― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)
Sean, sorry haven't got in touch but either next week or if you fancy coming along to this thing Neil's doing tomorrow.
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)
i -was- planning on coming tonight, with my roommate julian, but holy crap the queen's rooms are far away.
― Sean M (Sean M), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)
Haha... Well, that's inflation for you. Actually, I was in there a few months ago for the first time in a few years and it was more of a 2 for 1 thing they had going. It was a quid fifty a pint in Bar Cougar, so not bad all round I suppose. Saw your posters all over the top of Broughton street yesterday... Good stuff. Enjoyed last night too; thanks for the effort. The concensus was that the place was great too. "A great space". That's one of my favourite phrases.
Sorry I won't be able to make it tonight; hope it goes well.
Sean, funny... Last night we were just talking about one of the great things about Edinburgh is being able to walk everywhere. Where are you staying? It was weird though going out in Leith again though; it's like going out in a different city.
― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 2 April 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)
I know what you mean about Edinburgh being exceptionally walkable - it's one of the main reasons I moved here. But on the map the slog from Newington to the Queen's Chambers seemed a little too far for my wee legs; so I listened to some William Basinski at home, with my roommate and some Velvets.
― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 2 April 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 2 April 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 2 April 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)
Missed the obvious thing; liked your band. Had a bit of a SAW 2 thing going on and also a bit like the lovely quiet bits from '70s John Martyn records. Sound was terrific.
Have you "cut any disks"?
― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 2 April 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)
I really like the room too. Not sure about whether it'll happen in there again as it was a bit of a fluke that we got it and didn't have to pay for it. I can't really justify £150 for it, at the moment....
Thanks again for coming. It was good to see you again.
― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 2 April 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 2 April 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)
'pologies for beein sho drunked : sittin at the bar + no conversation = drinkin faster than usual => oopsh musht be shome mishtake etshetera...
the guy i was talking to as you were trying to get a taxi/leave is the manager/owner of the place, btw...
...and unfortunately, he tells me the place is having existing seating/etc ripped out to be redone/redecorated (and renamed) later this month :(
there goes another good thing.
i fear the arrival of pseudo-med beigeness and patio-friendly furniture.
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 4 April 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)
friday: Michael Mayer @ Black Rabbit Whorehouse (optimo related event) at the arches
Saturday - Subcurrents @ CCA
Sunday - Chris Brokaw in Edinburgh
I will generally be looking like this
:)
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)
― gspm (gspm), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)
― leigh (leigh), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)
Does Edinburgh fancy a pint some time soon?
― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)
Also - the next musik is confirmed for May 14th at the refurbed phoenix.
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)
Mayer was bollocks for the first hour. I nearly left. I would have done if it wasn't him. really generic tedious dance shit. 2nd hour was better and I danced around for a bit. Won't be hurrying back to see him at any point tho.
Tony Conrad, on the other hand.....
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)
I really enjoyed the brw, again. surprised you thought it was bad and so bad.
saw the end of chris brokaw, at mono, on tues (I think). bit boring (I think).
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)
No I'm not going tonight. I quite like LCD soundsystem, but I don't really like live bands on the whole; give or take a few that don't play at a million decibels. I sounds like an old grandpaw here, but I thought the same when I was 16. I like the story of Ted Nugent's 1977 'If it's too loud, you're too old' tour, where all the band were wearing earplugs.
I don't know what to do tonight... Is there anything good on anywhere?
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)
Shame Brokaw was boring. I didn't make it to the edinburgh one as I had a little too much fun at subcurrents the night before.
I didn;t think it brw was so bad. I mean, I had fun. I was just expecting it to be awesome and it wasn't.
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― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)
What's NPL?
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)
Basically, it's mildly indie saddo, but not totally.
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)
I doubt it...
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)
jesus, keith, you really know how to sell something, don't you? :)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)
I'm going to be there early on as I have to be up early on sunday.
Tonight -
Myself and Dugstar (from under the radar) are playing records at an art opening at the wasps gallery, patriothall, stockbridge. 7pm onwards. Free booze (I think), boss tunes, plus the awesomest dj set-up you have ever seen. The photos are pretty amazing too.
Here is a rather unhelpful map - http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&db=pc&cidr_client=none&lang=&pc=EH35AY&advanced=&client=public&addr2=&quicksearch=eh3+5ay&addr3=&addr1=
Patriothall is on the other side of the road from the river and the library. Go thru the archway to the right of scotmid and go all the way round to the left.
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 6 May 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)
I was exhausted after a very busy, but very worthwhile, few days so I failed to make it.
― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 9 May 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 9 May 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)
http://www.geocities.com/simpsonneil/musikmay2005.jpg
― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 9 May 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 9 May 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)
Billy and dougie stopped doing under the radar because there was a bit of nasty shenanigans at the stag and turret, where they were holding it. They couldn't find anywhere else they wanted to do it. Plus, I now own billy's decks.
― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)
― alext (alext), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)
Neil, yeah the pranksters... Although in an 'honourary' sense, the pranksters includes me too. We first used the whilst spectacularly losing at the 1993 NME student pop quiz final.
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)
oooh god, the memories of the 1995 (i think) one. i spent two hours trying to convince terry staunton that my band - which had played a grand total of one gig, three years previously, and done nothing since - was the future of music. i also remember there was tequila, and i remember waking up in my girlfriend's house with a bucket on my head. christ keith, i was a twat. why didn't you chin me or something?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)
bollox
i will try to get to musik on sat night hmmmm - i think i found every single item you played at the april one interesting or likeable - tho i fear what it's going to look like inside now...
