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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 [...]

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!! [...]

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 put [...]

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.

There’s more tickets avaiable for Radiohead at Meadowbank Stadium on 22 August available from 9am tomorrow (Friday 31/3). The capacity has been been increased to 20,000 after the first tickets sold out in under one hour at the weekend.
In other news… Radiohead Get Reggae Makeover, by the same cats that were responsible for Dub Side [...]

The Phoenix Foundation are performing in all their unashamed glory with the rath of kahn in their jublees at Londons Islington Academy on the 1st of June.
Hopefully there’s more shows to come….like Edinburgh please.

Now that I’ve got heaps of music TV channels it’s not so much that I have trouble sleeping but I have trouble escaping the TV late at night cos there’s always another music video I want to see. I’ve been deprived of music videos for too long and now I can’t get enough. It happened [...]

There’s some pre-sale tickets for Radiohead and Beck at Meadowbank available at the Radiohead’s W.A.S.T.E shop. Radiohead’s site had a ’system meltdown’ yesterday when they first went on sale at midday but it’s all sweet now.
Tickets for the other tour dates are available too but they’re selling out quick. This is just the pre-sale [...]

Threadless T-Shirts are having a sale! Tees are $10 till Weds 10am CST
I want a loch ness imposter but they’ve sold out already. I also want You are what you eat - the happy pig eating bacon.

Wow there’s a Google Mars! I didn’t even know there was a Google Moon (zoom in for cheese).