Monday, January 16, 2006
Shut up.. For a minute.. Don’t you wanna party?
Cool Müf gig on Sat, thanks to all who came down on - nice to see Pete and the Pirates in full band mode after their drummer-less set at Screwball Cabaret, too. The ending to their set was brilliant, climactic and completely unexpected after the 30-50 mins that had gone before! Nice work, Piratical fellas! (although I believe that Pirates actually prefer to be referred to as "Gentlemen of fortune". Arrrr!)
Good to see my fellow White Sunday bandmate Dan Dan the Drumming Man (aka Danny Lovegroove) playing bass for Big Sleep on the same bill! If Reading is indeed "on fire" as many journalists are reporting it is because it is blessed with musical prodigies such as Danny, musicians who are keen to go out and play whatever music tickles their fancy in whatever way they deem fit, regardless of what "music industry" types would advise them to do / not do. I'd count myself in amongst that illustrious number of Reading based musicians who are playing and writing a load of different styles of music, but that would be really arrogant of me, so I'll leave it for others to do!
Lewis Taylor. I posted on his message board that I had written a review of his Jazz Café gig last Thursday, asking if anyone knew anywhere that may publish it as I thought that Josaka wouldn't be interested (not being a Berks artist or venue, etc. - but they like Lewis so they posted it anyway!) and instead of ingratiating myself amongst the forum regulars with a "hi! I'm new, could you help me out?" I managed to dis-engage my brain and write "Lewis proves that short-arsed, shaven-headed guitar gods are cool as f*ck!". Brilliant, Kaupa. *golf clap* Just go and call your new favourite musician a short-arse; that will win you new friends on his site. Hopefully the few people on there who know who I am may have seen the funny side, but my best bet is to hope that no-one actually read the post in the first place, it was kinda hidden away. Lucky for me I could edit the post and stick the Josaka link up there in it's place, but I fear the damage may have been done. Sometimes I manage to make Laurel and Hardy look like the SAS.
Good to see my fellow White Sunday bandmate Dan Dan the Drumming Man (aka Danny Lovegroove) playing bass for Big Sleep on the same bill! If Reading is indeed "on fire" as many journalists are reporting it is because it is blessed with musical prodigies such as Danny, musicians who are keen to go out and play whatever music tickles their fancy in whatever way they deem fit, regardless of what "music industry" types would advise them to do / not do. I'd count myself in amongst that illustrious number of Reading based musicians who are playing and writing a load of different styles of music, but that would be really arrogant of me, so I'll leave it for others to do!
Lewis Taylor. I posted on his message board that I had written a review of his Jazz Café gig last Thursday, asking if anyone knew anywhere that may publish it as I thought that Josaka wouldn't be interested (not being a Berks artist or venue, etc. - but they like Lewis so they posted it anyway!) and instead of ingratiating myself amongst the forum regulars with a "hi! I'm new, could you help me out?" I managed to dis-engage my brain and write "Lewis proves that short-arsed, shaven-headed guitar gods are cool as f*ck!". Brilliant, Kaupa. *golf clap* Just go and call your new favourite musician a short-arse; that will win you new friends on his site. Hopefully the few people on there who know who I am may have seen the funny side, but my best bet is to hope that no-one actually read the post in the first place, it was kinda hidden away. Lucky for me I could edit the post and stick the Josaka link up there in it's place, but I fear the damage may have been done. Sometimes I manage to make Laurel and Hardy look like the SAS.
# posted by AK @ 11:35 
