Gig Confusion and Chunky Apologies
As a few of you have noticed, there has been a little gig confusion, what with me promising an Autumn Toad Night with the Pineapple Chunks and then not putting it in my own listings.
Basically, I have been unable to find anyone to put on the bill with them, so have been unable to promote the gig. So by the time yesterday rolled around I thought it best to just cancel, rather than put on a badly-promoted gig which would be rude to the Chunks, and not a lot of fun for everyone else. No-one wants a badly-run, half-arsed gig night, basically.
What I thought would be best would be to invite the Chunks onto the bill at the Toad Christmas Night with Jesus H. Foxx instead (Saturday 12th Dec for those taking notes) and make sure that the night was properly promoted and that they therefore were afforded due respect.
So instead of Saturday being a full-on gig night at the Bowery, Ruth has very kindly suggested (and very kindly not beaten me to death for being an idiot) that we have an acoustic night in the bar, have people round to DJ and generally just make a nice night of it. So we need about four volunteers to play acoustic sets, and a couple of people to volunteer to play some records and everyone else to volunteer to turn up and get pissed. It’ll be free, but for my sins I promise to stand everyone who plays (music or records) a few beers as a thank you.
So apologies to Ruth and the Pineapple Chunks, but we can still have an excellent night despite my stupid tendency to take on far, far too much and then to balls it up.
Red Red Meat – Idiot Son
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And in non-Toad-related news, gosh aren’t music blogs suffering from a colossal case of groupthink! Go to the Hype Machine and check out the artist page for Vampire Weekend and see how many people have posted their new song. I do have some sympathy with this – I mean, we all just post what we’re interested in (don’t we? don’t we?) and I was personally curious to hear the song – but it does look bloody ridiculous when you see that great big long list.
I wouldn’t bother if I were you. It’s shit.
…turn up and get pissed. It’ll be free..
Huh?!
To get in, as well you know.
Erm, just so you know Matthew, Trampoline all day event is taking place on 12th December. It starts at 2pm and runs til 10pm.
Toadface, I’ll play a wee acoustic set if you’ll have me?
Sounds good to me Mr Turnip, consider yourself booked.
I’m at the meredith music festval, about 2 hours north of melbourne on December 12th
thank fuck!
Lovely stuff. I am no longer conufszed.
Playing with the Chunks again would be ace.
And Euan, stop taking the piss. I’m too paranoid about that kind of thing at the moment for that to be funny!
I’m not taking the piss. Trampoline all day event from 2pm til 10pm is booked on 12th December. Jonnie Common already confirmed mate. Was giving you the heads up.
Why don’t you 2 go for a drink and have a chat, then a fight, I’ll sell the tickets and run a book on the winner
I’m not bothered on this one. An all day event that could be as cheap as 3 quid in and featuring some great Scottish acts is going to be a winner either way i reckon.
I was just giving Matthew a heads up.
Coolsers – let me know a time and a set length and I will arrive with instrument in hand.
And PS – I have ditched my TT nom de guerre in favour of something slightly less ridiculous.
I like team turnip?
Cool bananas. Anyone else? Come on musical people!
RCC, I hope you’re not suggesting that you preferred my previous sobriquet.
There’ll be no sobriety on these pages, thank you very much TT.
I think I do yeah
I know Chutters is a bit poorly at the moment, but does anyone have any idea what conversation he’s responding to?!
I’m responding to TT
No, I meant in general. All the time.
Your illness is causing you a heightened sense of madness, it will pass – the illness not the madness, I think you’re saddled with the latter.
Can’t really help with the gig although I’ll raise a pint to you. The blog thing is interesting though as it’s similar to the issue you mentioned about The Hype Machine vetting good vs bad blogs now.
Perhaps traditional blogging is already finished due to information overload. Generating online community and trust is clearly the answer much like Dylan and the chaps showed on the M&S blog. Anyway I’m off for a think.
‘Team Turnip’ is certainly a better band name than ‘Cool Bananas’.
I love bart
How about Team Turnip And The Cool Bananas?
Too much?
no Dylan thats genius and someone will steal it……maybe me