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Soft Machine / Matching Mole - candidate for the most obscure pun ever?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

say no more say no more

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

i like the barfly. possibly because i pretty much lived there for 2 or 3 years.

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

It's a horrible place to see bands, though! The bar is right in the wrong place, so you can't actually get into the room if it's crowded, and end up stuck in that horrible L-bit where you can't see the band. It's pretty much the last toilet venue in London I've never played and never want to.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

yes what is it with the venues with L bits? Brighton's Freebutt is like that too.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've only ever been there once - Jim Reid played!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's nice if you don't want to see everyband, so you have a place where you can go and chat and not have to have Cheesecake Truck or whatever inflicted on you. But it is STUPID to put the bar at the apex of the L, so no one can get from one bit to the other.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

BUT BUT BUT if you squeeze yourself through the big jam by the bar you find TONS OF SPACE and you can see and hear and stand under the aircon if it's hot.

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

(also lol @ cheesecake truck)

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

But the reason there is TONS OF SPACE is because no one can actually get through the horrible jam! The number of times I've nearly died getting past the bar, to find the front of the stage clear... it is BADLY BADLY designed, that venue. They need to move the bar.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK plan for the weekend

Friday evening ?
Saturday afternoon, guitars
Saturday dinner, poss meet T. for vietnamese in camden pre TSDOLE
Saturday Night TSDOLE
Sunday Glong Bong walk in Kent

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, I can't go guitar shopping on Saturday afternoon if I'm going to be out walking all day Sunday! I need some time to shop for groceries and do my laundry and clean the flat and read the Guardian!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that would happen in the morning?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

The point of a Saturday is to REST, not to spend it rushing around like a chicken without a head!

I'm old! I need lots of time to relax on the sofa with a cup of tea at the weekends. I need at least one day a week I don't have to set the alarm clock! Obviously that isn't going to be Sunday now we are walking.

So how can I get out of bed around 10, do the laundry, rush down to Sainsburys by noon, then get home by 2 and instead of having a nice relaxing lie down with a cup of tea, I have to rush out again and look at guitars? I can't do it! I'll collapse! And will either not make it out that night, or the next morning.

I am old and I have no energy.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Now I am just getting exhausted thinking about this weekend. Oh no.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Aftaflid, is much better but it still sounds like a guitarist strumming himself to ecstasy. Perhaps I need to listen to it in the dark.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to it on headphones, it's the only way to appreciate it. But yes, a psychedelic monk strumming himself to ecstacy is right. (To me, this is a good thing. But it may just be a guitarist thing.)

I have not just had free sammiches, but free almond croissants. My life is good!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I almost always listen to everything on headphones.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's all about the production, maaaaaaan.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

which is very good.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having a hard time getting through the afternoon. Might be time to break out Warrior At The Edge Of Time. That'll teach me to eat the free sammiches.

Trying to figure out when on earth I'm going to do the mixing for the ILX comp now!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am making a tour of the balkans to promote this

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, when will I ever learn? If I eat a load of sugar at lunchtime, I have a massive crash in a couple of hours and get horribly cranky and bad-tenmpered. And then someone goes and asks "do you want a maple cookie?" (of the actual maple syrupy kind, not 'Cooler Cookies) and like a dumbass I go all "Yeeeessss..." and wonder why I'm in a terrible mood and pissed off about stupid inconsequential crap.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Why am I even still *involved* with the user set-up process?!?!?

Why can't I just hand it over to HR, whose freaking JOB it is. But they are lazy bastards and can't be bothered to learn it becuase they think it's "technical" which it so isn't. And there are too many freaking cooks involved in the process, there's no communication between then, I don't have my whole mind on it, mistakes get made, and it all goes horribly wrong. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

hi kids. got out early today.

― mitya, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, lucky you - I am still stuck here pulling out data for journalists. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I am home and ill again. Feh.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

You're ill again? You've only just had a horrible lurgy! How awful!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

home and ill > at work and ill

― mitya, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Mitya!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Psst, Kate. I've been told you're the person to ~~pester~~ be very nice to if hoping to jump very late onto any Ilx comp/gig thingy. Is it too late?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Comp is me!

Do you have a track ready?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well, we've got loads. I'll have to make sure the rest of the boys are okay with it, but if so we could get one to you in the next couple of days.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Argh! At the moment, we have eight bands! I'm either going to have to kick someone off (actually, one of those bands never formally confirmed. Hrrmmm....) or else check with Tim just how many bands we can get on. I think he would probably make an exception for you guys.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Make it a weekender! ILx-a-go-go!

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Give us a field and we can produce a weekender.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

By we, I mean me and james, and then only if we can get his live gear back off of sh3fst0ck

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

The Friday and Saturday are already booked, I think! I could not do a whole weekender, I would be pulling my hair out by the end of it.

I mean, if we *actually* start on time, (and they never do - first band won't go on much before 5) and give every band a half hour slot... that's four hour s of music, plus changeover times - everything hinges on how quick the changeovers go. You always plan around 15/20 minutes but it's always closer to half an hour. I mean, the Windmill never minds if you keep going until midnight, but lots of ~~stupid North Londoners~~ people have to leave before the last tube.

I would really like to have you guys play!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

It'd be ace. But don't worry about it if it'll just make stress, for one thing I haven't asked the boys yet, so it would be very rubbish of me if you end up struggling to make room only to find one of them is on holiday or something.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Well, ask them and find out first. I need to sit down and plan the schedule realistically anyway.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

You will come whatever happens, though?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

emil.y and hari's band* on would be great. You need to do a tour!

*I haven't heard the other bands, no offence.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

CAn you be tempted to take the long road south?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oi, Pfunk, you better start bigging MY band up the same sort of way or we will have words!

::folds arms across chest and harrumphs::

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

But Kate everyone knows Shimura Curves are great!

ed, nah, i'm skint. Do a tour and i'll come to Glasgow!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I'll be there - it's the beginning of summer holidays, so no reason not to. I've never FAPped before or anything, though (unless you count harrassing ken c about hen fap at bbqs). What if you're all REALLY ODD?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I will be up in Edinburgh around festival time (providing a friend gets the funding for her show), I at the very least will come and drink a beer with you.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

What if you're all REALLY ODD?

THEN YOU WILL FIT RIGHT IN!!!! ;-)

::ducks::

I think you should be more worried if we're not odd. We are all delightfully odd. Honest.

I am making a spreadsheet as we speak.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, ill again or at least a nasty little sinus infection. Bleh.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

YOu already know we are all really odd.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

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