The Rolling 2006 "Is There A Thread That Tells Us When ILX Supergroup Shimura Curves Are Playing Again Yet?" Thread (Do Not Read If You Hate Us)

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OK, I'm sick of started a new thread for each gig, and I'm sure you are, too. New gigs will be listed here. And also gossip, wild allegations and other interesting stuffs.

We are playing at The Windmill, Brixton on Monday, 24th April. With The Kissing Time and The Favours. (No idea - blame Chuck.) That's a week from yesterday. Be there or be errr... stupid. So please come or I will drink heavily and shout at you.

We're also doing a How Does It Feel night on 11th May. Hurrah!

Oh, and we're in The Fly this month. And we were on Fluxblog, hurrah! We liked that review so much we're thinking of hiring Matthew to do all our video treatments.

Anything else? Over and out.

― The Fat One Who Writes All The Songs (kate), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Did I forget any hated thread title cliches? I would have put something about Hen FAP (whatever the f*ck that is) but it wouldn't fit.

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

I might start "This is the thread where we anticipate the 'The Rolling 2006 "Is There A Thread That Tells Us When ILX Supergroup Shimura Curves Are Playing Again Yet?" Thread (Do Not Read If You Hate Us)' thread" later.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:28 (twenty years ago)

Then I shall start a "Why in the name of all that is holy would anyone start a "This is the thread where we anticipate the 'The Rolling 2006 "Is There A Thread That Tells Us When ILX Supergroup Shimura Curves Are Playing Again Yet?" Thread (Do Not Read If You Hate Us)' thread"" thread.

Or, erm... something.

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

First day at work on Monday so doubt I'll be making the Windmill, but I'll definitely be up for the HDIF gig.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Everyone should come! It will be a world of joy!

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:00 (twenty years ago)

How many times do I have to tell you? Keep your shimmering psychedelic dance of joy away from me when I'm in a bad mood! ;-)

(Yes, that was almost a smile. And I have *got* to go and buy tea for the rehearsal tonight.)

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Meh, today I am wearing lepord print and feel like three kinds of awful due to excess food last night, but I will try and spread joy.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Well, I have got tea so hopefully that will revive us.

I am wearing pink paisley today. I hope AMP brought her camera so she can take a photo of me standing in front of my pink paisley wall, looking like I own the place or something. ;-)

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Do you own it? Really? Wow, I never knew... ;-)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Well, now it *looks* as though I own it, because it's all purple and pink paisley.

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I should bring paint-warming flowers or something.

BTW, I can't get into hotmail right now (they say one of their servers is down), we're still round at yours at 7:15?

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Yay all this rock star talk. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that's the plan if Thameslink... sorry! First Capital Connect don't screw me over.

Dammit, I should finish this report and get out of here, but it's eating my brane. And you know that if I say a bit of maths is difficult then it is DAMN difficult.

I am tabulating rolling totals for 5 different parameters across 3 layers of subtotals and my brane is turning to mush because I cannot figure out the Global variables vs. the Shared variables and what needs to get reset where. ACtually, it's not difficult at all, it's just convoluted and very very involved.

However, I made one of the layers of data a pretty purple colour. We must get our funs somewhere. Sigh.

x-post, sorry this is not rock star talk. It is maths geek talk. When I grow up, I want to be Henrietta Leavitt.

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

It's some sort of talk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I am going to start a spacerock splinter project called Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables. Yeah.

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

It's probably also my first day at work on Monday, and if it isn't, it's still my first day of swimming, so I don't know if I can. Do I take it from the lineup that you're on first?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

I don't think so. I think we're supposed to be on last (groan) but we may try to change the running order if possible.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I think I had it wrong and I think we are on first. Which is kind of a relief, as we can soundcheck late and leave early.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

I am confused and we need help. Which is our most Indie song? We have been asked to contribute to a compilation, but they want one of our more indie songs, not one of our electro ones. Which one is most indie?

Where is The Lex when you need him?

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:16 (twenty years ago)

hi kate! i think your most indie song is 'opc' (i actually really like it).

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:21 (twenty years ago)

But we don't do that one any more!

And the only recording we have of it is the shit one that was done with He Whom We Don't Mention.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:22 (twenty years ago)

i've got your original demo with just you on it! (unless that's the one you mean?)

'noyfriend' isn't very electro, i think the indies would like it, though it's obviously actually pop.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:39 (twenty years ago)

That version of OPC is actually a survivor from the very first EBA sessions. (Before I got mine own copy of Reason and all.)

We were going to save Noyfriend for a Brainlove single as he (ha ha ha) inspired the song, it seemed appropriate.

Right now it's looking like Mother - when I get around to finishing it and putting the indie guitars on it, since it's very girlgroup which is, I think, what they want.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Joy! Joy!

(Sorry, even though I slept on a sofa, am bust at work and owe Francis some questions, I'm in an oddly upbeat mood and wanting to spread more joy.)

I liek Mother - I think it would be a good one for HDIF.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Sigh, I know you're at work and can't really check yer email, Anna, but would appreciate your weighing in on the issue AMP and I are currently coming to blows over. ;-)

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, and Joy! Joy! (said in a drunken Parson Colley sort of manner.) South London sofa joy!

