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all the conker trees are dying...
Currently listening to: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan's georgeous new album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's fuzzy dirge, Tilly and the Wall's joyous indie, Brian Jonestown Massacre's stoner rock, plus Nathan Fake, Quickspace, Panico, Candi Staton, Colder and the Sympathy compilation "Alright this time just the girls vol 2" which rocks.
still buying singles too. Little slices of 7" joy by the likes of... Love Is All, Long Blondes, The Holloways, Theoretical Girl, Emmy the Great and Lily Allen's awesome "LDN".
Still enjoying those larger slabs of vinyl too - killer 12"s by the likes of Juan Maclean, the amazing DFA disco remix of Gavin & Delia's new single, Goldfrapp (as remixed by Ewan Pearson) Battant, Padded Cell, CSS, The Gossip, Zongamin, and Uffie's filthy "Ready to Uff", etc etc, plus lots more obscurities from lovely little shops.
Live, i won't be sad if the Astoria closes, it's 'orrible and gigs always seem to finish at about 9 o clock there. Check out instead great
venues like: the 12 Bar Club, Ryan's Bar (Stoke Newington), The Pleasure Unit, The Dirty Water Club, The Buffalo Bar, The Windmill, Bardens, and the Luminaire in Kilburn.
Promoters like: Eat Your Own Ears, Wired Woman, Come Down and Meet the Folk, ATP and Artrocker.
Support these little venues and people doing it for the music, and say NO! to extortionate ticket prices, eBay touts, NME tours selling out before the godawful acts have even been announced, and extortionate booking/posting fees.
ATP was awesome. Discovered two great new (to me) bands: Black Mountain and Bat For Lashes. Plus loads of other stuff was great too. And it was sunny.
Green Man was great too: More Bat For Lashes, James Yorkston, Euros Childs, plus loads more, and a really great, friendly atmosphere.
Reading a great book about Africa in the 1960s when indepence inspired such optimism. Recently read the fantastic Burmese Days by George Orwell. Other recent reads: Platform and Atomised by Michael Houlebecq, The Belljar by Sylvia Plath, and Alain De Botton's Art of Travel (a must read for all jet-setters) plus his recent little Penguin 70 essays. Mmmm, Penguin.
Like everyone else in London, I sometimes play records out at various places around town - this is partly why i buy lots of records. i review some of them at http://www.wearelondon.co.uk... ('our tunes' section).
My lomo camera broke when i got sand in it at ATP, but the lovely people at the Photographer's Gallery gave me a brand new one. Amazing customer service! Since getting a phone with a digital camera i'm finally discovering the joys of taking pics, downloading them onto my computer and going "nah, that's rubbish" and deleting it.
more of ME on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/electrojoeboy... and for club activities: http://www.myspace.com/misfitmusic... . Good good.
Work, and life is interesting again now that I'm working at WaterAid.
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