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8th Feb 2011 So Cow are one of my favourite bands of recent years, and it would appear they endorse free downloads of their 2010 album Meaningless Friendly. Here's a Mediafire link (Nothing to do with me) to download the whole thing, including artwork, for free:

8th Feb 2011 Albert Goold has a show with Pendulum Swings in Brooklyn on Fri. Pendulum Swings is the current band of Jason Trachtenburg from the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (stay with me on this one) & I happen to have run into him on many occasions on my trips to New York. He's certainly a character, and I've rarely seen an artist who divides opinion quite so evenly & radically. A search on You Tube for any of his music videos is all it takes to find out why, and get a glimpse of his undeniable performance talents at the same time. Here's a highlight from my delvings:

2nd Feb 2011 Here's a sample track from Your Starkself. Production got a little out of hand on this one, so may have to prune it right back to fit in with the other tracks:

30th January 2011 Had a bash at recording a cover of this famous country song:

29th January 2011 "The Times was the place all important people wanted to be seen dead in, and it's not possible to be deader than in the death columns of Britain's most venerable newspaper. That said, several people have been pronounced dead in the press while being very much alive, including Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain (twice) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In July 1900, George Morrison, the Peking correspondent of The Times read of his own death in his own newspaper after he was believed to have perished during the Boxer Rebellion. (The obituary described him as devoted and fearless.)" - Ben Macintyre. "The cemetery has a wraught-iron gate, with an intricate scrollwork archway over it, and an inscription: Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I Will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me. Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. They skip town, or turn perfidious, or else they drop like flies, and then where are you? Right about here." - Margaret Atwood

23rd January 2011 Been a productive week, and after much slipping & biting, 2011 has stepped into gear. The main date for the diary is a Jeeps gig at Dublin Castle on Thu 17th Feb. I'm going back to that punk orchestra idea I had a year or so ago, except that luck is on my side this time around, and I have found the characters & achieved the means to make it a reality.. for one show at least.

23rd January 2011 "Spanish opinion in Huelva was divided on Adolf Clauss. Some said he was 'the black sheep', because he never seemed to do any work. Others reckoned he was 'the only clever one in the family', again because he never seemed to do any work. Clauss was very clever indeed, and was also probably working harder than anyone else in Huelva, spying for Hitler's Reich." - Ben Macintyre.

15th January 2011 I'm up at 3am to do a paper round in the countryside (Long story.. well, not that long) and I've just heard the news about Trish Keenan, singer of Broadcast, who died due to complications from pneumonia the other day. Truly one of my favourite artists of all time, I'm shaken by her early death. This song used to give me chills at the best of times, today it's heartbreaking:

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