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Kitty and the Can Openers on BalconyTV
You can download their full E.P. on the band’s website.
Not long left to vote for the band on SlicethePie... Kitty and the Can Openers on BalconyTV
You can download their full E.P. on the band’s website.
Not long left to vote for the band on SlicethePie... show me things via iced coffee words
JC Skinner wants your vote via Skin Flicks
I love this video via www.neilmct.com
I mentioned this under the comments section of the last vid and although I don't like posting too many vids in a row, this deserves a mention....
creative camp belfast via iced coffee words
This Saturday the first Creative Camp Belfast takes place at Blick Shared Studios (beware, your browser may resize and ears exposed to annoying bell sounds).
CreativeCamp is a self-organised “unconference” - made up of open, participatory workshop-events where the participants are responsible for setting the agenda, deciding on topics and generating the content. CreativeCamp Belfast brings together technology and creative enthusiasts who want to make things happen with web, mobile, open source, new media, music and design.
The event is free to attend - food, drinks, projectors & wifi will all be made available. More information on the workshops, discussions, talks and portfolio presentations will emerge as people sign-up to take part.
So far 75 people have registered to... I was in the Provos … via Skin Flicks
... and all I got was this lousy power-sharing executive.Well, I wasn't, but a lot of people I'm aware of, have met, have socialised with, were part of the militant Republican movement.The war was declared over some years back. Now the British overlords have confirmed that the transition to mainstream political activity is complete.I suppose there wasn't much time left for Martin McGuinness (see pic, far right) to be holding IRA council meetings since his day job as Deputy First Minister to Ian Paisley and Mr Iris Robinson (who himself was a terrorist in his day, as the people of Clontibret can testify, see pic below) takes up so many hours.But today's final nail in the Provo coffin must be hard to bear for some of the ground level volunteers - the people who took a guerilla war to what...
2012 Prep. via www.neilmct.com
Thanks to Karen for forwarding this on . . v good!
GYMNASTIQUE PEKIN 2008 (REMI GAILLARD)Uploaded by...
Bee Stung via Skin Flicks
I went to mow the lawn today. I don't do this very often, because I'm not really into gardening. So in a sense, I only have myself to blame for what happened next.As I was merrily mowing down the long grass to a more manageable level, I suddenly found myself in a cloud of irate buzzing insects.Usain Bolt wouldn't have beaten me in the sprint to the kitchen door.Since then, I've been watching from behind locked doors and glass as the buzzers hover in an angry cloud, coming and going from their ground nest, whose top I've lopped off with the mower.A couple of calls to pest control later, and it seems like that's all I'm allowed to do. My vision of astronaut-suited pest controllers pumping chemicals into the lawn or dowsing the entire garden in plumes of toxic smoke have sadly vanished.No...
links and things - monday 1st september via iced coffee words
The legal age to buy tobacco in Northern Ireland has risen from 16 to 18 today.
The Eiffel Tower is going eco.
In South Belfast there are 116 sex offenders living publicly.
Add friends’ birthdays to google calendar or ical from facebook.
NIPodcast is now on episode three. An unoriginally titled music podcast from NI and ROI.
Some words of wisdom from Alexia.
Coolsites.ie was launched today by Michele Neylon:
I plan on posting a site every day if I can, so if you know of any nice, cool or simply interesting sites that I should mention please let me know via email to submissions@coolsites.ie. I’d strongly recommend that you use the subject line “coolsites.ie submission”, as it will get lost in my inbox otherwise.
Another great web app for Twitter from Cork; Tweetrush... No more conspiracy theory crap please via Skin Flicks
last standing via iced coffee words
Every so often a ‘Battle of the Bands’ pops up on the radar, each one to be better than any before it. Last Standing with its emphasis on war rather than battle, may prove itself to be stronger than its predecessors of the genre of musician competitiveness.
Last-standing.com Is a social networking site for Northern Irish bands; trying to build networks between bands in NI to strengthen our collective position in the music industry. Also runs a Battle of the Bands which is open to entrants right now, heats are on around NI to to determine the finalists, the finalists will then battle for a chance to win £2000’s worth of prizes, including:
- cash prize
- demo recording at Shabby Road studio
- 100 copies of the demo
- expert advice from those in the music and promotion... Covermodel Comp 2008 via www.neilmct.com
Rach scrubbed up well when I convinced her to ditch the power lifting outfit and wash the grip chalk from her hands . .
