Thursday, June 23, 2005

If you're interested in old bits of boats...

Just heard through the grapevine, or to be precise my mum, that photos of everbody's favourite pantomime pop sextet the Lovely Brothers are being displayed at an exhibition of photography at the Marlipins museum in Shoreham, the same museum that we cite in our pop hit 'Welcome to Shoreham' thus perputating the spiral of self reference. Why not take some time to peruse the newly refurbished Lovely Brothers site, possibly passing it on to your mates in the music industry who specialise in signing obsurce cabaret punk bands.

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Nice day for a ...

Last weekend was the wedding of everyone's favourite rock'n'roll couple Will and Kate. A couple of magnificent things happened, Kate and Will made an eternal commitment of love to one another, and I beat all-comers in a lengthy session of arm wrestles, it is now 4 days after and both of my arms still hurt. The wedding was held in the rather beautiful surroundings of Salisbury, which I have to say reminds me a lot of Canterbury. Will's parents kindly put the reception on in a palatial marquee in their back garden. Much boozing, dancing and the making of merry took place. The evening ended for me some time after 4am dancing to the Labyrinthe soundtrack, everyone seemed vaguely surprised that I didn't know all the words.





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The groom sports cowboy boots and a tri-corn hat


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Lockwood demonstrates what he would like to do to my face


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Lisher adopts JC pose


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VT flagrantly disregards the no smoking sign that Laura(?) so helpfully tries to make her aware of

Monday, June 13, 2005

Dye another day

On the advice of a small welsh girl who told me that my grey hair made me look 38 (I'm 27), I allowed said girl to dye my hair. Using a variety of brown and black dyes to give a more 'natural' appearance she managed to colour my hair a solid shade of jet black and now I look like a goth! I actually don't mind it but I'm slightly worried that I might start wearing large rubber spiked boots and start listening to slipknot.

Friday, June 10, 2005

Don't Look Back

The people behind All Tomorrows Parties festival are organizing this thing called 'Don't Look Back' where various bands do a gig where they play their seminal or most popular album, Iggy and the Stooges are playing Funhouse, and The Lemonheads are playing Shame about Ray. This strikes me as a rather bizarre idea, surely it will spoil some of the spontaneity of a live performance, you always know what is coming next. I then thought how ace it would be if the Manics did 'The Holy Bible' which is still one of my favourite ever albums. Given further thought I think it might be like going to see tribute band or an Elvis impersonator (on Blackpool pier perhaps). So what other great gigs could there be...Chris De Burgh doing "Spanish Train and other stories" maybe?

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

For the beginning of this week I've been plagued with those post alcohol flashbacks of doom. It was Sam and Nadia's wedding on the weekend and I think I may have embarrassed myself somewhat. So far I've remembered kissing Sam's Dad (on the cheek I might add) whilst he played Trombone in his Jazz band, unfortunately I haven't been able to rember the reason, swearing at everyone in the marquee on multiple occasions to come and dance to my dj set, including the brides mother, and refusing to go to bed and instead keeping everyone awake playing guitar and singing (I can't play guitar). The next morning Toni woke up with the impression that someone had punched her in the face, we'd been dancing around with her on my shoulders (which I remember) when apparently I choose to walk through a doorway, almost concussing her (which I don't remember).

Went to see Revenge of the Sith last night. I'd been told it was the best of the new ones, which I think I agree with but it still suffers from exactly the same faults as the others, its completely charmless and some of the cinematography is just awful, in that scene where Darth Vader stumbles around like a drunken fool the framing is so poor it looks like an episode of Eastenders. Despite this and the rubbish dialogue and acting I could still enjoy the rather messy action scenes (faster, bigger and louder is not better it's just confusing Mr Lucas), basically I could watch those nimble Jedi's jump around with their glow sticks all day.

Friday, June 03, 2005

The stag do last weekend past without any serious incidents, I believe the stag was ritually sodimised with some confectionery but he didn't seem particularly traumatised by the event. I've got a different wedding this weekend, I've been asked to 'dj',and so have been looking for some cheesy 80s to water down the music I want to play, I've come to the conclusion that most of it is even worse than I remembered, even The Final Countdown seems rather dull, apart from the infamous synth melody. Sam's friend was in a band called Wang Chung in the 80s and I've been requested to play some of their stuff, from what I've heard they aspired to sound like Duran Duran's album fillers.

I've just noticed that Dan has left a rather disparaging comment on my last post, I feel compelled to engage in some form of blog warfare with him, just look at http://lookintomyeye.blogspot.com/ to see what witty repartee I come up with to put him in his place. Actually I think Dan is the only person who knows about this blog, which reminds me of the ancient philosophical question if a conflict occurs between blogs and know one is there to read it does it still have a point?