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Dan The Van 2008-04-29 11:45:04 Me and my big mouth. Yesterday I casually mentioned, just once, that it was looking quite summery outside and what happens? It rains for the next 24 hours. Typical!Here's your chance to donate to a good cause. Blakfish are one of the hardest working UK touring bands I know but last week their beloved van, Sir Tobias, blew up! Check out the video below to see the extent of the damges. When I said blew up I wasn't kidding. The band now find themselves in fairly deep financial peril, with the insurance set to pay out half of what the thing cost them, at best, and are asking for any kind souls to possibly donate any loose change they may have to help them with buying a new one so they can get back out there and continue wowing the masses. Take your good nature over to www.myspace.com/blakfishR
40 days 2008-04-30 06:34:04 Day two of the rain. I've decided to focus on the positives of this situation. For one, the pigeon waste on my window I was complaining about Monday has been washed away without me having to get my hands dirty. And two, there's no way I can be tempted to go out and buy anything for breakfast so am instead settling for the two leftover (12p a go) jam doughnuts I found in the kitchen. If it wasn't for the obvious and probably drastic health related consequences, I'd happily begin every morning in this way.I've just given the BSM Myspace page a nice new face-lift. It's a little garish but I like it. Come get some.Regular readers may recall a couple of weeks ago when I was bemoaning the state of my computer and my two-restarts-a-day routine. Well guess what? The laptop fairy has been to call!
Election 2008-05-01 04:12:18 I live in a very strange place. It's essentially a tiny little village but inside of a busy city. The local community centre is made of wood and holds regular Girl Scouts meetings and cake sales. The old man next door has lived here for 53 years and a car doesn't go by without him making a mental note of the driver and number plate. The couple who run the local shop are on first name terms with every one of their patrons and the pub a few yards away from where I sit right now has a sign outside advertising a "gentlemen's evening" taking place in a couple of weeks. The last serious crime committed in these here parts, according to the curtain twitchers next door, was "when that biker gang moved in not so long ago." It turns out that when they say "not so long ago", they actually mean 15 yea Read more:Election
No sleep for the weak 2008-05-02 12:19:36 What do you do when you have a meeting in London at 5pm, yet sitting in your house in Oxford at 3.30pm you realise there's absolutely no way you're going to make it on time? I'll tell you what you don't do. You don't re-arrange the meeting for 10am the following morning, pick up a bottle of vodka, catch the next bus to the big smoke, hit a couple of pubs, a gig, a swing dance night at a gay club and then drink until 6.30am. Unfortunately I've never been one for practicing what I preach, so there I was, sprawled out on Sam Get Cape's hardwood floor, accidentally headbutting his coffee table every time I attempt to roll over, getting angry about the combination of the biggest windows I've ever seen, the early morning sunshine and the trains whizzing past every 2 minutes on the track literall
Old Man vs Bin Man 2008-05-06 05:27:42 The fat old man who lives in the house opposite has been standing, hands on hips, at the end of his drive for the past half an hour. In the last couple of minutes he's given up his frowning and has started muttering something about hating bin men. In the distance I can hear their lorry getting closer and with every passing minute my anticipation of an incredible battle grows. This could be the best thing ever. FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!I ended the bank holiday weekend in style yesterday, laying around next to the Thames which runs along the bottom of a friends garden, enjoying the heat, watching passing boats, drinking strawberry cider and playing cards. Beautiful. I'm so very, very English.Back to work today and it's busy as usual. Later on this week we'll be rolling out a free Secondsmi Read more:Old Man
Spring break 2008-05-07 03:30:29 I've been getting quite lazy recently. I filled my giant office bin with paper, CDs and other crap about 3 weeks ago but instead of disposing of it I decided I'd start to fill an empty cardboard box and then get rid of it all later on. Problem is, once I finished that box I started a second. And when that was finished, a third appeared. So there I was, in a small loft conversion of an office with an overflowing bin and three boxes full of junk, leaving hardly enough room for me and my collection of empty glasses which I was too lazy to take down to the kitchen. At this stage, any normal person would have chucked the lot but not me, oh no. I simply started to fill my seat with rubbish. So for the past few days I've been sitting here, perched on the edge of my chair spewing screwed up pieces Read more:Spring
