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Mugged! My Story By Man From Uranus

Um "Holy Fire" Strawberry Fair 2004

Soft Bodies Don’t Bleed

I’m on this comp with all these other people I know! I know!

My effort:

£3 download or £5 CD. Cheap!

No-one.

My favourite song off The British Public record now has a video crafted thoughtfully by Man From Uranus. This is it.

Vapour

Great little film from that event at Reworks I played at some rainy day at the end of last year. I still need to do a post about that. I’m in the video doing my old-man-ranting-at-table act, or whatever it is.

Vapour from Ann Evelin Lawford on Vimeo.

Vimeo blurb sez:

UK / 2012 / 3’35” / Nikon D90

VAPOUR performed at the Reworks closing show on the 24th November 2012.

VAPOUR are a collective of musicians and artists based in Cambridge, UK whose performances feature improvised live manipulation of real-time spoken word, pre-recorded and real-time generated sounds, hand made art works, and overtly processed video. They are actively involved in live performance (both musical and theatrical), art installations, and Internet radio broadcasts.

Dereckvon

I’m becoming a big fan of this guy’s videos. He’s such a dude. If I had a terminal disease I’d go to India for a bit and then ask for 12 hours in a comfy chair round his. Check out his things on free jazz and punk too.

Precog

Etcetera lol.

Duane in the membrane.

Sealed copy!

No spoilers for scrollers but this particularly hit home cos his female artist find is a flavour in the poor Mouse taste.

Also, I’m all about I got this for nothing and it’s worth a little bit more than something but fuck this guy. There’s more honour in the pointless Smaug-hoarding I’m guilty of than matey’s trembly-handed Tori score. “Not so much in selection, but in what I got.”

Old Songs

In a weird twist my brother has discovered the internet and uploaded some old Antiques Roadshow footage here of me doing Just Like Kurt. Actually I don’t think it’s that old cos I’m guessing it’s me supporting Steve Mason at The Haymakers when he described me as an old man in a pub or something and Simon Baker paid me in Guinness. I wrote about it elsewhere on these pages somewhere…

Nakamichi Taking

Couldn’t resist buying a largely unecessary tape deck in Resale the other week, or bragging about it on YouTube:

Subsequently quite shocked to see some pisstake artist has uploaded some sort of parody of my serious hi-fi investigation!

SWITCHED-ON GUITARS

Some old friends and family in this spacerock allstars vessel. First track is a fucking cooker!

C Joynes Questioned

Great interview of the self-styled fretwonk here

A musician after my own heart, albeit a highly-skilled musician who isn’t a non-musician.

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