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an Inspiral epic (eclectic electric)
Current mood: Inspiralled
Category: Inspiralled Music
Ok so last week I bitched a bit about the hippies at Inspirals, but i can safely say with my hand on my heart that my faith in all things open toed was restored this week, when instead of a free for all melt down at the sunday sesh , we had an amazing array of very talented musicians indeed,as usual i arrived early at 1 oclock and played one of my favourite chill out sessions I've played for ages, and dya know why? It went like this, I plugged in my laptop and digital mixer, and then thought bollox to this, mixing's for tossers, so I went on you tube and played 4 hours of stonking tunes off you tube!! haha yeah it's cheating and the dj purists amongst you can heckle but I was having fun and the cafe filled up and stayed full all day!! Kish turned up late with some excuse that he had a bad back up, let's face it we all know he was wanking in the lounge which was ok , as William our other compadre never even showed up or called.(fucking guy i kick his dog!) And i have to say the best thing about kish turning up was the hour or so of stretched out minimal tech dub he played, Man the guy was rocking ze anus to the loungecore bone..... Fucking magic! So after while at about 7 we set the stage up with all new cables etc, get the room sounding magic then we were blessed by an amazing array of great musicians, Although it would be wrong to single anyone out as they were all fucking amazing(which is a rare thing on open nights) I have to say that some of my favourites this week were,The Irrepresible Rebecca Hope and her percussionist Hugo,Dor Wanda,(our host for the evening), and some crazy guy from Bristol called Stanley who had us in stitches with these fucked up comedy songs man he was good and very unnassuming which is nice.What blew me away as much as anything were the staff at inspirals who not only grafted there tits/nuts off all day but then out of the blue ,Pink GEM, one of the amazing doers at inspirals got up an sang three tracks of opera accapello!!! I shit you not! i was completley gobsmacked and as those of you that know me know, these things just don't happen, i don't get gob smacked often. All the rest were amazing and Kindly allowed me to record there stuff for posterity and for the Music 4 Children/Inspirals live album which is coming soon so stay tuned for that.
See ya next sunday for some more inspired stuff hugs as ever easy (Eclectic Electric)xxx
this weekend at Inspirals lounge camden
Current mood: exhausted
Category: Music
Well this week saw Kish and I at inspirals lounge camden for another day and night of wierdness, I arrived early in the afternoon and had 3 great hours of djing loungeor which i love to death, we played a great set of all genre world music electronica etc, and had a whale of a time doing it. It seems that it may be a regular slot for us and i am up for it. In the evening they have an accoustic singer songwriter poetry thing which i have very foolishly volunteered to engineer, but last night i have to say it decended into chaos very quickly with no-one really knowing whos on when with what instruments etc, to be frank a nightmare ensued where the stage became a kind of free for all, and everyone was looking at us to make it sound good which is ok if the hippies had brought there own leads that work, and left the mics how i had set them up, half way through the jam session a very large very drunk bloke gets up onto the stage and starts stomping all over the leads, i watched in horror as i lost channel after channel on the mixer, and to be honest any hope of an emoliant gig after that was gone as i hadnt a clue which leads were working and which not. There were some fantastic artists after the jam session finished but they had to put up with crunching connections etc, which i felt was a real shame, had the stage not descended into chaos early in the night they could have had a great gig, the last straw was a beer spilt on the stage soaking all my guitar extension s and stuff, i wanted to go home.
next week i am having very strict rules for the stage because with just a little bit of control the sunday sesh at inspirals could become a classic and there are some great unsigned acts to be recorded which is what i wanna do, everybody deserves a chance to shine even mis behaved hippies.xx love n hugs as ever easy.xx
check out this German band !!
Current mood: bouncy
Category: Music
Ok after a European mash up last weekend that started in Switzerland then ended up in Berlin at the Fusion festival i can proudly announce that i found one of the best live bands i have heard in years, talk about leftfield, this band is a Fusion (very apt) of techno electro funk and indie. the link is below and i emplore you to go and hook up with them.
