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So I've nearly sorted out the details for The Nasty Noise Disco, (just one difficult band not answering my e-mails but I know they're coming anyway ( Read more... )

I have nearly sorted the third band for my birthday party, The Nasty Noise Disco, and just confirmed a glamorous guest DJ, Cavey Nik from Dead and Buried in London.  I will make him play post punk and minimal electro mainly, but maybe there could also be some death rock.  Iain Sublevel3 will also be DJing (Fimbulvetr/Finsternis music before bands ( Read more... )

I just confirmed another band for my birthday party.
It is Autoclav1.1.
Broken beats for broken hearts, miserable Northern English electronica!

Final one soon to confirm.

It was Halloween but we had nothing special to go to.  Our small number of Manchester friends were all in Whitby, elsewhere or doing other things.  So Emma and I had to make something up.  We met in Asda at 6pm after my work and the Halloween aisle was a pitiful sight.  The main issue was lack of face paint, so we bought children's poster paints, ( Read more... )

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Last week we went to Lisbon for five days for the Drop Dead festival.  I put my photos up already last night on Facesmash.

The largest death rock festival in the world was in Prague last year, after four years in its home town of New York and this time it went to Lisbon.  Unfortunately this seems to be the last one, which is a terrible shame.  So ( Read more... )

Here are my photos from Maschinenfest.

They are a lot of fun and at the start you can see me meeting Peter Hook from New Order.

Drop Dead stories maybe tomorrow.

First I went to Maschinenfest.

I was not so excited about this as it was my fourth time and I'd seen most of the bands before, also I was looking forward more to Drop Dead in Lisbon.  But as it turned out I had a really good time (apart from Emma not being there of course).

( On Thursday I met a real famous person )

I have finally finished mixing and mastering all but one songs for this Grimbergen EP which I hope will come out early 2009 on a new UK label.  One is instrumental and the other is my cover of "Twenty Four Hours" by Joy Division, which I recorded two years ago but didn't finish off until now.  I hope it isn't rubbish.

Listen!

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