Well, it's been a while, hasn't it? Every so often I genuinely intend to get back to posting regularly (because my memory no longer works desperately well, and I appreciate old entries here telling me what I did). But then... life gets in the way, and so on ( Read more... )

Hello, everyone who's been popping up to write start-of-year posts ( Read more... )

So, for the past few years January has always started with the mini-festival that was Fortuna Pop's Winter Sprinter. Sadly, last year, the record label Fortuna Pop closed its doors (in an amazing flurry of farewell gigs) and we thought that that was it on the Winter Sprinter. But no! Step forward Fika, WYAIWIA and Gare du Nord, three record labels ( Read more... )

Happy new year, all ( Read more... )

Phew. It's been a busy December. In fact, I'm not entirely sure where it's gone. In gigs, some of it.

( The Frank & Walters @ the Water Rats )

( The Mountain Goats @ Shepherd's Bush Empire )

Brains are weird ( Read more... )

Well, that attempt to re-start posting about gigs didn't go very well, did it? Quick catch-up...

( Tall Ships @ Bush Hall )

Right, this weekend was wall-to-wall gigs. I'll start and write about them, and then at some point I'm going to go back and cover gigs so far this year. Very briefly, partly in the interests of sanity and partly because my memory is terrible. Probably best avoided if you don't like reading about gigs.

( DIY Popfest, Saturday @ The George Tavern )

( Cold in Berlin @ the Lexington )