Archive for April, 2006

Good noise and bad noise

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Went to see Four Tet and Steve Reid on Wednesday evening at the Scala. I thought I had seen some bad music before, but the support bands were absolutely atrocious. Probably the worst rubbish I have ever seen. Well, almost. First there was The Thing, which consisted of a jazz drummer, a double bass player […]

On anomalies - computer recycling and water

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

My old computer is knackered and I want to get rid of the thing (and the other old and knackered one that I was given I’d like to sling out as well), but I’m somewhat reluctant to contribute to the ever growing mountain of computers. With the motto ‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ banging around my brain, […]

Pimping of various sorts

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Here’s a miscellaneous collection of web non-sense. Starting with �David Bowie is very disappointed in you’. Slightly strange, but fun.
This lot gave me the creeps, you can almost smell the stale dust of those US thrift shops (charity shops to us) – The Museum of Bad Art. Best viewed with a mouldering pile of clothes […]

A singing clown and a Dalek

Monday, April 24th, 2006

The Duke of Uke
In the Lorelei in Bateman Street, Soho on Saturday night. This place is great – though to my mind it doesn’t quite measure up to the splendour of Pollo (now sadly deceased). They have a sack of about 10 bags of flour next balanced on a chair next to the door, a […]