Monster Zero

I have 2 tickets for The Mighty Boosh at the AECC on Friday the 16th January for sale, 60 quid for both (tickets 55 + 5 postage). Tickets are in hand.

You get second hand or refurbished ones on Amazon for 115 however, may want to adjust your expectations a tad....

Nae probs, it's also in the Play.com sale for like 2.99 is you fancy spare copies

Bought The Twilight Sad - 'Killed My Parents and Hit the Road' at lunchtime, not listened to it yet - is it nae about time they got some new material out rather than flogging the same songs in a variety of acoustic and live formats though? Jan, I don't really find the Dennis Wilson album sounds like anything else particularly to give guidance....certainly not anything I'm familiar with. I can always just give you a copy. It was probably on that I Pod you got off me which I assume is the one you lost....

Bombay Sapphire gin is the biz, much smoother and nicer than Gordon's.I think a lot of cocktails use American style whiskey's like Jack Daniels do they not?

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I'll take the Fleet Foxes CD Shaz but I already have the Elbow one. Life would be infinitely more simple if you could post it - do you have a Paypal account? If so PM me the details along with cost including postage and I shall do the necessaries.

The Play.com sale has yet again proved tempting and the following are all on order, price ranging from 2.99 - 4.99, the damage could have been a lot worse. Live At The Witch Trials (2 CD) - The Fall Live At Dead Lake (2 CD) - Hot Club De Paris Lady's Bridge - Richard Hawley Elephant Shell (2 CD) - Tokyo Police Club Carried To Dust - Calexico Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty Ha! Ha! Ha! - Ultravox No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith - Motorhead Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

Good choice...the instrumental version of 'Holy Man' is fecking great, why Taylor Hawkins had to get all over it to sing is beyond me....

Gave 'Raise' a spin the other week, still stands up well, 'Son of Mustang Ford' is still a hell of a tune....may pick up the other albums now they are out again, never got round to getting them. Anyone remember Moose? They had a great song called 'Suzanne' that I still have on 12" but I seem to recall they went a bit crap....

'The Strangers', Liv Tyler and her bloke get terrorised in a remote house by 3 largely silent folk in masks. I think this is the most effective horror film I've seen in a while, it's not particularly original in many ways, but has a really unsettling quality to it, I just felt on edge the whole way through - I think 'The Shining' is the only other horror film that holds that status for me..I think it's a remake of some foreign movie, I recommend a watch anyway. I have also been watching 'Live And Let Die' and 'The Man With The Golden Gun', the best of the Moore films. Oh and 'Happy Feet', nominally with the bairn but he ended up going for a snooze - it was OK but took a kind of bizarre detour towards the end.

Mogwai ~ The Hawk Is Howling Earthless ~ Live At Roadburn Metallica ~ Death Magnetic Deerhunter ~ Microcastle Goldfrapp ~ Seventh Tree One Day As A Lion ~ S/T The Black Angels ~ Directions To See A Ghost Crevecoeur ~ 2

One Up had a 2nd hand copy for 3 quid-odd yesterday lunchtime....

Earthless ~ Live at Roadburn Van Morrison ~ Veedon Fleece Elbow ~ Cast of Thousands/Leaders of the Free World Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan ~ Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart EP Sixteen Horsepower ~ Live March 2001 Helmet ~ Strap It On

Strangely enough I was in One Up at lunchtime and got the 2nd and 3rd Elbow albums for 3.99 each and Yogi served me - he never said anything! Which is strange because he usually passes comment when you buy something he approves of...maybe he had heard about this thread and was trying to play it cool... I only ever bought the first one and never got that into it but i've recently heard some of the newer stuff and decided to give them another try....Retro Blue was great - I remember picking up a Detroit Cobras CD in there and somehow ended up buying the first Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP as well after the guy put it on for me...picked up a good few goodies when stuff was going cheap just before it shut - what happened there anyway?

