UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

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.

I am trying to get Marmaduke back for another session. This time in costume. Since he claims to be descended from a philandering Sea Captain... well!

I love polling day too, and I'm slightly disappointed that I don't get a vote this time around. No seats in our ward are up for election.

http://www.blastfirstpetite.com/

ADVANCE ORDERS TAKEN. £35 with orders despatched 19th May 2008
In stores 16th June 2008

Limited edition of 3000, x 6 CD set of high quality "audio verite" recordings of Suicide playing live in September 1977 to August 1978 ! As you will hear, a crucial year in Suicide's development and their mission to stretch the label of Punk Rock to the very limit.
Plus a 64 page booklet of Suicide & Red Star Records memorabilia from the personal archives of Howard Thompson, the A&R man that signed Suicide to UK Bronze Records.
Only the infamous "23 Minutes Over Brussels" has been released before !!
All mastered by Denis Blackham for optimum listening pleasure.

DISC 1 1977 NYC [46:52]
1 SUICIDE CBGB Sept 29 1977 24:43
2 SUICIDE CBGB Dec 3 1977 set2 22:09

DISC 2 1978 NYC [71:21]
1 SUICIDE The Palladium NYC Jan 7 1978 21:45
2 SUICIDE Maxs Jan 13 1978 22:55
3 SUICIDE CBGB Feb 3 1978 26:41

DISC 3 1978 BELGIUM/FRANCE [70:42]
1 SUICIDE Brussels June 16 1978 23:44
2 SUICIDE Paris Olympia+Backstage June 18 1978 46:58

DISC 4 1978 GERMANY [68:29]
1 SUICIDE Hamburg Audiomax June 28 1978 21:26
2 SUICIDE Berlin Kant Kino/Neue Welt June 30 1978 22:42
3 SUICIDE Berlin Kant Kino/Neue Welt June 30 1978 set2 24:21

DISC 5 1978 UK [64:17]
1 SUICIDE London MusicMachine July 24 1978 25:37
2 SUICIDE Our Price Radio Ad 1:09
3 SUICIDE Erics Liverpool July 29 1978 31:12
4 SUICIDE Erics pt 2 Frankie Teardrop July 29 1978 6:19

DISC 6 1978 NYC [AFTER EUROPE] [43:35]

Christ, that must be hard going. Bits of the first 2 albums are OK, but all the live stuff I've heard has been unendurable!

If I had the cash I'd buy it.

My ears, my ears! I do love them, but live... um, no.

God, are the election results going to be as depressing as they look like they will be? I said I'd put my house on the market and move if Boris got in. Am I going to have to put my mortgage where my mouth is?

But the live stuff with the reissue of the first album was great (not the Live In Brussels stuff)

The 'Duke has not responded to my email asking him to come in for another session, so I guess that's the end of that. :-(

Stupid models, why are they so flighty?

Where can I find a man who will just come in, take his clothes off, do what he's told, and then come back when I need to do a sketch?

Bloody computer just crashed. I hate web cafes. I was in such a good mood, where did it go? Life is always good until the invariable disappointment comes. I've got to go to a wedding this afternoon. Back to Brixton Town Hall again. I wonder if the registry office will be as disorganised.

Ah well, at least I found Blue Flower on YouTube. (Pale Saints version, which is, I think my favourite.)

Today is just going to be depressing, isn't it? Oh, sod the load of this.

Depressing. I am very glad that Kaet went sensible about Boris as soon as he started actually being political, as I am at least thankful that (*fingers crossed*) I don't know anyone who voted for him. I do feel slightly hypocritical about the rest of the country, as I really hate the New Labour government... but I am actually starting to feel sick to my stomach...

In the interests of "change", "entertainment" or whatever, a bunch of people just landed everyone in London with the conservative equivalent of derek hatton for the next 4 years. WTG, idiots, bah. What a depressing day for the UK.

Asda are bringing back ltd edition Opal Fruits but only for a few weeks

So in the interests of trying to divert my attention from the horrors of the mayoral election, I have found a blog with what purports to be the entire Derek Bailey discography. Anyone have any recommendations where to start with this?

Ask Tom D, he once had a letter in The Wire about him!

Maybe everyones away to Asda now.

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/emails/opal_fruits.html
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