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2010-08-29T02:57:00.001-07:00

rain.

2010-08-28T15:57:00.000-07:00

MORE MUSICAL HEROES!

2010-08-17T09:04:00.000-07:00

JESUS WEPT THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY! These guys were at YES WAY festival in LONDON ENGLAND run by the very lovely people from Upset The Rhythm who kindly invited No Womb and Klaus and Waiters and Former Bullies to play along with a shit ton of gooood motherfucking bands and at which a very good time was had by all.

ULTIMATE THRUSH! Rhythmic thrash//forced audience participation//sexy robes//primal screaming by Julia on guest voxxxxxxx = yes please and more again soon please!

RUNNERS

Like Talking Heads//on speed//with vocoders//and shitloads of electronics//oh and not to mention the tightest drummer ever = musical orgasm??!!

I must also point ye in the direction of The Future, who were the Human League before they went all shite and gay because they were pissed off because people kept beating them to number 1 and their record company said they only people who would like them were goths and Germans or something. But anyway, they started out reaaaaaaaaaalll goood. Czech it out:

My Musical Heroes//Pt.3!

2010-08-07T05:39:00.000-07:00

SILK FLOWERS

Gary Numan? Joy Division? Both mixed up together? Yes please!

NOW WASH YOUR HANDS

Your dental hygienist. Awkwardly set to some crazy-ass noise.

FOOT HAIR.

Like No Womb. But sooooooooo much better.

je presente...the finest japanese hangover cures available

2010-07-29T12:34:00.000-07:00

totally freaky baby

2010-07-28T10:13:00.001-07:00

oOOOOhhh yeah

2010-07-21T17:00:00.000-07:00

The recent fruits of my new wave travels! Expect to hear these and others like them at REGULAR EXERCISE, the next one of which is on Saturday 31st July at Trof Fallowfield. Thankyou to everyone who came down to the last one! The barman: 'This sounds like I'm on Ketamine'. Thanks barman.

Brainbombs - 04 - lipstick on my dick by ladymaveMiri

04. Persuasion - Soft Cell by ladymaveMiri

03. Rotting Geraniums ( Lp Mix ) - Moev by ladymaveMiri

01. Swing Shift (Soixante-Neuf) - Nash The Slash by ladymaveMiri

you nose it.

2010-07-20T18:23:00.000-07:00

2010-07-20T18:14:00.000-07:00

DJs AAAAAAvery and Higgins are back!

2010-06-29T07:44:00.000-07:00

And this time we have our very own night at Trof Fallowfield ohhhh yeah. Czech out the poster, czech out the blog, and more importantly GET YOUR ARSE DOWN THERE cause we'd love to see you.

back trouble in little china

2010-06-19T17:44:00.000-07:00

excellent.yes.

2010-06-19T17:31:00.000-07:00

ed plays football.tapes look good.stomach art.pekko kappi i love you.

Yeah.

2010-06-13T09:43:00.001-07:00

Finds 2// Some fiiiiiiiiilthy tunes!

2010-06-13T09:32:00.000-07:00

Mekanik Kommando - Microbes by ladymaveMiri

Nova - Terranova by ladymaveMiri

Das Ding - Reassurance Ritual by ladymaveMiri

The Screamers - Eva Braun by ladymaveMiri

Click Click - Damage by ladymaveMiri

Exciting News BOYZ!

2010-06-09T11:39:00.001-07:00

A drawing to celebrate several exciting events.

1. The release of 2 very excellent Irma Vep (and the Avalanche Band) records, one wrapped in some very very sexy artwork by Lucy Jones of Mount Pleasant, and the other wrapped in some significantly more buffoonish artwork by myself. Giant Hell has the deets!

2. The upcoming Good Grief group show at the Art Corner next Wednesday, featuring the aformentioned Lucy, JHIggins, DBOnafide and the Wizard Bailey himself. VERY EXCITED!

3. Moooooooovin to Whalley Range baby!! Jackanackanory.

Finds// My Musical Heroes pt2.

2010-06-09T11:19:00.000-07:00

Happenings

2010-06-08T09:26:00.001-07:00

NiCOOOOOOOOO!!Loves the minge. As you'd expect.

