TIMES I WASTED MY TIME LEAVING THE HOUSE 2012

27/01/12 -oxford modern art - new noveta, listing ships, menacles of acid.
                            think i was the only person there that really enjoyed what new noveta were doing, it was great.

28/01/12 - islington buffalo bar - kunt and the gang my mum calls him kurt and the gang.


16/02/12 - islington buffalo bar - hey colossus, liberez , the lowest form.of shit


18/02/12 - dalston shacklewell arms - high places.


09/03/12 - atp minehead - charlemange palestine, the fall, the raincoats, half japanese, mike watt and george hurley
                          thurston moore, jon spencer blues explosion.


10/03/12 - atp minehead - boredoms, earth, scratch acid, plus little bits of low, joanna newsom, yamantaka/sonic titan


11/03/12 - atp minehead - boredoms , and a little bit of sun ra arkestra, and the magic band.


12/03/12 - london garage - scratch acid, blacklisters.david yow sure made blacklisters look like a bunch of pussies.


17/03/12 - oxford zodiac - killing joke , icarus line .


24/03/12 - islington lexington - white hills.


31/03/12 - london forum - electric wizard, witchsorrow enough of the cut of denim jackets with patches already.


02/04/12 - camden electric ballroom - helmet.


07/04/12 - dalston cafe oto - michael gira, grouper.even retards like gira, if you dont like gira you are worse than a retard.


12/04/12 - islington union chapel - manorexia. thirlwell checking his emails to a string quartet.


19/05/12 - p risborough george and dragon - kunt and the gang, devil fork.


22/05/12 - brum town hare and hounds - harvey milch.


25/05/12 - shoreditch village underground - jah wobble and keith levene.
                  this could have been amazing, but it was ruined because they had some john lydon impersonator from a sex pistols tribute band on vocals. i dont know what jah wobble and keith were thinking. they should have just done it instrumental then this would have been amazing. but the stupid lydon wannabe really killed this show.

25/05/12 - atp alexandra palace - melvins.blah


26/05/12 - atp alexandra palace - floor, harvey milk, mudhoney, bit of soft moon and codeine.


28/05/12 - concorde 2 brighton - melvins.blah


04/06/12 - camden underworld - big business, unsane, bossk


06/06/12 - shep bush empire - the offspring


12/06/12 - camden koko - nurse with wound, sunno)))))))))))))))))))))))))))


12/06/12 - shep bush empire - nofx (i actually crowd surfed for the first time in many years during theme from a nofx album)


20/06/12 - london garage - off! , trash talk, ( hate there music but trash talk was great fun, there was a midgit crowd surfing
for fucks sake, singer really new how to perform, made off! look tame)


01/07/12 - islington acadamy upstairs small room - lydia lunch, the cesarians, das fluff, before the show lydia walked up to
me and hugged me for no reason other than because i obviously give of sexual vibes hahahahaha.


04/07/12 - brum town rainbow warehouse - unsane, big business, stinky wizzleteat.


06/07/12 - oxford zodiac - soulfly, why oh why did i bother, it was local and i dont mind a few bits of sepultura,
but fuck was this awful. total waste of £17, i left within 30 minutes and even that felt like i was giving them my time
generously, of course everyone else in the audience thought this was amazing, max giving it the devil horns and throwing
bottled water over the crowd. alot of people were wearing the same soulfly tour shirt , that was the most amusing thing of
the evening, on the drive home i picked up a cowley road hooker and slit her throat. then i buried her out the back of the
oxford business park. and this is all soulflys fault.


13/07/12 - dalston cafe oto - minibus pimps. steve noble and sebastian lexer. this was impossible for me to enjoy because
someone crashed into the back of my car when i was about a minute away from the venue, and then they tried to drive off,
i chased and caught them, was a dead end street there mistake or there surrender??? anyway after much fucking around i
eventually got to the gig in the wrong frame of mind for what may well have been awful music anyway, but i feel i wasnt in
the best mood to give it a fair judgement. but in my heart i think this was probly crap john paul jones or not.


