UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

he's not helping...

Who?

Oh, good. I can vote after all.

::gnashes teeth:; Don't tell me these things, Kerr! I should have been at that show! I am such a dummy. :-( Stupid jazz singers lounging around sexily on sofas. :-(

Kerr, the gig was absolutely brilliant. Sick On The Bus were just OK, but the Varukers and especially Systematic Death were fucking ace. Systematic Death were really manic. I got a discography CD from them. They seemed really happy to be playing London.

Charlie Harper from the UK Subs was there, I spoke to him briefly, asked him if there's any plans for a new album, he said he's working on some songs with someone from Rancid. Hmm.

Oh dear.
At least the gig was good. Any more coming up?

Well, I'm going to see Times New Viking and Jay Reatard next month. Apart from that not until MBV I don't think.

MBV is my next gig too. Hopefully will meet grimly fiendish unless work makes him pull out as usual.
Anyone else got any gigs lined up?

Martin Carthy tomorrow night.

There 3 gigs going on May 30th - June 1st but I haven't decided which I'm going to, can only afford one really. Armitage Shanks or Oi Polloi, Chester & Cress or Raw Power. Although I spoke to a couple of blokes on the tube who'd been to the Systematic Death gig and they said they'd seen Raw Power recently and they sucked.

Well, I'm going to see Times New Viking and Jay Reatard next month.

Me too! At Barden's?

Oi polloi still going? Blimey!

Yes, at Bardens! Only £6.60! Bargain!

Oi Polloi AFAIK have never stopped going, although there's only 1 original member. I'm not a big fan though.

The Heads are playing Brighton with Wooden Shjips

I wd like to see Jay Reatard and Times New Viking! Enjoy.

I've spent the past two months all excited about going to see HEALTH tonight and now I'm not going to go because I just can't do weeknight gigs (no bus home, taxi too expensive, getting < 5h sleep when I feel like death even on 7-8), and meanwhile nobody out-of-town wants a weekend gig in Oxford because they're saving those nights for big cities.

Folk tonight, then, Ed?

Oh, and Spiers and Boden at Union Chapel in two weeks! Exciting!

Kerr, are Odewas anything to do with Grandaddy? Don't know why, they just remind me of them.

And another Marmaduke, clearly this is what this thread needs:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2200/2454490632_195384e93d_o.jpg

Or maybe not, as I've driven everyone off! :-(

No theyre not, theyre awesome though!

Huh, strange. Something about the bleepy casiotone noises combined with the atmospherics. And the guy's voice is quite similar.

I was listening to the Aether Eater last night. I thought I had more, but must have lost them on my work computer.

Where on earth did you find this guy, K?

My day: dreich, with idiot fashion editor type trying to get me to write for free for mag launched last year. Not with those Vuitton adverts in your mag, you don't.

Dreich? I'm drookit myself.

I would like to know those words^^^

Argh, someone tell me to work. I only have 15 days left to go of my degree and I am so behind.

Get to work!

My wife just told me: "I love every inch of your balding skull."

I found him at a folk club in Hoxton, of all places. Actually, Cowboy Jim discovered him.

Go and listen to him, he is marvellously lugubrious, sounds just like he looks there:

http://www.myspace.com/marmadukedando

None of these words make any sense to me. I'm having the same disinclination to go out as Spacecadet, but don't have a job as an excuse. If I don't get out, I shall surely go mad with cabin fever. But can't face busses, even with Lawrence novels to fortify me against the Modern World. What would he make of iPods and those kids singing in the back of the bus? Twiddling little machines, indeed.

GET TO WORK, EMIL.Y!!!

Ha ha, marriage is so cute, Goobs.

Umming and arring about folking as I am still not 100%. If it wasn't Martin Carthy it would probably be an automatic no. What date is Jon and John as I though it was a definite no as my global wanderings are curtailed, however it may be a yes now.

G00blar of course now a world expert in telling girls to get back to work.

At home with the G00blars:

Mrs G00blar:I love every inch of your balding skull
G00blar: Get back in that study and fix me a Phd there are not enough doctors in the house.

Apparently, there's shoegazing, too, but it's Ulrich Schnauss who I have seen too many times recently.

