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The UM Archive for March, 2012

Hannah’s Barber

God I hate the thing whereby when you know that if you want to write about anything properly you know it’s going to take a lot of time and effort to do it justice, and the word count will pretty high too, but here it is, an unlikely-ish story. Ever since Nochexxx played me the [...]

The Internet

My niece was round here the other day. They don’t have a TV at home so she just watches the internet. Not unsusual behaviour I suppose but it made me ponder growing up with the web like that.
Here are the four videos I watched yesterday on the nets, for no particular reason.

The Chap

Was just reading this thing about The Chap, who play The Citadel Of Dreams tomorrow night, Cambridge night people, and I saw they have included some very old Um in their mix, bless them. I don’t know how serious they are about this blacklist thing but I always think The Chap are the sort of [...]

Dooze on down the road.

Local performance for yer Doozers and fleet-fingered fifth-Beatle type C Joynes of Histon, conjured up in order for a kicking off of a small-but-worryingly-sexy tour of North Europe! Say hoi to our pals at The Swedish Embassy etc. Here’s the official blarb:
Dearest Friends and Acquaintances,
You may have seen and heard right as THE DOOZER will [...]

Home Link

Just finished this bit of writing which was started some months ago:
The other day I arrived at work on the residential street where the blind lady lives and as I parked my bike the top window of one of the flats opposite flung open and, somewhat superimposed by loud dancehall reggae a subjectively mildly coarse [...]

Norman is selling me.

Can’t Get Started, the new narrowly acclaimed 10″ record on my own Grist label, is now for sale here also! Thanks to the guys at Norman. I buy quite a few records there so they probably figured fuckit, but like the people in the Dr Seuss book they have a useful Mike who writes reviews [...]

KY debrief

Some reviewage of the Kettle’s Yard thing. I wasn’t ecstatic about how my thing came over and out, to be honest, but KY is a weird jelly to be stuck in, especially at midday on a Sunday morning. Then again, I’d had a nagging feeling that what I was going to say was going to [...]