For quite possibly the first time in living memory, something TRULY FUCKING EXCITING is happening in my town….

Harvest Time presents…

PALIMPSEST FESTIVAL

An all day event of new music and outside folk sounds.

Saturday 13th August, 2PM-11PM
All Saints Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge

Featuring performances from:

Alasdair Roberts [Drag City]
Josephine Foster [Locust]
Mi and L’au [Young God]
Kiila [Fonal]
Lionshare [Harvest Time]
Um [Strange Lights]
Dan Merrill [Mutebox]
Fuzzy Lights

And DJs American Booze, Sami (Kiila) & Bad Timing
along with video projections and record stall

Tickets: £8.50 adv / £10.00 on the door

Advanced tickets from Harvest Time Records (all major cards accepted)

More information at the Palimpsest site

I can’t believe this shit. I move house, and thus temproarily lose my internet connection. In the meantime I have a lovely weekend of blissful ignorance, and then come back to work to be greeted by this:

http://www.swamirecords.com/news.html

The best goddamned motherfucking punk rock band on the planet have just split up, and YOU probably missed them last month. I thought they seemed to be having too much fun.

(If you can’t read this, go here)
Just as well really.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-06/23.shtml

I don’t know what to think about this or whether I even care. Bear in mind Black Flag are on a Wannadoo ad, Nike already used Search & Destroy by the Stooges, Lyle Preslar from MT is an A&R guy and Brian Baker is about the best example of a career punker known and it’s all splitting hairs really.
I guess all it says is that the MT fan at Nike’s marketing office kind of missed the point.

Christmas ATP (curated by Mars Volta) lineup announced.

Who is in?

Blonde Redhead and Les Savy Fav! It’s already far better than the Slint lineup.

The best FUCKING PUNK ROCK BAND ON THE PLANET are touring.

HOT SNAKES! fool….

But surely you will have to suffer fools, double figure ticket prices and shitty venues to see them?

Unless they play a ssssh hush hush show on Bank Holiday Monday that is….

www.damnyou.co.uk

sweeeeeet!

Howdy. I can’t get Cute FTP to work on this PC so I’m going to plug something on the Weblog instead.
The Telescopes were part of the whole shoegazing scene back in the 80s and were on Creation Records. That kind of sums things up in a neat way but doesn’t really do them justice. One of the reasons I ended up in Nottingham is because I made friends with Emily Kawasaki who lives up here and so I ended up coming to the city more and more. She is a mentalist Telescopes fan.
They split, became Unisex and then reunited as a new beast: no drums, no bass, just some old samplers and plenty of noisy guitars. Anyway, they’re playing Nottingham next Tuesday the 12th April with Fog (Ninja Tune) and because of holiday date confusions, I’m playing guitar for the night so if you’re near here then come along and support my nervous brain!
It’s at Cabaret (The Old Vic) on Fletcher Gate and tickets are at www.damnyou.co.uk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4391955.stm

Make money by compromising your lyrical integrity – you might get some free Big Macs

Fucking hell, SLINT. Wow. I forgot how much I like that band. I was a twat and sent a message to one of them on Friendster saying they shouldn’t reform. I also added to that message that if they did I would be there as I am a cocksucker. I am a cocksucker.

INTERVIEWER: And finally what can people expect musically from the performance that they are about to hear very shortly?

DOM: It’s gonna be a big rocking set, with one or two new songs thrown in.

MATT: Check out the lightning bolt cover song. It’s a new style of music coming out of weird abandoned art galleries in Boston, called Skronk music which is like insane punk, simplistic sort of gamma metal. Dom and Chris are gonna do a cover at the beginning of the gig tonight, of one of the bands that does that.

Jesus.

Muse cover Lightning Bolt