Monthly Archives: April 2006

Triptych begins

eek Triptych begins today and I still haven’t got any tickets even though I’ve known about it for ages. I’ve missed out on The Silver Jews which sold out pretty quick. So I’ll be making do with the video of Silver Jews – Trains Across the Sea live at Ottobar on youtube. I’m gonna try [...]

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IE7 beta preview no go Opera beta 9 go!

yikes I finally got round to installing IE7 beta preview and I managed to use it for a couple of minutes before I had to kill it in task manager. The default Microsoft IE7 tour page opened a new window on me….urgh tabs dammit tabs. The window chrome wasn’t refreshing and it was just being [...]

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Fat Freddy’s Drop at Garden Party

Fat Freddy’s Drop are playing Garden Party in Ireland on Bank Holiday Sunday 4th June as part of their UK summer tour. The gig is in an 18th century walled garden at Ballinlough Castle. Asian Dub Foundation, The Orb, Toots & the Maytals, DJ Marky, Louie Vega, Scratch Perverts are playing too and there’s an insect circus!! [...]

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Flaming Lips make me wanna play hack

All those yellow balloons bouncing round everywhere…oh how I long for a good game of hack. Anyone in Edinburgh who stumbles across this and fancies a game hit me up; anyone in NZ who fancies a hack come visit – winter is for suckers and I have a futon in the boxroom. The Flaming Lips [...]

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The Flaming Lips supported by The Go! Team

Excellent! I just rang Usher Hall to see what time The Flaming Lips are on tonight and found out that The Go! Team are supporting! Two bands one stone and all that. Nice! More exciting than IE7 Beta which I still haven’t got round to installing.

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