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Year: 2013

  • White Town – Anywhere But Here

    This is the last day of this year so it seemed appropriate to stick the last video up from ‘Monopole’ today. In December 2010, I filmed the first video for ‘Monopole,’ ‘Cut Out My Heart.’ Three years on and I’ve done what I set out to do, make a video for each of the eleven…

  • Albums Of The Year 2013

    As ever, there are no losers here. Since I’ve cut this list down from around sixty albums, just to be on here means that I think the album will enrich your life, wherever it is on the list. Each band name is a hyperlink to their page on Last.fm so go ahead and click away!…

  • Stacie Loves Me!

    Where does love come from? Who knows? It arrives on a breeze, as gentle as an egret and as heavy as a squirming walrus. Sometimes it arrives by Kik… Stacie BARBOUR said I looked sexy. She said she was so turned on right now. She said her pussy was soaking wet right now. My heart…

  • USA Murders Wedding Party In Yemen

    Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al-Qaida convoy, local security officials said on Thursday. The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was…

  • 9.10 11/12/13

    I just missed 8 seconds past because I was in an awesome lecture about rock guitar and string theory! But I’m still happy I nailed 9.10 11/12/13! 😀

  • Interview With Best Of Baltimore

    I’ve just done an interview with the lovely Sherryn from the Best Of Baltimore Blog. You can read it in full here. Here’s the intro which is lovely for an egomaniac like me to read: “Is anyone else on the inter-webs excited about White Town’s newest album? I know I am not the only one…

  • Have I Gone Too Far?

    And here is the penultimate video for ‘Monopole.’ Yep, can’t believe I’ve made ten vids now, only one to go! :-O This one isn’t as narrative-based as the previous vids and I’m pleased with how it’s come out. Obviously, I did my own riff on the vid for ‘Teenage Riot.’ Enjoy!

  • Chlöe Howl – No Strings

    Love this tune!

  • DMK – Enjoy The Silence

    This reaffirms my faith in humanity to an absurd degree. <3

  • On Love, In Love

    I can’t imagine not being in love. I first fell in love when I was fiteen/sixteen and it was inevitably un-requited. This Friday, I was interviewed regarding my writing this song and I found myself talking about my first love. As I talked about her, I realised I remembered every detail about her. Her hair,…

  • Nuclear Explosions, 1945 – 1998

    So, tell me again ~ which is the evil nuclear superpower we should be afraid of?

  • Emma Goth

    Emma Goth, a set on Flickr.

  • Mosh & City 5-10/11/13

    Mosh & City 5-10/11/13, a set on Flickr.

  • Blah Blah Entrepeneurship, Blah Blah Business, Blah Blah Let’s Club Baby Seals

    So, every day I check Medium and every day I see another array of posts on how best to squeeze the blood from humans in order to maximise the profits for Yet Another Corporation run by a gaggle of Sith. Is this all this place is for, middle-management corporate wankery about ‘throughflow’ and ‘synergy’ and…

  • Alastair Reynolds Talks At Derby IOP

    Last night one of my favourite authors, Alastair Reynolds, spoke at a talk organised by the Derby Centre for the Institute of Physics. Al’s talk was on the role of science in science fiction, more specifically covering exoplanets, aliens and interstellar travel. He spoke as you would expect an experienced novelist to speak: fluently and…

  • FEMME – Fever Boy

    Sooo obsessed with this song at the mo: YAAAAAY!

  • Five Years

    Five years ago today, my wife left me. I was due to DJ at Big Blue that night as it was Halloween. People had been texting me, excited at dressing up, excited to hear what I’d be playing. I couldn’t let them down. So, heart like a boulder, I packed all my gear up and…

  • US Congress Ignores Drone Victims

    …Rafiq ur Rahman, a drone strike survivor from Pakistan, speaks at a congressional briefing in Washington, DC convened by Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-09). The primary school teacher spoke with his daughter Nabila (9) and son Zubair (13). One year ago, they were injured in the same drone strike that killed their 67-year-old grandmother, Rafiq’s mother,…

