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Music

Immergrün

February 27, 2010

I dusted off the D700 last night to take some shots of Rox’s friend’s band, Immergrün, at the Schlosskeller here in Darmstadt.  It’s a pretty cool little venue but awkward to take photos, as while it’s fairly intimate there’s huge columns in the way (well, it is a cellar…) that kind of limit your options. [...]

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Excellent Italian Greyhound

February 9, 2010

Unless you’re a real dog lover (or you’re ultra bored), you’ll probably want to skip to about 2:50 for the appearance of the one and only Todd Trainer, Uffizi, and the rest of Shellac. :
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Dirt

January 20, 2010

Back around ‘96 / ‘97, myself and Ben used to update a little website that we named ‘Dirt’, with some reviews of BMX videos, music, and information on various ’scenes’ around the UK.  The inspiration came mainly from Kieran Chapman’s eWire e-zine, and while it was fun to do at the time we lost interest [...]

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These Arms Are No Longer Snakes

January 13, 2010

2002 – 2010, thanks for the music!

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Young Widows and the D700

February 25, 2009

After a couple of months without a camera (the D200 was sold to this chap!) I finally took the plunge and whacked a Nikon D700 + MB-D10 on my recently-cleared credit card.  That’s what it’s for after all, right?!  Anyway, it arrived yesterday just in time for me to rush out (literally) and shoot Young [...]

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The Crownhate Ruin

January 2, 2009

Two or three years back I was lucky enough to purchase some rare records off a certain Mr. Joe McRedmond, who some of you might know as one of the members of Hoover and The Crownhate Ruin.  We exchanged a few emails and he offered up some unreleased TCR tracks which I downloaded, listened to, [...]

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Top Albums for 2008

December 13, 2008

This year was pretty fucking great for music.  Here’s a quick list of my favourites, but don’t read too much into the order:

Transistor Transistor – Ruined Lives.  Everything these guys have ever put out is stellar.  They’re one of the few hardcore bands that I can take seriously – their sound is sincere, they can [...]

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Another reason to love Top Gear

November 26, 2008

Top Gear is, hands down, my favourite show on TV.  You can argue all you want about whether it’s really still a show about three blokes who love cars any more and if it’s “jumped the shark” (I hate that  term), but I still love it.
This season so far has been great, and I’ve nearly [...]

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Burn Pigs Burn

June 3, 2008

So while our beleaguered police force are being told not to bother prosecuting for certain crimes (such as knife related) because of prison overcrowding, they’re instead concentrating their efforts on populating the last few remaining places on catching the most heinous, nefarious, despicable and despised people society has had the arrogance to cough up:  people who share [...]

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Everything sucks

December 3, 2007

This year seems to have been pretty shit for new music. In fact, it’s becoming difficult to find anything new worthy of a listen, a situation which has become increasingly worse over the years with the demise of bands like Hot Snakes, Fugazi, and so on. A quick trawl through what’s popular on [...]

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