Year: 2007
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Albums Of The Year 2007
Oh groinkers! It’s taken me bastard hours to compile my best-of list this year! Why? Because 2007 was a great year for new music! 😀 I’ve whittled this list down to from around ninety albums to fifty. I had to make some very painful cuts to get it down to that number. Really. 🙁 So,…
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Mosh 29/12/07
Well, last night was my last night out in 2007. And I had a good dance about, seeing the year out properly. Click the pic for the last clubbing gallery this year! 🙂
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Blue Note 27/12/07
Ahhh… dancing to Public Enemy *and* Funkdoobiest *and* Refused in the same hour? That’s the wonder of the Bluey… Click the pic for some snaps! 😀
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MySpace On The Rocks, Hopefully
Darth Murdoch, giving another speech on why Iraqis need to be slaughtered… MySpace is running out of breath, while Bebo and Facebook are fast catching up. That’s the message from the latest figures on social networking in Britain. MySpace has long been the leading site for young networkers who want to run their social lives…
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Crimbo Pengies Say ‘Merry Christmas!’
Well, it’s Christmas Eve and I’m feeling Christmassy. And so are the Crimbo Pengies, in their tiny shelter under the equally tiny tree. Click the pic for more tinselly fluff!
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Blue Note 19/12/07
Ahhh, what a marvellous night out for only a quid! It was quite bizarre seeing the Bluey so full on a Wednesday, you can certainly tell the Crimbo effect is kicking in. Click the pic for a gallery of foolishness! 😀
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The Myth Of The Free Market, AGAIN
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said no options had been ruled out when it comes to stricken bank Northern Rock – including nationalisation. Mr Brown faces calls to nationalise the bank whose aid package from public funds is now estimated at £57bn. He said they still hoped for a sale to a private company but…
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Assorted December ’07 Clubbing
Click the pic for an assortment of festive season clubbing shots!
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Elenette At Debaser Slussen
Click the pic for an Elenette gallery! If you’re a regular Bzangy reader, you might remember this review. Well, I was lucky enough to see Elenette live while I was in Sweden, at Debaser Slussen on the night before we came home. It was a great gig! They played like bastards and went down very…
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The Pastels, Taken By Trees
Then, on Friday 7th, we were out again! This time to see the fabulous Pastels and Taken By Trees at Debaser Medis (themed drinks pictured above). We’d popped by early to see if anyone was about and The Pastels had just finished soundchecking. Stephen very kindly took pity on our poor, wizened, weather-beaten faces and…
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Elmo, Movits!, Ludvig Svartholm
On Thursday 6th, we toddled down to Debaser Slussen (pic above and click it for a gallery of the venue and area). We had no idea who was playing, we just wanted to get out of the hotel and see some bands. So, we were very chuffed to see not one but three cool acts!…
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Baba Sonic, Stockholm
On Wednesday the 5th, we shook a leg at the remarkably loud Baba Sonic club. We met these lovely people: The girl taking pics says hello by thumping one on the arm. Quite hard! 🙂 And then we spotted this feller: How can you not like a club with a resident croupier? 🙂 He was…
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Slussen By Night
Stockholm at night is a wildly pretty place. Whether it’s looking out across the harbour, like above. Or just gazing at passing trains: Click any of the pics for a gallery of twinkly lights and orangey transport!
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Slussen Saluhall
One of the places we wandered into by accident was Slussen Saluhall. Perhaps it was the decorations or the darkness or the sparkly lights but I felt I’d wandered into some kind of secret Santa grotto! Click the pic for spangliness!
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Stockholm City Lights
We spent a long time wandering round Stockholm in the dark, bumping into things. Click the pic to see some the things with which we collided!
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Stockholm Day
Ahhh, Stockholm! A beautiful city but perhaps not great for daytime shots in December! 🙂 Click the pic to see the rather grey gallery!
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Hej Hej Stockholm!
