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Larsen B

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  1. Yes, it was ace wasn't it!!! (assuming you were there last night and it doesn't so happen that it was the last film you saw, but somewhere else altogether)
  2. So very true. I find it's pretty useless as a moral criticism of war, whichever side you want to argue, because for every war someone might criticise as illegal there's probably another case of intervention which was technically illegal, but which they think is justifiable on humanitarian grounds and so on. The whole notion of international law is itself a grey area too of course.
  3. I have New Art Riot EP, but it's on CD not vinyl.
  4. Aah, pretty that you wangled a promo copy of that particular album.
  5. Who you reviewing for, just out of nosiness (nosyness?)?
  6. That would have been good, but it's a case of weighing up momentary victory against subsquently getting decked. I do wish for once I'd go for the momentary victory though, at least take the risk. If I was your height I probably would.
  7. The one thing I disliked (and dislike about DJ sets in general) is that people didn't dance properly. Too much gawping at the DJ. For me it kind of kills the atmosphere a bit. Nonetheless it was decent, although a mix of booze and (prescription) pills make it all a bit of haze for me. Kudos to Hush Hush for getting the fella up at an extremely reasonable price.
  8. Some cunt with shaggy blonde highlighted hair in an appalling check shirt was giving me "What the fuck you smirking at mate?!?" because I dared to be both smiling and looking around the same time. At least I was smiling cos I had a decent night. Hope the boorish twat died all the same though.
  9. Apparently there's a good chance of new Kate Bush this year.
  10. Warp / Records / Broadcast / A statement Basically what it says there. Very sad news.
  11. Larsen B

    Your current read?

    I went through quite the Ginsberg phase about 6 years ago. I always found him fairly hit and miss. Occassionally very direct poems overly adorned which beat generation jive talk. I've just finished Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov and was going to start Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino, but I'm expecting a copy of James Yorkston's book is the post for review so I'll wait for that rather than start anything else. I never read more than one book at a time.
  12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest if I'm right (although my first instinct was California Man!) "I'm out for a good time - all the rest is propaganda!"
  13. They are and the result will probably be that a load of dubstep (or whatever he's being called ourists are gonna have a big ole' backlash and treat him like a watered down version of what they're all about, but I think he's more immediately likeable because there's more tangible pathos in his music. Seven quid is pretty good really. Not a fan of the Feist cover though.
  14. I'm struggling to think of anything in particular other tham just list artists I like who haven't released anything this year. So Wild Beasts the most probably. I've got a promo of the new British Sea Power album and it's pretty iffy.
  15. No it ain't because I am pretty much incapable of liking music which is experimental for the sake of being experimental and love this album, therefore it ain't. It's scientific now.
  16. He was in the video for 'The Look of Love' so you're mental.
  17. Actually the acts of music criticism and buying a record are quite different. I don't believe anyone when they say that their own taste or opinions are free from the influence of other people's opinion. Morley gets on my tits sometimes, but I think the opinions of "learned" music critics are frequently enlightening and music needs picked apart to a degree.
  18. As is apparent from my list a few pages back I'm with Chilli (and NME!) on this one. I think a lot of their live shows have lacked the gear and musicians to meaningfully recreate Hidden, until recently when they had shows that were actually under the banner of "Hidden Live". I think a lot of people who aren't taken by 'Elvis' (posted above and from their previous album) would be pretty impressed by Hidden. It's a big leap forward from Beat Pyramid. As well as being inventive it's actually also pretty direct, they don't mire themselves in experimentalism-for-experimentalism's sake. I think Jack Barnett's voice will still be a stumbling block to some though. Here's a track that's actually from the album
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