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The UM Archive for February, 2010

Interminably short

There’s tons of negative things you could say about me, but I can’t see that I’m interminably dull. Surely my songs can’t be too long as well as too short?
Not sure that anyone has a “rangy beard” either, let alone Thom Yorke.

Local Artist

Comedy gurn.

Moving Tone Thom Yorke review.

Patrick Widdess reports on Thom Yorke – The Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 25 February 2010
Fans were queuing outside the Corn Exchange all day for the hotly anticipated gig by the Radiohead frontman. From the moment it was announced it looked set to be the gig of the year if not the decade. Good news for the [...]

Thom Yorke gig review in The Tab.

Bloody students.
Thom Yorke
by George Osborn and Chloe Mashiter
on 26th February 2010
George Osborn
When the news broke that Thom Yorke had announced his intention to play a gig in Cambridge, all fans of good music in the city fell into disbelief. Yes, we’ve played host to many of the mid to big hitters in our fair university [...]

“Maybe worth discovering…”

That’s like my entire oeuvre (starting to overuse that word, but I still have to Google it for the spelling every single time) summed up there.
Next sunday, 21.02.10, Pete Um will be the focus of our 21st siesta session. As a crooner of outer space he delights in cynical rants on life and love. DJ [...]

Ooh… controversy, almost.

Just seen this at The Tab.
Thom Yorke will be supported by experimental Cambridge solo artist Pete Um, whose website contains several simple drawings of genitalia along with slogans such as ‘Democracy is for pussies’.
The Green Party Cambridge Co-ordinator, James Youd, said that the party ‘did not endorse this’.

Possibly matey would have to say that and [...]

A new low for blogging…

I cut and pasted this from my Twitter page due to laziness. You have to read it from the bottom up.
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Also recommend next time I’m first on the bill at The Portland as I reckon I will be full of mischief. 13 minutes ago via web
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SIESTA SESSION #21 : PETE UM (LIVE) + MERRYL HARDT + KOSTEN KOPER

And this is the gig in Brussels on Sunday afternoon.
SIESTA SESSION #21 : PETE UM (LIVE) + MERRYL HARDT + KOSTEN KOPER
Um is the glint in Delia Derbyshire’s eye as she puts Kurt Schwitters and Julian Cope to the razor blade
Type:
Music/Arts – Performance
Network:
Global
Date:
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Time:
3:00pm – 8:00pm
Location:
Les Ateliers Claus
Street:
15 Rue Crickx
City/Town:
Brussels, Belgium
SIESTA SESSION [...]

Marcel

This is that thing I’m doing in Belgium. It sounds pretty grand for something I came back from the pub and mumbled into the microphone. The recent train crash in Belgium made it look as though I wouldn’t be going for a while.
‘MARCEL’ : A film by The Collective Marcel, avant-première @ Netwerk
A collectively made [...]

The Social Astronaut on The If Show.

Nice of them to play me and then Can to rinse out people’s ears. Sometimes that song sounds great to me and sometimes not.
From 15th February:
Gil Scott Heron – Me and the Devil
Carl Orff – Exert from Schulwerk 1 Music Poetica
Geste – Ohm Sick
Bleeding Heart Narrative – Colours turn colours
Pete Um – The social [...]