Flickr update

Massive photo dump over at flickr from one half of your listeners. December 2010-June 2011.

Inspector Tapehead Duress Code Tour Video, BOSH.

Back in September, just after Duress Code's release I went on tour with Inspector Tapehead, and the tour video is now online, in not one, nor two, but three acts. Count em.

Now, Youtube stats show that for every 30 people that view act 1, 1 switches off after that, and a further 7 don't make it to act 3. So you better buck up folks, as I know readers of theSlog have approximately 50 percent more time on their hands than blogs with better employed readerships..

Duress Code is out on Song, By Toad and available here. We are playing at the Caves, Edinburgh on Friday evening and Brel, Glasgow on Sunday afternoon.

Roy Tapehead, enjoy... we did.

Lack of Entropy

I am listening to Radio Magnetic's alleged jazz show, Entropy, notable in its absence from the feed for about a year. It is good though, so I wish it was on more! Well worth a listen if you're interested in a variety of jazz beyond the limited one which is generally meted out in Glasgow. As myself and I dare say my dBassian colleagues are.
What exactly would it take to get more jazz on Radio Magnetic, beyond the annual excitement of the jazz fest? [NYK would have had this sorted, but we won't go into that].

One of the many enjoyable features of Entropy of course is Andy Watt's rather forgetful/shambolic delivery/technical operation which I'm sure is down to merely the infrequency of his shows!

I can see I've sold this really well, so am going to stop before you change your mind. Entropy is a podcast downloadable here or subscribable here.
Roy

Grampian Mountains

Grampian Mountains: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Tasty new site from Craig..

Roy

N'awlins

Last weekend in New Orleans.

A Disappointed Radiohead Fan

rather good!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZsrnRVQDFU&feature=player_embedded

via AtEase
Roy

Enez gigsss

Hello. I am 33% of the way through a run of Enez gigs. The first one got a rather good review in the Scotsman last week, although they spelt Tristan wrong.:
http://living.scotsman.com/music/Music-review-Diego-Laverde-Tistan.6750043.jp

And the subsequent ones are bound to be better, given that Tristan should be able to use both hands for em. The first is this Saturday at Ceol's Craic, the Gaelic club at the CCA. Ticket info here:
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/page=236B7D10-868E-4F86-A306909B378E5655&eventid=02AFC0CE-930E-4F16-974FAC647562E9F0

And then we are playing at St. Andrew's in the Square in May:
http://www.ticketsoup.com/tickets/tristan-le-govic-harp-jazz-2011-12688/default.aspx

We've got a rather old myspace here, which sadly was prior to Lise's joining on vocals:
http://www.myspace.com/eneztrio

Spherical Roy

Open Source Ecology

Gareth astutely pointed me in the direction of this inspiring open design project with some of the furthest developed results I have yet seen! Apparently springing mainly from one team in Kansas at what they call the 'Factor e Farm'. Impressive stuff.

More at openfarmtech.org

In other news, I also love the Guardian

Beady Eye
The Roller (Beady Eye)

You might not recognise this three-and-a-half minutes of what future generations will see as a massive leap forward in our culture. But mark this day in your diaries, because this song – which sounds like will.i.am has travelled to the year 3098 and collaborated with aliens – will change how we see music forever. Not really. It's just standard Oasis from 1996, and over the guitars, we think we can hear the faint sound of Damon Albarn laughing.

Issy Sampson for The Guardian, 19th Feb

Roy

I love Liam Gallagher

"I heard that fucking Radiohead record and I just go, ‘What?!’ I like to think that what we do, we do fucking well. Them writing a song about a fucking tree? Give me a fucking break! A thousand year old tree? Go fuck yourself! You’d have thought he’d have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week. You know what I mean?”

Roy

The Foghorn: A Celebration

BBC iPlayer - The Foghorn: A Celebration: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

For theSlog readers in the UK:

I can thoroughly recommend this Radio 4 documentary about foghorns.

That is not a joke, it's a really interesting programme!

Roy

Ditto vid

Andy Gangadeen talks

BBC Music Showcase - Musicians' Masterclass 2011 - Andy Gangadeen on working with Chase & Status and The Bays: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

For anyone interested in drums, programmed or live, these shorts with Andy Gangadeen of The Bays and sessioner for all sorts of pop acts, are essential. Well I liked em anyway.

cheers Jonnie!

Roy

Tapehead Live at the Diving Bell Lounge

Live at the Diving Bell Lounge (MUSIC) on Vimeo: Last week Jonnie and Chris and I went along to Marcus' beautiful east end studio to record these tracks for Precious Productions, with some quite flattering results:

Live at The Diving Bell Lounge - Inspector Tapehead - Fillet of Bozo from Precious Productions on Vimeo.

Live at The Diving Bell Lounge - Inspector Tapehead - I am your pedigree from Precious Productions on Vimeo.

Enjoy, Roy.

SICK

SICK

Theatre Modo's acclaimed production, Sick, starring official theSlog clown Suzie Ferguson, is on in Stirling on Feb 4th. Highly recommended by this blogger.

Roy

Ditto

I'm currently doing percussion for a show in Edinburgh, entitled Ditto. The List had this to say:
http://www.list.co.uk/article/32023-ditto-explores-how-8-12-year-old-children-listen-and-respond-to-music/#

It's on at the Traverse on Saturday at 13.30 if anyone fancies a skeg.
Roy

Loops Haunt

Chatting about music I love today I couldn't help but include Mr. Loops Haunt, whose set of elaborately soulful glitches at the decidedly botanical N_ilk in September had me writhing with glee, as many will attest. Only I realise I've never paid him the courtesy of a link from theSlog so here goes. But best experienced loud, on a grassy dancefloor.
Enjoy.
Roy.

Delapidation

A fascinating photo essay on the Guardian site today from Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre in Detroit, Michigan.



Roy

Information is Beautiful go animated

I gave my pops the Information is Beautiful book for chrimbo, so we had some fun perusing it, finding fault with things we know a little about, and being flabbergasted by those of which we know nought. It's a great book to have around and very engaging - I think its interesting and valuable to see the myriad ways in which datasets can be visualised and interpreted, and that this can be as subjective as any other artform. But as data becomes increasingly open to all we need more and varied 'information designers' interpreting that data.

Anyway, David McCandless, author of said book has just posted some rather good wee animations that make the topic of UK spending yet more interesting, if that's possible..

Happy New Year When It Comes!
Roy

Go Team

There's a new Go Team album out in the new year and they've been playing the first track (T.O.R.N.A.D.O) on 6music the last few days. The sample was bugging me, then I realised today it's an Antibalas track. Check it out!

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