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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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
The Gigwatcher 04/10/2006
Dzien dobry!
Isn't technology wonderful?
Here we are, in the 21st century, and a little bit of ill communication between us and those chaps at International Omni-Mega-Communications means that Fortress Gigwatcher is cut off from the real world. Apparently a crack team of engineers is beavering away (ooh, a dam, nice!) at fixing the problem, thus you good people out there in the real world will have received this missive sometime after I've sent it. The rest of us are getting withdrawal symptoms from the lack of internet access (or maybe that's just me) or attempting to better our Mini Golf scores.
And so, after all that, welcome to the Polish 'special special' Edition of the Gigwatcher. There's not all that much special about it, and only a hint of Polish, but considering I throw this thing together in about 10 minutes flat (and make it up as I go along) there you go.
*koff*
Moving swiftly on.. here's some local gigs blatantly lited out of the back pages of this week's NME..
newcassettes @ Unit22, Southampton - 10/10/2006
Vincent Vincent & The Villains @ The Joiners, Southampton - 18/10/2006
Akala @ The Venue, IOW - 20/10/2006
Johnny Panic @ Unit22, Southampton - 27/10/2006
Luke Haines @ The Joiners, Southampton - 01/11/2006
SixNationState @ Lennon's, Southampton - 11/11/2006
Ugly Duckling @ The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth - 15/11/2006
White Rose Movement @ The Joiners, Southampton - 26/11/2006 (rescheduled date)
Idlewild @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 30/11/2006
The Levellers @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 03/12/2006
The Blood Arm @ The Joiners, Southampton - 08/12/2006
The Boy Least Likely To @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 24/01/2007 (rescheduled date)
Journey @ BIC, Bournemouth - 10/03/2007
As soon as I have a spare ten minutes or so I'll add those into the SoMC Events Calendar. There they'll join all the other gigs I find out about in my meanderings across t'interweb. You have to be registered on the SoMC forum in order to interrogate the Events Calendar; if you're not registered then, well,
Ordinarily I'd pick some imminent gigs from the Events Calendar and plop them in here, but for earlier explained reasons we're stuck in the 50's here. So, instead, here's the heads up on a gig in beautiful down town Krakow (where I'll be) this weekend..
Chumbawumba @ The Rotunda Students Club, Krakow - 06/10/2006
Whatever will the Poles make of those mid-90s agitprop indie types? I may find out on Friday, depends whether or not we've found a Polish version of Scandals or not (which is entirely possible, we found one in Prague!).
*koff*
The Tacheback campaign finished at the weekend, at which point those taking part here shaved off their funky face furtniture as soon as they possibly could. As mentioned before all involved were cultivating hairy top lips in order to raise money for the Everyman cancer charity. A ballpark figure on the monies raised is around the "one followed by three noughts" mark, so a big thumbs up to all of the chaps who took part (and didn't wuss out like me) and another to everyone who donated. If you would like to donate then links (to both their website and photos of the guys taking part) can be found here.
Not content with growing a 'tache for charity, Young Brett will soon be taking part in the Great South Run for a very good cause, more information on that next week.
And that's about it for this week; as they say in Poland, do widzenia!
Isn't technology wonderful?
Here we are, in the 21st century, and a little bit of ill communication between us and those chaps at International Omni-Mega-Communications means that Fortress Gigwatcher is cut off from the real world. Apparently a crack team of engineers is beavering away (ooh, a dam, nice!) at fixing the problem, thus you good people out there in the real world will have received this missive sometime after I've sent it. The rest of us are getting withdrawal symptoms from the lack of internet access (or maybe that's just me) or attempting to better our Mini Golf scores.
And so, after all that, welcome to the Polish 'special special' Edition of the Gigwatcher. There's not all that much special about it, and only a hint of Polish, but considering I throw this thing together in about 10 minutes flat (and make it up as I go along) there you go.
