This weeks sounds

1. Mr Stormy Mondays selections- DGMLIVE- 2 Cds of King Crimson alumni being clangers, vocoders and foul mouthed poetry introducers. and a bit of music to boot.

2. Sid Smiths Podcast from the Yellow Room. essential listening for followers of his blog and fab music.. See link in the sidebar.

3. Nick cave and the Bad seeds Dig Lazarus, Dig!!!. religious imagery and downtown poetic scuzz

4. Edgar Froese- Epsilon in Malaysian Pale. ON VINYL! vintage ambient mellotron sounds.

5. Steven wilson- Insurgentes. a more personal Porcupine tree with drones and ambient noise washes. A huge grower.

Where, what, how?!

So, uh, snow?

Greenbelt Quickie (7)

Praying should not be like ordering a pizza on the telephone.

Return to Blogging

It's been a wild few days; time spent in Norfolk, a few days in London seeing Queen and Paul Rodgers and then James Blunt on consecutive nights at the O2 Arena with my lovely Girlfriend. then having a 2 day migraine as a reminder of the rich food and drink enjoyed during that time. I have to say I found the O2 to be a mixed bag experience- very, very corporate with prices to match, but the actual arena to be a great place to see bands, if you can let go of the whole feel of being inside a huge financial punter-reaping machine. Both bands were great, quite different in production and presentation, highlights including Roger Taylor doing a drum solo whilst his drum kit was built around him, and Mr Blunt suddenly jumping off stage and running to the middle of the arena where a piano arose from the crowd on a small stage.

We stayed in Docklands and had a mooch around there, looking at the Excel centre (there was a hairdressing conference happening whilst we were enjoying breakfast there), and then some time in Canary Wharf. Had my first rides on the Docklands Light Railway, and generally had  a great time.

Greenbelt: Nominated for an award 2

Greenbelt has been nominated for the 'Best Family Festival' and Best Festival Toilets' in the Virtual Festival Awards. Well it would wouldn't it?!! Ahem! They can be clean, filthy, comical and the focus of many Greenbelt anecdotes over the years, so I suppose it's only right and proper that they are recognised in some small way. Lets hope GB wins.

A Word Cloud: Northern Lights, Barnabas

Have stumbled on these, a current hot potato in the advertising world. The word cloud checks the frequency of words in a text, increases the size and then creates a cloud of words, usually with links to other sites. This one was crated by Wordle. Ideal for the short attention span of the internet world. heres mine, based on the Lyrics to 'Northern Lights' by Barnabas.

Pedestrianism: An accidental Cult. Update

An eighteenth/nineteenth century pursuit of walking fast, with the most celebrated exponents walking 100 miles in 100 hours, some even to keeping to doing that distance by doing a quarter of a mile in a quarter of an hour! For 100 miles! It was the forerunner of the frankly ridiculous looking sport of speed walking that canbe seen in various athleic events these days.

Also Pedestrianism is a mysterious group win the states who's website is more to sell T shirts and paraphenalia and to state that 'Pedestrians' dont follow anyone, walking their own path, but look out for other pedestrians; presumably those who've bought the merchandise and wear it, in all walks of life. A kind of Freemasonry lite, except even more pointless.

Does give me ideas for my new cult of pedestrianism though....