Blog
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Ooh great Meltdown!
This year's Meltdown is being curated by Lee "Scratch" Perry and the lineup looks a doozy! According to NME it includes Public Enemy, Tortoise, Michael Franti and Spearhead, DJ Spooky, Linton Kwesi Jo…
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Glasto sells out
Yeesh, tickets to this year's Glastonbury Festival have sold out, 24 hours after going on sale. That's 112,500 tickets or about 78 a minute. I guess I can forgive them for having a slow website yester…
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Mash-up pop madness
In case you haven't heard, dsico does crazy mad cut-up pop shit. Currently I'm listening to his remix of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart with Missy Elliot's Get Your Freak On. Yes that does sou…
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A good mix
While I'm somewhat underwhelmed by most of her musical output (it seems her collaborators do all the good stuff, hence Golden Boy and Felix Da Housecat had good results and The Hacker somewhat crap),…
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Copy protection on new Asian Dub Foundation album
A colleague at work brought in the new Asian Dub Foundation album on CD today for me to have a listen. This album was one of those albums on the "buy without even listening first" list, but I hadn't g…
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2002 musical highlights
Some fantastic music was releaed in 2002, and I managed to churn through a large amount of it despite the demise of Audiogalaxy as a useful method for musical discovery. Electroclash Perhaps the most…
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Still in Sydney
We're still in Sydney, until Sunday this week anyway. If you haven't managed to catch up with us, get in touch. Probably do drinks in Newtown on Thursday night. I'm actually working in the Sydney offi…
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Email down
By the time we arrived in Oz, my computer seemed to have lost contact with the outside world. The ADSL it's on might have crashed, but who knows. Major pain in the arse. If you're in Sydney, you can c…
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Got Glasto tickets
Well here's an example of how not to handle ticket sales for a large, high-profile event. Glastonbury tickets just went on sale, which meant getting up at 5am here in Sydney to start trying. It's now…
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Off to Sydney
Holly and I are off to Sydney tomorrow morning for three weeks. If you want to call me, I'll mostly be at my parents place: 02 9879 0308. Should have access to email while I'm there too. Holly's havin…
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We've moved
Well it was a very long weekend, but we've managed to move house. We're staying with friends in Blackheath until we're back from Oz when we'll look for our own flat. Computer is off the air until toni…
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Snow!
Wow. The last couple of days it's been dumping down snow. It started yesterday morning when we got up and saw snow everywhere. Then last night, around 17:20, it started really dumping. Probably droppe…
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We're moving
We're moving house tonight. It's been a bit of a drama so we're technically homeless for the next month or so. We had found a brilliant place in Baron's Court, but that fell through from the landlord'…
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Beer is coming along
Well if you've been following this, I've been brewing some beer recently. I now have something like 60 litres of beer conditioning, and another 20 litres fermenting at the moment. The first two batche…
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Merry Xmas
If you're reading this and I missed you from the mass mailout of our xmas card, I apologise. Here's what you should have received.
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In the bucket
Well the beer's in the bucket and on its way. Looks good! Mmmmm.
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Mmmm. Beer.
Last night I started my first solo batch of homebrew beer with a yeast starter. The yeast were bubbling away this morning, multiplying like mad and looking good. I'll chuck the kit in the fermenter to…
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Great party
We had a housewarming/birthday party on Saturday night. Had a fabulous time with loads of good friends. Such a good time that I forgot to take any photos. London's transport system causes an interesti…
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That's Uncle Simon to you
Well it looks like I'm an uncle again. After a protracted labour eventually requiring caesarian, Holly's sister Sam gave birth to Alfie early this morning. Mother, baby and dad are reportedly all well…
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Email is back
My email is back up and running. Due to a failed backup CD, I lost about month of emails... Grrr... Time to work out a better backup system.