I think J&J is the 15th May? No, 14th May. They send me nice emails now, very professional and un-folky looking. I would like to take the 'Duke to a Magpies Nest, as I think he'd like it, but don't really dare, for fear of him thinking I was making a pass at him or something.

haha Ed are you spying on us?

Why not make a pass at him?

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I have eyes everywhere.

My MBV tickets just arrived. TBH I thought they already had, it's been so long since I ordered them.

Anyone know who the support is? I can't remember if it's been announced.

Because he's half my age!

And we all know what happened the last time I made a pass at a folk singer half my age, and how awfully that turned out. I'm never making a pass at anyone ever again.

However, I would like to take him to a folk night. I like it when he does folk a lot better than when he does The Demon Jazz.

If he thinks I want to sleep with him, then he'll stop posing for me. And I need a life model more than a shag. I think. Anyway, he is a JAZZ singer, ugh. This is just the Pygmalion effect because I've been drawing him so much. He's not a mang, he's just lines and planes and angles and curves and giant swhirlies for chest hair.

x-post no, the MBV support has not been announced, but odds on it will be Le Volume Corbe. Bah. I need to remind D about my tickets - oh yes, and pay her for them.

Travel curtailed, Ed? What's up with that?

Where is Martin Carthy playing?

Magpie's Nest - at the Queens Head on Essex Road. I have to get there double early, not just to snag a sofa but to make sure I get in at all!

That's (fairly) near me, I might have gone, but busy tonight + he plays all the time anyway

What a bloody performance!

I did, in the end, manage to vote. But only after having to go down to Lambeth Town Hall and pitch a fit and threaten to chain myself to their railings. Bloody clerical error, a nonsense! But at least I finally have proof my neighbours are stealing my mail.

How did everyone else in London get on?

No problems at all although I was a bit peturbed by someone with a labour rosette sitting in the hallway of the polling station, i didn't think that was allowed.

Polling station was deserted - of voters that is. Was greeted by the polling station staff like the return of the prodigal son, I thought they were going to offer me a cup of tea and a slice of cake

I'm going after work. I did finally get my polling card a couple of days ago.

Is that a recent thing? My dad always had to do that - i.e. sit in a Labour rosette at the polling station. x-post

I am quite glad that I pitched a fit. It really is worth doing sometimes. It's quite a hard trick to get right. To make it clear that you *will* lose your temper and Cause A Scene if the jobsworthy does not do what he ought, while not actually losing your temper enough to be removed.

I was so angry that I ended up voting Green all the way through, simply wanting to get the smug (and proved now to be incompetent) Lib Dems out of my ward.

And now this is what I got up to last night. I'm really not sure what it's about, but it's quite filthy. Tra la la. 'Duke has put my portrait on his MySpace. Tee hee.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21171554@N00/2456742702/"; title="demi-vierge kind of life by Masonic Boom, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2456742702_ee8605b4ea_o.jpg"; width="433" height="600" alt="demi-vierge kind of life" /></a>

Oh, blast! Here are those nipples:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2456742702_ee8605b4ea_o.jpg

Did KL get your second pref for Mayor?

Yes. I had to check it three times, because my hand kept twitching in this insane manner towards Boris, but I made sure to put the tick in the right - i.e. Labour box.

Whew!

i think it was more the way he was positioned behind a desk that he looked at first like the ballot officials. He wanted my poll card number and I certainly wasn't going to give it to him.

Fucking hell, deluge in CR4.

WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK I'M VOTING FOR BORIS?!?!? HAS HELL FROZEN OVER?!?!?

OK, hail in Croydon perhaps, which means it's heading our way. Blast, I was going to go to Wimbledon to buy candles. I always need candles for sketching - a trait I've discovered I share with my hero, Aubrey Beardsley!

Will vote tonight when I get home from work. I love polling days - our ballot station is in the church hall at the end of the road, and they wheel out the same battered signs and ballot boxes that must have been in service since the war. I always half expect to have to choose between Atlee and Churchill.

Our polling station is in the Library, and they're very brisk and modern. I would be afraid to vote Conservative in there.