, Spring break
Tubelord t-shirts 2008-05-09 10:01:31 As I mentioned a few days ago, I had a bizarre dream about obese boys wearing Tubelord t-shirts. Well, once my cold sweat ran dry I knocked up this design which is at the printers as I type. There are very few of them on their way so place your order quickly if you want one. Remember how I told you the 7" was going to sell out within just a few weeks and then it did? iTunes remembers.Click on your size, below, to place an order. All shirts come with a free copy of the BSM 50 Not Out compilation CD, as if you needed any extra encouragement!Purchase: YL / S / M
Review of the week 2008-05-09 06:01:21 Apologies for the lack of Myspace Fruit of The Week posts this week, I've been busy and as such haven't had much time to scour the friend requests, let alone check to see if Psycho Tanbad has any new photos of himself with dangerous animals. This week has seen a dissapointing rise in caps-locked band emails though, I must say. This is far from being good news.Here's my review of the week. It comes from AbsolutePunk and gives the Australian/Japanese This Town Needs Guns album a fine 85%. Well written, clued up and uses good points of reference. Excellent work. 9/10Speaking of which, TTNG received 1450+ plays on their Myspace page again yesterday, for the second day running. Good times.
Doom and gloom 2008-05-12 05:27:45 Well my beloved Reading were relegated yesterday. It was no surprise. Back in March we looked certain to stay up after three great wins but then going 6 games without scoring a goal, coupled with the sudden resurgence of some of our nearest rivals, it wasn't looking good even before a ball was kicked this weekend. I've decided to take the glass half view though. Here's why:1) We'll be in a league
The 6 Machine is back in business! 2008-05-13 11:05:12 So much stuff going on today I could fill 20 pages of blogs and still only get half of what I want to say out there. Thankfully, two birds have flown into the same stone and made my job 2% easier.One of the things I wanted to tell you about, as mentioned below (in amongst the talk of Aero mousse blowing my mind) was a new band. The other thing was the fact that the 6 Machine
10" compilation is bac
Aero mousse 2008-05-13 04:14:22 The day Tesco decided to reduce four-packs of Aero chocolate mousse down to just 55p a go was probably my favourite so far this year. It happened 2 weeks ago now and I still have 7 pots left in the fridge. This isn't an indication of my slow eating, but my over-spending.I set a new P.B. this morning by starting work at 7.30am, and what a brilliantly New York flavoured start it was too. I had an em
No title 2008-05-15 05:58:55 I tried to befriend the postman this morning. Every day he's forced to knock on my door with a pile of parcels and assorted junk mail too big to squeeze through our pointlessly small letterbox yet we never exchange more than a couple of pleasantries. Today, I decide, is the day I show the man his efforts are appreciated. Opening the door and flashing my most charming of smiles I take the post from
Brits Sing Magically 2008-05-14 07:18:59 The ridiculously busy nature of yesterday has followed me across the midnight border and is still yapping at my heels. Here's a bunch of stuff I want to tell you about in a neatly ordered fashion:1) Aloud.com - you know, that ticket place - are running a competition to win copies of '50 Not Out' and some other BSM goodies. Enter it here. You could also try your luck at The Line Of Best Fit. Or, an Read more:Brits
Great Escaping 2008-05-16 05:14:36 I'm off to Brighton for some Great
Escape action in a bit. Determined not to let this slip into an industry event overloaded with meetings and shop talk I've cleverly(?) arranged to meet everybody within the space of one hour. A difficult, Jack Bauer-esque action packed 60 minutes which will see me running up and down the seafront meeting with two booking agents, three managers and one band. Can I Read more:Escaping
Confusion 2008-05-19 04:21:11 Hi DadThis is a blog. Hope it makes more sense now
