Snow.
This time last year I was happily yomping around Stockholm, marvelling at the city's snow-covered buildings whilst trying desperately hard not to slip over and break something. Happy days. I think the thing that struck me most, other than the fact I discovered I have some mental problem with walking down snow-covered gradients (my chum Smudger has video proof of this), was the nonchalance the locals had to the white stuff.
Honestly, it was wasted on them. I didn't see one Swede throw a snowball. God only knows what they made of us making snow angels, snowballs, Phil writing a message in the snow (with his finger!) and pulling Shaun around like a sledge.
Well. I can hazard a guess.
*koff*
Moving swiftly on, here's the pick of the gigs from the back pages of this week's NME (including two Swedish bands, nice!):
Electric 6 @ The Engine Room, Brighton - 13/03/2007
Love Is All @ The Joiners, Southampton - 17/03/2007
My Luminaries @ Lennon's, Southampton - 17/03/2007
The Sounds @ Pressure Point, Brighton - 19/03/2007
I Was A Cub Scout @ The Railway Inn, Winchester - 23/03/2007
I Was A Cub Scout @ The Joiners, Southampton - 24/03/2007
Paul Steel @ Pressure Point, Brighton - 31/03/2007
The Horrors @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 01/04/2007
The Horrors @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 11/04/2007
Cold War Kids @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 19/04/2007
Ugly Duckling @ Ryde Theatre, IOW - 24/04/2007
Ugly Duckling @ The Consortium, Bournemouth - 27/04/2007
65daysofstatic @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 16/05/2007
Klaxons @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 17/05/2007
Willy Mason @ The Pavillion, Brighton - 18/05/2007
Mad Caddies @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 21/05/2007
Manic Street Preachers @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 05/06/2007
Manic Street Preachers @ The Dome, Brighton - 06/06/2007
If I'm not too busy building a Calvin & Hobbes style Snowman Diorama I'll add the above gigs into the SoMC Events Calendar. They'll join many many other gigs I've stumbled across, like these:
Aereogramme @ The Joiners, Southampton - TONIGHT!
Clinic @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 09/02/2007
Keith James & Rick Foot @ The Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham
Hugh Cornwell @ The Studio at The Petersfield School - 02/03/2007
Kristin Hersh @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 06/03/2007
Martyn Joseph @ The Brook, Southampton - 13/03/2007
Martin Simpson @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 28/03/2007
Fresh from appearing on the BBC's Just The Two Of Us, Minneapolis-based 80's soul star Alexander O'Neal is touring. He stops at The King's Theatre in Southsea on the 8th of March.
On the forum more weirdness is appearing on the YouTube thread; Stu has posted up some most excellent Star Wars related shorts, I've let the side down somewhat by responding with some Guild Wars funnies.
And that just about wraps it up for this week, this afternoon I have mostly been listening to Radio KAOS (by Roger Waters) and The Tain (as performed by The Decemberists).
OK, so a bit of a strange combo there I know.
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