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Bump. This is tonight. I already have a really cool dress on (pencil skirt abandoned after weekend of mother feeding me lard). We have new dances. We are better than ever before. Basically if you don't come, you're totally lame.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Listen to me beee-acthes and come and see my band.

― Anna blames the caffine (Anna), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

my and my friend were talking about the 'curves last night, about the gig you did in liverpool.

shame you can't do the 'north again soon.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

what time are you on?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:44 (twenty years ago)

Ummmmm.

Kate? Marianna? Emsk?

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

We're on first, I think - which means no sooner than 8pm and no later than 8.30.

MARVEL AT MY DISCO BALL SHOES!!!! (I am going to suck it in, put on a girdle and wear the pencil shirt because it makes my ass look so... asstonishing.) Do not point and laugh at my ginger hair.

Mr. Knight is coming. Perhaps we should make him do live Tensor Calculus during our set.

I wish we could play The Norf again. That was fun.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

Bah, I'll still be wiping chlorine from my eyes at that point (where does one buy swimming togs in Central London?)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:55 (twenty years ago)

first is good, i'm super-tired and have lots of stuff to do at home and am emphatically not drinking, so i can't stay late...

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Not drinking ... swhere have I heard you say that before Lex? Still, you can join me, I'm planning on keeping my consumption low until we've played because I don't want a repeat of the Luminaire total-surreal-bullshit-onstage-talking.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

i'm really 100% serious this time anna! friday made me slightly disgusted with myself (will tell you about it tonight), and consequently there will be no alcohol for a couple of weeks.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, yeah, not drinking, we've heard that one before... from BOTH of you.

Come on, it's not the full Curves experience without Anna's batshit freeform standup surrealism.

I have fishnets, too, but they're sort of... well, curvey sort of patterns of the sort I've just spent all weekend painting on my bedroom walls.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes, and I nearly forgot, in my excitement over the silver shoes...

I BOUGHT LIPSTICK!!!

I have never knowingly bought lipstick in my adult life before. My mouth is so damned huge it just looks weird on me. But we shall see.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

The Luminaire was more a factor of the band being on last, surely. Regular speed should do for all concerned tonight, save the moderation for when it's needed. NB obviously I'll have to hear Lex's story before producing a full professional judgement.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Bah, work running late tonight cannot make this or the next one when I am in foreign. So no heckles from me tonight.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

So was it good?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:17 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, was it good? We demand tabloid-esque stories!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the band are actually all vampires, like in From Dusk Till Dawn, and so there's nobody left to provide reviews.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:22 (twenty years ago)

my friend carl liked the curves the most, "despite them obviously being the least professional". i like that.

fie on those of you who scarpered before the favours came on! they were aces. i think i liked the kissing time the best, if only for the t-shirts and meatier sound mix.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Well... two A&R people gave us cards, so that was good. We just have to stop forgetting things due to stage fright and we'll be fine.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

This has just been announced.. So who's (apart from the band of course) are coming along to Truck this year?

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

"despite them obviously being the least professional".

Despite at least one of them having been a session player for years and NEVER wanting to be "professional" again. ;-)

Who are these A&R people? What was that about? How did I completely miss that? Oh yeah, hiding in the ladies' loo.

I can't BELIEVE how badly I f*cked up Elephants. I even wrote the lyrics on my hand, but it was too dark onstage to read them. And then totally forgot to play the guitar solo at all. (I think it's probably a good thing we didn't sing it instead, though.)

My favourite bit of the evening was when Matt Hew played drums, though. I cannot BELIEVE it took me so long to figure out "who is the dude on the t-shirts?"

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 27 April 2006 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Wow, there are some bands I really like on that bill. Cooooooool.

Two A&Rs. One was the girl who heard us warming up in the loo and one was this bloke who came over to me when I was too drunk to tallk proper music biz. I directed him towards Emma with the words: "Talk to Emma. She's nice and she's our manager and she knows stuff." Like I said, I was drunk. I'm really not doing too well on the 'not appearing to a be a vacuous bimbo' front.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:13 (twenty years ago)

I am becoming unduly influenced by Curves. I've just written and uploaded a whole news story on Robbie Williams and refered to his hit single Strong as Stronger the whole way through. I'm off to faff around in our lame content management system and change it back.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 715 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

This is 5mins from my office and yet I still can't make it :(

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

When? When? When are you on stage?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

tonight! tonight! tonight! the fly, new oxford street. i *think* stagetime is about 9 but i may just have made that up. am checking.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Matt, you are rub indeed. :-(

Yes, we are playing with Honey Pimms. I feel so out of the loop, I've only just found out yesterday who this is. :-)

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Who is it?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

/are they?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also, just in case anyone is trying to contact me today - I have left my phone at home, so don't even trying ringing or texting - I won't get it.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

www.myspace.com/honeypimms

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

haha snap k8, i've left my phone at home today too! and i never do that. weird.

honey pimms had BETTER DO THE RAP BIT.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so there tonight. 9 you say?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

!!! I a) met her and had a nice time recently and b) read some of her article in the paper, but never made the connection. Definitely coming along now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh.

