UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Woooo! Happy birthday Kate! I''ll bake you some kind of tasty birthday carrot cake for next time I see you!

Yay!

happy birthday.

Weather looks good for saturday too.

Happy birthday, lady!

Happy birthday, Kate! Here's Gaston, to play some drones on the Gaffophone for you.

http://lagaffemegate.free.fr/journalspirou/index/images/obj/gaffophone.jpg

Happy Birthday, Kate!
is Saturday walking still on?

kiss me maybe I turn into birfday ddb prince!

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Happy birthday

Woo, Kate: Birthday, have a happy one, all that jazz (um, no, not jazz! All that drone, yes, better).

Yay, thank you! Through the hangover... oh, life is good. I love life. yes! Walk on for tomorrow. Pester Ed for details. It's a MYSTERY to me.

JAZZ HANDS!!! oh yeah.

So how is everyone?

Still resisting the new SPZ album. But may be caving on the broadband idea.

Hello all, I was indirectly grumped at by a grumpy welsh newscaster yesterday.

Also we talked of an outing to a steam railway at some point, when shall we do it and shall we pick one that FP can come to as well (GCR or Peak Rail would suit, probably)

Huw Edwards?

HURRAH HURRAH, STEAM RAILWAYS, OH YES!!!

Also, I want this on a t-shirt:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/2420117503_8e73c3c6aa.jpg

easy enough to do with those iron on inkjet transfer things.

we talked of an outing to a steam railway at some point

http://www.indietracks.co.uk/

I would steal all there lunch money

their damnit their

Why do they have to take such a great idea and ruin it with such RUBBITCH music?!?!?

Why can't they have a technoshoegazesteampunk festival to go with steam trains? Speaking of which...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2020/2423182652_768ca210e8.jpg

I've got iron-on transfers and black t-shirts. Carruthers has volunteered to be my model/victim for the first experiementa t-shirt. We shall see how this goes.

Maple propellors! EXCELLENT idea.

Sycamore, actually, but it would take a botanist to know the difference!

That *is* pretty cool.

Tanfield Railway is near us, we go 2 or 3 times a year:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183224811/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183228206/in/photostream/

It's a tiny little stretch of line, but it's really charming, a delight to go on it.

So pretty! I want one in my garden to take me up to the high street.

My debut gig is next week, I'm kind of a-scared after listening to the practice tapes. I dropped notes all over the place through sheer nerves!

Come if you promise not to throw things...

http://a282.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/100/l_76e57ec60cc867d43f372a7a1f2d1b09.jpg

Do you know when you're on? My supervisor is having a party to launch her book that night, but I think it'll be over pretty early.

10pm, stage time. Apparently. I don't know if the Buffalo Bars runs late or not.

Book launch? Oh, you academic types!

Cool.

It's a book on boxing!

('Cool' meaning: I think I can make it)

All sounds good. Will be there, will try and bring sande as well, she seemed keen.

I borrowed a car today, was driving to work, rifling through my dad and step-mum's cds. Looking for something non awful to listen to, found the temptations, put it on, ooh this sounds wierd, I didn't think they had bad pcm synth horns in 1967. It turned out it was songs re-recorded by the temptations in 2001. They can't hit any of the notes any more, high or low. Slightly depressing really.

Can I have a chicks dig bass and an autorotation t-shirt please, I will pay money etc.

Autorotation design = awesome; the not-maple whirlinoses = great idea yes! :D

hello

Tom D do you know anything about Whisky David?

Never heard of him/them/that

Stephen Malkmus was talking about him in Plan B. It's some 70s scottish guy who made a glam rock album. I thought you might know something. Very little on internet.

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/9757/whiskydavidfrontsimplevc9.jpg

Not many google results but the translation in one says

Hard rare, but a true marvel. "Whiskey" David Waterson is a Scottish singer and organist who has been involved in numerous groups

Sounds like a wind up to me

Well if you'd said he was glam rock I would have downloaded it before. I took one look at Scottish singer Whiskey David and went uh I'll pass thanks.

It's real. Dont you ever check your email?
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I do. It looks like a wind up to me.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GC6Nw_9wMOw

WAAAGH I JUST FINISHED THE FILM TREATMENT FROM HELL!

Well at least you finished it.

Jesus it's wintry out there.

oh god, hangover from hell here, sitting in Northampton eating cheese on oatcakes and drinking tea and trying not to remember the Very Bad Thing I did last night. I think it involved snogging one of the lovely Northampton locals.

Have done test t-shirts for the Carruthers and Mr. Beswick, to see how they hold up. Gave washing instructions to Beswick. Will just looked at me when I tried to tell him how to wash it. "Wash? Wash? I don't wash!" Ah, putting the dirt in dirty dronerock boy.

I can't seem to bring myself to leave Northampton. W has left his stuff here, and is calling M - I assume about that - but M has left his phone here. I don't know quite if I should message W and say I'm here for another hour or so if he wants to come and pick it up. But then again, I'd feel really weird because I only know that he messaged because M has one of those phones that lights up and says who is calling. I didn't pick up because I didn't want to intrude. Actually, I probably think it wouldn't be a good idea to be here alone with W, even if he is just picking up his guitar and stuff.

Argh.

I have even never been to Northampton, but everything I have heard from you, M & K suggested I should put that right v soon. I think there are sporadic coaches from Oxford.

I keep wanting to post my views on the thread about Labour and the 10p tax band but I know if I do I will be shot down in flames by a bunch of political hacks. Honestly it's no wonder ordinary ppl don't get involved in politics when you see the shoddy patronising treatment one gets when one does stick one's head above the parapet.

the plot thickens, xpost

Dom P is from Northampton, yes?

yep.

So did anyone see Harmonia? How was it? I attempted some hint-dropping but I'd have had to drag unwilling companions and (made them) pay for hotels etc, so in the end I contented myself w/having seen Rother and Möbius last year. Rödelius seems a fascinating guy from his biography, but of all the post-Harmonia things I've heard his have not grabbed me so much.

New krautrock biography acquisitions: one Wolfgang Flür autobiography from otherwise uninspiring new everything-for-£2 remainder bookshop in Oxford which I discovered while not being sure whether the bookshop I was actually looking for had closed or whether I'd managed to walk past it, since I was in a hurry and not sure exactly which corner it was on. Not very far in yet, so far there's just been a lot of "why can't everyone stop and notice how amazing life is and be nice to each other?". Oh well.

The Oxford-Sheffield (well, Bournemouth to Edinburgh or something?) National Express coaches stop in Northampton and they used to be 3 or 4 times daily. But I think there's a cheaper and more frequent Stagecoach between the two so that the folks in the parts of Northants which are closer to Banbury e.g. Brackley can go in either direction.

Have just google-mapped Brackley (bus is X88 through Bicester, not Banbury, and they don't run as late as I thought) and found a place called Deanshanger. Another Prolapse mystery (not quite) solved. I am all for naming songs after place names; I've got a mental list of places I'd name tracks after, if only I could write the music.

Oh, that.