Time of your life 2008-05-20 10:09:14 The days are just flying by at the moment.Friday I went to The Great Escape in Brighton. It was awesome. We drank Pimms on the beach, hung out with friends, made some new ones, saw Tubelord, Sam Isaac, This City and some other great bands, played arcade machines, stumbled across and spent three hours taking advantage of a free hotel bar, went to a club with the ex-Toploader guitarist to witness an
Here's one to bookmark 2008-05-22 15:01:05 Time I recommended y'all another new artist.Stars And Sonswww.myspace.com/starsandsonsukThis is a guy I discovered at 3am outside of a Brighton club last Friday night when the ex-Toploader guitarist handed me a CD, whilst Jack Alcopop argued with a bouncer about being thrown out and the length of his hair. Easily one of the strangest ways I've been introduced to a new artist, but I'm so glad it ha
I've got 6 on it 2008-05-21 09:06:04 It's now just 5 weeks until the release of our lovely 6 Machine compilation. Continuing the weekly updates below is a guest blog post from band #2, Caesura. But before you launch into that, here are some important facts which you may have missed:The 6 Machine is a compilation featuring 6 up and coming UK bands, as voted for by over 2000 of you earlier on this yearIt will be released on 23rd June o
Holidays for banks 2008-05-26 17:58:21 This weekend I decided to take a couple of days off and relax. It's been a very long time since I last did that and it felt good, especially at 10.30 Friday evening when I finished up my vodka and Fanta in the Brixton branch of Carpetright's carpark and wandered across the road to spend the next half an hour or so dancing to the Celtic reggae tones of Paddyrasta, in a busy little venue called Hoot Read more:banks
, Holidays
No title 2008-05-27 12:37:01 I've just spent the past hour dreaming up some party ideas. I'm talking boats, gardens, public holidays, multiple cities and a number of sports. Everything's worth celebrating in 2008. I've also had an idea for next year, so get this one in your diary right now...9th September 2009: 999 party. It'll take place in Bristol (England's 9th most populous metropolitan area), start at 9pm, cost £9 to ge
My First Tooth 2008-05-28 16:30:13 I took a cheeky couple of hours off this afternoon to spend some time gambling with my good friend Patten. Those 2 hours became 6 hours, 4 poker tournaments, 2 horse races, a dash of roulette, a couple of blackjack hands and of course a little bit of football betting. Good times, for sure, but it's now 10.30pm, I'm £10 worse off and I feel as though I'm just starting my afternoon share of work. I Read more:First
, Tooth
Kevin Bacon 2008-05-30 05:42:57 Hello worldBusy day today. I was awoken, hungover, at 9am by Stu TTNG calling. He's currently off work with Labrynthitis - which isn't actually a fear of David Bowie or 1980's films, as you may imagine - and wanted to borrow some DVDs. Like most of our conversations this ended with us talking about Maps and Atlases. There's no room for KevinBacon
in our 7 degrees of separation game. Since then I'
Running Man 2008-06-03 06:11:11 Sorry for my absence, dear blog. It's Tuesday 3rd June (not that you'd believe it from looking at the rain streaming down my window) and I'm only now recovering from the weekend. Thursday night, as reported below, was filled with meetings, Alcopop work and designing ridiculous CD sleeves. Friday saw me attend a house party with a load of strangers dressed as flowers, getting thrown out of a taxi a
Temptation 2008-06-05 12:12:13 I'm stuck in some sort of drunken limbo. This afternoon I went to meet Blakfish in a local pub and had a drink. Came home, bouyed by the joys of the sunny weather and made myself another. That's two. Two's too many. I came upstairs to where I sit now, eye to eye with my computer trying to work out what my next move should be. The little red lad on my right shoulder is saying "screw it, work can wa
4-5-1 just wouldn't work 2008-06-05 06:54:06 It's a great time of year for football. Only a couple of weeks ago we saw the dramatic end to the domestic season, two English sides battling out the Champions League final and a couple of unlikely finalists come head to head in the FA Cup final. Apart from Reading's relegation, it was pretty good fun. Now with Euro 2008 right upon us, not to mention the second annual BSM 5-a-side tournament set t
Summer lovin' 2008-06-06 05:46:15 An hour after my post last night I was still sitting here, arguing with myself trying to decide where to take my one man impromptu party. I ended up listening to Three Trapped Tigers, spinning out slightly, doing four loads of washing up and then watching Big Brother. I can't believe they've put a blind guy in there. And don't get me started on the two Charlie-alikes. One was enough last year.And Read more:Summer
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