The trip started when we arrived in Berlin, we got a coach to the festival and from the moment we passed through the gates i knew it was going to be a great one, the party was set on an old wartime airfield with the stages in enclosed aircraft hangars covered with grass so as to be invisible from the air which was great as the superb quality soundsystems faced out to the crowds and the Germans know how to make a rig sound good believe me, we had a spare ticket and at the last moment one of my greatest mates john fish, booked a ticket to fly, we waited for him to arrive by taking a shiny and exploring the site.Whispers friend Veronica had bagged us a space in the camp site next to the main arena , which was lucky as with 50,000 ish people there the camping was a bit fraught. We took a tour of the whole site and i have to say every single place we stopped sounded amazing, and the people were so cool with us, i can't speak a word of german but everyone we spoke to tried making us feel good by trying some english and taking the piss in sign language, hehe i like Germans. The main arena was decked out beautifully with a marvellous pulsating flower light show in the middle of arena with a whopping 30- 50k of chrystal clear rig smashing us down to the floor with superb techno played by very talented DJ's. And the laser made me want to fall over. On saturday night we went to see BODI BILL because Veronica our German hostess and all her friends had said they were not be missed. As we waited for the band to come on there was a high tension vibe going through the crowd, there were around 4000 people in front of the stage and it felt like they were about to pop! I didn't know what to expect so I rolled a zoot and waited patiently,I had been told they were an indie techno folk fusion and to be honest i was slighty skeptical, after all it's difficult to imagine these three styles fusing successfully. HOWEVER.
The first note to come out of the system just said enough.The link above is there page and at this point i urge you to abandon this blog and go and have a listen, it may not be your taste in music and to be honest i would never have said it was mine, unless i had seen them live.There are alot of great bands out there but you know that some bands release cracking studio albums and then are shit live. HERE IS A BAND THAT IS AMAZING LIVE! So i cant wait to hear there album which i brought on line today. I can't believe it will be bad as i saw what they cando on stage and if they have half as much presence in the studio as they do on stage i beleive it will be the buy of the year. I can barely remember most of the set as i had my eyes closed and was dancing in a kalaedescope of pulsating metallic colours but every time i opened my eyes the band were bouncing off the stage walls, you could see that all they wanted to do was play music and thats all a band should want to do.
see you on the dance floor!!
by the way i am playing on the 27th july at inspirals camden so if ya fancy a bit of fun and raising your awareness come to the http://www.whaleofatime.org gig in camden. hugs as ever now back to my studying. easy.xxx
so it happened!! 20k on the player not sure what that means but if you want some more of my music i opened an iLife thingy where ther are 13 tracks for free download!
Today I noticed that in less than a year 14000 people took the time to read the insane ramblings of a lunatic mind that i (and my alter ego mandy at weekends) have spilled shamelessly on to these cyber pages!!! Its really weird that I just happened to pop onto this page when it was 14000 not 14001 or 13999. Thanks to everyone who had a read of and a bit of input to this madness, I am really quite shocked that people would even bother coming back for more, but if you did have a read then my guess is that you will probably have had a little giggle to! And that's the point, the only reason for it really is to have a laugh and share just how mental life is with you guys.
By the way i think my player may gett to 20000plays this week to! how odd to celebrations to be had in the same week!! GREAT! All my tunes are free to download so help you self! and if your the 20000th let me know i have a surprise for you!!
Hope your week is turning out as bright and excititing as mine!!
Well it seems I have to move on and find a new place to live which won't be easy as I am studying for my Web Design qualifications and have 6 months left to do it.
Being a skint artist at this point in my life is not what I need, I have a shit load of work to do on my course and no money for a deposit etc, then I have to find someone willing to put up with my cat,(who's adorable).
I have a feeling that a difficult part of my life is about to begin, but hey ho ce la vie, it won't be the first or the last for sure, if I can get a new housemate by the end of the month then it may be a reprieve but really you just kind of know when it's time to go and I am definatley feeling it like a cold breeze on the back of my neck. It's kind of pleasant on a sunny day and but feels like shit the rest of the time.
Perhaps things will resolve themselves, these things have a habit of presenting themselves for soloution when you mull them over a bit.
So if ya need a place to live or you have a room for a student and a cat. let me know! cheers.
Having got the mouldy bit out of the way, I hope your all well and feeling loved!!
It's amazing how good it feels just saying that.xx
2000 conversations and an empty inbox
Current mood: rejuvenated
Category: Life
Today i deleted my entire my space message history page by page, there were nearly 200 pages 2000 messages,As i went through them i was reminded of how i felt at given times over the last two years, and little snickets of conversations came flooding back to me, some made me giggle and some made me quite sad, sad because those correspondents friendships whatever meant a lot at the time and yet i was sitting and deleting them like junk mail which couldn't be further from the truth, yet still i deleted all but maybe 10 really special ones. The whole exercise though seemed to offer a great relief at the end of it, not least because deleting 2000 messages in groups of 10 is very labour intensive, but it felt as though i was clearing my own history of something, i'm not sure what though. I haven't been on my space for some months now as i got sucked in to that other pile of shite facebook for a while and i realised that that to has very little to offer in the way of communication, or not enough of as is most often the case, non- communication. It seems to me that in this digital cyberspace that we live in of social networking for the sake of it, non-communication is a valuable asset that we don't seem to have any more, the power to ignore, insulate ourselves, or just generally be alone because we need to seems to have been sacrificed for the ever expanding friends i don't know list. My space music is a little different because it offers us opportunities to explore and indulge our need to create and enjoy creativity where as the other networks seem to edge into your everyday existence like a gossip column that never ends,do we need this digital companion more than we need to be alone with our own thoughts? It worries me that we might, and worries me more that it's considered entertainment and it really worries me that the ease of how we are entertained as a race ,a conciousness, now boils down to a status statement like.............
