What Was I Saying...? Oh, Yeah...

I don’t think I can manage much in the way of hyperbole this time of the evening, so this increased font size will have to do in order to spread the news that MoHa! - a side-project of Norwegian iron-monger noise-rock outfit Noxagt - are playing The Gander this Thursday. It’s easily the most exciting thing that’s happened in Bournemouth since, uh, last Saturday’s gig. The details, for those hard of sight (you know who you are): Thursday 9th June 2008 Mo... more

Ah, another pleasant distraction in the form of a meme (read ’audio virus’) spread to me from Kid Shirt : "List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to." Well, here goes. 1. Talk Talk - ’The Ra... more

A piece of info that will interest only local types (and possibly not even them), but should interest everyone: as you can read from the above poster, Acoustic Ladyland (a bunch of horrific East London poseurs, whose second album (however) was the best jazz-punk record since, I don’t know, the first Skill 7 Stamina 12 release) will be playing The Gander on the 31st. More importantly, it’s the final show of True Swamp Neglect , whose drummer, Bar... more

There are some ’proper’ posts cooking away on the back-burner at the moment - I find actually getting shit down on virtual paper difficult enough when I’m forced to, let alone when I choose to do it of my own free will - but for the moment I’ll direct your attention to a rash of interweb goodies that have come onto my radar recently: 1) A belated column at Pitchfork on the Ghost Box phenomenon, almost on the point of convincing me I need to get the entire GB c... more