It's best not to talk about it
Make me think of the old argument about whether it's desirable/possible to describe music
http://www.sciencenews.org/20030419/bob10.asp

Just back from 2 weeks of travelling. Weighing in with the musical parts of it later.....
eamonn posted on 28.04.03 @ 03:33 PM GMT [link]

Summer!
And what do we listen to in summer? Elastica! Avalanches! Stuck Together With God's Glue (maybe)!
andrew posted on 16.04.03 @ 01:28 PM GMT [link]

Always with the Late LAte Show
This week Dave Couse performing a song from forthcoming alnum. Should be good. I wish the A House documentary that happened all those years ago was given to him and the other members just so they would have it at least. His backing band looked quite young - I don't think there was anyone from A House in it.
[Update - they actually had been given copies of it and supplied comments backed. I mis-rememberd this completely. I am extremely sorry about that Anne, Nodlag and Berni]

Have you seen these Heinekan Green Energy ads? The one with this imaginary band The Transformers in it - there are 7 I have only seen 2 but they're pretty good. Is that Richie Egan in one of them?
eamonn posted on 07.04.03 @ 02:46 PM GMT [link]

Beating the touts for Glastonbury
The quick sell out of Glastonbury has meant ticket shortages followed by touting. Touting is pretty bad normally but I think for an event that raises money for charity it is doubly reprehensible. I was trying to think of a few ways of getting back at the touts.

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  The glastonbury commercial manager said it was very unlikely they could cancel tickets that touts are selling. Only touting of football tickets is illegal.
  


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  There are a number of resellers - organisations that usually sell football packages/musicals/Paul Macartney tickets who are selling Glasto tix for anywhere between 200 and 300 VAT. They say they have small numbers of tickets but this claim could be to encourage demand. I reported these organisations to BBC Watchdog but haven't got any reply from them yet. It would be great to stop their ticket allocations becuase I bet they number in the thousands.
  


• I don't mind people selling a couple of tickets on ebay but when you look you'll find that there are a fair few people selling between 4 and more tickets. This is not fair in my book so I tried to get the contact details for them - some have an email address which leads to a personal website. If you ask them a question you usually get a reply from their personal email address and in one or two cases if you look at their feedback you'll see ebayers who were dissatisfied with the seller from previous transactions who are more than happy to supply the contact details. I've no idea what to do with these details. It looks as if it will be next to impossible to really stop these tickets being allocated (EBay refused to stop the auctions though they did take some action for Radiohead a while ago). Anyway I mailed one seller who was selling 8 saying I didn't think it was right to make money out of Glastonbury and this is the reply I got
  

How about I give you a WARNING... which is this, People like YOU Make 
me sick.. A. You;re not the Police, nor should you act like one.. even if 
you provide Glastonbury with the URL Details you CAN'T take my tickets 
qway, They're not through Glastonbury DIRECTLY.. FOOL! Here's a tip
A. DON'T EVER Email me again with this jibbereish, coz you're blokced 
from sending me emails.
B. IF YOU WANT TO BE A POLICEMAN GO TO SCHOOL TO DO IT.
C. You're RUINING THE EBAY SYSTEN TOO, YOU AND YOUR FRIDNS, 
ALL THESE "FALSE BIDDER" will get their just desserts, YOU'RE FAKE 
BIDS ARE RECORDED AND SO TOO ARE YOUR RECORDS AND YOU 
WILL BE PROSECUTED IF BIDS YOU PEOPLE MAKE AREN'T FULFILLED 
WITH PAYMENTS..

SO YOU WANNA WASTE YOUR TIME AND AGAIN YOU FUCKER.. KEEP 
TRYING ME!

So there's a bit of aggro out there. Anyway I don't know why I'm recounting all this, I can't do anything except hassle the touts and it takes too much time. And I'm tired.


eamonn posted on 04.04.03 @ 12:44 PM GMT [link]

In which Andrew actually reviews stuff for a change.
I may rework some of these later, but at least they're off the list. I should ideally have listened to some of these recently, but I've been without headphones since my London Adventures, so fuck it.

Haha, maybe I should use "computer games" as the Andrew's Other Stuff section. I probably think about them as much as anything else.

andrew posted on Tue, 01.04.03 @ 05:28 PM GMT [more..]

Technology overtakes Beard!
No longer will we have to worry about making our daily (or weekly in my case) entries: The Brunching Shuttlecock has the answer.
andrew posted on 01.04.03 @ 10:08 AM GMT [link]