Mary Jane

Finally managed to youtube the Dave Cloud vid from the Windmill!

Hog Night

Hooked up with T-Lo again on Wednesday night at the Windmill for another Dave Cloud show. Marvellous stuff - I got some great video footage on my camera but technophobe that I am, I haven't managed to get it on youtube yet. Will be playing the interview and a bit of the audio of the gig on the show tomorrow though.
More quintagenarian antics in Hammersmith last night for the Nicholas Edward Cave gig. Not quite as up close and personal as the Dave Cloud nights since we were perched way up in the gods but it was still an amazing show - with a phenomenal version of Stagger Lee at the end.

Mai Lai, Hiroshima, know what I mean?

Here's the quite extraordinary Iron Pirate at another superb Jlesh Munce at the Windmill last night. Actually, I think that technically the feller at the back on the drums is Iron Pirate, but they were amazing anyway, and perhaps the best band from Norwich since the mighty Higsons. Check out their midi-metal mayhem for yourself.

Jeff Lewis was also on the bill but there are no pictures of him as there were two many earnest young men in glasses in front of the stage while he was playing. He did a great trio of Crass songs - Do They Owe Us A Living/Banned From The Roxy/Big A Little A - they certainly don't write em like that any more.

Brown Ale in Brixton

Pedalled to the Windmill last night for another of James and Michael's excellent Jlesh Munce nights. This time the line up featured Yeborobo and Breakneck Static, both of whom specialise in sonic mayhem of a very pleasing nature, which went down very well with a few bottles of Newcastle Brown. Yeborobo won bonus points for painting their faces and attempting (albeit unsuccessfully) to steal shoes from the audience.

Jlesh Munce

Down to the Windmill in Brixton last night for a marvellous array of bands. Old friends of the radio show, Captain Blood Blood and the Sea Dogs have now expanded from a trio to a quintet and were in very fine fettle indeed. Chips for the Poor did an epic 9 minute set, which included the excellent 'I am warm in my coat' played twice, but the highlight of the night was Spin Spin the Dogs. Proclaimed on the interweb as 'Derby's most hated band' despite, or perhaps because of, being from Nottingham, they're in fact a fantastic blend of Beefheart, Pere Ubu and Stump. Truly fabulous stuff - hoping to get them in for a session very soon.

Charing Cross Road Uber Alles

Busy day for the Badger yesterday. Cycled up to Olympia after the resonance show to see English teaching guru Jeremy Harmer talk, then got the bus to Brixton for Michael's birthday shenanigans at the Windmill, which featured an excellent set from James III. Then back in to town to spin some discs with T-Lo at the Mean Fiddler. Last time I was there it was still called the LA2 and we were onstage with Heave (supporting Salad!) in 1994. Yikes! Last night most of our DJ set coincided with a band playing downstairs, so we were mostly putting the wax on the tracks to an almost empty room. Luckily Keith, Sandra and Tommo were on hand to lend moral support and to savour the delights of the UK Subs, Dead Kennedys and Dead Boys heard on scratchy vinyl at full volume. Mind you, that didn't stop Keith berating us through the chicken wire of the DJ booth for occasionally straying from the punk rock remit.