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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 >>
#4 - STYLUS MAGAZINE
This is about the only music website I read regularly. It?s sometimes mentioned as a mini-Pitchfork but I find it much more interesting and fun and so much less horribly indie rock than Pitchfork. There are daily reviews of a wide range of albums from your dull indie rock to your shiny […]
#4 - STYLUS MAGAZINE
This is about the only music website I read regularly. It�s sometimes mentioned as a mini-Pitchfork but I find it much more interesting and fun and so much less horribly indie rock than Pitchfork. There are daily reviews of a wide range of albums from your dull indie rock to your shiny […]
On the subject of websites, has everyone seen the backwards version of Google that the Chinese are using because Google is blocked over there or something. Anyways, type “Elgoog” into Google and click on the first link that appears and watch your internet experience go insania.
#5 - COLLISION DETECTION
A recent discovery for me via the incomparable things. things itself would be on this list if it wasn�t that it is so detailed and so full of content that it becomes quite bewildering at times and so I tend to read it more as a long poem rather than actually clicking […]
Sorry this is a bit long. Happy new year etc. Check the links too…
A is for Aubergine Parmegana. The Aubergine is the prince of vegetables. I fried about 400 pieces of Aubergine for dinner with Ian MacKaye when the Evens played, with Neil Johnson whipping the kitchen in to shape like that weird dwarf dude […]
So here are my 26 As of the year, instead (in no particular order)…
Audioscope
Asking for Trouble putting Sunnyvale in the box set
Aufgehoben album released on Fourier Transform!
Anxiety, Clinical: and the slow fight against it
Alice
All Tomorrow’s Parties
All Tomorrow’s Parties (went to two this year)
Aquanaut (my old band whose tapes I have rediscovered)
A new G5 iMac!
Appearing on […]
Amy Bethan Jose � an annoyingly beautiful niece.
Birchville Cat Motel: Ur-drone Emperor.
CDRs explode as the new homemade cassette labels. Well, for me anyhow.
Damn You! Know It�s Christmas � a fine way to end the year/exhaust yourself.
Europe in 6 days (see tour diary).
Foxy Digitalis
argh, �Garage� bands get out of my life.
html, I am now too intimate […]
Here’s my A-Z so we can squash ChrisH and his politics with our nonsense.
Animal Crossing - living an alternate life in a town called Mogwai
BOXES
Cat shoes, Cow skirt and other great stagewear
diskant
eBay
Fire Engines reforming but evading me
Getting old
Hookers Green No.1
iBook love
Joanna Newsom
Keyphrases, 10. Kitchen Fitter London, Kitchen Installer London, KILL ME
Legwarmers (they keep your legs […]
From the head of the Hollywood film studios association: “These people are parasites leeching off the creativity of others.” (No, he’s talking about bittorrent users.)
OK, inspired by Jason’s compelling 2004 A-Z, here’s mine:
Aufgehoben (our exciting first release - see F)
Bristol (spent lots of time there when Cardiff couldn’t deliver the goods)
Cod sperm (my first - and hopefully last - taste of Shirako: raw cod sperm sacs)
Damo Suzuki (saw him twice, both times were life changing)
Every day is like Sunday […]
