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By: SPREEWELLE: Der bessere Mix | Erquicktes Herz: Maximo Park

SPREEWELLE: Der bessere Mix | Erquicktes Herz: Maximo Park — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:22:00 +0000

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By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:30:40 +0000

The My Latest Novel album is damn good. First Time I’ve ever liked anything by them.

By: mahatma_dj

mahatma_dj — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:55:50 +0000

More excited by that My Latest Novel track than by anything on the first album – which was none the less quite good.

1. Peter Stringfellow’s olive oil ice cream on Celebrity Come Dine With Me. Ha ha – they said it tasted like vanilla ice cream with olive oil. Which is what it was. Then his sink collapsed.
2. Its maybe not a herb. But Rocket. Amazing name for a leaf.
3. Its a mistake resulting from getting freezer and fridge mixed up after drunken trip to asda prompted by ill fated health kick.
4. Olive oil. For the boaks.
5. Was walking along the Thames with my dad after looking at Tower of London (too expensive to go in dammit). Ice cream fell from cone and ninja reflexes appear from nowhere and i catch it in other hand, 3 inches from the ground. Big fat bearded american says “HEY!!! NICE CATCH!!!”. Damn rizzle.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:22:00 +0000

The timing was a few hours before the Pirate Bay decision (but maybe after the leak?). It did come up.

I don’t see it making any difference whatsoever. The Pirate Bay website/trackers will not be going anywhere anytime soon, and even if they did something else will pop up. It always has so far and I don’t see that changing.

By: The Daily Growl

The Daily Growl — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:57:26 +0000

When I saw that headline, I though it was going to be a Pirate Bay-related rant, but hey. I don’t know if there’s any connection between the Sony meet (sorry I couldn’t make it folks, though I am interested i Jamila’s bloggers meet thing…) and the Swedish ruling, but the timing is interesting.

Anyway, before I’m lynched

1. I think I may have had chilli ice-cream one. Who knows.
2. Basil
3. S’alright. No. Yes.
4. Depends. Hard to beat the old 99
5. I was never allowed ice cream as a kid. It’s satanic, apparently.

By: Tart

Tart — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:10:38 +0000

Ah, thanks Tim (snuggle a bit closer for a clearer copy) and well that’s what I was wondering…. how much do they either (a) see that our audiences differ, or (b) seek to maintain that difference?

I had the oddest dream about the meeting. They all walked in and said to you “Well, now what offer have you got from Virgin? Oh?! You’ve not been clever enough to negotiate a salary from them yet? Well then we’ll pay you …” and then I woke up. Ha!

Any coincidence that the meeting came a few days or hours before the Pirate Bay court decision? (I can never get the damn time zone thing correct)

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:16:58 +0000

1. Rice flavoured, which was a massive mistake in a Japanese airport restaurant.
2. Bergamot, it like the lead male character in some amusingly dated period piece (and because I like copying Tart).
3. No.
4. Evil, so so sweet
5. Ummm… I was convinced that you got the different flavours by feeding that fruit/confectionary to the cows for a while.

As to the Sony meet up, it is always nice to try and get your points across in person rather than in emails/rants which may well get ‘lost in the post’. To see that everyone working at the majors aren’t pure evil, as they are often portrayed, is useful as well.

Although my music tastes don’t reflect much of what Sony has on its roster at the moment, knowing that they are starting to take blogs more seriously and are coming around from the idea that we are a homogeneous sect of pirates trying to destroy the music business is a step in the right direction. How much they got out of the meet I’m curious about though.

I know what you mean about trying to steer clear of what could be inside group collusion, but it didn’t really feel like niche blogs and the majors are ever going to see truly eye to eye. We are after different audiences for a start.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:18:35 +0000

1. Cardamom in ice cream. Given that cardamom tastes vaguely of soap, I don’t get it.
2. Borage. Sounds like a mistake.
3. No idea, never tried it.
4. Erm, the raspberry sauce that has never so much as been introduced to a raspberry that gets swirled on a 99 flake.
5. Ben, you and Mum are a pair of conniving fuckers.

Tart – Sony stuff isn’t going to be written up until early next week, honestly. There’s not a lot of computer access in Anstruther, and I am there for the music, not to sit in an internet cafe, so it may have to wait I’m afraid.

By: Tart

Tart — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:30:18 +0000

Now Matthew, when will we hear details of this meeting wherein you soaked up the cock (tails) of SONY?

By: Tart

Tart — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:27:47 +0000

1. Wasabi, loved/hated it…. just too odd to be so hot/cold!
2. Bergamot
3. Horrid
4. Shut yer mouth, they’re garbage.
5. Sneaking spoonfuls of Breyer’s Neopolitian out of the container just so… so as to not alert Daddy that I had been stealing “his” ice cream whilst he was asleep! You had to get equal, minuscule amounts of vanilla, strawberry AND chocolate, you see!