WildMercurySound

For the last two months I've been DJing and co-promoting a night at a small, funky independent bar and i have to say it's one of the most rewarding musical experiences I've ever had. My friend James and I got tired of the same old indie nights playing Hard-Fi and the Kaiser Chiefs ad nauseum and faceless bars with Red Hot Chillis permanently blasting out from the video jukebox. We figured there had to be people out there who wanted to hear something different and so we put on a chilled out leftfield indie, electronica and folk night.

It's just nice to have somewhere where people congregate regularly and actually appreciate what you're playing. It also puts the pressure on to find new stuff to play every week! It's exciting to stare at my CDs for hours looking for new setlists and stuff.

So anyone else out there DJing and/or promoting anything? If we can build something in this backwater then it's possible anywhere.

Oh, here's our flyer:

Subtle - a new white

So i damaged the line out jack on my laptop, so now when my speakers are hooked up to it, sound only fully comes out of the left speaker.

My question is, is this easily repaired, and is there a way to turn one of the two line in jacks into a line out?

I know nothing about these things so forgive me if i am talking crap. My Zen Micro died this week also, so it's a tough week for music and me.

 

Watched the first episode of this last night - really impressed with it...

one of my favourite TV shows of all time. Careful Rich, you WILL get sucked in and be in a marathon session before you know it. Wish they'd hurry up and release Season 3 over here, it was supposed to come out in September but disappeared from Amazon et al.

Just watched the last 4 episodes of 24 S1 back to back...wow. Great TV.

One thing i will have to beware of is reading anything to do with this show anywhere... i innocently looked at IMDb and had the ending partially revealed to me.

Nobody's Watching

A sitcom pilot from Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Spin City) and two Family Guy writers that wasn't picked up but was leaked onto YouTube. Apparently the reaction to it was so good that it is now going into production.

It's a sitcom about a reality show about 2 guys trying to make a sitcom. Not sure how much mileage is in that idea but the pilot is fairly entertaining.

I always thought the older brother in Malcolm in the Middle was played by this guy, but it's not. The guy who plays him is the brother of Hyde from That 70s Show, but they have to be SAB.

I kind of like How I Met Your Mother.

 

El El, you heard this?

I'm not El-F, but that album is getting a lot of play up in here. I played a track while DJing late on Wednesday night to clear out our 'second wind' of drunks with no place to go

 

well, this is a nice little album, isn't it?

I've heard Collide the Tide and will definitely be checking out more by them.

NP:

this album makes me happy.

Thought of another-

Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely

Pretty stoked for Spiderman 3. Still haven't seen X-Men 3 despite (/because of) being a big fan of the first 2 and the X-Men in general. I didn't grow up reading comics though, so I struggle to get into the complex universes.

On a related note, I think Y: The Last Man would make a great TV series.

Y: The Last Man is Vaughan's attempt to subvert the classic male fantasy of being the last man on earth. In the series, something (speculated to be a plague) simultaneously kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome - including embryos, fertilized eggs, and even sperm - with the exception of Yorick Brown, a young amateur escape artist, and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand.

 

Society is plunged into chaos as infrastructures collapse and the surviving women everywhere try to cope with the loss of the men, their survivors' guilt, and the knowledge that humanity is doomed to extinction. Vaughan meticulously crafts the new society that emerges out of this chaos, from the conversion of the phallic Washington Monument to a monument to the dead men, to the genesis of the fanatical ultra-feminist Daughters of the Amazon, who believe that Mother Earth cleansed itself of the "aberration" of the Y chromosome, to male impersonators becoming valued romantically and professionally.

 

Over the course of their journey, Yorick and his friends discover how society has coped in the aftermath of the plague. However, many of the women they encounter have ulterior motives in regards to Yorick. Though the subject matter of the series is entirely serious, Y: The Last Man is also noted for its humor. Yorick in particular is a source of one-liners, although the other characters have their moments as well.