*koff*
Moving swiftly on.. here's some local gigs blatantly lited out of the back pages of this week's NME..
newcassettes @ Unit22, Southampton - 10/10/2006
Vincent Vincent & The Villains @ The Joiners, Southampton - 18/10/2006
Akala @ The Venue, IOW - 20/10/2006
Johnny Panic @ Unit22, Southampton - 27/10/2006
Luke Haines @ The Joiners, Southampton - 01/11/2006
SixNationState @ Lennon's, Southampton - 11/11/2006
Ugly Duckling @ The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth - 15/11/2006
White Rose Movement @ The Joiners, Southampton - 26/11/2006 (rescheduled date)
Idlewild @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 30/11/2006
The Levellers @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 03/12/2006
The Blood Arm @ The Joiners, Southampton - 08/12/2006
The Boy Least Likely To @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 24/01/2007 (rescheduled date)
Journey @ BIC, Bournemouth - 10/03/2007
As soon as I have a spare ten minutes or so I'll add those into the SoMC Events Calendar. There they'll join all the other gigs I find out about in my meanderings across t'interweb. You have to be registered on the SoMC forum in order to interrogate the Events Calendar; if you're not registered then, well,
Ordinarily I'd pick some imminent gigs from the Events Calendar and plop them in here, but for earlier explained reasons we're stuck in the 50's here. So, instead, here's the heads up on a gig in beautiful down town Krakow (where I'll be) this weekend..
Chumbawumba @ The Rotunda Students Club, Krakow - 06/10/2006
Whatever will the Poles make of those mid-90s agitprop indie types? I may find out on Friday, depends whether or not we've found a Polish version of Scandals or not (which is entirely possible, we found one in Prague!).
*koff*
The Tacheback campaign finished at the weekend, at which point those taking part here shaved off their funky face furtniture as soon as they possibly could. As mentioned before all involved were cultivating hairy top lips in order to raise money for the Everyman cancer charity. A ballpark figure on the monies raised is around the "one followed by three noughts" mark, so a big thumbs up to all of the chaps who took part (and didn't wuss out like me) and another to everyone who donated. If you would like to donate then links (to both their website and photos of the guys taking part) can be found here.
Not content with growing a 'tache for charity, Young Brett will soon be taking part in the Great South Run for a very good cause, more information on that next week.
And that's about it for this week; as they say in Poland, do widzenia!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The Gigwatcher 27/09/2006
Aftnoon..
After last week's excursion to the big city, which I didn't see all that much of (not above ground anyway; I saw a lot of the tube though thanks to my country bumpkin-like ineptitude at following a map), it's business as usual here at Gigwatcher Towers.
Once more I've wasted my lunch break to bring you good people the head's up on what's coming our way gigwise, courtesy of the back pages of the NME. This week's edition comes with the annual Student Guide, full of pointers to life in the bright lights for young whippersnappers; once again Portsmouth gets barely a mention yet Southampton gets a double-page feature. Oh well, c'est la vie.
Moving swiftly on..
The Heights @ Unit 22, Southampton - 14/10/2006
James Yorkston @ The Joiners, Southampton - 16/10/2006
Killa Kela @ Nexus, Southampton - 18/10/2006
The Heights @ The Registry, Portsmouth - 19/10/2006
Dartz @ Lennon's, Southampton - 23/10/2006
Brightblack Morning Light @ Komedia, Brighton - 24/10/2006
My Alamo @ The Joiners, Southampton - 25/10/2006
Enter Shikari @ The Joiners, Southampton - 03/11/2006
The Fratellis @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 04/11/2006
Arab Strap @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 05/11/2006
Gossip @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 05/11/2006
The Others @ The University, Southampton - 07/11/2006
The Others @ Ryde Theatre, Ryde - 10/11/2006
The Rumble Strips @ Sumo, Brighton - 10/11/2006
The Rumble Strips @ The opera House, Bournemouth - 12/11/2006
Misty's Big Adventure @ Unit 22, Southampton - 13/11/2006
Switches @ The Joiners, Southampton - 14/11/2006
The Bees @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 20/11/2006
The Bees @ The Pier, Southsea - 21/11/2006
Kubichek! @ The Joiners, Southampton - 25/11/2006
Ali Love @ Unit 22, Southampton - 26/11/2006
The Futureheads @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 03/12/2006
Brakes @ The Pavillion Theatre, Brighton - 08/12/2006
As soon as I have the time I'll add the above gigs onto the SoMC Events Calendar where they'll join all the other gigs I find out about in my trundlings across the interweb, like these for example...
