Another clip from the Leuven show. A shame the camera doesn’t pick up the reactions of the musicians in the band while Spizz is murdering the guitar. Love the wall of sound at 2:50 and the jump into reggae at 3:25. It has been intersting to see the song develop over the years: when they […]
Entries from September 7th, 2009
Spock’s Missing
September 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Spock’s Missing · Music
Tags: Belgium·Concerts·Spizzenergi·YouTube
Summer in the Greenhouse
September 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Summer in the Greenhouse · Music
I don’t think anybody filmed the 100 Club show, but this is the next best thing – the Spizzenergi Stella Artois-fuelled show in Leuven two days later. This is their climate change song… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Tags: Belgium·Concerts·Spizzenergi·YouTube
Public Image on the road again
September 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Public Image on the road again · Music
It looks like Public Image Ltd are getting back together again.  Jah Wobble won’t be in it but Keith Levene might be, even though the Guardian say he won’t. But does it really matter who is in it? PiL are a bit like the Fall – ever-changing line-up but the same singer all the way […]
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The downside of Spotify
September 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on The downside of Spotify · Music, Technology
We all learnt a few things yesterday. While I was out at a Horsham Labour Party fundraising event Jayne found out how to install Spotify. When I got home I learnt that Spotify contains Duffy. There was me thinking that it only had prog rock on it…
Tags: Spotify
Jump to it
September 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Jump to it · Technology
I have known about tinyurl for a long time, noticed the inexorable rise of bit.ly – helped along by Twitter reaching some sort of tipping point. I finally got round to investigating these URL-shorteners and decided to go with tr.im and mere weeks later a new one has come along: j.mp. It is all a […]
Tags: Internet
Spizzenergi 30th Anniversary Gig
September 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Spizzenergi 30th Anniversary Gig · Music
Went to see Spizzenergi (again) tonight. I’m not keen on going ‘up west’ when I have to work the next day, but it was to mark 30 years since the first Spizzenergi incarnation, and having seen them on tour back then in 1979 I thought it would be good to make the effort. As always […]
Tags: Concerts·London·Spizzenergi
Council secrecy in Crawley
September 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Politics
One of the local papers this week has a story that is not only interesting, but even displays an element of investigative journalism and even a surprise.   It would have been more impressive if it had been published six weeks ago when the council meeting and vote that it relates to actually occurred – I […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Freemasons·Horsham Council·Internet·secret squirrel·WSCC
Wow. Just like Torchwood
September 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on Wow. Just like Torchwood · Technology
One of the bits of Torchwood that I found less credible (and there was a lot to choose from) was those contact lenses – the ones that work as a camera, transmitting pictures back to base and letting base send text messages back to the wearer.  No part of it seemed feasible, but now it […]
Tags: Gadgets
Lucky escape for the Trafalgar Square crowds
September 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
I received the email today that told me I was not picked for the final tranche of people to take their place on the 4th plinth as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other. While I am a little disappointed, that is far outweighed by relief. I have seen quite a few of the past […]
Can Dec anally match Ant?
September 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on Can Dec anally match Ant? · Life
A question we have all pondered, but not dared to voice aloud… see the Guardian for an explanation of exactly why and how the Express ended up with such an eye-catching headline. It turns out there is a perfectly logical explanation – they cocked up!
Tags: Doh!·Newspapers·WTF
