Category Archives: gigs

Bad Lieutenant @ Heaven, London

A couple of photos from the latest New Order off-shoot, Bad Lieutenant’s gig at Heaven nightclub in Charing Cross. Great night – the encore of Joy Division, New Order and Electronic classics was superb!

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Arctic Monkeys & Them Crooked Vultures @ Brixton Academy

Just a few piccies from a gig I went to a month or two ago. These photos convinced me that it was time for a new camera.

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Gig Review, Reverend & The Makers, Carling Academy Sheffield

When we heard, months ago, that Sheffield’s dilapidated ‘Roxy Disco’ building had been purchased by the AMG group – operators of the ‘Carling Academy’ music venues – with a view to it becoming the ‘Sheffield Carling Academy’ we were quite excited. As time moved on, and we found out that the venue’s opening act would be Grenoside’s own ‘Reverend & The Makers’, well, let’s just say that the clickthru to seetickets.com was more-or-less instantaneous.

As it turns out, it was quite lucky we bought our tickets when we did, because the gig sold out only a day or two later – pretty impressive for an act that’s only troubled the top 20 twice.

We arranged for my mum to pop over and babysit Aimee, and we toddled off to the bus stop for the bus to town – a little later than we’d planned, but we weren’t really bothered too much as we figured the first support act, ‘Toddla T’ (no, really) would be toss anyhow. If we’d could catch some ‘Smokers Die Younger’, the other support act, that’d be great. However, due to First South Yorkshire’s dire bus service (our ‘every 15 minutes’ service arrived after standing at the bus stop for nearly 50 minutes) and our mixed up assumption of the running order, we arrived at the Academy mid-way through ‘Toddla T’s set. Joy.

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Can I Help You?

Back to work today with not so much a bump as a gentle coast, which was nice. I guess it’s down to the fact we’ve come back on a Wednesday, and have a nice little half-week to deal with instead of that horrible “Monday morning” feeling. I guess we’ll see on Monday.

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Gig Review: Kaiser Chiefs @ Doncaster Dome 9th Feb 2007

Now, I have to admit that I’m not the world’s biggest Kaiser Chiefs fan, but when I found out they were playing a last-minute gig a few miles away I asked the good lady wife if she’d like to go. Of course she would!

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YAB, YAG.

Yet another blog, yet another geek.

This’ll be my, <counts> fourth attempt at entering the unbelievably wankily named ‘Blogosphere’. I’m sure it’ll be interesting, informative and fun. A journey through the mind of an addled sysadmin, bored-beyond-belief with the politics, wankery and machiavellian antics of his cow-orkers and colleagues.

Of course, it won’t always be about work. There’ll be nice stuff too.

We’ll see.

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