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Painting

30 October 2008, 6:41 pm

So I finally got around to painting something again last week. After getting the Elf Blood Bowl (or rather ‘Gridiron’, Blood Bowl being a ®) team from Shadowforge, I got to painting them at a pretty good rate — painting a model most days — and had got most of them finished when I stopped. [...]

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More Death Magnetic

12 October 2008, 5:36 pm

So, I thought I was done with this whole Death Magnetic thing. But while reading articles on the Internet about the so-called ‘loudness war‘ I came across the news that the vinyl release doesn’t sound as bad as the CD. And this got me interested in looking around for a definitive version of the album [...]

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Death Magnetic

22 September 2008, 6:42 pm

Last Sunday, having read largely positive reviews and having enjoyed the live version of Cyanide on their Myspace page, I bought Metallica’s new album. My initial reaction was good. There were some great riffs and an energy and excitement to the record that had been missing from everything the band had done after Smell The [...]

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Little Musgrave

27 April 2008, 11:19 pm

At open mic night at the Hobbit a couple of people have performed versions of Matty Groves (also known as Little Musgrave, along with a variety of other titles) over the last few months. Both stuck fairly closely to the version Fairport Convention recorded on Liege & Lief (which is also quite similar to Joan [...]

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OFF5

14 April 2008, 4:05 pm

Well, I’m back from the fifth Oxford Folk Festival. Friday evening, saw the last few minutes of Jack Harris’s set, then saw Telling the Bees, who were good. Went over to the main stage and saw Three Daft Monkeys, who weren’t all that good. Did the usual procession thing with Melomania on Saturday, then went [...]

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Non-suckitude

7 March 2008, 1:52 am

Woo. Last time I played at the Hobbit, I sucked. I don’t really know why, but somehow I just had a really bad night. My playing was flat and uninspired, my singing was out of tune as often as not, and it just didn’t work somehow. Then last week I went along, hoping to redeem [...]

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Seven Years

28 February 2008, 8:33 pm

This week I headed home for a few days. The reason for this was that Becca (a friend from Morris) was performing a jig as part of the Henry Box Sixth Form Variety Performance and wanted me to play for her. While there, it occurred to me that it had been seven years since I [...]

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Hyde Park Calling

25 June 2007, 2:55 am

Well, I’ve just got back from a rather good day in London, attending the second day of Hyde Park Calling. Despite less-than-ideal weather, the event was very good indeed. Through the morning and much of the afternoon the weather was actually fairly dry, with only the occasional sprinkling of light rain. Not being familiar with [...]

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Pissfiddles

17 May 2007, 2:00 pm

http://www.hydeparkcalling.co.uk/lineup/ Okay, admittedly there aren’t any exact times shown. But it rather looks like watching Aerosmith on the main stage will require me to miss Joe Satriani on the second stage. Arse. Oh, and for anyone who’s wondering, no, I’m afraid I don’t get into this one free.

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Open Mic

4 May 2007, 1:37 am

Well, I can now reveal that what I was planning to do was to go down and play a spot at the Hobbit’s open mic night. And I’m glad to say it went very well. Although I think the novelty of having someone playing melodeon probably helped a lot, my set went down really well. [...]

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