No WOMB GIG#2!!//Zweitersssss. Tension.

STELLA OM SOURCE// The Gamecock. Yeah Maaaaaaaaaaaan.

FAIRY TALE Wales//mmmdelicious. I want to live here please...King Edwin's Island!!!

BILGE PUMP//high places//Middle Sex at the Brudenell in Leeds. D'you see what I'm saying?!

bestbirthdaypresentever

2010-05-04T07:57:00.001-07:00

My Musical Heroes//Part 1

2010-04-18T20:31:00.000-07:00

Tea Room Boogie-Woogie//Pavilion Rock = THE NEW LO-FI. You heard it here first.

GOOD BLOODY MONTH MOTHERFUCKER

2010-04-18T08:45:00.000-07:00

Monk O'Clock//Zine O'Clock

2010-04-02T13:40:00.000-07:00

Finally finally finally managed to frickin finish my first lil attempt at a zine. I am lazy and therefore will merely point you in the direction of my sweet lady Jess who has kindly blogged it wiff pikshures and everyfink. Is gonna be available to purchase for a small fee from Sir Bailey of Afflecks in his glass fronted emporium of wonders if you are at all interested. Ch-ch-ch-check out the 8th wonder of the world which is Museums while you are there because it is a true MOTHER.

And speaking of true MOTHERS, the Monks the Monks the Monks the Monks.

room chillin//zine makin//play fightin//film watchin//band standin

2010-03-28T08:30:00.000-07:00

Are these guys for real?!

2010-03-18T13:51:00.000-07:00

Ch-ch-ch-check out these crazies who worship at THE CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN WILL-I-AM COLTRANE. Amazing. I retract the term crazies. They are surely no more crazy than anyone else worshipping anything.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY S&S//aka two of my favourites turn 23

2010-03-18T13:42:00.000-07:00

Grouse in da House

2010-03-03T08:19:00.000-08:00

Thanks pens. Thanks ink. Thanks Ed. Thanks SAD lamp AKA MY NEW LIGHTBOX. Maybe possibly quite likelily this is going to be some album artwork eventually. Excited!!

Overheard//Thanks man on the bus

2010-03-02T05:51:00.000-08:00

Helicopter squadrons are here
Army and the navy platoons
Tenner each way treble at the bookmakers?
And its only Wednesday
Lets see if it comes off.
And all this in 1981, 1985.
We’ll see.
A fresh egg is a figment of the imagination.
Taken for granted at school?
You can’t say I wasn’t.

This is not by me but I did write it down after hearing it come flowing smoothly out off the mouth of a mad (OR WAS HE?!?!?) man on a bus.
It's gonna be in a zine I'm doing which hopefully will be done very soon and then will be in the palace of DIY dreams that is GOOD GRIEF. If Mr Bailey will be so kind as to have it that is.
Or I'll just bloody well give you one if I know you, which is the most likely scenario considering you wouldn't be reading this if you didn't know me.

LIZARD WIZARD.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Chaaaaanges// Mean some beautiful pictures

2010-03-02T05:33:00.000-08:00

Sorry for moaning//AKA THINGS ARE REALLY GOOD

2010-02-09T19:35:00.000-08:00

I would like to apologise for the existential nonsense below, and to quit harping on about nothing important, and offer instead a collection of some of the reasons why TWENTY TEN has in fact been a magical year so far// see below but above aforementioned nonsense// and why it will surely continue to be one. Good things and good people doing them and doing them lots because they know as well as I do that the world is probably going to end pretty damned soon:

Miss Jessica Higgins and the many contributadores to Museums. She is the pied piper of zines and when this one finally comes out we are all in for a treat. More can be discovered round abouuuuut here:

The good lads who call themselves Waiters and who are called Waiters by others and who knock out some cracking fucking tunes on a regular basis. They is on MySpace innit, which is like for the kidz and that:

The kindly and bearded shop-wizard who is known as Mr Dave Bailey in these parts has brought together many good things by good people in one place and allows people to buy those things which are too many to list here and therefore you must check out the shop and the http portal:

Also known as the White Barry White, Sir Amadou Stevensh is always doing good things and they are usually musical and very often involve an inordinate amount of farting which does not usually detract from how good they are //but does sometimes// Anyway he is putting on on the 13th of February: a good night WIV BANDS AND THAT

His good friend Miss Humphreys also has a night WIV DANCEY RECORDS AND THAT that very same night which promises to be bloody excellent and I would like to recommend it also:

I am trying to do good things but they are taking a long time because I am mostly distracted by other people's good things. They will happen though. Honest!