Photo by Mattias Cosy Den Last week, I played at Landet, Stockholm. And it was excellent! The gig was organised by Cosy Den (thank you, Mattias!) and I again had the privilege of playing with the urbane and debonair Erik Halldén: Landet is a wonderfully intimate and ..er.. cosy venue but it’s also got great…
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Evel Knievel’s Greatest Leap
Legendary US daredevil Evel Knievel has died at the age of 69, his granddaughter has said. Knievel had suffered ill-health, including diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis – an incurable lung condition – for several years. He underwent a liver transplant, after nearly dying of hepatitis C, in 1999. Knievel gained cult status performing death-defying stunts in…
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Kitteh Kneads Chaser
Phew! I realised the last few posts were distinctly angry / sad. This is wearing me out so it must also be rather taxing you, gentle reader. Perhaps the above video will calm us both down. Via Cute Overload. Ready? Hit ‘play’ and prepare to go ‘awwww.’ Isn’t the big one remarkably patient? 😀
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Australia To Withdraw From Iraq
PM-elect, Kevin Rudd Australia’s prime minister-elect says the country’s 550 combat troops will leave Iraq by the middle of 2008. Under Mr Howard Australia was a keen supporter of the US-led invasion and made an early troop commitment. Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd came to power in a landslide election victory on Saturday. He has…
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Morrissey = BNP
Morrissey is to sue the NME after it failed to apologise for an article focusing on his views on immigration. The magazine criticised the former Smiths star for allegedly telling a reporter Britain had lost its identity due to high levels of immigration. The magazine quoted Morrissey allegedly saying: “Although I don’t have anything against…
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The Truth About “Free” Markets, Part 34,502
Four of the world’s biggest glass manufacturers have been fined a total of 486.9m euros ($717.5m; £348.2m) for illegally co-ordinating price rises. The firms are Guardian of the US, Pilkington, which is the UK unit of Nippon Sheet Glass, Saint-Gobain of France and Belgium’s Glaverbel. The European Commission said the firms had raised or stabilised…
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US Military Slaughters Iraqi Civilians
Some happy, joyful Iraqis, liberated by the US military in Fallujah. From the beginning of the American occupation in Iraq, air strikes and attacks by the U.S. military have only killed “militants,” “criminals,” “suspected insurgents,” “IED [Improvised Explosive Device] emplacers,” “anti-American fighters,” “terrorists,” “military age males,” “armed men,” “extremists,” or “al-Qaeda.” The pattern for reporting…
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White Town Facebook Page
As you may know, I’m not a fan of Rupert Murdoch. Therefore, I’m also not a fan of MySpace. Imagine how happy I am that MySpace is currently being trounced by Facebook! Every person who defects from MySpace or, more importantly, stops directing people towards it prevents money going into Murdoch’s pocket. And I don’t…
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Elenette
I shall shortly be visiting making pilgrimage to the current home of indiepop, Sweden (well, it shares the title with Finland), so I thought I’d share yet another great Swedish pop band with you. And that band is Elenette. When kalle berglund and mattias hagegård moved to sthlm the fall 2003, they both broke up…
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Derby Market Place Ice Rink
Today, Derby’s new ice rink on the Market Place opened! I spotted Bibi and Spalders skating around like loons so I asked if I could go into the tent bit to get some pics of them. I hadn’t actually realised one of the major sponsors was Creative Photos Ltd! It was only after I got…
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Guildhall Lights
As I was on my way back to the ice rink, to get some evening pics, I noticed how lovely the Guildhall lights look. It was a little spooky as the area, which is normally very busy and bustley, was quite deserted. Probably because it was bloody freezing…
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Quad Centre November ’07
Ooh, the Quad Centre is coming on, innit? It’s strange how the foundations looked quite small but now the building looks massive. I’m still not sure about the slopey-columns feature but that could just be my architectural ignorance. Every time I pass by, I have to repress the urge to shout, “Oi, mate! You’ve done…
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The iPhone – One Week Review
I bought my iPhone on the UK release day, exactly a week ago. Since then, I’ve been itching to post up a review but I deliberately waited till I’d used it for a week. I’ve seen plenty of scrappy, ‘Ooh, I’ve touched one, it’s pretty!’-type reviews and I didn’t want to add another to that…
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Bright Colours, Long Shadows
I had a wander around Oakwood earlier, taking some snaps as the light was just bloody gorgeous. The colours of the leaves, grass, sky were super-intense. It was bit spooky, hopefully I’ve caught some of that. 🙂 Click the pic above for the gallery!
