Audience: 42! Audience Reaction: Welcome To The Dead Zone Right, we’re getting into it now. The timing of the dance is good, the backstage routine is settling, and all is well in the state of Merton. I went for hair overload tonight – great wodges of ‘texturizing gum’, bouffed up into a Mozzer quiff, then… Continue reading Wednesday – Deeper Down
Year: 2004
First Night – And They’re Off!
Tonight’s Anthem: Take The Long Way Home by Supertramp. Friends in Audience: 0 Time to let the punters see what we’ve been doing for the last couple of months. Time to let them in. Take their money, sell them their programme and their drink, and sit them down. There was a respectable number of them,… Continue reading First Night – And They’re Off!
Dress Rehearsal – The Event Horizon
Tonight’s Anthem: ‘Stuck In The Middle’ by Stealer’s Wheel. After Sundays marathon tech-setup, there was only time to run the first half before being booted out into the street to wander home in a daze, not ready for work on Monday at all. So Monday saw us dive straight into Act 2, without taking a… Continue reading Dress Rehearsal – The Event Horizon
Last Ten MD Traxxx – Fascinating
The last ten tracks to play on my current minidisc compilation, in shuffle mode. Nice Weather For Ducks – Lemon Jelly Lift – 808 State What Time Is Love? – KLF Beat Dis – Bomb The Bass 6/8 War – Leftfield Original Control – Meat Beat Manifesto Elements – Lemon Jelly ?? – Meat Beat… Continue reading Last Ten MD Traxxx – Fascinating
The 6ths – Hyacinths and Thistles
I got this album for my birthday, and I’ve been checking it out ever since, on my work PC. The first 2 tracks sound very Magnetic Fields, but that’s fair enough because it’s the same people, based at The House Of Tomorrow. The first track brings Momus out of his box to sing the very… Continue reading The 6ths – Hyacinths and Thistles
Possible titles for Joss Stones next album
Given that her first two albums were called ‘The Soul Sessions’, and ‘Mind Body and Soul’, what about her third? Here’s some suggestions… Soul-er Power Soul Trader Something I Scraped Off The Soul Of My Shoe Going Soul-o Nightsoul Collector I’ve Souled Myself A Shitload of Soul Soul On A Roll The 1988 Soul Olympics… Continue reading Possible titles for Joss Stones next album
Colin Powell: A Biographical Performance by Robin Deacon
Let’s plug me ol’ mucker Robin again! Saturday 27th November The Curtain Theatre Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street London E1 6AB 8PM Cost £5 Part of the Performance: Strategy & Process series. www.robindeacon.comTo book tickets visit Artsadmin (Mon-Fri, 10.30am – 6pm). Tickets can be purchased on the door by cheque (with guarantee card) or cash.… Continue reading Colin Powell: A Biographical Performance by Robin Deacon
Japanese Product Design and Museum
This is a fascinating selection of Japanese consumer product designs from the 60’s onward. Worth checking out for many reasons, including This 1977 setup, in a room which looks fashionable again today. Note curtains from Autumn 2004 IKEA catalogue. Assisted Suicide! Ford Anglia? Note go-faster stripe. Grey. Note the Georgette Heyer book. Bike in the… Continue reading Japanese Product Design and Museum
Firefox 1.0 Released
The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox web browser has officially hit 1.0. The main webserver is getting thrashed at the moment as everybody links to the front page (here), but it looks like these download mirrors are handling things fine. They’ve got the Win32, OSX and Linux versions all ready to go. I love Firefox. The Ode*n… Continue reading Firefox 1.0 Released
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