All entries for January 2005

The Steve Pretty Benefit Gig

Yesterday I went on a small journey to a certain Bar Lorca, in the sunny wonderful suburb of London known as Brixton (ok, so maybe it's not sunny and all that wonderful, but hey, what you going to do?).

"But why did you want to go there?" I hear you cry.

Well, there was a gig, in aid of the tsunami; more than that, there was an all dayer with a Steve Pretty theme, in aid of the tsunami.

So, what does Steve have to do with the tsunami? For the few of you who don't know (you really should, it was in the boar and everything), Steve was on the Anderman Islands (I don't know if I spelt that correctly).

So, a gig, an all dayer, in Brixton, with a Steve Pretty theme. It was awesome! For those of you who missed it, you will be sorry forever.

First up: The Pretty Small Band, a really good start, the crowd loved it, Steve did well (considering he hadn't played for 6 months) even if his bongo playing (he tried to fit it in) didn't work too well.

Next: The Equal Opportunities Working Group. They started their set with a punked up version of 'The A Team', it was also reworded for Equal Opps. John Lumley – wow, he likes to move around a bit when 'on stage'; he spent more time jumping aornd everywhere but on the stage. It was impressive. The dancing from the Naked Chef (the drummer, he was topless) was inspired. The crowd loved it, even if they couldn't stand too close to the front for fear of being taken out by Lummers.

3rd: The Sequins! Missing their usual groupy Clare (we missed you Clare, or rather I did), they still had a good set, Hywel said he had a good time and the rest of the band looked pleased. As for the crowd, I was disappointed by them, there was nobody there! But the few that were there were having fun, myself included, they even played everyones favourite song (if it isn't your favourite it should be!) 'Nobody Dreams About Me'. It's great, it's one of the quirky, smiley songs that you can't help but love and dance to, we talked about it on the way home as one of the good points of the day (well done lads).

4th: The Big Band. Another well done set. The Big Band were on for as usual, if any of you Big Band people see this (that went on Sunday) please comment, I know I had a great time, the crowd were good, the vocals were amazing, it's be nice to see what you guys thought of it all. (Sorry for the short one, I am trying to keep this short now)

Stupid Stupid Stupid and Steve (oh dear, maybe this one won't be so short): had an amazing set! It was soooooooooo much fun, I don't think my feet touched the floor for more than 5 min in total through the whole 25 (ish) min set! Lummers – an ace 'dancing' partner :D The comment from Chris (bass) was 'I saw people in the mosh I didn't even know, which is unusal' if that says anything as to how well they went down. I managed to grab a set list and aquired a broken drumstick that went wizzing past my head, near miss from Sam thank you very much. Well done lads. Oh and I'll be wanting one of them cds you've recorded (that's right they've recorded a cd full of SSSnS stuff, how good does it get?!).

Erm, next was a set that I don't know the name of (I'm lame I know). There was a lady, and a fella on guitar. The guiatist was good, sorry not much to say there, it was kind of background. The lady however had a voice and a half. Wherever she has appeared from it was nice to have her there.

The last, but by no means least, were Porpoise Corpus. They were amazing! There was a beat, but there wasn't all the time! There were chords, that clashed, then resolved. There was the amazing, tall alto sax, the sax (very well played) , a drummer that just had to be watched, a guitarist, with some really good solos (that word is so bad, it says nothing, but my head is still dead), a bass player, what a bass player, and a pianist, who I admire. I think that is everything I can say about them, to put it another way, they were so good, words fail me (well, to an extent, words that would actually describe them fail me).

So thank you to John Lumley for all your hard work in organising the amazing day, for raising over £1000 (!), for an amazing performance. Thank you to all the bands, for all the hard work put in and the successful sets you all played.

Oh and thanks for th cds Lummers, it's been good listening to it, on the way home in the car and today, it's a memento of a great day and one hell of an achievment.

Glad you're home and safe Steve (if you actually look at this).