Over the Wobble and on with Twenty-Ten

2010-02-09T16:04:00.000-08:00

Roll

2010-02-01T18:22:00.000-08:00

I was on a roll and now I'm off the roll and off the wagon and I'll get back on I'm just struggling a little bit//I thought I wasn't afraid of things any more but it turns out I really still am. That's ok though. I'm not dead yet. Plenty of motherfucking time. I hope. Tomorrow I will sort my life out and ring that lady and do something with that picture and finish that story and make myself be interested in learning French rather than waiting for it to just happen so I can go and live there//do I even really want to go and live there?? Answers on a postcard please. Janice and Maureen are going to sit in their living room and smoke cigs and drink tea and watch Corrie til they die. Frigging off about Adam Rickett and hoping that Edward calls round after his binround are the highlights of their day and I am jealous of them because they are satisfied and it appears I never will be. She gave daisies a funeral because they were once alive too and then she sat in her living room forever more and got diabetes and arthritis and cateracts and a colostomy bag and the shivers and the shakes and a possible case of gangrene//she enjoyed every single minute of it.

Happy New Beard//AKA Broken Ribs//AKA adventures involving walls

2010-01-02T18:19:00.000-08:00

Many thanks go out toooo Joe's Rubbish Jokes//Lucy's Stairs//various walls//my naaaanRI to the motherfucking P.....the genius child artist Jeeeessssica Highogs.....the genius child artist Joshua Pet Khunatip Avery//various photo takers who will forever remain unknown. Happy New Year to you, Wall.

flat 8 magic//the day of discovery//AKA how to eat eggs with no eggcups

2009-12-29T08:41:00.000-08:00

Bac in Manc huzzah huzzah!! Beloved Broomville looms// a room of one's own and a day to one's self makes no grammatical sense but ehhh who says PostModernism isn't dead?!! ehhhh???!!!

Jess's glove collection...

...reminded me of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when the hand shape coat hooks grab Charlie's Grandad's hat from him//and THEN i found this bizzare clip where Gene Wilder plays a fox...

...pretty Fantastic eh?!!//Just liiike this album illustration is fantastic:

I recognise it!! But why??!! I can't frigging well work it out!!///THE INTERNET HAS FAILED ME! It's by rEGINALD MOUNT, who the fuck is this guy? All I know is that he was milling about in the 60s./ Answers on a postcard pleeease, please, for my sanity...
And on the very same subject of beautiful illustrations...check out my new mug//best christmas present {possibly ever} frooom Mr R.L.Perry and Miss L.Glenton. J'aime beaucoup them and it and childhood memories greatly.

Bacon Elation//Bathtime Revelation

2009-12-27T05:13:00.000-08:00

blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

2009-12-26T17:39:00.000-08:00

this is why i don't live on the wirral no more///auntie catherine you can not have my blog adddress there is far far far too much swearing -- why is every single bar on the wirral far too upmarket (sic|) to actually drink in and feel comfortable in and WHYYYYYYY exactly does a public holiday have to be based on something untrue that supposedly happened 2--000 years ago eh? WHY NOT XENU? EHHH? poor xenu has a shit fucking deal. totally fucking fabricated as mmuch as the next jesus but slated as if he is something of a known fabrication//bloody christmas///ok for a while but then absolute frustratatron....................

Camera at last///top 11 christmas day photos///satisfaction

2009-12-26T03:41:00.001-08:00

Fuuuuuuckin yeah!!

