Get those lips to tha floor y’all!
Then go check Beardyman out…
February 8, 2007
February 7, 2007
The power of blogging
Where to start with this one…? Well, if you surf the British political blogs, you will have undoubtedly come across Blog Fight. On the Left, Manic and Unity. On the Right, Iain and Guido. The outcome so far…? Well, “The Charity Commission for England and Wales has opened a formal inquiry into the charity The Smith Institute”; and with any luck, Unity is in the process of ensuring certain questions pertaining to 18 Doughty Street “are properly framed and forwarded to the relevant regulators for consideration”. Is this a new form of transparency? If the MSM aren’t going to alert us poor proles to all the low-down, dirty, skulduggery that is currently masquerading as politics and British democracy, why not bloggers?
February 3, 2007
Janner & Snoman
Cannae really help myself here… but this is something that my good friend Pete has gotten me into recently: dubstep. I even had the pleasure of catching Stainage 2 at PlanB in December. To cut a long story short, Pete aka Janner, has been chucking out tunes for a long old time now. Of course, he has his tastes in music and i have mine but every now and again, we hook up and produce a track. This is our most recent result. To be fair, you need one hell of a sound system to fully appreciate this kinda music.
I’ve been to a few gigs, the most memorable in recent times whilst at university. The best, without a shadow of a doubt, was in the old Digbeth Custard Factory at the Medicine Bar; but for the first time ever, at Stainage, bass moved me. Not emotionally you understand… the bass actually made by balls move of their own free will and volition. Not an altogether unpleasant sensation if i’m being honest and if you get the chance to hear dubstep live, i heartily recommend it!
For more info on the Belgian scene, you’d do well to start with BunZero & Dice, with the dubstepforum providing a one-stop shop for everything that’s happening globally.
I leave you with this thought: In Africa, the African use drums for various reasons…
