Tonight I saw Lisa Mitchell play at the Borderline. I arrived late since i had stuff to do at work, was too lazy to do the whole smuggling malark and ultimately they took my camera away.
A picture can paint a thousand words
However if you use ascii art you can probably reduce the number of the characters needed and get something pretty decent. Not really the point but I thought it was quite a fun way to start blogging again. So hmm, where to start? Hiatus ahoy! Probably should tell you what’s been happening with life and such but it’s probably a bit too premature to explain it all just now. It’s good news mind, I have pretty much told a majority of folks around me but haven’t properly said or announced it because it’s not exactly official (mmm nice to explain so much and so little at the same time).
Anyways, the result in all this is basically I don’t have time to ramble on. Given that people are very used to microblogging rather than full on blogs (or rambles as such). I thought i’d keep things more in style of a tumblr slash photoblog type blog type thing. Dunno if people who subscribe to this even read this anyways and it’s better to have updates with less words than no updates at all right?
So yeah, not been gigging much, one of my goals for this year is to actually go to less gigs so I’m kinda fulfilling that. Not to say that I’ll be going to gigs like a normal person (how much do you think is an average count of gigs per year? 30?) I will pretty much be ploughing the venues at every given free opportunity.
So yes, quick update… uhm, photos.. There’s one of Depeche Mode, was fun shooting at the o2, but way too hectic for a Sunday with no Jubilee line, though i still managed to watch Personal Jebus live, good times. More photo spamming to come!
Owen Pallett live at Union Chapel
Owen Pallett live at Union Chapel, this show was ten times better than his previous Union Chapel one. I think with the album was more rehearsed, and the fact that we’ve all heard Heartland made this show enjoyable. The highlight was definitely when he played Lewis Takes His Shirt Off. Some skillz on the violin.
The beginning of the show was pretty lulz, apparently there’s a bar! :O Videos ensue…
152 Gigs
It’d be right to say 2009 was definitely a year of gigging, given that over 40% of the time I’ll be at a gig (no doubt shooting)
Spent several painful nights jotting down all the gigs I’ve been to in 2009. The statistics side was the best bit out of it, I managed to calculate a total of 381 sets for the entire year out of the 152 gigs. May strangely being the one where I gigged the most.
The most visited venue was strangely union chapel (though I love that place so much
) and the most visited band was… uhm… I haven’t worked it out yet…
But yeah, this photo was taken as my second to last 365 shot. It just got so delayed after the damn gig list! Sorry folks
Oh and here’s the spreadsheet of the gigs, enjoy spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tUlX-uDuEpLNOAoYsjzW16w&a…
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Who would have thought Borderlands could be so addictive
Haven’t been posting much on the blog but will hopefully get back on track with this bad boy. Right now i’m ploughing through a game called Borderlands which is sort of a first person shootemup mashed in with RPG. It’s very addictive and has got me off going on Mac land for a while (play it on Windows 7 you see!).
But yeah… i have loads of posts to update with, mainly those conclusive 2009 posts and uhm… yeah… should be updating this a bit more when i have the time. For now enjoy this photo of my Katamari t shirt. I’ve ended 365 last year and feel ever so relaxed that i don’t need to shoot something everyday nows. Though my poor camera feels every so neglected 
Holiday photos: Ghent
Thought I’d share some holiday photos from Ghent, knowing that I have venice photos to upload means I need to get all these Ghent ones sorted before moving on! Ghent was an awesome holiday so there’s no need to neglect that bad boy, anyway, here’s the photos:
Venice and Icecream
No idea when i’ll start uploading these badboys like crazy but i thought i’d start you guys off with this.
This was probably one of my simple pleasures during venice. The rule was, if i see a place that sells ice cream… i buy an ice cream.
The rule was good.
More venice antics later
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Cufflinks of Doom
Pretty much the literal name for these bad boy cufflinks. I don’t know why, but I always thought cufflinks were the sign that someone is growing up. Not the first paycheque, or the first time they’ve opened up an ISA account for their savings and what, it’s all about the first cufflinks for their business or dress shirts. No more of that pre buttoned shirt crap business malark (well… that’s not true but you know what I mean).
Anyway, they make me look pretty menacing, plus the design is pretty timeless so it’s an overall win ^_^
But yeah, this will be my last photo before I head off to Venice for the weekend. Will obviously be taking my camera with me so there will be plenty of photos to share after I come back ^_^
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