2009-12-24T02:59:00.000-08:00

Snow! Christmas! More snow! /// CAMERA TIME IN T MINUS 21 HOOUUUUUURRRRS// An insane journey to find a red kettle// Some quality hang out time with Broomville associates/// Best night I've had in a fucking long time? Snow/Magic// More snow than you have ever imagined in your life if you live in this godforsakenly temparate country. Links links linkss tramps plans talking blues/// ABSOLUTE WOW///. prolonged hunger/not being paid on time/buying too many presents when it was surely decided that that was a baaaaad idea due to lack of funds///oh well. home and food and old friends and genius children all the way from Bangkok who are the only ones who match our Jerry in lpm//laughs per minute. Festivuuuuuus!

Not getting paid on time is laaaaaaame

2009-12-15T08:00:00.000-08:00

So instead of eating and going out to see people and buying boring familial Christmas presents like I should be doing.....I am stuck eating eggs and Linda McCartney sausages and pretending to learn some French and watchin some cooool/not so cooool videos on YouTube and cleaning obsessively and finally sorting out that cuboard under the sink where all the plastic bags ever have been having a party for some time now. I ruined that party. And I'm proud. Those plastic bastards need to not and also not to exist.

Unliiiiiiiiike Beyonce. BUH-BUH BLING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETa7XW0PU1Y

And also unliiiiike little Jerry Seinfeld. Best face ever no question.

Impatience

2009-12-09T20:45:00.000-08:00

I want a camera I want a camera I want a camera. Then instead of writing lots of bollocks I can take pictures of things that I like like like friends and drawings and happenings and unhappenings. Today I had a bad/good day.

Things that were good were: Dave's fantastic shop (http://goodgriefshop.blogspot.com/) and a poster by Seripop (http://seripop.com/); Box Elders and Egyptian Hip-Hop; Clayton and his hate blog; Elliot Smith played very very loud. Sorry Tom.

Things that were bad were: having a disgusting cold; the dissolution of a looked forward to plan; a discussion of WHAT TO DO AT NEW YEAR; and being sent under by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. No. Thank. You.

Oh the Penguin.

Soul Soothe Stew

2009-12-06T03:14:00.000-08:00

Death/Life/Death/Life/Death.Ultimately.

2009-12-06T00:56:00.000-08:00

Well for some reason I have woken up at the unearthly hour of before 9am on a Sunday...and since yesterday I refused to embrace the day in any way at all whatsoever, I thought perhaps I'd give living a try today instead. I've opened the window and the breeze is pretty freaking fresh, ooooh yeah! The view out of my window is very very nice: once I get a freaking camera you'll be in for a treat! Waiting for a bird to come and land on my windowsill, so I can offer it my dainty hand and pretend to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast,,,maybe running rampant through Sale crying 'Bonjour' to all the townsfolk.

Better in German, I'm sure you'll agree.
Aaaah Belle, she wants something a bit more out of her life, and she's punished in all sorts of ways. Claassic Gothic. We ladies should just stay at home in the kitchen eh! Well that's my plan anyway. Wouldn't want to end up like the penguin in the Werner Herzog film Encounters at the End of the World. It seems that he has gone mad, and can no longer stand to hang out with the other pinguinos, and so toddles off on his own towards the mountains and to a certain death. Watch this film and you will never be able to stop thinking about this penguin: it's heartbreaking. But absolute respect to him - he chooses a path and it's a different one and it's ultimately a dangerous one, but at least he has the balls to do it. Like these guys in another Herzog film, called La Soufriere. They live in a town about to be engulfed by a volcanic eruption, and everyone else has fled for their lives, but they just hang about, saying that it is God's will, and they aren't afraid of death. And it seems like a crazy thing to do, but they are so calm, and so accepting, that it comes off as the most amazing decision ever. They keep on saying that they are not at all afraid, and that they will just sit and await their fate, as cooly as one might await, I duno, a slightly late mate. You can find out about Herzog's films right here:
http://www.wernerherzog.com/

