Articles

"Are you in love with her?"


Joanna Newsom, The Moore Brothers, A Thousand Leaves @ Rote Fabrik

19th September, 2007

Heartbroke and inchoate

Heartbroke and inchoate

She terrifies me. She raves; her eyes grow coal-like, opening into a smothering, featureless starless black marred only by twin circles of pupil.

Poster: Patches and maps in cat area 17


Presented at the ZNZ Symposium 2007

14th September, 2007

The poster summarised early work on quantifying the spatial arrangement of patches and of function in cat primary visual cortex (area 17).

Sympathy for the angels


CocoRosie, Rio en Medio, Tex @ Moods

8th July, 2007

CocoRosie

CocoRosie

Photo: Alex Wright

Poor Bianca. I'm sure she would have preferred to be messing around in someone's living room, perhaps making music with her friends in any case, but without the distraction and existential torture of the Moods audience. It was immediately obvious she wanted to be elsewhere: she hid from the crowd underneath an over-sized meshback truckers' cap, and behind caked bronze makeup...

Rocking concrete box


C Gibbs, Frank Heer @ Helsinki

27th April, 2007

Fighting Bears

Fighting Bears

Photo: Javier Q.

C Gibbs was recommended to me by a friend in New York; a country / folk / rock artist with a penchant for telling us about the yellow haired devil ex-girlfriend from Tennessee he still dedicated songs to, and for singing about unicorns (C Gibbs, that is — not my friend).

Disappointment


Modest Mouse, Operator Please @ Tivoli

2nd January, 2007

Mouse

Mouse

Photo: TheGiantVermin

Wow, how young are Operator Please? My age-shock was already in full swing, hitting a gig for a band which has been "immortalised" on the OC (I have shudders when I think about some drunk idiot lurching around on the TV, stumbling up to his friends and slurring 'Hey, It's Modest Mouse!'). Anyway, my age-schock could only be intensified when Operator Please took the stage. Their drummer looks about twelve years old. I'm sure most of the band wouldn't have been allowed in the venue if they hadn't been playing.