Evil men will win the day if the good ones won't make a stand

[alexsarll]

Last night I felt appreciably sloshed and in need of no further booze, thank you, after only three CCPs. If I've permanently returned to teenage levels of cider-tolerance, then my budgeting worries could be at an end!

The Low Edges are not a million miles from the current post-punk boom, but atypically they're at their best when liquid_city (who, confusingly, looks not the least bit like Jeremy Clarkson) straps on an acoustic and their sound gets more layered, in such a way that it's almost easier to reference producers (Spector, Hannett) than bands. That said, I was also very impressed by mojo-loss anthem 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'. Definitely one to watch, especially now they're bringing drummygirl on board.
Next up are Temple. They are the sort of band where it is possible to forget what they sound like even while they're playing. They are also the sort of support band who believe that turning up the volume is the way to make people pay attention. Hopefully they are also the sort of band that you see only once before they disappear without trace.
Headliners GEN!RAL!KHA!KI! remain one of the few bands where 'tight' is an active compliment rather than simply reaching for something to say. They don't really have much in common with Dexy(')s except for reminding us that a disciplined band can also be an exciting one. And I still can't see why the press &c haven't picked up on them yet because while there are many bands I like doing the small-scale rounds at present, I don't think there are any others who would so obviously appeal to NME-reading elements of the Yoof.

anw's round-up of forthcoming USTV reports that "Alyson Hannigan co-stars in a relationships sitcom with Doogie Howser. The series is framed as a flashback, hence the title, How I Met Your Mother. Hannigan does not play your mother."

The Vichy Government play twice this weekend, at the Bull & Gate on Saturday and at Nambucca on Sunday. It is likely that I shall only be attending the latter, which is free and at which Vichy are on at 6, but I would recommend either to those at a loose end.

Oh, and I've come up with a working theory as to the conflicting accounts of humanity's level of time technology in the 51st century Whoniverse, if anyone cares.

Comments

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

Great. Thanks for the earworm there. As if I haven't heard it 98678 times already.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It really is quite astonishingly gay, isn't it?

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

It's taken gay to a whole new level. It's the mechagay.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I was listening to it and thinking, bloody Hell, straight into the Top Ten Gayest Songs Ever.
(Though no way has it knocked 'Shut Up (And Sleep With Me)' off the top spot)

[ex-dumbgenius.livejournal.com]

Man, why I have I not heard this yet?!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

You fail at gay.

[ex-dumbgenius.livejournal.com]

sigh.

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

It's not out yet. Kate and our Baz both have advance copies innit?

[ex-dumbgenius.livejournal.com]

ah man, I have found the video online, but I have realised that the speakers for this computer are in a box (not connected to the computer), grr!

[juliet]

I've come up with a working theory as to the conflicting accounts of humanity's level of time technology in the 51st century Whoniverse, if anyone cares.

Ah, go on then. (or post it in diggerydedum, I guess)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Earth is disrupted by the World War, and is probably slightly backward anyway what with all the invasions and such that it suffered - hence, the best they've got is the primitive, dangerous Zygma technology we see in Talons of Weng-Chiang and Emotional Chemistry. Some of the human colonies, though, have had an easier time of it - and are hence more advanced, both technologically and socially. That's where the Time Agents come from - it's also why the other 51st century humans we've seen (from Earth) aren't such '51st century guys' as Captain Jack.

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

Hannigan does not play your mother

no, but she 'plays' yours.
etc.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

That doesn't work as a Your Mum diss, because Hannigan's clearly a catch!

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but she wants your mum and not you, so that's gotta hurt...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Nah, if somebody goes for another dark-haired blue-eyed boy over me, that would hurt. They go for a blonde older woman, I just know I'm not her type.

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

you know you want to nick your mum's girlfriend and go on Trisha!
imagine, all those peons in a room with you, lax secuirty checks, high-ordnance weaponry could be smuggled in...
that's the trouble with you, baz, you never see the bigger picture! :D

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Why bother going in there at all, though? That's like the idiots in films who point their gun at someone then move in close enough to fall victim to a hand-to-hand attack!

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

so you're saying you reckon the Trisha audience could take you out?
If you're going to be supreme dictator for life you really need to work on the flexing of public muscle, baz!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Destroying the studio from orbit with some form of mass driver seems public enough to me.

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

i see your point. fair enough!

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

>ponders thoughts of Alyson Hannigan being my mum.....brain fails

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it, I kept thinking 'ooh, should introduce myself - oh wait, he's talking to someone'. Except during Temple, when it was more a question of having already found them unbellowable-over.

It's odd, I normally prefer singers who are unimpeded by instruments but last night those were the songs which seemed to me to have the most individual Low Edges-ness.