so i spent last weekend hanging out with marceline and nicolette in glasgow. of course, it rocked. i’m only getting round to writing about it now because i’ve been recovering. but that’s not because i’m a wuss, of course.

highlights were seeing american analog set, who were absolutely delightful, being involved in possibly the biggest diskant meet-up ever, seeing john and steve from bis, who looked absolutely upstaged and starstruck when they realised the diskant crew were in the house, watching instrument, the mighty fugazi video & finding out what it really means to be punk, playing with candles, and watching an hour’s worth of ‘metal anthems’ on mtv2.

oh yes.

since that weekend i’ve been listening a lot to american analog set’s ‘know by heart’ and getting all sappy and nostalgic. bah.

there’s an A and a C in wack, too

i legally purchased the new fugazi yesterday. also for reasons too lengthy to relate here, i got a penny off the asking price. bonus!

yeah, thursday was les savy fav/enon/econoline in london. i was fashionably late so i missed the start of econoline’s set, but they were splendid, as expected. one day i’ll be early and get to see them from the start. one day. enon were interesting and fun enough, but i wasn’t so into them – i was still giddy from econoline’s set, i expect. les savy fav were excellently insane – plenty loud and wild with lots of hilarious antics. and they’ve so got the tunes. and, as ollie mentioned, a step ladder. must take up a lot of room on the tour bus though.

well kinda, i got the mp3s on a cd. i listened to them twice in a row while we were playing staff scrabble. it’s amazing, it rocks like an evil mutha and pops like a balloon that’s been overfilled with fun power. the guilt has set in now, however, and i’m gonna have to buy it at the weekend when i’m in the big city, but it’s really so good i’d pay twice the asking price. i’m gonna go back to stunned silence now.

Don’t mention the NME either. Even though the fact that it’s crap has been staring me in the face for ages, i’ve only just stopped buying it. I used to read it in my half hour lunch at work every wednesday (i don’t mean i’m only allowed to eat lunch on wednesday, that’s just the day i bought it) – it was ever so slightly better than nothing and the content was so lame that i could eat and read it at the same time without too much brain action. But yeah, i finally stopped getting it. What clinched it for me was the story about the White Stripes signing some million pound deal with some label or other, and as an illustration they’d done a mock up of a cheque for a million quid with a caption that said ‘what that cheque may have looked like’. That really did sting quite a bit. And that was the end of my NME reading career. And i still hate Kerrang! since they slated me nearly two years ago. But i’m not bitter.

Argh, don’t even mention boxsets. I made a disgusting impulse buy yesterday and ended up getting the scream trilogy boxset which i so can’t afford. I was ill, i got confused, they were playing the new Ian Brown album in the shop and i just lost my mind. I wouldn’t mind but scream 2 and scream 3 are so, so crap! And what the hell are Jay and Silent Bob doing in scream 3?

Oh yeah, and i’ve got an american express pen if you want it, marceline. Corporate enough?