Thank you Mr Triangle (he knows who he is) for the lift home.

And I think that's all from me for this post, sorry it's been so long, well done to those of you who've managed to stick it out (;)).

: 31 Jan 2005 22:28 |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem

Battle of the Bands!!!!!!

Hello!
As you may or may not know, the greatest annual live music spectacle Warwick
University has ever seen is about to commence! The Bandsoc
Battle of the Bands final is a showcase of some of the finest musical talent
Warwick has to offer, and this year looks set to be an absolute blinder.
Over five heats, (commencing Thursday wk5 in the Graduate Club) a total of 29
bands will compete for a place in the final (to be held on Tues wk10 in the
marketplace).
One band from each heat will go through to the final, with the runners-up doing
battle in a "second chance heat of death" where the victor will win a place in
the final.
The final itself is by far the best and most electric atmosphered live music
night of the year! Last years final saw the Marketplace full to the rafters, and
six awesome performances from some of Warwick's finest before newcomers
Interloper emerged as overall winners. They're back to defend their title this
year and are up against some tough competition from the likes of melodic,
progressive soft rock 6-piece Unreal Coriander, awesome hair metal stadium rock
outfit Replica X, adventure-punks extraordinaire Snarf Takes Up the Challenge,
up-and-coming indie-mongers A Day Remains and the
rapidly-making-a-name-for-themselves Pink Spider, recently seen supporting the
Dillinger Escape Plan with their own brand of emo-hardcore.
Battle of the Bands is your only chance this term for an evening dedicated to
live music within the Students Union! Support live, local music and come along,
it will be awesome!
Entry to the heats and the final is a bargainous £1.50 for Bandsoc members and a
still incredibly good value for money £2.50 for non-members.

The dates and line-ups are as follows:

Heat One: Thursday 3rd Feb, The Graduate Club
Unreal Coriander
Flux Capacitors
The Lakes
The Great Lakes
The Fall Of Man
Pink Spider

Heat Two: Sunday 6th Feb, The Graduate Club
The Bad Radiators
xBrutalxJusticex
Grand Design
Afterburner
Rookie Error
Interloper (winners 2004)

Heat Three: Thursday 10th Feb, The Graduate Club
Fire Of Prometheus
Code Napoleon
Buffalo Soldiers
Stari and the Mourning Woods
The Sweet Nothing (finalists 2004)

Heat Four: Thursday 17th Feb, The Graduate Club
Ryobi
A Day Remains
Code of Energy
The Stand Off
Snarf Takes Up The Challenge
Stefan Turner

Heat Five: Thursday 3rd March, The Graduate Club
Bok
Son of a Gun
The So You Claims
Wrapped In Plastic
Replica X
Protocol

Runners-Up Heat: Sunday 6th March, The Graduate Club

Final: Tuesday 8th March, Marketplace

see how could you miss it?

: 29 Jan 2005 17:20 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

lyrics!

i am it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
and when we kiss the're perfectly aligned
i have to spectulate that god himself did make
us into correspoding shapes
like puzzle pieces from the clay
and true, it may seem like a stretch
but its thoughts like this that catch my troubled head
when you're away
when i am missing you to death
when you're out there on the road
for several weeks of shows
and when you scan the radio
i hope this song will guide you home

(and that is the first thing hear most mornings :D)

: 26 Jan 2005 23:55 |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Desperate viewer?

