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2007
27
Oct
Tonight, nearby Kidderminster pub, the Wren’s Nest, held a fundraiser for victims of the flooding across England this Summer, complete with a raffle, live music, a bike show, fireworks and the ritual burning of a wicker man at the end of the night to cries of “BURN ‘IM!!”
We used it as a flimsy [...]
2007
15
Oct
Happy 30th Mate!
This week has been crazy hectic, with a social engagement for 8 days straight since Pokey’s Pants Party last weekend and ending with VIP passes to the Carling Academy in Birmingham for Toni’s 30th this Saturday — that’s her 3rd from the left with the flashing skull headband Notice her [...]
2007
7
Oct
Happy 30th Mate!
Hot on the heels of my recovery from last weeks rave sensation, my buddy Paul Vaughan (drummer for The Donns, and no relation) invited us to his 30th birthday party last night. He unwittingly volunteered himself as a shining example of why downing a £15 top-shelf drink before coming home is not [...]
2007
1
Oct
Although I am exactly the right age, because I would only listen to heavy metal during the 80’s and 90’s, I have never been to a rave. Since I started to appreciate electronic music in the last decade, of course I’ve gone to promoted events with DJs (the rave tent at the Bulldog Bash [...]
2007
11
May
September 1988 is etched in my memory as a bad month: the A-level results had been released, and I was all set to leave for University, except that I had got really bad grades and wasn’t elligible for any of the institutions I’d applied for. Faced with a choice between redoing the whole year [...]
2007
4
May
Now that I have around 1000 albums stored in iTunes, I’ve been trying to figure out how to sort on multiple columns.
When I organised my CD and LP collections, I would keep them alphabetised by artist, and then by date within artist. So if I wanted to play the latest Megadeth album, I could [...]