  • Why I Left Facebook

    I was an early adopter of Facebook. Well, as early as I could be ~ for ages in the UK, it wasn’t open to everyone. But I did join asap and I was glad to because Rupert Murdoch had just bought MySpace. I even had a little strapline on my Last.fm page which said “I…

  • Avoiding The Unreal

    This morning, another dream about my ex. As ever, the dream seemed more real than my “real” life, the colours more vivid, the sounds crystal and perfect. But the major difference to my waking existence is the deep feeling of being loved and understood that the dream made me remember. I say made because part…

  • White Town – I Don’t Want To Fall In Love Again

    Ladies and gentlemen ~ I present you with the ninth pop video I’ve made for a track from my current album, ‘Monopole.’ This track is an acoustic guitar number and the video stars bff Nat, bro Rich and the special effects makeup was beautifully executed by Rhia. Have a watch and if you like it,…

  • Derby Festé 2013

    Whoop! I do love Festé, when it rolls around, it’s always the sign that autumn is here, next up is Halloween! This year, I didn’t get to see as much of the festé frolics as normal as I’ve been snowed-under with video editing work (the results of which will appear on here shortly). I got…

  • London With Nat

    This weekend, I was lucky enough to guest DJ at HDIF. I went down with my bff Nat and we had a great weekend. First off, we went to see this bugger: Yes! The Shard! But before ascending, we took a stroll through Borough Market where we consumed fine chocolates and enormous bratwurst hotdogs. Burping,…

  • HDIF DJing Playlist 21/9/13

    Yaaaaay! On Saturday, I DJed How Does It Feel? again and had a silly fun time. It was a bit empty at the start but I got the floor full by the time I handed over to HDIF supremo Ian which is always VICTORY for a DJ. I managed to fit in a good few…

  • Gershwin, Hancock, Allen

    https://twitter.com/JyotiMishra/status/376858312999858176 Hancock plays Gershwin which inevitably leads me to think of Tracy and how good it might have been if only I could run faster. Didn’t even make it so six months.

  • Melissa Joan Hart

    So, I switched on Channel 5 and the 1996 ‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch’ film is on. Ahhh, memories! I totally forgot Ryan Reynolds played the teenage dirtbag in it. 🙂 Seeing a twenty-year-old Melissa Joan Hart again reminded me of why I wrote this: MJH is 37 now. I wonder if she’s ever heard my…

  • Driving home, listening to London Grammar on loop, the lyrics fucking killing me.

  • Infected By London Grammar / High Contrast

    I was never a raver in the proper late ’80s / ’90s sense. That scene was so bound-up with drug culture and since I’m straight edge, a lot of it left me cold. But I have been clubbing since 1982 and in those three+ decades, there have been moments of sublime, hyperreal dance floor epiphany.…

  • Nyad / Naiad Triumphant!

    On her fifth attempt spanning 35 years and involving many agonising interactions with jellyfish, the long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad finally achieved her lifetime ambition to enter the record books as the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. via Diana Nyad becomes first to swim from Cuba to Florida without…

  • Hands Off Syria Protest

    Yesterday, I travelled down to London to take part in the Hands Off Syria protest. We assembled at 12 at Temple Place and then set off around 1, marching past Parliament and eventually ending up at Trafalgar Square. There were thousands of us marching but the reason it wasn’t hundreds of thousands was simple: we…

  • FOREVER ALONE

    WAAAAUGHHHGHHHGGGHHHHH!

  • Cut Out My Heart (Acoustic Version)

  • Wilbur!

    https://twitter.com/wilburpug1/status/372756631232462849

  • Indietracks 2013

    Last weekend was INDIETRACKS 2013! I wasn’t playing this year so I could chill and just enjoy myself. This year was also even more fun because my beautiful friend Kaypea came to stay for the festival. This is her being all gorgeous: The best thing about Indietracks is discovering new music. That being said, there…

  • Bargain!

