May 2012
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Commonplaces: On Police Strikes →
piercepenniless:
Some very quick thoughts on this article, here because I don’t have time to work them up into a full response:
(i) I’m willing to believe it’s highlighted because of the subbing, but the locution ‘as an activist’ is unpleasant for a number of reasons, like trading on credentials that presume…
January 2012
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An old article on Nice 'n' Sleazy turning 20 →
An old article on DIY and Music in Glasgow →
October 2011
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A Name for All, by Hart Crae
Moonmoth and grasshopper that flee our page And still wing on, untarnished of the name We pinion to your bodies to assuage Our envy of your freedom—we must maim
Because we are usurpers, and chagrined— And take the wing and scar it in the hand. Names we have, even, to clap on the wind; But we must die, as you, to understand.
I dreamed that all men dropped their names, and sang As only they can...
September 2011
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SOME THOUGHTS
I wrote an article for the Glasgow Uni Guardian. It was aimed at freshers and was a fairly basic piece talking about happenings with a diy ethos in Glasgow, specifically music. This is here for me to clear up some possible misconceptions. I’m under no illusion as to how few people this debate really involves, I realise that this diatribe must look fairly self-important, and understand that...
August 2011
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I made a New Record and you can have it for free. →
July 2011
1 post
A Review of Divorce's New 7", Love Attack →
June 2011
2 posts
A neat little review of Othello Woolf →
May 2011
2 posts
A Review of Cry Parrot 4th Birthday SWG3 15/05/11 →
Tree-In-Woods-Core Glasgow →
April 2011
2 posts
XAVIER AND THE BASTARD HUGE IN JAPAN →
March 2011
1 post
Here’s a short film I made about Deer. It’s from a bigger, more disappointing project.
February 2011
1 post
An Interview I did with Six Organs →
January 2011
6 posts
An Interview I did with Lawrence English →
An Interview I did with Wolves in the Throne Room →
But listen: if anyone here should end up on a gurney in a lethal-injection...
– Kurt Vonnegut, At Clowes Hall, Indianapolis, April 27th 2007
December 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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July 2010
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May 2010
3 posts
We made a new EP by ourselves (it shows), which we call Ask Us About Hip-Hop. Click through above to download it for free from bandcamp.
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Not that this mess of a blog has a particularly clear purpose but yeah I haven’t had much time to update lately. I am, drowning in multitudes of shitty contexts and overly-wordy novels, so I can pass my literature quizzes. I’m also learning to play violin, and planning some collaborations with this fine man -> www.myspace.com/rickimp. Something moody and sparse. With video.
This...
April 2010
3 posts
Cry Parrot: BIRTHDAY MADNESS TONIGHT + website... →
Our insane birthday show is finally upon us.
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IN THE MAIN ROOM: ULTIMATE THRUSH – By far one of the most exciting bands in UK, never-mind Scotland. Fast, freeform, complex, unpredictable, but - of course, fun – Ultimate Thrush deliver an aural and physical assault with their mindbending…
This is almost certainly what its all about and it’s tonight. Come.
Cry Parrot: BYOB Megafest @ AudioLounge →
First in a series of promising events in april, the winning sperm party crew bring us an absolutely jam packed line up this coming week. Over 10 bands and DJ’s will cram into the Audio Lounge in Maryhill (formerly the practice pad) for a multi staged festival of epic proportions with acts…
March 2010
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February 2010
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