We should all be this cool with death I think...it should be cool to talk about it, laugh about it, joke about it; it should be cool to be cool with it. COOL COOL COOL! Why is it so horrific to some people that on Desert Island Discs Morrissey professed to have great respect for those who take their own lives, and would take a bag of sleeping pills in case he wanted to make a quick exit from the island?! You can listen to his lovely lovely voice and hear his contraversial opinions by going to...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p068y/Desert_Island_Discs_Morrissey/
...and the reaction...
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/music/802328-morrissey-suicide-is-honourable
Why can't someone talk about taking their own life without coming under attack for it? Why can't someone be of the opinion that choosing to end your own life is an honourable thing to do? If people were cooler with death, then someone choosing to end it all would be absolutely fine. The reason people are not cool with it is because they are selfish and weak and believe that their own happiness should come above that of others. i.e; the person who has killed themselves is no longer suffering, but those around them are because they believe that they are somehow entitled to still benefit from that person's existence. Or something like that. I am in no way detracting from the suffering that suicide OBVIOUSLY causes...and I'm pretty sure this was not the intention of good old Mozza himself, I'm just saying that the taboos surrounding death and how we talk about it are unnecessary and damaging and I do not agree with them. This is why I think Six Feet Under is absolutely amazing: as the characters are forced to come to terms with their own mortality, so is the audience. Death is deglamourized, desanitized, and approached from every angle concievable: essential viewing and balm for the soul recovering from the mantra 'Jesus conquers death'. If you need no such recovery, count yourself lucky.

Other soothers, and just general enjoyments for before you die, are around in the form of a) ironically, a documentary called LIFE. Yes Mr Atten-burrrrrrrgh has done it again and this time in HD....HOW EXCITING. Basically, animals are amazing and we are animals and therefore this kind of thing is super interesting and on BBC1 on errr Thursdays or something I think.

b) even more ironically and with a life/death/gothic theme which links absolutely everything in this post with great APLOMB (what a word), another HBO series called True Blood. Yes it's about Vampires, YES it is totally ridiculous and utterly escapist, BUT it is totally amazing. And Alan Ball (Six Feet Under/American Beauty) has written it so if that doesn't persuade you then nothing will.
Yes, thankyou, au revoir.

I guess I lied when I said I wasn't a ranter. I resolve never to rant in this manner again.

Dancin dancin dancin...Oooooooh yeeeeeah!

2009-11-30T20:27:00.000-08:00

I've just remembered two spectacles that have absolutely blown my mind and that everyone should see. I WISH I could do this!

Funkeeeeeeh!

Jazzeeeeh!

things that are far more interesting than any of that self pitying bullshit

2009-11-27T22:35:00.000-08:00

http://www.angusstirling.com/uc.htm

well actually just reading Wuthering Heights is actually far more interesting. BUT even more so is David Foster Wallace. Perry, Perry, you have shown me the way. Also more interesting is Mervyn Peake and Francis Bacon and Judith Butler and Susan Sontag AND AND AND AND. There are many more ands but I guess I can save them for later.

classic

2009-11-27T22:25:00.001-08:00

OH MY GOD

2009-11-27T22:15:00.001-08:00

so i posted that, right. and then, a little advert comes up (courtesy of google, very kind, very very kind indeed) i'm going to reproduce it as faithfully as possible.
are you ready? it blew my mind.

How to Find a Good Man
10 Dangerous Mistakes Women Make That Ruin The Perfect Relationship
CatchHimAndKeepHim.com

If I was a ranter, I would rant at length about all the things that are wrong with this. As it is, I'm not, and I DO NOT HAVE THAT MUCH TIIIIIIME.

ok ayok okay

2009-11-27T22:08:00.000-08:00

OKAY. So far so far so bad. I have been embarassed and I have thought too much and I have deleted and I have ummed and aaahed and generally been an idiot. Enough. Will he turn up? Yeah it's 6am so fucking what, this is not something that I consider to be a major factor in a life crisis of the kind which makes you want to scream insane and preferably wet and cold in the rain and on a moor like Cathy and Heathcliff (except nothing will ever be that insane or that sexy or that RAW), the pepperpot of pathetic fallacy working it's dark and stormy magic. No, he will not turn up. Because he hasn't read it. I've had quite enough of waiting THANKYOU.