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Co-Op Lights
Oooh, now it’s starting to feel Christmassy properly! 😀
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Westfield Rooftop
I got some nice pics of the top of the Westfield a while back. Have a click above to see them. Gwan.
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Some Coins, Closer
Have a closer look at some coins by clicking on the pic above. Beautiful plumage.
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Instant Coffee
I think I may be getting a little obsessed… … with the beauty of small things like coffee granules.
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Firework Debris
After the bangs, the grey, soggy cardboard. And the odd unlit firework. Click the pic!
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MR-14EX Test Shots
Click the pic above to see a gallery of test shots I took with my new baby, the MR-14EX ring flash. Although it’s a pricey unit, it brings my MP-E65 to a whole new level of usability. I think I can finally get the light this monster macro needs. All these shots were with various…
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Blue Note 7/11/07
Oh yes… another dancey dancey night at the Note! Click the pic!
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A Public Apology
If only bunnies ruled the world! Tonight, I went to the Bluey and had a marvellous time with Ash and Chris Conley. Then I went and ruined it all by being an absolute dickhead to a lad called Josh there. Basically, I thought he was trying to start a fight with me by bumping into…
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Kitchen Macros
Click the little mosaic above to see larger versions of some snaps I took earlier. Mmmm… Maya Gold…
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Police ‘Guilty’ But Not Of Menezes’ Murder
Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by the Met London’s Metropolitan Police force has been found guilty of endangering the public over the fatal shooting of a man officers mistook for a suicide bomber. The force broke health and safety laws when officers pursued Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes to a Tube station and shot him…
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Blue Note Halloween 2007
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Trees And Leaves
You may have noticed that I’m a bit obsessed by trees and leaves. Particularly at this time of year when, if you’re lucky, the sun beats down out of an icy blue sky and the colours of the leaves leap out. The rich reds, the stinging yellows, I love the rainbow of foliage this time…
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Fifth Anniversary US Antiwar Protests
Tens of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations against the war in Iraq in cities across the US. Rallies took place in a dozen cities, with the biggest crowds gathering in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. They were timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of a vote by the US Senate…
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Absent Friends
A new doodle.
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Two Doodles
Unravelled Leavesing Two doodles I did today.
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Why I Love My Stylophone
Guess what I bought today: Yep! A STYLOPHONE! It may not mean much to you but it’s a slice of my childhood. I wanted one for ages and, after much pestering, I got one when I was nine or maybe ten. I played and played that little box. I composed maudlin elegies and triumphal marches…
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Alles Trees
Click above to see some pics from when I was was in Allestree the other day. It was a gorgeously sunny, cold, autumn day. The sky was beautiful, blue and high and seemed to wrap around each leaf as well as being miles away. Why are cold, sunny days so surreally wonderful?
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Mosh 21/10/07
Click the pic to see some snaps from last night’s festivities!
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Rockboxing Your iPod
I was fed-up with my iPod. It had been crashing a lot. And it refused to sync tunes to iTunes. Every now and then, it’d make clicky noises, those cockroach-type noises that, for me, signal the HD being on the way out. So… I thought ‘what the fuck’ and decided to hack it. After all,…
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Thorntons’ Treats
Amidst all the fake-lefty caterwauling and whining about the Westfield, the complainers seem to have missed one fact. We now have a Thorntons Cafe! Yes, THORNTONS! Yet another evil multinational megacorp, cackling and planning world choccy domination from… er… Alfreton. Derbyshire. Can you not see how their perfidy is growing, homogenising the choc world?? Why,…