Tag: music
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Earth Sunset
As regular readers will no-doubt know, the other Earthlings and I are currently in the process of moving house. Last weekend, as well as watching the Eurovision Song Contest, of course, we packed a lot of boxes (mostly stuffed with board games) and moved a handful of them over to New Earth, our new home, …
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Jedward and the Aurochs
What a load of bull. Dan compares music by teen pop sensation Jedward with efforts to recreate extinct species of cattle, muses on the philosophy of identification, and pokes fun at Freddie Mercury. Moo!
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I'm Proud of the BBC!
I'm Proud of the BBC! [YouTube] It's just this (and lousy weather) that keeps us together. With thanks to Katie for sharing.
Well, that'll be stuck in my head for a while. Full write-up (and photos) from this weekend's fun and games coming soon. -
Busy Weekends Part I
The weekend before the weekend before last, Ruth, JTA and I went up to Preston, for:
My Sister's Birthday
My sister, Sarah, turned 21 at the start of this month, and we - accompanied by her friends and family - went out to a new Punjabi restaurant called East Z East. The food was fantastic (although in … -
SmartData Merry Christmas 2009
The singing and dancing elf talents of Simon, Dan, Alex and Gareth are back! Merry Christmas one and all!
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Alice Cooper, Richard & Kathryn's Wedding, Etc.
A very brief summary of some of the things I got up to last weekend with Ruth:
Nottingham
Alice Cooper concert in Nottingham.
Absolutely spectacular: it's amazing that this over-60-year-old man can spend a couple of hours singing and dancing and leaping around and being executed - I was tired just watching him.
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Hoghton Tower
Claire and I just got back from a weekend in Preston, taking the opportunity to visit my folks as well as to (as is now traditional) go to the annual "Symphony at the Tower" at Hoghton Tower (which Ruth and I buzzed by hot air balloon on our way back from Scotland, earlier this year).
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Pagan Wanderer Lu In HMV
It's been a long time coming, but it had to happen sooner or later.
Here's the announcement on the Pagan Wanderer Lu blog.
In other news, I have so much blogging to catch up on, and a couple of posts half-written, but no free time. Sooo... par for the course then.
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Claire & Nick - Need A Little Time
Karaoke. Inn On The Pier, Aberystwyth. 30th March, 2009.
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A "Never Mind The Buzzcocks" Moment
Remember Let Loose? They reached #2 in the singles chart back in 1994 with Crazy For You? (you'll remember it when you hear the chorus, I promise) Turns out that since disappearing off the face of the Earth, the guitarist has been running a fabulous little bed-and-breakfast in a tiny village in Essex.
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Fight My Battles For Me
Just a quick announcement to plug an awesome album now purchasable on a CD in a shiny case: Fight My Battles For Me by Pagan Wanderer Lu. You can buy it for a tenner at the online store on old-school optical media.
My copy arrived this morning.
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ZibraZibra
If you haven't already, take a listen to ZibraZibra - they've got the silly little player on their MySpace page, so you can tune in there. They describe themselves as "Space age. Sonic Synthesis + Guitar Shredding + Scandinavian and American Mentalities + Soaring Vocals + Hott Beats + Jumpsuits + Circuit Bending + Classical …
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How To Make Money, You Hobo - A Cautionary Tale
Last night I had a particularly vivid and unusual dream:
JTA and I were homeless and living on the streets of some foreign city (it was somewhat reminiscent of London, but most folks spoke French, so I guess it wasn't); jobless, hungry, and generally sleeping in the central railway station, except when the police or … -
Claire attempts to sing the Bulgarian National Anthem
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The Danville Public Service Announcement
I don't visit Facebook often. In fact, I usually only log on once or twice a month to clear out the billions of requests to install applications (and block those applications) that people don't seem to have noticed that I never accept, or to check up on a mis-placed phone number or e-mail address for …