If the NME had any soul they would campaign for Lenny Cohen's version to get to No.1, the poor old guy is after all back on the road at the age of 74 to make some cash after getting ripped off by his ex-manager....however, if truth be told, his version isn't all that good....it's the most pointless campaign since Jade Goody's trip to India to prove she isn't a thick racist buffoon. I didn't think Alexandra's version was too horrific in the grand scheme of things, she has a pretty good voice and is easy on the eye. Unfortunately any vocal ability will be lost in the dire X Factor processed pap she will be churning out from now on. At least Eggnog Santa's helper didn't win, another Leon Thingummy would have been born, complete with the same shite step from side to side 'dancing' abilities. Although I like Jeff Buckley, he wasn't wholly guilt free in the excessive and unecessary vocal warbling stakes, the 'Live at Bataclan' album proves this, it's quite unlistenable more than the once I found.

To be fair, the wifie who played Nora Batty was on prime time Sunday night BBC TV for about a gazillion years while Bettie Page got her kit off in the 50's.....you can kinda forgive Mater and Pater for that...

It's kinda working out OK for me at the moment, the halt on crazy house prices allowed me to buy a new house that is exactly what we wanted for an agreeable price. I have a One Account so all my cash will be getting lumped in there at a reduced mortgage interest rate so lower savings account rates become null and void to me. I binned all my credit cards a few years ago because I was just buying too much shite on ebay with them. I can imagine it is a nightmare for the folk who bought houses at crazy prices and are facing re-mortgaging at shit rates while also having shit loads of credit card debt but it is hard to be sympathetic towards folk who got into huge debt just to buy material possessions to 'keep up with the Jones''.

'I also thought 'Geogaddi' was a bit of a disappointment. 'The Campfire Headphase' however was a good return to form, 'Dayvan Cowboy' is an amazing tune. The 'Hi Scores' EP is pretty good as well, not sure how easily found it is these days.

I popped along to see Kartta since I was actually free to do so, first time i've seen them since their major line up change. I think they are better for the change, not in terms of any change in abilities, just that they at times used to seem like they were including instrumentation that was at times superfluous to the song in order to give everyone something to do in every song. One particular song that I can't recall the name of but was played last night used to have glockenspiel all over that that to me sounded really out of place in the song and things definitely sound better now it is absent. Anyway they were sounding good, some of the instrumental sections were fantastic, the 3 guitars meshed really well. I was chatting up the back during the bit of Frightened Rabbit's set that I was there for, nothing there that made me want to get up close and check them out, I thought they sounded pretty unremakable personally. Wasn't there in time to see Steven Milne so no comments there.

The number of times I have seen buses practically running the red light at the top of Market Street and almost wiping out a pedestrian who has started crossing is unbelievable. One guy almost took me out by the bus station one morning, i'd been crossing well in advance and he actually kept accelerating, swung the bus to the side I was on to cut his journey by about a metre to turn right and missed my back by about a foot. Some choice gestures were exchanged....I think bus drivers have actually overtaken taxi drivers for my most hated road user.

I would go as far as to say it was a complete steal - books are brand new and still selling individually in Waterstones for 6.99 each or summat - they are the cool 60's-looking illustrated cover jobs...Amazon buy works out at about 2.35 per book....

Hmmm i'm at a work Xmas meal from 4:30....I may show face at this if i'm still standing....

I always found that Blur vs Oasis chart battle situation quite amusing since the songs in question, 'Country House' and 'Roll With It', were probably both bands worst efforts at that point. I think the passing of time has shown that Damon Albarn is infinitely more talented than Noel Gallagher will ever be. '13' was the album Blur were touting at the time of that T in the Park appearance, although I liked teh album I found the set rather crap, it certainly wasn't an album that lent itself to that forum and sound quality, it was just a muddy mess....I imagine a lot of people who went out and bought '13' on the strength of 'Tender' were mighty pissed off.