What a party!
Congrats to Men's Health and a big thank you for inviting us over to the annual cover model competition. As a member of staff this year and not a finalist, I was able to enjoy the event without being a blubbering bundle of nerves. It all kicked off with...
Miss Alaska for Vice-President? via Skin Flicks
Or maybe even for President in four years time?It seems that John McCain has decided to go with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential candidate.It's a superlative choice that's really going to let the Democrats know they're in a fight for the Whitehouse.She is a dream candidate for the Republicans - she's extremely photogenic (even now, as opposed to her beauty queen heyday, right), married to an Inuit (there goes a slice of Obama's ethnic vote), the mother of a Downs' Syndrome kid, and has actual experience of governance (unlike Obama, Biden or McCain).She'll appeal to the ethnic vote, to the swing vote and to the still disgruntled Clintonista sisterhood vote.An election that ought on paper to have been a Democrat landslide is now blown wide open. They have the wrong...
Civilisation is crumbling via Skin Flicks
'Civilisation is crumbling,' said Bill the Butcher (right) in 'Gangs of New York.'Bill was correct, of course. Just a century or so premature in his diagnosis.But two news items today indicate that Bill's prescient prediction is now coming true.Firstly, a book written by a chimp has been nominated for a best first book award.Now, I'm going out on a limb here, but I reckon that the monkey didn't write the book. No matter how many years he was chained to a typewriter. I'm guessing it was written by a bunch of marketing scum, seeking to 'create some buzz' around nothing by billing their verbal silage as being the product of a monkey.Every year, tens of thousands of debut novels emerge onto the market to a resounding silence from the media, the review pages, the awards lists. This is how it...
Pervert Central - South Belfast via Skin Flicks
links and things - wednesday 28th august 2008 via iced coffee words
summer experiment via iced coffee words
The Summer Experiment play Auntie Annies on Wednesday 27th August. Then disappear into the night. Never to be seen again.
They said it better than I could
What happens when a band is faced with its own end before it even gets off its feet? Would this knowledge change their plan of action? Could it change the band’s dynamic? Could it even change the music? The Experiment is exactly this: a ‘band’ in its dying days from before you had even heard of them….it is what it is…no strings attached…just creativity. Doing what you can while you can. This is what we decided to make of Summer 2008 and we hope to remind everyone of the amazing things that happen when artists just allow themselves to create.”
The Summer Experiment taking place in Auntie Annies,... Diary of events - new gym plan via www.neilmct.com
Lots going on at the mo. First off congratulations to the missus for her successful interview with Fitness First. Rachael will be moving into sales in our place next month. Next up we are off to London this week for the Men's Health Cover model awards party.
Guaranteed to be an awesome night. The winner will be on the cover of the Oct edition available in Sept. In September Rach will be...
Obama becoming more unelectable by the day via Skin Flicks
Apparently it IS possible to make Brack Hussein Obama even more unelectable than he already is.Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next never-will-be-vice-president of the United States, Joe Biden.Okay, he's an aged white man, just like the Obamaniacs wanted (though one wonders why.)But he's also one of the wettest eco-liberals in US politics. Not exactly the sort of person to mitigate and soften Obama's own hyper-lefty tendencies so much as exaggerate and amplify them.Biden's pro-environment, pro-choice, anti-tax cuts, pro-gun control and pro-gay civil unions. Whatever the merits of any of those individual positions, they certainly won't endear the Obama ticket to the MOR Republican-lite voters and undecideds that they need to get over the line in November. If anything, the opposite.He...
links and things - friday 22nd august 2008 via iced coffee words
John Baucher launched his Ttv (Through the Viewfinder) exhibition ‘Old meets New’ last week. The exhibition runs in the Black Box until 16th Sept. Here is a shot he took of me outside the venue:
10 yrs on, too much Google? Still doing no Evil?
They have amassed more information about people in 10 years than all the governments of the world put together. They make the Stasi and the KGB look like the innocent old granny next door.