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)
Yeah it was Terry Staunton. We got EUSA to pay for us to go to London and stayed in the Hotel California. It was a good couple of days out. Tim Hopkins tells me he was in that final too. We beat Neil Robertson, who now manages Belle and Sebastian in the heat; Neil and his band of crusties from the QM.
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― alext (alext), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)
― 008b, Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)
It both no longer surprises me and also gives me a big kick when it happens. It is indeed a small world.
I think I've got a good and simple explanation for it; however, it's more for the pub rather than a message board.
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
Was strangely similar to something someone else said earlier that night; "Do you know the big black guy?", meaning Henry Rollins, of course.
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)
Sorry - I meant you were a crazy Horse fan.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)
― Koens (Koens), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)
sweeeeeeeeeeet. Thanks.
reading this makes me want to move to scotland...good luck hmmm, musik sounds like a hotspot
sweeeeeeeeeeet. Thanks.
y'all should come for the first hour. It's my favourite bit of the night. An amount of country and western records are played to myself and the nice bar lady (whose name I keep forgetting) at this time.
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 16 May 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)
― alext (alext), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)
Did Dave turn up in the end?
― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)
I'm planning on doing a music quiz early on (930 ish) at the next one (pencilled in for June 11th).
― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 23 May 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)
http://www.geocities.com/simpsonneil/musikjunesmall.jpg
In order to avoid reading out the questions and taking up valuable record playing time, the whole thing is going to be housed in an ace wee booklet. Doors are at 9.
― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)
the 2005 Leith Festival E m e r g e D Edinburgh present [06/05], a unique programme of three events focusing on experimental music and visual art, showcasing artists who work outside the traditional gallery setting to create innovative temporary art works for Leith’s forgotten spaces.
Including: [pollen] Friday 10 June, 8pm – 10pm
An evening of experimental art, music and performance hosted in a disused shop in the New Kirkgate Shopping Centre, Leith (upstairs). The event will bring visual artists together with eight Leith-based musicians all of whom share an affinity for experimentation and off-centre, unconventional musical forms.
ARTISTS: WOUNDED KNEE, Usurper, CK Dexter Haven, F.R.U, pre-, Shareholder, Final Brass Rabbi, catherine STREET, tim FACEY and more.
― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)
Your Canadian ass will totally stand a chance.
― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)
Well, you're brave!
Will try to make it along this time (on Saturday) Neil after keeping missing you. See if I can get Kev to come along too.
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)
hark, what's that collective sighing noise? ah: it's the rest of edinburgh giving up any hope of winning the pop quiz. you should call 4th0l3 too, just to ensure your victory is complete and crushing.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, I'll call Ath0le. What about you and 'pjem'? Ath0le wasn't in our winning/losing team of 1993/94... Wonder why that was looking back on it. Was he in a team with you?
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)
my cousin's coming up this weekend: i'll see if i can persuade him into it, but i don't think it'll happen. however: i'm gonna be through in chedinburgh in the next couple of weeks to see meet up with dave the mod (remember: he used to come and stay with us in arden street in summer; had a vespa in his bedroom) so i'll give you a shout.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)
Glad to see I'm an old man, thanks. I think I'm two years older than you, maybe three!
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)
i'll be with you in spirit. any questions about synthpop, text me :)
hang on, the quizmaster will be reading this. erm ... NO, DON'T TEXT ME. [winks]
actually, i was going to text you from barfly last night at 2am to tell you they were playing "my sharona" by the knack. but i thought better of it.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)
if it was him, can you apologise to him on my behalf for a) the way my cousin and i hassled him to play "mr blue sky" by ELO, and b) the way my cousin stood in front of him flicking the Vs for 20 minutes, even after the house lights went up at the end of the night? cheers :)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)
Kev bailed out because, get this, he's going to Sweden on Monday! He needs his sleep that lad. Slag him off if you see him please!
― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)
I look roughly like this:
http://kmwatson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/me.jpg
― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)
nb: this is a GOOD THING.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 11 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)
― a, Sunday, 12 June 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)
so: if you want to hear two new tracks from the mighty swimmer one - and believe me, you want to hear this associates-meets-human league-meets-kate bush-meets-the cure-meets etc etc genius, you really do - then go here.and download away.
they're there to be shared - on the band's instructions - so tell your friends :)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)
This Saturday -
http://www.geocities.com/simpsonneil/poster.jpg
There will be Swimmer One DJs downstairs in addition to the bands as well as some awesome film/projection/"art" happenings upstairs.
There's also a projection walk starting from the bongo club at 1030 featuring the work of one of the people who is showing some stuff inside it on Saturday.
The music downstairs is at the indie/punky indie/hotly tipped end of the spectrum, thus music upstairs is at the other end, wherever that may be.
p.s. (AIDS)
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)
Saturday 2nd July, Bongo Club, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh
A gig to promote the NO2ID campaign.
Downstairs - xverctors, stacatto set, thee comrades, swimmier one DJs
Upstairs - final brass rabbi, wounded knee, pre-
7-10pm £5
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)
― etc, Monday, 4 July 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)
The next musik is tomorrow night - Friday 15th - at the Phoenix. 9pm. 4 hours of the best music you will hear anywhere in Edinburgh.
― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 15 July 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)
― etc, Saturday, 16 July 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)
Was trying to get people to go along at Sim0n Stu@rt's birthday do the other night, but I thought it was next Friday. Turns out I can't make next Friday anyway, but what's the score? Are you doing more of them?
― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 31 July 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 31 July 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago)
― gspm (gspm), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago)
― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)
Are you stripping tonight?
― alext (alext), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)
― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)