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I will organise, but I don't know how to shot organise a gig.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

What's a good stomp box analogue resonant filter?

Ed on Friday, 23 March 2007 10:21 (42 minutes ago)

The Frostwave "Funk-a-Duck" is pretty great!

http://www.frostwave.com/

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, Emsk, that is complicated. (Iraq? Argh!)

How to shot gig - uh, um. How I've always done it is, err, get a bunch of bands to agree they want to play together, which is the easy part. Then you have to find a venue.

Some venues, you just tell them what bands you want and they say "fine" (like the Windmill, this is why I like the place) - others you have to approach through a promoter and they are supposed to do all the organising but usually they do very little, and just take all the money. (Depends on the promoter, obv. some are lovely but lots aren't.) And then some venues they want you to do the whole thing and hire the hall up front and promote it all yourself.

Then some have weird deals - the Buffalo Bars it used to be that they didn't charge you for the venue, and you got to keep everything you made ont he door, but they had to make a certain amount on the bar or they would keep your deposit.

it's all so CONFUSING.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also we should ask to play more of the shoegazing clubs around town. Like AC-30 and Club Goonight (I think the latter said they would have us before). And I should really ask Nat if we can play a Sonic Cathedral some time but I love love love Sonic Cathedral so much I'd just about die if we got to play it so I'm scared to ask. I am a FULE.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that I actually hate one of my students means it's probably good that this is the end of term (and thus, effectively, the end of the year). GET OUT OF MY LIFE.

Forgot to say--Congrats Emsk!

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I always wondered how hard it would be to teach someone you ACTIVELY HATED.

Phew, I got really scared - just got an email from my boss saying could we be in Brighton by 9AM next Wednesday, and back in Holborn for noon. Uh... NO. I can barely make it to the shower by 9AM, let alone. But it turns out that it was meant for the other Katharine.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hello everyone. My database that I thougth was finished isn't, so I've been urshing around fixing that this week. Anything interesting happened while I was away? (I could just read the thread I guess . . . )

I also walked into (and may have helped cause!) the shitstorm on the Ronaldinho thread. Now I feel bad. I think I got called a racist, although in that thread it's hard to tell.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

I stand by my comments calling the whole boiling lot of you fucking insane.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, you didn't cause anything. Aside from a few snark-masters, I think the general perception was that you were at least being honest and open about your impressions and knowledge (or lack thereof) of certain associations. At least that was my perception.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Pash, why the funk-a-duck over the resonator?

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

thanks gooblar!

Argh, Emsk, that is complicated. (Iraq? Argh!)

i know! he is a good person too, it's bizarre.

also more complication - no alcohol before run, i think it would be a bad idea. hmm.

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Running?!?!? What is this nonsense about running. You must DRINK!!! With US!!! We are YOUR FRIENDS and we want your company for SEVENTH MOST DANGEROUS DRUG EVER consumption with us. In a PUB.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

5th

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

What is the seventh most dangerous drug? Speed? we can take that, too. KINGS OF SPEED, KINGS OF SPEED!!! ::jumps up and down in chair::

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

i have been running and LOVIN' IT! haha ok not very far or fast (i am up to RUN 2 MINS WALK 1 MIN which has been surprisingly easy and we accidentally did a 4 min run which was easy too (i think it was the weather, it was cold and still and dry)) but still. i'm quite surprised. yay for the teenager.

hrm, maybe i could run tomorrow and monday instead of today and sunday. what time do you think we will be back from the walk on sunday? it may not be practical to do it sunday anyway if we're back too late.

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, no, speed is 8th, 7th is Valium. Snorrrrre. Never liked that. Preferred diet pills. What has got into me today? I feel 18 again, want to drink loads of coffee and pop diet pills and drive all the way to Vermont, vrrrooooooom!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine we will be back quite late on sunday.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Eep, I'm going to start next week with a sleep debt, aren't I? And I've got so much planned...

If we play with FoH, can you get projectors, Ed, and we can turn it into a crazy multimedia psychedelic event with films and lights and things. And we can do Hawkwind covers!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I can borrow, yes.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, the resonator (one of which I own) is a fixed filter. It's a great piece. The Funk-a-Duck, though, has an envelope follower built into it - it tracks the volume of the signal it receives, and changes the cutoff of the filter according to the level, a great effect.

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I should try plugging through Doom's MS20 to see if I like the sound. But I like the idea of envelope following.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Order today 032/32/007 and you could score a free
Frostwave SpaceBeam Theremin / CV controller
worth Aud $387.00...

I wish I hadn't seen this/

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

That should have been in quote style but the damned input parser is a nazi.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Uuuhhh... Theremin? What?

I just got paid today. Maybe I can afford that 12-string bass after all. I just wish I could have a go on it before deciding to spend £400 plus shipping on it. I mean, I know what an 8 string bass sounds like from TSM, but no idea if 12-string = lovely heavenly angel choirs of gorgeousness or muddy prog hell.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Did Rob S contact u Kate?

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, Dr. C.

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

I am suffering from ILX burnout, I think. Go on another thread, start typing out this quite long, quite detailed analysis of something and then halfway through just think "crap, is anyone going to be bothered to read this, or are they just going to come back with some kneejerk reactions - besides, we've already done this a hundred times if we've done it once..." and then just hit clear.

I am feeling sleepy. I already want more coffee. Beer drinking mannequin has aquired a bike helmet - WTF?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think I am going to become addicted to yoghurt coated ginger.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, anything covered ginger is food of the gods - I was eating the yoghurt covered ginger last on the Isle of Wight, it is teh yum.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Alara on marchmont st is becoming my favourite lunch spot.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I had aubergine and mushroom biriyani - not as good as homemade, but Emsk still has my curry making pot.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I should get a better curry making pot, with a copper bottom or something, so that it does not burn like those enamel pots do. They are so pretty, though, with the peatocks and the paisley.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Enamel is fine, you just need a heavier bottom. The dread IKEA has very good le cruset and cast iron knock off type things.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

If you get heavy enamelled pots you can use humbrol paints to paint your own designs on.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Is Alara Indian? I don't remember that place.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's the whole food store on marchmont st.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. I used to have the best currying pot in the world, but it got lost in one of my many moves. Enammel on the inside is good, as it's much better for you than the dread no stick. But I swear, those pretty peatock pots must have tinfoil between the layers of enamel, they are so thin.

Awww, I see what you mean about the hottt young Tory photo, now. Phwoar, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Soooooo almost done with my day. One more tutorial (2 papers to mark for it, tho), then home for naptime!

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and yeah, I've always been curious about that place (alara).

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, *that* place! yes, I used to like it, too, when I lived there but now it is in the EEZOHAD.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, cannot stop looking at the hotttt young Tories. So wrong, I know. But so RIGHT.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

You just want to look at me taking my shirt off on that thread Kate. I know full well.

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

I did look at you taking your shirt off, and I did respond with a "phwoar etc." over there!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Only joking! I know I'm old and hideous.

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

You do have a good nose, though, if I may say so without seeming too forward.

Pielettes, pielettes, Shimuras be wanting PIERETTES!!! Arrrrrr...

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't always that shape.

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

That's what you get for playing Rugby!

Maybe I should fancy more rugby players if they've all got noses like that. But they tend to be too, well... BEEFY for my tastes.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

...hrmmm, maybe I should go shopping for guitars tomorrow to see if I can get that 12-string bass out of my mind.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

yes, guitar shopping. (Also I want to get you off the bass idea, I want that as my fantasy)

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

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