefheart songs arranged by The White Stripes and performed by a drowning Welsh Lonnie Donnegan. Or something.
6.15 - Bucky (It has been scientifically proven impossible not to love this band, oh wait, the blurb says that too)
Adorably manic country-rock two piece with awesome tunes and hilarious lyrics. Probably the only band in Bristol that is loved by everyone in town.
7.15 - Santa Dog
Taut, literate, driving pop 'n' roll.
8.15 - The New Acoustics
Pastoral gems and the kind of inspired playing that by now should be taken for granated.
9.15 - Rose Kemp
One of the most powerful and arresting voices on the scene with soul-searching, folky melodies and razor sharp hooks. Garnering nation attention by melding the purity of the finest folk with rock aggression, drawing much inspiration from new-prog.
10.00 - Knowledge of Bugs
Producer of an array of brilliantly oddball electronic devices, deployed to warm and magical effect. Warm, wonderful, innovative music lovingly crafted from loops of acoustic, electric and electronic sound.
10.45 - Caroline Martin
Chilling, darkly comic, beautifully sung creations. Debut album 'I had a hundred more reasons to stay by the fire' (Small Dog) was quite accuratly reviewed by Q thus: 'as if PJ Harvey had inhabited the body of Gillian Welch'. Numerous sessions for Peel and Rob Da Bank are testament to the quality of her chilling, darkly comic, beautifully sung creations.
+ DJs from Float and MC Miles the Munter