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The UM Archive for April, 2003

View From The Fen With Pete UM

Seem to have got another year older today. Truly, time is a fucked thing. To think some some people live to be 99. I was thinking the other day about my childhood, and of being at Primary School in Guildford, and I managed to tune in to the atmosphere of the time like an amateur [...]

How Ed and I almost slept rough in Letchworth

Did a gig the other day at The Buffalo Bar in Islington. Went down with Eddy drinking Banrock Station on the train. Nice place with good PA. Had to ask the soundboy to turn the monitors down, which is a first. I just wasn’t used to hearing the minidisk so clearly, and it interfered with [...]

World Party/Acid ship/Um live at The Tate/flatpack disaster

The other night I dreamt I was doing a gig at The Royal Festival Hall, supporting World Party. I started playing and was immediately beset by sound problems, but unlike the other night in real life at the Portland I managed to keep a handle on things and announced that I would return in ten [...]

Oxford fallout…Me & Thom Yorke

Scattered sense data from the last month or so:
Last night dreaming of Burt Reynolds performing my song “Operating Myths” (unreleased) in a tuxedo with a band inside a big film/TV studio. I think this is telling me I should be thinking big.
Hanging out with Dimitri in Oxford waiting to do my [...]