Google’s tentacles are everywhere. It runs services for blogging, email, instant messaging, shopping and social networking. It offers a suite of word processing, spreadsheet and other tools to rival Microsoft’s products in the workplace. It is building a software platform for mobile phones that may challenge Apple’s iPhone and... Gary Glitter’s new runaround via Skin Flicks
Apparently, Gary Glitter has now agreed to return to the UK, after faking a heart attack to avoid his flight and trying to flee to Hong Kong instead.Now that he's accepted he must return to Britain, he's already gone and bought a new motor. If you're in London any time soon, look out for the new glittermobile:...
Baldy Blogger dies via Skin Flicks
RIP to the Baldy Blogger, the award-winning, brave Adrian Sudbury who died in his sleep last night.Adrian did more than anyone to demonstrate the validity of blogging as an activity.His online testimony of his illness helped to demystify the medicalese surrounding leukaemia and cancer in general.And his selflessness in sharing his experiences, and explaining and contextualising them for the lay person, is some feat given that he was suffering a terminal illness.He died at the age of 27. But he achieved more than most people do in three times long a life.Baldy blogger, RIP....
Asian babes not good enough for marketing mongs via Skin Flicks
Apparently Asian babes aren't good enough for the marketing morons at chav outfitters, the incorrectly named Top Shop.When they decided to foist their tacky, ill-fitting clothing on the people of China, the advertising wonks didn't think to hire some local models to try to make their clobber look wearable.Nope, instead they spunked 24 million euro on ageing addict Cocaine Kate.According to one fashion victim, the reason why people keep giving this human car crash so much money for effectively just standing about looking bored while wearing clothes is because of her 'look.'Now, I'm no fashion expert. So I rely on those morons who are to inform me as to what this magical 'look' is (since to my untutored eye she looks exactly like what she is, which is a skinny, coked-up chav from...
Moron Moments - Corn Market Upgrade via The Great Wee Azoo
The modernisation work on Belfast city centre's tired pavements is well underway. In the main, the results are impressive.Yet, I'm surprised that no one thought to relocate the electricity box that stood beside the old bandstand in Corn Market.Now that the bandstand is gone, the electricity box stands alone and incongrous in the middle of Corn Market, at the approach to the new Victoria Centre.It would appear that amid the hysteria that surrounded the development of Belfast's flagship shopping centre, someone forgot about the little details.Copyright The Great Wee...
slicethepie via iced coffee words
What is SlicethePie?
Slicethepie is a web based artist financing engine that raises money for artists to professionally record an album. It enables users to invest in, profit from, and trade in artists’ success by turning every music fan into a talent scout and investor.
On Slicethepie:
Artists can raise money directly from their fans to professionally record albums
Fans can become emotionally and financially involved at all levels of the music industry - scouting, breaking, investing in and influencing real artists
Investors can gamble on, trade in and profit from the success of these artists
Artists who secure finance pay Slicethepie a small royalty on album sales but keep all their copyright and publishing rights.
Essentially, Artsits join an Arena and once the arena is full (up to... links and things - monday 18th august 2008 via iced coffee words
Disaster ! via www.neilmct.com
I saw this linked on the Mens Health forums and nearly died. I really do feel sorry for this kid and his disaster bulk which he seems to think has been a success. Note to everyone out there - a bit of dirty bulking is fine but getting fat is not cool and simply trains the body to enjoy storing extra fat - the fatter you get the harder it will be to lean out. When you think of how well Evan, the...
belfast floods via iced coffee words
What started out as a lot of heavy rain as I headed to Enniskillen for the VibeFest with Kitty and the Can Openers, turned into widespread flooding across Northern Ireland.
Unfortunately the festival was first postponed due to the rain and flooding on the field, then eventually cancelled. So after much waiting around we made our way back to Belfast on the bus.
It continued to rain.
Here is what we saw on our way home (they aren’t great quality as the bus window was very wet also):
All the stuff in the centre is water, and that was a road!... Your boys took a helluva beating… via Skin Flicks
Yes, that really is a man in South Ossetia riding a tricycle through a war zone wearing a Tyrone GAA jersey.No, the picture is not photoshopped. It was taken by an Associated Press photographer and was published on the Guardian website last Wednesday.I can only assume that while the lad is somewhat unhappy about Russia invading his country and looting and destroying it, he might be just a little pleased to hear that his adopted Gaelic football county slaughtered the Dubs at Croker today.Okay, maybe 'slaughtered' isn't quite the most appropriate word.Sorry!...