Iain is..... pissed off coz the cat has a verouka or Jane is.... constipated but should have a shit in the morning.
I hope you feel your worth more than that, and now that i will be here again fairly regularly, i look forward to some great conversations again and exercising a little mental banter and look forward to being entertained by all your great music.
AS I HAVE A N EMPTY IN BOX NOW START A CONVERSATION!! GO ON DARE YOU BECAUSE STATUS UPDATES DON'T TALK BACK!!
I dont know if anyone really noticed, I mean....I wouldn..t dare suggest that the general ramblings of a shiny eyed bitch like me,would perhaps be missed. Let..s face it, if someone came up to you at a party and blathered on at you like I do sometimes, you would have it for a while, but ya wouldnt mind a breather to get a word in edgeways would you.Well for some of you I have a bit of slightly disturbing news, the munter is back, yup, I know youve had better news recently but hey its not that bad!
I have been taking a digital sabatical from my space for a while and getting on with things like education!!! yup:) Mandy a weekends is going to be a web designer and hope fully a fairly competent one, and my music has had to take a bit of a back step along with the partying and general generic misbehaviour.
YOU will be pleased to know that non-generic misbehaviour has been positively blossoming and now I..m a nil by nose munter and enjoying every bit of it!!
NOW!!! Here..s a play list of tunes that I put together on you tube, theres some funny old stuff and again its a very mixed bag!!!
Its called INTERNATIONAL LOVE INN!!!
THE NAME SAYS IT ALL.
MISSED YOU CRAZY CATS. HUGS EASY GETON THE LOVE OFFENSIVE 2008!
I`ve been a bit off the blogging latley due to having a life!! Yeah i know it may amaze some of you as it amazes me to, i discovered i have a life. Ok i admit that may sound a bit chirppy and positive for this time of a monday morning but i had a busy weekend staying in and listening to music whilst surprisingly straight. Last week however was not as sane.I went to a great birthday party for my great mate kelly, i arrived late but in real terms i guess you could say i started a bit early and as Bill the trip man had brought his very birthday best, it was a bit of a religious decision to down the hatch without a scratch and enjoy the fruits of the bottle.drip drip, the night had begun with a bang. After a shiny to get the fluff in the mix i can safely say the night warmed up and so did the comedy, northern jay sensing my rapidly elevating conciousness was ready for a comedy moment of epic proportions. He decided to play with my head. As we stood in the bit too narrow kitchen,(northern jay is a 7ft tall 3ft wide hulking fluff munter of the highest order) He gets a tea towell in the biggest hand you have ever seen and neatly tucks and folds it in to the pockets between his fingers, by this time i am completely tripping my tits off and locked on to the show. Some how he made a chicken plucked and ready for the oven out of a clever folding and rolling a tea towel trick, you may think the acid was getting the better of me and perhaps it was a little, because i had entered in to a laughing fit last seen at the memorable 1984 tickling olympics, you`ll no doubt recall when feather fingers mcgraw and randy von ticklybitch went belly to belly in the final with ticklybitch taking the gold back to croatia, and addiing greatly to the team effort in stealing the relay silver! After an in determinable period of time and great tunes, the phone rings and its kish the pirate munter.I tell him theres fun to be had and make an accord for him to come as long as he bring a serving whench with him and laugh as he puts the phone down. After another indetermiinable period of time , (i`d say a couple of shinies worth) the bell rings and its Kish with a 6ft tall pirate girl called in Alison in tow!!! I`m impressed , Kish never lets me down as a rule but this time i can see he`s been boarding and pillaging with some acumen.She is a sweet girl kinda boarded by surprise and easily lead to treasure island, which is a slight paradox ads i managed to end up at her work with her and kish the next night drinking jaegemeister doubles till closing, to be honest i dont remember the journey home very well perhaps thats a blessiing. He he. All said and done a very pleasnt nil by nose weekend for mandy at weekends. Now i`d better get back to admin monday or i shall have to give my self a written warning. hugs as ever Easy uk ps GET ON THE LOVE OFFENSIVE 2008!!
cheerful
exhausted
bouncy
pensive
aroused
DAMN
rejuvenated
bummed
awake