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Today's Independent newspaper is the first media corporation to get on board with the RED product. Half of all revenues from todays paper goes towards fighting AIDS in Africa. As the face for the RED product campaign, Bono is also guest Editor of today's Independent. If its not too late in the day, go buy it.
The Independent - Clearly the best newspaper.
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Dave Matthews ////// 13/05/06 /////// Academy, Birmingham
Last night we went to see none other than the wonder that is Dave
Matthews... Unfortunately he was band-less thus was a 'very special
acoustic evening with....'.
He is a wonder on the guitar and vocally, he can syncopate both
together and completely keep the timing of the song, he kept
apologising for his husky voise all the while it sounded just like it
does on his records. He banged out two hours of dave matthews band
backlog and a few from his solo album and he played this really (for
want of a better adjective) nice song that he'd written since the last
album, which, as you would expect, is superb. Its usually quite easy to
get bored and lose interest in whats going on at acoustic gigs, the
support act sounded good but we were bored by the third song, whereas
Dave kept the audience's attention throughout. Musically he is an
absolute genius... he looks like the most ordinary of people... but
actually, he's barking mad. He chatted to the audience plenty and a bit
to himself... one of his monologues that he subjected his audience to
detailed how he was convinced he was a tree once after tripping on
acid.... not just a quick anecdote... but an intensely descriptive two
or three minutes before he stopped himself and carried on with the
show. Thoroughly nice bloke though! and a great show.
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I'm really glad that its t-shirt weather!
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Longcut ////// 10/05/06 /////// Joiners
I only just got back from work, tas been one of those long days. But
the bands made up for it. Not my cup of tea, but good at what they do.
The Longcut are Manchester disco-post-rock, and they put on a great
show, really good beats and clever intertwining guitar and bass lines.
Their bass player also reminds me a lot of my good friend Sam who also
is a spikey haired bass player.....
I think tonight's show was stolen by the
support band, 'ShitDisco' from Glasgow... They are a bunch of lazy
arrogant rock stars offstage, they stole the headliners rider and a
guitar tuning pedal.... but onstage they were really cool and very
Disco. They had two bass players and had asked me to wack up the drums
as loud as they could go... all this Disco tainted Bass caused the
front-of-house amps to blow and subsequently the fuse to trip so for
their last song they had no FOH, which for the non-techies amongst you
means that it all went considerably quieter and the vocals didn't come
through the main speakers.... But actually they didn't notice, and
congratulated me on a great job although I'd committed the blunder of
blunders.... Its amazing how little perception of sound the average
person has....
I'm amouting some philosphical thought at the moment on sound that will soon be posted here!! I'm sure you're all rivetted!
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Duke Special /////// 08/05/06 /////// The Joiners
Went down the Joiners tonight with my good friend
andy balls who had recommended the aforementioned musical for my
consideration. I would've gone down anyways mehtinks since my good
stateside friend Thomas Truax was supporting. Twas good to catch up
with him, think this'll have been the 7th time I've seen him in three
years, he is a dude. The turnout was not so great tonight
unfortunately, but it made the gig even more intimate... and gave
Thomas a bigger canvas on which to paint his masterful lunacy. He's
played the tune 'full moon over wowtown' each time I've seen him play,
he plays it entirely acoustically, nothing plugged which gives him the
freedom to jump off stage and run around the venue whilst playing, last
time he ran outside and harassed the door man. Tonight, since there was
few people present he jumped off stage and ran, inviting the audience
to follow, into the female water closet, there he conducted a verse of
the song before slipping off elsewhere. I'd not been in the girls
toilets before tonight, luckily there were no girls to be found as he
entered.
I didn't know what to expect from the headliners. But what i found was
amazing, I absolutely loved them. Just two guys, Duke Special and
Temperance Societ Chip Bailey (who was the coolest dude). Duke played
the piano, gramophone player and analogue radio, Chip played the drums,
accordian-esque thing and a modified walking stick complete with bell
and horn. The sound was beautiful, Duke aka Pete, sings, with an
unashamed Irish accent, really warming happy lo-fi poetic tunes that
are difficult to categorise. I would thouroughly recommend this to
anyone!
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Today I joined the Anthony Nolan Turst Register.
I would recommend to anyone reading this to do so...
I was chatting to one the enthusiastic young volunteers at the 'marrow
clinic' and she told me that they don't actually have to 'Drill' your
bones. They can do something called a blood stem cell donation; over
the course of a few days they give you several injections and take blood
stem cells, found in abundance in your bone marrow, from your blood, but
it does take a few goes to get enough. The decision to do a blood stem
cell donation rests solely on the clinician. They may be so inclined as
to do a bone marrow donation, in which they use a 'slightly bigger than
normal' needle, which they stick into your pelvis while under anaesthetic and
extract some of your marrow. Nothing to it really.... and not a Bosch in
sight..... it could save someones life!
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