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.

looking for 130 ono (they're still 180 new on amazon.co.uk)

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

I went in and got it last week. Cheers for the heads up

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?

I sadly dinnae!

I can easy do the postie bit though. Do you have cheque book? We can do a postie on postie arrangement - cash is also fine. I'll easy just give it to you for 2.50 (call it 3 with the postieness?).

I live in town so the alternative is to swap in person. If it helps, I work in Altens.

PM sent!

It is indeed.

*goes all shameless*

and I have a copy (still in it's plastic) along with a brand new (new played) copy of the elbow album - seldom seen kid - that I want rid of... will sell the two of them for a fiver.

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

I recently purchased Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson.

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....

funnily enough, I bought the 2cd re-issue of Slowdive's "Slouvaki" the other week!

Was tempted with the Swervedriver re-issues as well.

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

I used to love Extreme back in the 90s. Nuno Betterncourt was my absolute hero when I was learning guitar. Alas my copy of Pornograffiti got chewed up by my tape player and that was the end of that. I've never gotten round to buying it again. I will though.....

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.

My Mum and Dad knew the name of the actress that played Nora Batty that has just died but bizarrely they didn't know who Bettie Page was until i explained to them what she was known for. Sad Times.

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''.

Didn't know what - I knew they were Scottish but I assumed they came from Fife or somewhere.

Bought "Music has the right" nearly a decade ago and loved it - also love "In a nice, big place out in the country" or whatever it's called but I remember being seriously underwhelmed by "Geogaddi".

'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'm guessing the Battle Droids are powered remotely from the control ship, and their heads are held on magnetically - no power, no magnetism, no head....QUOTE]

Good theory - mine, however, is that George thought it would be a 'cute' little touch to make the young 'uns giggle like all the annoying Special Edition add-ins to 'A New Hope', etc like Jawas falling off beasties and swinging on the reins when the speeder passes in Mos Eisley....yeah, HILARIOUS stuff George....

That's a good deal actually

I've just started reading them, i can't remember why i picked up "From Russia With Love" first rather than start at a logical point like "Casino Royale" (which i have as well)

I need to pick up all the other ones at some point. I can't put the bloody thing down at work on my lunch breaks. I like the depth that he goes into setting the scene. It creates a rather vivid idea of how it's supposed to be in my mind.

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.