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The diskant team report back from their fun day out at the Supersonic festival in Birmingham. Headlined by Sunn 0))), Mogwai, Om and Qui with sunshine, cake and films it really was the perfect festival experience. Read more >>
Simon Minter finds out more about The Walk Off from Oxford and their messier, noisier and more downright bizarre take on New Rave. Read more >>
I finally got round to seeing some films last week after too many evenings organising records and/or being ill in a coughing way, which means trailers!
I, ROBOT - still looks really really dumb. Now starting to edge into the ’so ridiculous maybe we should go see it for a laugh’ but NO. Also seems to […]
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I’ve been busy (BUY OUR RECORD) but I now hope to be able to stop neglecting diskant and do some much-needed redevelopment and updating, in between spending hours at the post office sending parcels (BUY OUR RECORD). So expect some changes round here. To show you just how serious I am, I’ve just spent all […]
Gig in Glasgow, at Stereo, last weekend. Good place (including a record shop where I got served by Stephen Pastel - doesn’t get much more exciting than that), good company (stayed at diskant towers, Marceline’s bohemian flat slap bang in the centre of Glasgow), good bands to play with (Uter and Hex), good good good. […]
Thanks Chris.
So has refinding the name of the church where John Cage’s As Slowly As Possible is being played. I want to visit that.
The Tchai Ovna call out. If you’re wondering why you should care, one reason is that it’s the first place I saw people beatboxing and not being shit. Acappella Hardcore!
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In my job it is possible to “raise a pink stub” in order to “get the disco going”.
Here are some other lovely comments from the people who work in the call centre (spelling is straight from the comments):
“Cust called when she was down on electric and someone advised customer that she should go to […]
I am convinced the DESIGNER BABIES are on the verge of something. I don’t mean a commercial breakthrough or anything like that. I mean they are close to arriving at a new sound. They used to take two opposing styles and spot-weld them together. The results were always interesting but the joins were always visible.
But […]
People are stupid and greedy and weird. My favourite cafe Tchai Ovna, is under threat from someone wanting to build flats on the half-wild spot between their garden and the river. This will wreck the feel of the place and I’m baffled that anyone would want to do that.
There’s been a visit from the developer […]
My favourite cafe Tchai Ovna, is under threat from someone wanting to build flats on the half-wild spot between their garden and the river. This will wreck the feel of the place and I’m baffled that anyone would want to do that.
There’s been a visit from the developer and work could start as soon as […]