I now have pink wine.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.Sigh.

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Cafes of London:

When I ask for my sandwich toasted, please respect my wishes and actually give it a good toasting. Don't just stick it in the thing for a minute and call it done. I realize you want to have quick service, but please, think for a moment on the subject of why someone would want their sandwich toasted. I think you'll find that the only possible motivation is that said customer wants his sandwich 1)hot 2)crispy 3)MELTY. If those characteristics are not met, getting a sandwich in only one minute DOESN'T REALLY MATTER, DOES IT?!!

Signed,
Your sucker of a customer

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

um, wrong thread. Excuse me.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

And what do you expect Shimura Curves to do about that?

Write a song called "Dear Cafes Of London" ?

(Actually, that's not a band idea. Though lord knows, the St.Etienne comparisons will never cease then...)

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, that's not a band idea

Freudian slip?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

::bounce::

I'm getting excited now.

Or that might be the double chocaccino and the Roxy Music.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Marianna is drunked already!!!

This should be interesting indeed!

And I'm covered in chocolate, bah. Not very glam, I bet Roxy Music have never gone onstage covered in chocolate. Unless, like, glamourous models were showering them in the stuff.

Please can I have some glamourous male models to shower me with chocolate? (but not to get any on my pedals, pls.)

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

wow. being a butler is FUN. no wonder dickon is doing it

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 November 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

A slogan came to me last night:
Shimura Curves: Pure Pop for Neu! People.

Excellent show; although the sound(man) wasn't great, the performance definitely was. I noticed a couple of new harmonies, and liked 'em. Blog song's pretty great. BLT was actually pretty revelatory.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, sorry we got you kicked out for Being A Butler, Ken. We'll have to get you a proper suit and maybe one of those tasting glass on a chain things.

Thanks so much to everyone who came last night. It turned into a really good night, even despite all the sound problems.

Yay, glad the new songs went down well. BLT... yeah. I love that song so much, it can do no wrong.

Also, the new keyboards on Noyfriend make me so happy.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I missed you again

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

... I'll take better aim next time BOOM BOOM etc

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

And again:

http://static.flickr.com/109/287608910_1ba3010e95_o.jpg

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, Ladyfest, not sure about that

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

A festival, with ladies, what's there to be unsure about?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Will they screech about menstruation cycles in my ear, daddy?

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Wet Dog are good. They're currently also The Subway Sect - they're re-recording the 'lost' SS album with Vic Godard at the moment.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

I saw them with VG! They're not all ladies tho?

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's just a gig. The people who are promoting it are very nice. I've no idea what, if anything, the Ladyfest link is. Trust me, if it were rubbish, I wouldn't be doing it. AMPy likes No Bra. Don't know the other bands.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Will they screech about menstruation cycles in my ear, daddy?

Menstruation cycles only screech if the brake blocks are badly adjusted.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, that was such a fun gig! Thanks to everyone who came! xxx

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Shimura Curves Feat. Honey Pimms:

http://static.flickr.com/99/287657839_a582cb589e.jpg

We are all different colours. Awesome.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

You get a lot of gigs, you must have a good manager ;)

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

oh you didn't get me kicked out kate! i mean the first time round i guess maybe (he just went 'xcuse me mate can't drink this here' so i just offered to drink it outside and he was happy with it! haha it was kind of funny being a hobo drinking rosé on the steps on the street wearing a new coat! haha.

by the way sorry! when i got back the guy asked "i heard someone brought your drinks back in, who was it?" and i grassed you up. oops. i didn't think to say "oh that noisy rock band person" haha. oh well.

i also apologised to the girl at the door if i had caused her problems when i meant to ask her for a date.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

the three for fif girl?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Well, we smartly went to the Ladies' Loo to finish the booze. I told the doorspersons that it was our rider, and if they had a problem with it, to speak to our manager. She smiled at me the next time she saw me go by with a glass of pink wine from the bar, so obviously not too much trouble happened.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

fun gig! was so drunk! hangover today more than compensated for by CHAMPAGNE AND CHOCOLATES in the office.

'bizarre love triangle' is so pop.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Indie, indie, indie!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

i love new order though!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

No sousaphone, no credibility

― Ed (dali), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

They are the very definition of an indie band, back when the very idea of indie was being writ! They were on Factory Records, the most indie of the indies, when that song was released!

It may be their most pop single, but they are indie!

You are indie! Admit it, Lex!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

It came after "Touched by the hand of God" which is where they jumped the indieshark.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

What a cool photo! More please!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

In that pic you look a bit like the characters in the new eBay advert.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

You need to hassle Miss AMP for more photos. She said she would send me the files, but it is too big, and I need to wait and get it with my BigStick.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

AMP's camera has LOADS of great photos! taken expertly.

what's three for fif ed????

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

if three for fif = cute then it is true

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Hurrah, we are playing next week:

http://static.flickr.com/109/287608910_1ba3010e95_o.jpg

Also, apparently we are going to be in Music Mart again, coming out this Friday. They love us! They really love us!

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

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