    I watched the awesome ‘Ip Man’ last night so today I thought I’d see if I could get hold of the sequel. Hmmm… £999.99? I do love the film but maybe not that much? This is for the DVD ~ how much is the blu-ray going to be? :-O

  • Cigarettes May Lead To Alcoholism

    Smoking is a well-known risk factor for subsequent alcohol abuse, but the mechanisms underlying this link are unknown. Now researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Neuron on July 18 show in a study conducted in rats that even a single exposure to nicotine temporarily changes how the brain’s reward system responds to alcohol and…

  • Why Capitalism Is A Lie: Energy Is Free

    * Another reason why capitalism is insanity: energy *is* free and *is* limitless. Of course, while oil companies run the world the ridiculous invention that is profit will continue to warp our reality. *Though I must point out that our sun doesn’t represent *inifinte* power, just power for the next 5-10 thousand million years. After…

  • Traktor On The iPhone ~ Gotta Have Noisia!

    As part of Apple’s celebrations of a millennium as a successful hegemonising swarm, they’ve been giving away apps free. One of these is Native Instruments’ Traktor iOS app. Traktor on the Mac and PC is a fully-fledged, pro-DJ app. I don’t use it when I’m DJing for reasons which I explain at length here. But,…

  • I’m Still Waiting For The First Social DSLR

    Above is a discussion I had with my mate Dan Foy about connectedness and photography. A few months ago, I’d had a rant at him saying, basically, that we were undergoing the biggest explosion in photography since the Box Brownie. His job often involves selling phone tech and I pointed out the first question most…

  • Emowalking With Chris

    Emowalking with Chris tonight and he gave me a funny look and said, “Texted you last night, dude, see what you were doing…?” “Ah, yeah, soz man, I was emowalking with Ben” I replied. “Ben! That motherfuckers sooo emo!” “Dude, you’re calling *him* emo? Who wrote ‘So I’ll go walking in the streets until my…

  • Me And Ben

    Awesome emowalk with my bezzy Ben tonight. As we were remonstrating, I said, “Y’know, Ben, I really shouldn’t have gone to your gig at Rock City a fortnight after my wife left me ~ I cried through the whole set! Even ‘Sound Of Settling!” He laughed and said, “I know, dudebro, you’re such a tool…

  • Dronestream: Every US drone strike – YouTube

    If you’re unsure why I call Obama a terrorist, war criminal and child murderer, take five minutes to watch this. It’s all laid out for you.

  • Pinterest Censorship

    I don’t post anything sexually explicit – I post female nudes. Pinterest are implying there’s something sinful or corrupting about the nude female form. By association, they are saying it should be hidden or seen as something shameful. Or, worse, only seen in a sexual context. Click here to see my board of nudes. Here…

  • Obama Lambasted By Clare Daly

    Watch Daly tear war criminal Obama a new one… and then read the comments and marvel that Republicans / Tories are *so fucking thick* that they don’t realise she’s criticising him for being *too right wing.* They watched it and didn’t even pick up on the phrase “lapdog of US imperialism.” Or the drone wars.…

  • The Global War Against Women

    More than a third of all women worldwide – 35.6% – will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, usually from a male partner, according to the first comprehensive study of its kind from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The report reveals the shocking extent of attacks on women from the men with whom…

  • Hugo & Nat

    Nat’s new puppy, Hugo, came to visit and he had a great time running around my garden, sniffing things and generally being loveable. Of course, he’s totally in love with Nat, as you can tell by this pic: Click here for more Hugo! 😀

  • Starbucks pays UK corporation tax for first time since 2009

    Coffee giant Starbucks pays corporation tax in the UK for the first time in four years, the company announces. Click here for the source. Without UK Uncut and mass democratic protest, they wouldn’t be paying for a penny!

  • Korg Volca Beats Overview

    Introducing KORG volca beats was uploaded by: KORGINCDuration: 411Rating: Click here for the source. And Korg win again with this beautiful little drum machine. Roland, you might as well quit now. Or just release some other half-baked snoozefest with a vaguely ’80s name and paint job.

  • Korg Volca Bass – ‘Dominating’ Bass Line Synth For $150

    Introducing KORG volca bass was uploaded by: KORGINCDuration: 328Rating: Click here for the source. Pretty fucking sweet! \u003C3

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    terps’s photo on Instagram Click here for the source. Love this pic by Terps!