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Gig Blogged #83 - Shonen Knife @ Firebug, Leicester

Shonen Knife @ Firebug, Leicester, Friday 19th June 2009

Now showing over @ palmereldritch.co.uk and facebook.com/palmer.eldritch

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Gig Blogged #82 - PJ Harvey & John Parish @ Oxford Brookes Uni SU

PJ Harvey & John Parish @ Oxford Brookes University Students' Union, Thursday 19th April, 2009

Now showing over @ palmereldritch.co.uk

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Gig Blogged #81 - Judas Priest @ Wembley Arena

Judas Priest @ Wembley Arena, Saturday 21st February 2009. The 'Priest Feast', with Megadeth and Testament. Now showing over @ palmereldritch.co.uk.

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

RIP Lux Interior, October 21, 1946 – February 4, 2009

The Zap Gun - "The new breed of experimental, low-powered laser weapons may or may not become useful on the battlefield. But at least they've got over-the-top-comic-book-name thing right."

A Scanner Darkly - "Once again ministers have shown that the ID card project is absolutely farcical. What is the point of spending billions of pounds on cards that can't be read in the UK?"

Confessions of a Crap Artist - "Unless something can be measured, it cannot be improved."

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--- Dick-Headlines --- Inside the Rise of the Warbots

Army of tiny robots grows in number and sophistication

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Lichens @ St. Giles-in-the-Fields Church, London, 20th May 2008

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The Zap Gun - "The last sixty years has seen a frenzied tango between strategy and technology that has left us with the chilling array of doomsday machines seen here."

Return Match - "Inside a mild-mannered toy golf cup, the kind that pop the ball back at you when you sink a putt (and make you go walk for it when you miss), lurks a lethal weapon -- a tiny rail gun just waiting to serve."

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? - "One of the main characters in Forbidden Science is a clone, and Brode says he deliberately chose to focus on the precarious humanity of clones rather than androids - partly because robots and androids "have already been done before by terrific people." "

Radio Free Albemuth - "The government is to exempt details of all MPs' and peers' expenses from being disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, and nullify all past requests by journalists and campaigners to get them published."

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--- Dick-Headline --- Android-powered camera hat keeps mom in the loop and lookin' sharp

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Top Gig Blogged 2008

Another tough choice this year. Shall I shit myself, or puke? But enough of my New Year's stomach upset, onto my gig of the year. And what a surfeit of high-volume peaches it turned out to be; beginning with Bilge Pump and Lords sweating the fuck out of a rickety Nottingham hostelry and Merzbow blowing De Montfort Uni's electrics several times, then staggering through the mighty Melt-Banana to crash into Slayer showing some Kiss / Metallica tribute how it should be done.

But it is to the less ear-shredding side the award goes; a joint award, in fact, since both acts were equally staggering. In the perfect venue of London's St. Giles-in-the-Fields church, Stars of the Lid and Lichens were undisputed kings of the musical trip.

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You Don't Really Care For Music, Do You?

I heard there was a TV show
Where cash was flash and taste was low
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this - the poor, the bad,
The desperate hope, the really sad,
And not caring that the man called Cowell screws you

Cowell screws you,
Cowell screws you,
Cowell screws you.

Well your voice was strong, but your eyes were crossed
The audition show you nearly lost
And thinking of some real-life agony nearly threw you
How your mother's in a cancer ward,
Your father by a bull was gored
And your children try to forget they ever knew you

How could you dare?
How could you, yeah?
How could you? Yeah.

We're been here so many times before
The annual grind, the winning whore,
The Christmas number one that will slice through you
The judges sit, a turgid wall
With plastic faces that appall
The sight just seems like Death is sticking to you

Sad but true, yeah.
Sad but true, yeah.
Sad but true, yeah.

Well there was a time when it wasn't on
And we might have got a decent song
But now it's airbrushed rubbish that they do, yeah.
Overblown and mawkish, pointless guff
When will people cry 'enough's enough'
And stop spending all their cash on total poo, yeah.

What to do? Yeah.
How could you dare?
How could you? Yeah.

There cannot be a God above
This total farce they are not sick of
But the sound of money means they are deaf to you
If you only buy what you're told to buy
And you cannot ask the question 'why?'
Then you're owned by Cowell and love it when he screws you

Cowell screws you,
Cowell screws you,
Cowell screws you.

Satch and All His Friends

Hands up who thought the Joe 'Satch' Satriani / Coldplay plagiarism-gasm was something to do with Louis Armstrong. Anyone? Well, I'm afraid I did and it has resulted in the following candidate for this year's Christmas Number One™ :

I see trees of green ... red roses too
You copy me .... and I copy you
And I think to myself ... what a wonderful world.

I see a man who's bald ... a band that are shite
Spending their money ... to have a big fight
And I think to myself ... what a wonderful world.

The colour of money ... so pretty in your eyes
You can't take it with you ... you're still gonna die
I see friends shaking heads ... sayin' 'Hey, good luck...'
They're really sayin' ... 'what the fuck?'

I hear artists cry ... I watch them go
They've learned much more ... than they'll ever know
And I think to myself ... what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself ... what a wonderful world ...

The next question is, are Iron Butterfly going to wade in? Or Ricky Martin? (Perhaps not, as he's a relative of the 'play's lead warbler...

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Gig Blogged #80 - Slayer @ Wolverhampton Civic

Slayer @ the Wolverhampton Civic, Tuesday 28th October, 2008.

Now showing over at palmereldritch.co.uk

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Gig Blogged #79 - Lords @ Leicester Criterion

Lords @ the Criterion, Leicester, Monday 27th October, 2008.

Now showing over at palmereldritch.co.uk