Reggae & Ska Night - Basement Bar York

Another gig coming up in the Basement bar York. Saturday 21st Nov 09 (8pm till late). Part of the Fullmoon production parties, in aid of Survival and Amnesty International. Playing Reggae & Ska also a bit of dancehall and Dub. It's gonna be excellent.

Get yourselves there for a right shake a-bout

I've now found the fyler.

Peace from your selector in chief

Mooks

Pitcher & Piano - Gig

Had a recent party in pitcher & piano York. To review the place:

What a sound system - Overall quality = terrible. Lots of bass which is great but no graphic equalizer. Which meant there was no way of controlling the sound. The only way we could compensate was to reduce the volume. Not good. Mixer well into the red! Ugg.

Still they had done out the gaff well, looked the business. Drinks where really expensive. After party was better.

Beat Pilots gig Sat 19th April!!!!

The Beat Pilots are playing their whacky blend of Electronica, Breaks, Techno dance music at the York Winning Post this Saturday! Its for charity (Amnesty and Survival Int). A little birdie told me that they will be doing a 4 Deck 4 hour back to back set! Neat.

Spring has Sprung

Wow I've been busy recently. I think in all the being indoors in front of a computer Spring has passed me by. However this morning I noticed some ducky poos on my way to work.

I've been snowed under with OU work assignments, finishing at my old work and starting a new job, looking after the kids and trying to prepare for this April's gig.

I saw the replacement for my old job making himself comfortable in my chair

The new job has been going well. It's quite tiring trying to learn so many new things. I'm really glad to have the challenge though, the company seem really good and the people are a friendly bunch of guys. Its great to be working with such a large infrastructure with so much going on and plenty new stuff to learn. The futures looking bright.

Filey

Went to Filey today, nice, sea sand

Zapatista Phone jacker

Agg

Banana horse

Banana horse banana hopre, more of a banana than a horse of course!

Pingu Dreams

Gator attack!

That peesky boy got what he deserved. The reptile dragged him off into the river never to be seen again. Well not quite.

Flood

It has flooded again

I like it here

I dont know why but the cat likes to sit in the wet sink? I wander if other cats do this?

Animals of the bath

Found a ark worth of beasts migrating along my bath this morning. I dont know why or where but its nice to see such harmony in nature

Straight from the source

Our strange cat refuses to drink stagnant water in 2 bowl. Oh no its far to common for bernard instead his lordship must have fresh running water. He also points to his food when he wants some and knocks on the door when he wants to come in after hes played out with his catty friends.

Happy birthday

Boy is 8 today! Makes me feel old. Here is the great cake.

Advent Grotto

Its been the York Steiner School advent farye today.  Which was the usual enjoyable chaos and bedlum.  The best bit is always the advent grotto, which is a normal room transformed into a cave of delights.  The floor is strewn with leaves, fake snow, snow fakes, leaves, trees, elves, christmas scenes, nativity stuff, gnomie gardens, gnomie caves, glittering lights, sparkling snow drops, gems, gold, silver, frankincense, mir and a thousand of other treasures.

It all reminds me a bit of stepping through the wardrobe in "the lion the witch an

d the wardrobe" or opening the box of delights (as in the "box of delghts" a great 80s kids series which was pure magic when I was a lad).  There was no fawn or snow witch but there was a softly spoken guide to highlight the points of interest.  Good fun almost as good fun as "punch drunk" at the Big Chill festival 2004, that was pure magic too (street theatre come willy wonkas chocolate factory in one).

The bees

Well not quite cos me camera is not that good. So its just chris watching the bees.

Old man in stone

I walked round the treasurers gardens in york today. Nice. I felt a bit like gentry. Then we stumbled on this old rock which is probably a bit of minster rock, which is like really tough and salty blackpool rock. However the rock looks like a old man with his head in his hands! Look closer it really does! Amazing spooky wierd rock stuff

Helpdesk for hobbit

I've made a special helpdesk flag for hobbit. Its nice, mixing both goth metal and campness. Are you being served?

Hippies use the back door no exceptions

This sign appears in the window of a building in york. I guess they dont like hippies or just would prefer them to use the back door? Strange, curious world.

Glossy Leopard Raah!

I've turned tail on Windows and purchased a Macbook! Even though my main job role involves Windows Admin and support on a personal level I'd rather use an apple mac.

I'm fed up with wasting time updating security holes in windows and would rather use something that works well, out of the box.

It hasn't arrived yet and looks like it might take awhile boo hoo. I hate waiting for orders. Which makes me think about where it has come from? China to California to Ireland to England. Maybe. Who knows......

........Anyway Raaah!