Pics from night last, oh Bar

So yeah, last night was a rockin. Twas a different bag to last week. Last time playing to a hundred faces we kinda know to a hundred strangers we know not kinda flips ya balance slightly. Camden is always a little weird, but tonight most of the bands were out of town like us. So, them, us, and whoever got down there was up for it too. Jiggy, jiggy, party, party. Especially them Coventry guys 'Just Morale', who were a nice bunch. So there was the dancin and a jiggin we like to see n play for. And apparently some bloke from Sony dancin too, probably the accountant, but what the hell. I dug the night. Soph took some pics.

Oh boy o boy. Oh Bar this Friday

The Touchables trailer

There be some films that I just gotta see. This one I been waiting for a long time for some glimmer that it might re-appear. This one be called The Touchables and its from 1968. Whats it about? Well, its kinda simple, a guy gets kidnapped by a group of swinging chicks and gets tied up on a rotating bed in a giant bubble in the countryside. Serious stuff.

I've been dying to see this giant bubble and what goes inside, gawd knows how long and finally a decent trailer of the film has surfaced, showing bubble, girls, guy and more bubbles.

I think these Cinedelica guys just blog for me, I don't know who else is intersted in swinging chicks with devious plans living in giant bubbles. But I is.

The cinedelica story is here

The Swan Thame

Sunday night is always booked with just a tad of trepidation due to it always clashing with Antiques Roadshow and other Sunday pursuits which dent expectations of what the gig will be.

2. Last Sunday we played the Swan with Bloke and it was packed to within an inch of the stage. Hot n sweaty. Just the ticket. There was dancing, things smashin, falling and just a general kind a feel that we were playing on an edge of a sonic cliff.

There was this one bit where we were settling into a new bouncy number and I could feel that floor heavin and rolling with the jiggin going on. Now thats what floors be for, not for cleanin, carpeting, or admirin but rolling like waves. Now if ya don't believe me, ask the landlord, he went down to the cellar afterwads, his lights were smashed and there a little flooding. Hell yeah!

Cheers to y'all who came down. Hopefully got some pics comin.

here are the sonics in frickin London

Dang. dang. dance the merry dang. Tomorrow night off to see the Sonics at the Forum. It shouldn't be happenin, but somehow it is, some crazy darn bugger got them back together after 40 years just fer me!

The sonics are the Lost Ark of garage bands and the reasons guys go huntin around for old garage 45s. This is pure rock n roll compressed down to bazooka sized bullets.

There's a stage in any music luvvas life when they've heard most stuff doing the rounds and judged it. At this point, the music luvva sits at the crossroads and decides where to look for their next fix. Many broaden their horizens. Then there are the others who don't broaden, they're looking for the fix they got at 14, finding the purest form of the music they love. Narrowing the search. Not to the source, but the purest uncut representation of what they luv as luvvas. And this is where the Sonics come in. If you a music luvva, love rock n roll, you can find in the sonics that live buzz fuzz rush which is familiar but sizzling. I dig it.

Obligatory listening - Kev's Sound of Confusion

Sometimes I grimace at the thought of being in Saturday night. It seems unesscessary and Ant and Dec don't help. They really don't. You just want to be elsewhere. Though tonight I was in fits listening to Kev's 'Graveyard Slot' on Radio Scilly. He plays damn fine records, starting the show with Spacemen 3, moving on to Kings of Leon, The Sonics, Bootstrap, Bo Diddley, Silver Apples, Blondie, The Who, Spirtualized and a bunch others. Great show.

Plus, the nice man, made Bootstrap his 'Obligatory record of the week'. He played Englands Dead sandwiched between the Sonics and Bo Diddley, darn cool by me and then played Cecille after the Who later on.

Kev has been doing his 'Sound of Confusion' show on Thursday nights for what I reckon must coming on for a year now and it gets better and better. Though its on Radio Scilly, the small but mighty station, with the internet, he's growing an international audience purely through playing great music.

So anyhow if ya wanna listen and yer reading this Thursday night or some saturdays, tune in and check it out here:

Kev's Sound of Confusion

Doc Teger takes a scientific interest in Bootstrap

We don't go asking for reviews, may do one day, but when they turn up we are mightly happy. So when we turn up in a scientific blog about the bootstrapping process, well I kind a dig that. Here ya go:

And, for some extracurricular bootstrapping, take the Replacements, some Lou Reed, a dash of early Bowie, a pinch of Violent Femmes, some 60s surf sounds, a big garage with the door closed, and you have the British band Bootstrap and their song Streetlight. The video uses scenes from Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, the classic film by Russ Meyer. A configuration made in heaven!

Doc Teger on the The OpenSSO Bootstrap File Deconstructed

Here's the vid if ya haven't seen it.