Ok, I may have become one of the majority of viewers ont he telly. I've become desperate to watch anything, anything that is good, interesting or just plain clever. Has this been fullfilled?
In a way yes. TV is more fulfilling (yes, I know I've spelt it differenty each time, but that's because I don't know how to spell) if you watch it with friends. That way, you may comment on what crap you see, make jokes, and have them built upon, plus playrole of an actor can be fun.
However, I think I may have found a programme I would have normally scorned for it's obvious plot, 'clever' script, 'variety' of characters, actors, and then the general americanage of the whole thing. As you may be able to guess, I've been watching Desperate Housewives.
I think I like it. It's so obvious, but doesn't feel the need for the 'twist in the plot because it is too obvious'. The actors you're sure you've seen somewhere else,but they're not too big, until youwork out who they are. It's ok to watch alone (because you know everyone else who's not in the room is watching it) and it's better to watch with friends (more comments and the like).
The camera angles are simple, not too much jumping around; dramatic pauses everywhere, but not overdone; but best of all, the narrating. You just know it's a chracter that you don't see in the episode, but which one? I think I may get to like this programme, could it be some decient tv thta isn't a cartoon has emerged from across the pond?

: 19 Jan 2005 23:14 |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

another guessing game

That's right people
another blog entry, another guessing game

Today I went for a small shop and have brought something very exciting, anyone got any guesses?

: 19 Jan 2005 19:20 |  Comments (7) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

name that tune

Ok,this is an amazing tune, I've put some 'vocals' but of the style that people do in never mind the buzzocks; so, here goes:

'vocal bit' do do do do do, do do do do dooo, do do do do do do d' doooo (that's a verse)
(bridge) 'vocal' d' d' d' d' d' do doo doooooo
with 'keys' d d d d d d d d d'

(the bit that you'll know) wahoooooo wahooooooooooooo do do do do do doooooooooo

go on, have a guess!

: 17 Jan 2005 22:09 |  Comments (15) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Shoes!

Yesterday, (all troubles seemed so far away…) (sorry bad joke)
anyway…
So, yesterday, I went shopping.
It was great fun, I've not been shopping in ages! I went to buy borthday presents, one for my mum and one for my mate at home, Katie (that's right another Katie). I bought loads, cd's, clothes, music, books; unfortunately no presents.

Today (anyone think of song that goes with today?) I went up town to try and buy some presents today and i saw shoes!

I don't like shoe shopping, I know you'll always see them about, but this one time I did notice (well I say I noticed, actually my friend noticed), it was really funny because the shoes where on sale! That's right Shoes! Buy one … get one free!

: 16 Jan 2005 15:36 |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

all messed up

it's impressive how everything can become all messed up really quickly. If you're doing ok with everything then one thing going crazy or not how it should go, that's fine, it's not messed up, it'll sort itself out, with a bit of help along the way.
What happens when one more thing goes wrong?
It's starting to get a bit much, you get frustrated more easily, some stuff just doesn't seem to matter as much as what you know it should.
So we've reached that stage.
Now imagine that the last ime you went completly off the rails, you only got half way back on, because you had to, because you're always fine. You've never really gotten over what it was, but it's ok, because you've surpressed it, nobody really knows how much it bothers you, how much you can't think about it.

So when you're starting to mess things up, it's not all going as easily as it should, what's left to go wrong?
Nothing, nothing at all.

And then IT comes back. IT just doesn't stop. IT just can't leave you alone. IT will always be there.

: 05 Jan 2005 14:49 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Physics from a plane window

So the title would suggest that I'm about to list all the physics I can think of that could be seen from a plane window, but I'm not, because there would bound to be loads that I would miss and more importanlty, I don't understand enough yet, maybe some day I will know enough; but before I stray from my chosen topic…

Let me set the scene, I'm on my way to France, it's cloudy and just got sat in my seat. It's a window seat, over and slightly behind the wing, the best place to be in my opinion.

The plane takes off, we get above the clouds and it's really clear and bright up there. The plane is directly between the whitest clouds (so they won't really be the whitest, but it's to create the image, artist licsence or something) and the brightest sun. Here comes the physics (drumroll please…) … There was a plane shillouetted against the clouds, quite hard to see as it was surrounded by the birghtest white spot. That's not the best bit, surounding this amazingly bright spot was a chromatic aberation! There we go folks, all that build up for a rainbow in a circle. Sorry but it impressed me.

: 05 Jan 2005 00:06 |  Comments (7) |  Close comments |  Report a problem