18/07/12 - brum town wagon and horse - shit and shine,fickle twin.


20/07/12 - london forum - ministry (not a million miles away from the soulfly experience but i stayed the duration)


11/08/12 - london forum - PIL , they really do attract a strange audience, by strange i mean total normal lads out for a
good time with there amazing social group, maybe those butter adverts really exposed him to a more middle class fanbase.
i felt about as out of place here as i did at soulfly but for all the wrong reasons, pil should have a decent audience.


30/08/12 - shep bush hall - cranes, richard walters, yeah i go to london and the support bands some shit singer songwriter
from oxford. i hate oxford, i hate being from oxford, i go to london to get away from oxford.


31/08/12 - ryans bar stoke newington - hawks, hag, ginola, silent front.
i liked hawks more before i saw them and realised how much the singer wants to be david yow. ginola had the same problem
but he wanted to be steve albini. hag came across as the most honest. and i like there lp


05/10/12 - st john at hackney church - fushitsusha , ive seen keiji haino twice before, both of them times were way better than
this. maybe it was sitting in traffic for 3 hours on the way that ruined it for me. or maybe it was the fact that i had to pay
to park the car on the church grounds. maybe it was the fact that it was in a big church. or maybe it was the fact that after
being stuck in traffic i needed a piss really bad and on arrival at the church learnt that we were being subjected to rentaloos
out in the car park, so i was literally having to take a piss outside in the rain. i want my money back you religious bastards.


13/10/12 - oxford zodiac - julian cope. what a pleasant funny guy, really enjoyed this.


19/10/12 - brum town supersonic custard factory - modified toy orchestra, hey colossus, j k flesh, dj scotch bonnet with
koyxen and sensational. that sensational guy trying to rap was hilarious.


20/10/12 - oxford bully - liars, part of some shit all day festival, liars were due on at 11 or so but it ended up being 2am.
and then for whatever reason they played about 2 songs and then said they couldnt play, some technical difficultis or someshit.
yannis from foals was chatting to me and i asked him "am i supposed to know who you are" as other people seemed to be wanting
to tell him how great his second album was. liars was great, i think i was the only person who was fine about them walking off
im just glad SOMETHING happened. shit they could have played a really boring hour set. this was great.


15/11/12 - camden koko - swans, sir richard bishop.


28/11/12 - shep bush empire - dirty three, and caught the end of zun zun egui.


30/11/12 - atp camber sands - oxbow, uzeda, mono.


01/12/12 - atp camder sands - the cravats, 3 second kiss, kash, arcwelder,red fang, melt banana, kim deal, shannon wright,
                              neurosis.


02/12/12 - atp camber sands - nina nastasia, bear claw, the membranes, future of the left, gay witch abortion,
                              mission of burma, dead rider, the ex, shellac.
                               best bits for me, dead rider, and melt banana.


04/12/12 - london forum - mark lanegan band, creature with the atom brain. fuck me was this awful. those creature guys just
sounded like nice friendly light rock shit suitable for radio and not likely to offend anyone. what really ruined it for me
was when mark lanegan came on and it appeared these douche nozzles from the support band were playing as his backing band.
lanegans voice was great, and he did his whole stand there looking angry thing fine but he needs a decent band to bring life
into it live, and these guys sure as hell didnt, i saw him in  2003 at the mean fiddler, and that was great, he needs
that backing band, think it had troy van leeuwen with him, as enemy was supporting, and i seem to remember his backing band
was pretty much enemy. so lanegan, bring back enemy next time.


so not a bad year, favourite bits of the top of my head ummmm michael gira solo at cafe oto, melt banana and dead rider at atp, boredoms at atp, scratch acid both london and atp were great, and of course trash talk. pleased to see keith levene playing guitar but shame they had stupid lydon wannabe singing.

worst stuff, i thought blacklisters were shit. icarus line were shit.pretty much every support band was shit. apart from sunno))))))))))))), who were shit headlining, i actually went to that to watch nurse with wound in the support slot. and nurse with wound were far more entertaining. should be called SUNNzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz , i endured sunns set so that was an achievement. yay for me!