Teddy Thompson @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 28/09/2006
Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 29/09/2006
The Exits @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 30/09/2006
Embrace @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 04/10/2006
Go West @ The Ferneham Hall, Fareham - 05/10/2006
Once registered on the SoMC forum you can interrogate the Events Calendar to your hearts content, if you're not registered then, well, you can't (them's the breaks I'm afraid).
Red Honey and The Pimps, featuring the legendary John 'Two Chillies' Nixon, are still looking for a new bass player. Are you up to the task?
The Tacheback campaign has entered its final week and pretty much all involved are sporting fetching face furtniture. Both Stu and Andy have lovely Zapata handlebars, whereas Young Brett resembles a dashing gentleman thief more and more each day. As mentioned before they're cultivating hairy top lips to raise money for the Everyman cancer charity. If you'd like to donate then links (to both their website and photos of the guys taking part) can be found here.
And that's about it for this week, tune in next week for a Polish 'special special' edition.. tatty bye!
After last week's excursion to the big city, which I didn't see all that much of (not above ground anyway; I saw a lot of the tube though thanks to my country bumpkin-like ineptitude at following a map), it's business as usual here at Gigwatcher Towers.
Once more I've wasted my lunch break to bring you good people the head's up on what's coming our way gigwise, courtesy of the back pages of the NME. This week's edition comes with the annual Student Guide, full of pointers to life in the bright lights for young whippersnappers; once again Portsmouth gets barely a mention yet Southampton gets a double-page feature. Oh well, c'est la vie.
Moving swiftly on..
The Heights @ Unit 22, Southampton - 14/10/2006
James Yorkston @ The Joiners, Southampton - 16/10/2006
Killa Kela @ Nexus, Southampton - 18/10/2006
The Heights @ The Registry, Portsmouth - 19/10/2006
Dartz @ Lennon's, Southampton - 23/10/2006
Brightblack Morning Light @ Komedia, Brighton - 24/10/2006
My Alamo @ The Joiners, Southampton - 25/10/2006
Enter Shikari @ The Joiners, Southampton - 03/11/2006
The Fratellis @ The Guildhall, Southampton - 04/11/2006
Arab Strap @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 05/11/2006
Gossip @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 05/11/2006
The Others @ The University, Southampton - 07/11/2006
The Others @ Ryde Theatre, Ryde - 10/11/2006
The Rumble Strips @ Sumo, Brighton - 10/11/2006
The Rumble Strips @ The opera House, Bournemouth - 12/11/2006
Misty's Big Adventure @ Unit 22, Southampton - 13/11/2006
Switches @ The Joiners, Southampton - 14/11/2006
The Bees @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 20/11/2006
The Bees @ The Pier, Southsea - 21/11/2006
Kubichek! @ The Joiners, Southampton - 25/11/2006
Ali Love @ Unit 22, Southampton - 26/11/2006
The Futureheads @ The Pyramids, Portsmouth - 03/12/2006
Brakes @ The Pavillion Theatre, Brighton - 08/12/2006
As soon as I have the time I'll add the above gigs onto the SoMC Events Calendar where they'll join all the other gigs I find out about in my trundlings across the interweb, like these for example...
Teddy Thompson @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 28/09/2006
Steve Arnott @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 29/09/2006
The Exits @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 30/09/2006
Embrace @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 04/10/2006
Go West @ The Ferneham Hall, Fareham - 05/10/2006
Once registered on the SoMC forum you can interrogate the Events Calendar to your hearts content, if you're not registered then, well, you can't (them's the breaks I'm afraid).
Red Honey and The Pimps, featuring the legendary John 'Two Chillies' Nixon, are still looking for a new bass player. Are you up to the task?
The Tacheback campaign has entered its final week and pretty much all involved are sporting fetching face furtniture. Both Stu and Andy have lovely Zapata handlebars, whereas Young Brett resembles a dashing gentleman thief more and more each day. As mentioned before they're cultivating hairy top lips to raise money for the Everyman cancer charity. If you'd like to donate then links (to both their website and photos of the guys taking part) can be found here.
And that's about it for this week, tune in next week for a Polish 'special special' edition.. tatty bye!
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