Not so much a review as an expression of admiration (Dananananaykroyd + Calories, ER Mar ’09)

March 31st, 2009 § 0

Gig review: Dananananaykroyd, Calories @ Engine Room, March ’09

Last night I fought back against the lethargic temptations of being lame and boring and staying in and got myself down to Brighton’s Engine Rooms (key characteristics: underground, smells, broken toilets, sweatbox, flooded this one time, cute barstaff) to see Dananananaykroyd and Calories. Pope Joan and Me My Head also played but I got there too late for them, which was kind of a bummer as I’ve been wanting to see Pope Joan for a while now, and given the rest of the line-up it seemed probable that Me My Head would be decent as well.

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Game Review: Race Pro (360)

March 31st, 2009 § 0

Quit yawning at the back: turns out this serious racing simulator is actually fairly good fun. Go read my review if you’re inclined to find out why.

Free compilation: Nostalgia For Now, ’08-’09

March 30th, 2009 § 2

Today I’m rad stoked to bring you a delicious musicey treat: a download compilation featuring 21 tracks from 2008 and 2009 that I think are rad awesome. You can download it here (100mb), in a ZIP archive that also contains liner notes; a list of the tracks, artists and the album each song is taken from.

I sincerely hope you check out more by the bands you like, because I’ve not got permission to use any of these tracks. I’m operating on the “free publicity is good” basis and hoping no one gets too pissed. Pretty much everything on there is from a punk, DIY or independent label anyway, so I’m sure it’s all cool. More importantly, I hope you enjoy some of these songs as much as I have.

The full track listing is below the cut.

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Nip & tuck

March 29th, 2009 § 2

I’ve tweaked a few bits around the blog. The top nav links are better now: I got rid of the dross and broke down the bulky reviews page into three separate pages.

The Twitter round-up autopost is gone and won’t be coming back, and the del.icio.us linkfest posts will be coming once or twice a week. At least, that’s the plan: postalicious seems to be behaving so far.

Thanks for bearing with me folks.

About the Linkfests…

March 25th, 2009 § 2

…I’ve disabled them until I find the time to stop the fucking things posting as soon as 5 links have been saved. Why it won’t follow its own settings and post once a day, after 8pm, and at that time only when 5 or more links have been collected, I don’t know.

It would be nice to also get it to interpret punctuation sensibly, saving me the effort of correcting it manually (which wouldn’t even be that big a deal if it published posts at regular, sensible intervals).

On a tangential note: I personally find these sort of link salads interesting and usually (most of the time) look over them on blogs I follow. What do readers of NFI think on the subject?

Linkfest: March 25th (b)

March 25th, 2009 § 0

Del.icio.us links for March 25th:

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Linkfest: March 25th

March 25th, 2009 § 0

Del.icio.us links for March 25th:

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Linkfest: March 23rd – March 24th

March 24th, 2009 § 0

Del.icio.us links for March 23rd through March 24th:

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Linkfest: March 19th – March 23rd

March 23rd, 2009 § 0

Del.icio.us links for March 19th through March 23rd:

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It’s Sunday, it’s Tweetday, it’s 2009-03-22!

March 22nd, 2009 § 0

  • Of all the nights I don’t want to go to band practice, tonight is… one of them. Ugh. Morning, internets. Today I feel very tired. #
  • I’ve managed to put my foot in it within an hour of getting into the office. I’m such a wanker. #
  • Best comment so far is from Mamatas: “My LJ friends list has SyFyLys”. #
  • Just realised Madworld is out this week. Quite tempted but I might resist for a month or two… #
  • Off With Their Heads to record split album with Dillinger 4. Have I died? Is this heaven? #
  • RT: @Glinner: http://bit.ly/3hukrY Please retweet this if you agree with the sentiments. My take on the Express/Dunblane story. #
  • Wishing I was at SXSW. Thanks to Twitter I can’t even feign lack of awareness. #
  • And now John Allison has £50 more of my money. SO MUCH FOR FRUGALITY, GENIUS. :D #
  • The Measure [SA] EP review: http://tinyurl.com/cug44o Now… time for food. Red Wizard needs food badly. #
  • Apparently Liam Gallagher is on twitter now. If it really is him, I think we should start #windupliamgallagher #
  • New Casiotone For the Painfully Alone is out. Ohhhh I am looking forward to hearing that. #
  • Well THAT was a long day, rife with many unpleasantnesses. Also, one genuine tragedy. #
  • Today’s musical revelation: Man Is The Bastard are kinda boring. Powerviolence? Yawn. #
  • But I still *want* to like them because… awesome politics! Plus Born Against lineage! BA were awesome. Oh, the challenges I face. #
  • I’m getting behind MITB a bit more now. Complete discographies can be a trudge, especially when they lead with the weaker early material. #
  • Oh. My. Fucking. God. MY HEAD. #

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