Very good last night, he was. A very nice man, with very talented friends ( Read more... )

The Hussy's were very good, but getting to see them was more work than I expected. The ad in The Skinny had no fewer than three URLs but no time, and none of the URLs had any obvious time listed. Their wn website didn't list one either. After a search, one of the sites said 7pm if you clicked down far enough, so at seven I was there and reading ( Read more... )

Yes, it's a picture of me baring my torch. Obviously.

Writers Bloc had readings in Biggar and Prestonpans. ( Read more... )

Well, it seems that Mr Sulu's gonna get hitched. Excellent news, and my congratulations both to the prospective happy couple and to the Californian Supreme Court ( Read more... )

Almost everything you ever needed to know about My Bloody Valentine:

The flute is not an instrument one usually associates with extreme noise terror, but, when My Bloody Valentine unleashed the show's crescendo, a track called 'You Made Me Realise', the instrument added an almost unbearable shrillness to what was already a blizzard of sustained ( Read more... )

Steve Bell has an update on EbbsfleetYesterday I met Mark and Lauren down in some shopping centre in Leith (Beth wandered past too, but then headed off on her way) to see Doomsday. If you're not aware of this cinematic entertainment, it's Escape from New York reset in Glasgow with added plague, mediaevalism, and (worst of all) Eighties chart music ( Read more... )

I hadn't realised Carter were playing again. Two gigs, as before, but London and Birmingham this time. And almost sold out already ( Read more... )

Err . . . I went to see Ed on Wednesday, then went to the pub, which was nearly empty because the Goff'n'Rawk-Soc are apparently all away home for Easter. It was OK, though, because we got to recommend Top Secret1 and Dr Strangelove2 to people who haven't seen them ( Read more... )

New Biscuit LP. 28th April. From an apparently reliable source.

And the dates upon which Mr Cohen will be drinking said profits will apparently be announced on Tuesday.