- from Wikipedia

You can read the first issue here (PDF)

I've watched approx. 45 episodes of Scrubs in 2 weeks... I need alife. Now I've finished Season Four though, I've fully immersed myself in this:

Yeah, I know I'm 5 years too late on this one, but I'm halfway through and it is great TV. I'll be interested to see how they keep up the 24 hour real time gimmick.

just checked out the samples at boomkat and i like what i'm hearing Rich, cheers for that. Will pick it up and make Wovlerhampton listen to it on Wednesday!

kind of reminds me of The National and Twilight Singers.

Guillemots - From The Cliffs

 

I can't make my mind up about this.

I was the same... loved the EP and singles, but the album kind of left me cold as a whole. But I don't know why.

ever swelling Big Jim

Prom:

M. Ward - Sweethearts on Parade

Prom:

M. Ward - Sweethearts on Parade

weird!

Subtle again. Next up The Wrens - The Meadowlands. There are just not enough hours in the day to listen to all this music!

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)

2. Put it on shuffle

3. Press play

4. For every question, type the song that's playing

5. When you go to a new question, press the next button

6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool...

Opening Credits:

Kevin Shields - Are You Awake? (they'd have to be short credits)

Waking Up:

Howling Bells - The Night is Young

Monday:

Doves - The Man Who Told Everything

Fight Song:

The National - Secret Meeting

Breaking up:

Radiohead - The Gloaming (!)

Prom:

M. Ward - Sweethearts on Parade

Life:

Death Cab for Cutie - A Lack of Colour

Mental Breakdown:

The Roots - Do You Want More?!?!!

Driving:

Hot Chip - Boy From School

Flashback:

Willy Mason - Sold My Soul

Getting Back Together:

Bright Eyes - Land Locked Blues

Wedding:

Beck - Paper Tiger (!)

Birth of Child:

Junior Boys - In the Morning

Final Battle:

Jon Brion - Spotless Mind

Death Scene:

Calexico - Deep Down

Funeral Song:

Velvet Undeground - Train Around the Bend

End Credits:

Kings of Convenience - Failure

Then: Squarepusher - Hello Everything

Now: Subtle - For Hero: For Fool

i'm into things that go bleep and bloop right now.

this thread is so appropriate, I threw Sea Change on before I came online. my friend had it on in the bar he works at and we DJ at today and it just fitted an overcast autumn day so well... so beautiful. but the sadness really comes out when you listen to it alone at night.

anyway, enough waffling:

beck - guess i'm doing fine

death cab for cutie - brothers on a hotel bed

elliott smith - angeles

dylan - buckets of rain

eels - railroad man (+half their early discography)

radiohead - gagging order

ryan adams - la cienega just smiled

plus a lot more. i love sad bastard music.

Having said that, I do download a lot of music via eMusic, and occasionally iTunes. But for the albums that mean the most to me, I still prefer to have the actual CD in my collection.

I just signed up for eMusic, mainly for economic reasons. I love American and Canadian indie, but I simply can't afford to pay the import prices for Broken Social Scene's first album at one of the few remaining indie record stores around here-

Beck (favourite album depends on what mood i'm in)

Broken Social Scene (You Forgot It In People)

Calexico (Feast of Wire)

Pavement (Crooked Rain or Slanted and Enchanted)

Death Cab for Cutie (Photo Album)

The National (Alligator)

Modest Mouse (The Moon and Antarctica)

Belle & Sebastian (If You're Feeling Sinister)

Ryan Adams (Heartbreaker)

Same as every month - no one I've heard of

 

Plan B is one of the few magazines I can read where I don't know 90% of the bands mentioned... brilliant!

I get Under the Radar from a small old-fashioned tobacconist in Wovlerhampton. Definitely my favourite music magazine. I picked up Plan B this month but don't really like it: it looks good and there's a few articles of interest but the writing is far too flowery and pretentious for my liking (and I'm an English grad) and there's little depth to the reviews.

NP: Calexico - Cruel (on shuffle).

going on a CD buying spree in a bit. Just started DJing again and have some gaps to fill.

vibeage on its way.