UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

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?
x-post

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.

Oh, that Flur autobiog. Very silly in places.

Hello everyone. How are you all?

So did anyone see Harmonia? How was it?

I was there. So was Kate. I thoroughly enjoyed it - though I don't know that everyone there did.

I spent my weekend driving agricultural machinery, I thoroughly enjoyed that.

Meltdown has been announced, anyone up for george clinton & Parliament/funkadelic on june 21st?

Harmoniaaaaaah was lovely. Very wubby. I nearly ascended to the heavens when they came back and played Immer Weider for the encore. I've never been so happy! Until the next night.

The Flur biog is hilarious. Highly reccomend.

Um, W rang ne and asked if he could come round and pick up his stuff. I put him off and woke up Luke. Not that I need protecting from W - *he* needs protecting from me. He was lovely, though, we all stood in the hall and chatted and played bass at one another.

I didn't discover until after he left, when M came home and started laughing - 1) where the missing drawing went and 2) what the VERY bad thing was. Argh.

Apparently, drunk as f*ck at 5 in the morning, I decided it would be a good idea to go through his gigbag and look at his pedals. M walked in and was all "are you hacking his computer?!?!?" and I drew the drawing to try to explain that I was NOT hacking his computer, but of course that only makes it look more like I was. And left it in his gigbag.

I'm a fangirl, but not that much of a stalker. :-(

Also, where's Chelmsford? I seem to be headhunted for a job there.

Essex, North of London, Norman Tebbit came from there. Thus is my knowledge of Chelmsford exhausted.

Actually I might be wrong about the Normn Tebbit bit. The wikipedia entry is bafflingly detailed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmsford

35 mins out of liverpool st to be precise.

You're thinking of Chingford, Pash!

Chingford, yes! It was all a long time ago now, wasn't it.

Chelmsford = Essex = win.

http://thedarksideofplagiarism.com/

scroll down to the bottom

oops wrong thread, sorry

Hello there. I suddenly remembered that ILX exists.

We're probably off to Indietracks this summer; not to the whole thing though. We went to the last one, in December, and (by turning up early and hanging about the station) managed to get invited into the cab of the engine, which was rather good fun.

Pashmina linked to his Tanfield Railway photos upthread - here's mine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/forest_pines/sets/72157604285611927/

Additionally, if you're ever looking at the Tanfield Railway's own Flickr account, I'm on one of their photos, lurking in the background with my camera.

Pashmina, is this anything to do with you?

Really long eBay link

Wow. It's one of my dad's (who is also called Norman), it'll have been made in the seventies, most likely. No later than about '82. If it were a touring frame, I'd probably be bidding on it myself. My dad was the shit at framebuilding!

Incidentally, I'm looking for a 21 or 22" touring frame, anything knocking around in the shop?