How I Spend My Evenings

So here's how I spend my evenings: Going to gigs.

These are some of my most recent pictures >>>>

The Futureheads



Metronomy



Golden Silvers



Young Knives



Pivot



Wild Beasts



they get two pictures because they're so lovely...



Barringtone



Liam Finn



Hercules & Love Affair



Jay-Z



This is how close I was....front row you know!



...and with a little zoom...



Foals



Shit photo - I got there too late to get a decent place to stand :-(


Black Kids




And coming up in the next couple of weeks I have >>>

Liam Finn (again), Esser, Jeremy Warmsley & So So Modern on the Transgressive Summer Tour
Wetdog Album Launch
Lovebox
Wild Beasts (again)
Micachu

Homesick? Me...?

Hmmm. There's a strong possibilty that I may be feeling a little homesick today...
Why else would I be scouring You Tube for this >>>



I can confirm that that is how all Geordies dance. Fact.

Rather than sending us to ballet classes or to some lovely stage school, we are perched atop Byker Wall, given several bottles of White Lightning (Lambrini if you're posh) & have lit tabs thrown at our feet til these particularly awesome moves are honed to perfection.

Don't be jealous.

One more from Benwell Raving Crew >>>



HA!

Here, that's better than Riverdance like...

OK so one more video which I would like to dedicate to my home town:
It's Uncle Buzzcocks!



More lethal than a spakka with a bag of pills!

5HTP For The Ears

This >>>




In the last week I must have had all of, oooh 5 hours sleep?

There's only one thing for it. It's time to crack open the Kate Bush.

The video for Wuthering Heights never fails to perk me up. So whenever I'm tired, hungover & hating my life I pay a visit to good old You Tube

Obviously it's even more enjoyable when you are able to throw on a wedding dress, bust out some dance moves & have a little singalong too... but I'll save that for when i get home....

Bette

Doesn't this picture make you just want to kill yourself because you will never be like her...?


Plus I just read this: (on The Lipster, where else?)

"Bette was the vanguard of celebrity bitchin’ with her ongoing sparring-partner Joan Crawford. When asked why she avoided Crawford at parties, Bette replied: "You hang around that woman long enough and you'll pick up all kinds of useless shit." And, famously, "She's slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie." It's even rumoured that she had a Coca-Cola machine installed on the set of ...Baby Jane as a dig at Crawford, whose husband, a CEO of Pepsi, had just died. Take that, Paris and Nicole"

Ok, so maybe the coke machine was taking it a little far, but still way more interesting than the never ending Bland spewed out by many of Hollywood's current 'stars'

Disco 2000

Not all cover versions are bad
This one is good
Very good



Makes me wish my name was Deborah...


re: Good Cover Versions - may I also recommend Candi Statton 'Stand By Your Man', The Slits 'Heard It Through The Grapevine' & errr..... Boyzone 'Father & Son'?

Actually, no wait. Forget that last one....

The Pitter Patter Of Tiny... Stillettos...?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.... Maybe both?

Sold with the tag line:
"Now baby girls can really kick up their heels!"

So I dunno if this is really wrong or really fun, but I'm going to post anyway. There's been a whole load of drama about 'the sexualisation of babies', but looking at the picture above I don't think that really rings true - to me it's just a bit of silliness. However that may just be because I don't have a maternal bone in my body...

Who knows. Who cares.

Big Bad Wolf

Grrrrr

Best. Toy. Ever

I'm killing myself that I wasn't in the US over April & that I wasn't munching on a McDonalds....

Meet New Wave Nigel



Given away as a part of McDonalds' American Idol promotion it's pretty much Devo in your pocket. Which beats even the Hello Kitty pen holder I got from the Golden Arches last time I was in the states. Ugh, it even plays a little tune.... The US gets way cooler toys than us.

Anyway the story behind it is that, yes it is a blatant rip off of Devo & that, yes Devo are now suing.

All I care about is how much these bad boys are selling for on Ebay & how soon they can be shipped

Hollywood Misogyny

I read this news story today & it absolutely disgusted me.
I understand fully the importance of aesthetics in the media - however this reeks of playground bullying...
Plus what really riles me is that these 'Image-Nazis' direct their bile almost soley at women


"... HEROES star ALI LARTER was once treated like an outcast on a film set after discovering how cruel Hollywood can be to an actress who gains weight.
The sexy star admits producers and directors stopped talking to her after she piled on the pounds while shooting a film on location.
She tells the new issue of Allure magazine, "The faxes went out from the producers and the director to my agents to my manager to call me and ask me to lose weight.
"I just remember sitting in my trailer hysterically crying from the embarrassment I felt about myself, my body - and that no one could talk to me directly." ...."

I don't really know or care who Ali Larter is - I don't even know if she's particularly overweight - but I do know that this is a pretty despicable way to treat a human being.
I think what's most insulting is the cowardly way they went about it...

"producers and directors stopped talking to her"


Seriously...?! Since when were eight year old girls directing movies...?


Were this any other industry they would have been slapped with some fat lawsuit for workplace bullying

Hollywood is the best!

Cover Artwork

Despite doing nothing more exciting last night than stocking up on macaroni cheese ready meals at Sainsburys, I am so tired today I feel like my eyes are going to fall out

In an effort to perk myself up I decided to do a little research into album artwork:

Here are some of the finest examples of graphic design & photography I could find >>>



Oh yeah



Speechless.

.............



This last one I found funny before I even noticed what was going on in the picture - or read the title for that matter. I just liked that it was captioned "Truly A Miracle Of God" & had a picture of a happy old lady on it... When I realised the true extent of the whole entire wrongness of it I had to pick myself up off the floor



I like to imagine she's called Marjorie, has a never ending supply of biscuits & gives good hugs