audio visual creativity
I refer you, dear reader, to these abominations. I am, quite simply, speechless with rage and anger. This is several steps up from their previous scare campaign.
This is ridiculous. I feel like the entire UK is being run by the f***ing Stasi. When’s the wall being built?
Are they trying to provoke a civil war?
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”
Opening line of 1984, by George Orwell.
Craig and I were chatting on new year’s eve, bemoaning the fact that we haven’t felt particularly musically-creative of late. So we decided that we’d do something together. I felt that a more loose, improvised thing would be good to do (in the past, my live performances have always had a certain improvised nature to them – tracks are broken down into their component parts, fed into some sort of sequencer and then ‘mashed up’ live).
So anyway, after two rehearsals (which ended up being pretty different in their musical output), we have our first gig.
March 14th, 9pm -> 10pm Thomas’s Bar (near York Library). We have a slot at BoomChik, a regular night put on by some friends of ours.
Excellent. Let’s see what happens ‘eh?
Just in case my ISP decides to bow to IFPI pressure and censor the internet, rest assured that they will find me an ex-customer PDQ. I would urge each and everyone to do the same…
See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/03/telenor_wont_block_pirate_bay/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/23/irma_demands_irish_isps_block_access_to_piracy_sites/