the.forgotten
yup
so i sort of forgot about this blog for a little while but it has my full attention right now, as i am posting on it.
i will update this in the next few days and get you up to date with my goings on. but until then i will let you feast your eyes on me. in a onesie. with the dog.
f*ckity bye.
watch.this.my.space
i set up a new myspace.
www.myspace.com/layquietawhileaudio
i have only literally signed it up now. i’ll pimp the shit out of it during the week. hopefully get a track or two up there. i had previously been on myspace as ‘wandering eye audio’ and got very very lazy. so rather than go back to a place that didn’t motivate me, i thought i would tie it in with the blog.
that’s about it for now. check it out if you can.
thank you.
f*ckity bye
guy.fawkes.into.a.bar
you know the rest.
it’s bonfire night and i am convinced that there is a war breaking out in salford, the noise of the array of fireworks all around is astonishing. it’s created qite a thick fog and i can’t see far out the window, which isn’t a bad thing. where i live looks like one of those high class prisons where they put sex offenders locked up together so the general population can’t harm them.
but that’s just what i think. nice benches though.
me and my partner in crime will be taking on the challenge of a film soon, as well as our interviews we are recording/filming, and it will be shot and edited entirely on mobile phones. gonna be an interesting one, we’re thinking of focusing it on train stations. specifically the platforms with the goodbyes and emotions, as well as the sprint to get to the train before it pulls off. keep your wandering eye here as i’ll probably put up a few clips during the process. clips from the radio show should be up here next week to.
and keeping on the subject i’ll leave you with this video of one guy with a camera in his noggin. a view from inside the fire.
f*ckity bye
good.evening.glastonbury
it’s that time agin to start the speculations of who is going to play at glastonbury next sumnmer. tickets have been and gone and i got one. which is all that matters really. it’s the 40th year but it’s the 30th festival.
that’s maths.
so jarvis cocker has said he is playing and then the media got their hopes up and started spreading the rumours that pulp were reforming which was shot down quick smart by jc. a shame but anyone with a bit of cop on knows that they won’t be getting together anytime soon.
next up is robert plant, who recieved the Q outsanding contribution to music award this week. he had a chat to michael eavis, founder and organiser of the glastonbury festivals, who asked him if he would be interested in a slot at the festival next year. of course plant said yes. the question now is who will he be playing with, will it be the strange sensation, the band behind him for the crittically acclaimed ‘mighty rearranger’ or will it be his grammy award winning partner alison krauss, the bluegrass songstress whom he paired with on the masive hit ‘raising sand’…
or could it be.. y’know… the other guys.
time will tell.
see you at glastonbury bitches.
f*ckity bye
tahoma
having recently been speaking about fonts and typeface, the general consensus being that times new roman is a load of balls, i’ve decided to celebrate mine.
tahoma
did you know.. that tahoma was originally designed as a bitmap rather than an outline font. interesting stuff you say. yeah… course it is.
the main reason i like it though, is because it reminds me of this masterpiece.
…..
ok. f*ck tahoma, i just wanted an excuse to post that clip. everyone knows i’m an arial man.
f*ckity bye
nano.nano
i will not be talking about mork and mindy here unless it is requested. which hopefully it will not be.
no, today i am referring to these bad boys. the new Korg Nano series..
i need a midi controller. i’m fairly limited without one and i have been looking at these guys lately, they seem quite decent and at a lovely price of just £42 for the keys and pad and £47 for the kontrol which is very reasonable. there is a set you can get with all three and a nifty little carry case for a cool £155. bargain if you ask me. i had been looking at the Korg MicroKontrol but at the moment it is out of my student/peasant price range though i’m keeping my peelers open for a second hand one to drop off the back of a lorry and land on my lap. so if you know of any going, give me a shout.
i’ve started work on the new myspace, and also a couple of tunes, but none finished and won’t be for a while.
what? oh ok then…
the things i do for you.
f*ckity bye
week.nutshell.in.
haven’t gotten upto much this past week. i started progress on a radio programme i’ll be doing as part of university. it focuses on the hacienda, the rise and long fall of the worlds first super club. the place should have been arrested for the money it nicked from people. not the punters though, the people that ran the place, Rob Gretton, Tony Wilson and those New Order fellows. i’ve been interested in it for a long time now, well since i was old enough, that and Factory records. there’s a great background to the whole thing, which we’ll be covering in the show. which i suppose i’ll drop here when it’s done. which won’t be soon let me tell you.
been reading hooky’s (that’s peter hook-new order bass player, lovely boy) book, the temptation to call it hookys booky must have been fierce. it’s caled ‘The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club’. decent read, writing style isn’t upto much but then he’s not a writer really is he. some cracking tales in there though and he tells them well, which is the aim at the end of the day. pick it up if you get the chance or have any interest, a fast, funny and fascinating read.it looks exactly like this.
i’ll leave you with this for now, it’s where they got their title and tagline.
And you, forgotten, your memories ravaged by all the consternations of two hemispheres, stranded in the Red Cellars of Pali-Kao, without music and without geography, no longer setting out for the hacienda where the roots think of the child and where the wine is finished off with fables from an old almanac. Now that’s finished. You’ll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist.
The hacienda must be built.
f*ckity bye
