Jay

Last week went to nomeansno and then dot to dot festival on Sunday, updates on my blog If anyone's interested

Just seen the line up for v festival and have to say I can't imagine anything more shite and vomit inducing what a horrendously terrible lineup

Drove down to London the other day to see the flaming lips only for them to pull out 2hrs before doors not amused

Probably the best place to be, I know weller was set to play there, If I wasn't busy I would have gone myself, never been to rough trade despite living in london for a while.

Yeah weller played last night but you could only get in with a wrist band and they all went Tuesday as you could only collect them in person. Sister ray on Berwick street is good for vinyl they also deal with second hand stuff.

I've done a bit of a blog on it if you want to take a look

I went to the music exchange in nottingham.

Angelic upstarts LP, Television LP, 10,000 Maniacs LP. Spent a couple of hours there....pretty cool.

I went to London took 90mins to get into rough trade east, crazy stuff by 3pm the queues to get into sister ray were still high into double figures.

Record store day is great

Numan Stuff!

however did I guess you would post about Gary Numan

I kind of imagine you as a jed maxwell character from Alan Partridge

with a giant Gary Numan tattoo

The new John Grant album has been on repeat all weekend incredible album

This weeks musical adventures have been...

Record Store Day release party with Ghostpoet / Tom Odell and Benga at Rough Trade Records

The Bouncing Souls at Rock City

review / Photos etc on my blog if anyone fancies a look

Speaking of vinyl... Was lucky enough to get an invite to the record store day launch party at rough trade last night some good stuff coming out for rsd this year

Been a busy week for gigs this week. I have seen the following:

Beans on Toast @ The Cookie Jar

Willy Mason @ The Rescue Rooms

Kilo Kish and The Internet @ Bodega Social

You can follow my musical blog for a brief summary etc

If anyone is interested I have started a blog about my gig going activities mainly for me as a way to remember who I have seen and where.

Only started it a few weeks ago and have a few enteries already.

check it out if you wish.

http://gigography.blogspot.co.uk/

Yeah saw them at Alexandra palace the other year when they played the soft bulletin in full and still smiling now! This time it's at the Camden roundhouse so should be ace

I believe Psb have the video screens from the films and then play all the music live should be different

Polar Bear Club are back on tour again and playing firebug. Should check them out if you get a chance. I'll be going to the gig in Manc

Thanks for pointing that out, not sure why they are playing there deserve a far better venue, seems a bit odd but hey I'll be there!

Going to see Pure Love in Nottingham next week. Band formed by x Gallows singer and Hope Conspiracy guitarist.

More like Gaslight Anthem than either of the above but a great band

I was gonna go until I heard the album this week and as for Gaslight Anthem comparison seriously?

Sound nothing like them to me Gaslight have better lyrics, better songs, and are very different as for Pure Love have you heard the album because it's pretty average, one of those albums you listen to about twice and it easilt disappears into the ether.

Been a slow start gig wise but over the next few months I'm off to see...

The Bronx

Deap Vally

Beans on Toast

Willy Mason

The Internet

The Bouncing Souls

Propagandhi

Fossil Collective

And you will know us by the trail of the dead

Public Service Broadcasting

The Flaming Lips

Detestival

And what ever else I can sort out

Normally happens every time I get round to listening to super furry animals

How did I miss this?? http://www.ents24.co...er-3115404.html

Anyone going???

Anyone got a spare ticket????

I'm going should be epic!!

obviously with only 200 tickets available it sold out in about 3seconds, no spares though sorry

Saw bo ningen in derby on Saturday, possibly the noisiest, psychedelic, brutal,crazy thing I've ever seen. Immense

Busy busy busy rolo tomassi last Tuesday, Delphic last night and bo ningen this evening and two gallants next week

Chuck d was the most honest, friendly and down to earth person you could wish to meet top bloke and flav well mad as a box of frogs.

saw on rough trades twitter on saturday they were having a Q&A with Chuck D from Public Enemy on Monday, thought nothing else to do might take a trip down.

was only ment to be chuck D but arriving early saw both Chuck and Flav getting out a car massive clock as well

anyway after talking and talking questions for about an hour they played 45mins of hits including Fight the Power, 911 etc to about 70 people with live mixing from DJ Lord

totally amazing experience to meet and shake hands with such a musical icon and he's such a top bloke as well, still buzzin now

That site will be a fake, if you go to the monster website you can see the fake sites and the authorised dealers, the number of fake beats sites about is ridiculous and those prices are to cheap. Beats are a bit like apple products you don't really get that many deals on prices they are basically the same everywhere.

If you like indie or guitar music you probably won't get the best out of beats, if you only listen to hip hop or dance music they will be pretty impressive.

Being dragged to see McFly today at Hyde Park, help me.

Seeing The Temper Trap, Ocean Colour Scene and Feeder at Hyde Park on the 10th though

All the amazing live bands and gigs that go on in London and you go and see the hoosiers, mcfly and feeder! Shocking effort

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM6nasmkg7A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2FT4FprxDg

saw Future of the Left last night @ the bodega mental!!

To be fair although I go to an awful lot of noisy gigs it's not often they're as phenomenally loud as last night (and a good part of the experience of seeing APTBS live is experiencing the sheer volume). I think the fact that I never, ever listen to music through earphones also means my ears are probably in a better condition compared to the teenagers whose ipods can be heard from the other end of a noisy train carriage.

But if post-gig ringing starts failing to wear off after events, I guess it would only be wise to start considering ear-plugs...

best to get in early imo, I know what you mean about the train carriage though!!! annoys the hell out of me. you can get different levels of filters so you can still have it loud! but mainly what they do is take off the very high and low levels of sound that do the damage and infact improves the clarity of the music. mine are custom molded and cost about £100 but you can get some cheap ones for less than £20

I went to see Spiritualized a few years ago and couldn't hear for about 4days, deaf as a post and all that at which tipped me over the edge.

well worth getting some cheap ones to see how you get on, I love going to a gig and being able to hear the next morning especially when like this week I have been to more than one gig