Soft Boys are playing in London!!! Quick last minute replacement..

PS. I'm not Alan McGee.

PPS. I'm going to be the big guy in the Johnny Cash giving the finger southern trash shirt.

xxx

Actually if you've got sway at R4, why don't you suggest they put me on as support, doing a solo?

Maybe you will see one of many doompatrols that inhabit this earth!

*evil laughter*

MOIHAHAHAHAHHAHAHH

*cough cough*

I have a cold. Leave me alone. Grrr...

Suffice it to say I really, really have grown out of them. Too much of Freudian Psychedelic Mama's Boy, my least fave male archetype these days. It would be tres weird to go to this particular gig.

As for the digital camera, yes, I'm going to be there, but will you know who I am? No!!!! Must preserve the sanctity of the mystery of trolling.

But you should come to the show. I think it's going to be just a fiver to see the soft boys!!!!!!!

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odd times we live in.

the tosser public-schoolboy from blur forms a cartoon band and the music press act like it's the second coming.. just the other day i saw an ad in the nme for a webcast (i forget who it was for.. not important.. some shite) that described it as 'a revolution in live music' (???). one of the 'hottest tickets' at this years SxSW convention (where there is somewhere in the region of 1000 live bands playing) was for a playback of the new radiohead album!!!

you'd be forgiven for thinking nobody goes out anymore. but they do .. or at least, they come to radio4 anyways.

radio4 is poptones clubnight. it happens every wednesday in notting hill, west london. every week, we have a band or two playing their little hearts out. it might be a poptones band... it might not... either way, they're there. ('what sort of bands?' you ask... 'whatever sort' we reply... beechwood sparks, the hives, january, sloan, cosmic rough riders, bob hund, fonda500, captain soul, myracle brah, the tyde, the posies, montgolfier brothers... just a selection of the fantastic international / drunk talent that has graced, or is due to grace, our 'stage')

we also have the poptones djs. poptones djs play whatever the hell they like. you see... poptones djs don't have to please anybody but themselves. if other folks get into it, then that's good. if they don't.. well, there's other places they can be. we don't force anyone to be there.

you know what we hate (apart from radiohead)? when people think what we play is in some way 'ironic'. it may not be a fashionable idea, but as djs we play the music we love. weird huh? so if we feel like playing mc5 followed by bon jovi followed by mirwais followed by sonic youth, that's what we'll do. we don't play ac/dc because we're riding the coat-tails of some post-ironic metal trend. we play ac/dc because that's what we play at home.. and have done for god only knows how long. if we're playing madonna... that's 'cos we think she's ace. same goes for judas priest, king tubby, 13th floor elevators and destinys child.

basically, the radio4 'schtick' is this... it's all about the music. if you can get on the end of that, then come and join in the fun. if you want to be seen somewhere 'cool'... then not only should you not bother coming to radio4, but you should stop looking at this website altogether... we don't want you.

radio4 happens every wednesday at notting hill arts club, notting hill gate, london, w11.

we are also doing selected radio4 nights in new york, toronto, los angeles, chicago, detroit, malmo, oslo, stockholm, barcelona and a whole load of other cities... for more details of these, keep an eye on our radio4:international bit of our site and keep an eye on your local press.

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god bless brother wayne kramer, mani and roky erickson.

You'll have a great time, Doomie. Have fun!

Blimey Radio 4 is now in direct competition with SUSSED!! A shame as coke-addled PR dolly-bird is my current Favourite Female Archetype.

So..

Nyah nyah nyahn...

I'm a muscled bound beat up boxer type with crewcut....hardly a skinny coke addled buy with requiste haircut. Fuck, just love music, I really do. I could be at the blow up, surrounded by fake plastic mods and really groove to big boss man. Scene addled people are the least of my worries, I just worry whether or not the band is going to fake the funk!

Nah....I hear about it all the time, posing and what not....who really cares? I mean, I go and check out the band. I like the band. I hate the band. I go home. I put on their cd, maybe. I smoke some cigarettes and have a cup of coffee. I go to bed.

That's my pose.

Seriously the music policy of Radio 4 sounds righteous and good but isn't this what every such club claims - we will play anything as long as its good man - but it's still pretty predictable when you're actually in there (NB I would include the club I DJ at in this).

I have been to loads of clubs in London. I have heard my wife complain that she doesnt want to go out and pose.

I just go out and enjoy the music, man. It takes a confident fellow todo that. But it's true. I really fucking love music.

All of the hang ups that go with it, I do not love.

Radio four is fun, electic club. Track and field is fun and electic. Blow up was fun and electic. And I attended all of them in my worse ernest hemingway beard ever (which was shaven off when someone said I looked homeless).

It's the music that is my fuck off saviour, not jesus christ.

(PS. I'm not trying to sound righteous...)

PPS. George Bush was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, I am convinced that the world is now officially insane).

I am *so* fucking there, dude!

Actually, yes Mr. Doom. I know more than you think.

Thomson is opening now...for the soft boys, a good power pop band, always good to support new music.

That diva Bitch!

Definitely the coolest gig I've been to - we both had shit-eating grins on our faces all the way through, and when they played I Wanna Destroy You I swear I almost creamed my pants. As for the Byrds cover...woohoo!