26/01/2019-world cafe reading- brickwork lizards best bit was the gong player
04/02/2019- union chapel london- the residents pretty and freezing
20/07/2019- forum london- godflesh/neurosis surprisingly good but not as good as anna karenina I was reading at the time (not godflesh) scary beardy men.
11/08/2019- underworld london- dwarves chav man dressed in tattoos and burberry hat didn't dare drink my water
26/10/2019- venue southend- das ghoul/dai x/igam ogam/ t bitch what, I didn't go to this !!!
27/10/2019- wheatsheaf oxford- melt banana/unman/scrap brain more beards and more noise, I know this and I wasn't even there, scrap brain whatever the fuck that is.
07/12/2019- st giles church oxford- brickwork lizards warmer and prettier than Residents
#reviews by Gemma this year.
Monday, 30 December 2019
Tuesday, 24 December 2019
BOOKWORM 2019
LEAVES OF GRASS -WALT WHiTMAN
BOSUN-NEW JUCHE
A LONG WAY DOWN-NiCK HORNBY
THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY-FLANNERY O'CONNOR
HOUSE OF THE DEAD-FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN-CHARLES BUKOWSKi
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD-RiCHARD YATES
WEB-JOHN WYNDHAM
WASP FACTORY- iAiN BANKS
HAUNTED -CHUCK PALAHNiUK
MR SAMMLER'S PLANET-SAUL BELLOW
DISGRACE - J.M COATZEE
IN THE HOUSE UPON THE DIRT BETWEEN THE LAKE AND THE WOODS -MATT BELL
THE END OF ALICE-A.M HOMES
OF HUMAN BONDAGE - W.S MAUGHAM
GO ASK ALICE - BEATRiCE SPARKS
SLEEVENOTES-JOE THOMPSON
PINCHER MARTIN- WiLLiAM GOLDiNG
ON THE ROAD -JACK KEROUAC
THE NOSE/THE CARRIAGE - GOGOL
DECLINE AND FALL - EVELYN WAUGH
COSMOLOGICAL EYE - HENRY MiLLER
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN - PATRiCiA HiGHSMiTH
LADY CHATTERLEYS LOVER-D.H LAWRENCE
FOR ESME WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR-J.D SALiNGER
TIN MAN- SARAH WiNMAN
CROME YELLOW- ALDOUS HUXLEY
GLOW - NED BEAUMAN
PROZAC NATION - ELiZABETH WURTZEL
DANDELION WINE - RAY BRADBURY
BEDROOM SECRETS OF THE MASTERCHEFS-iRViNE WELSH
THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT- JOHN STEiNBECK
METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES-FRANZ KAFKA
WALKING ON GLASS-iAiN BANKS
THE DIARY OF ADAM AND EVE- MARK TWAiN
VILE BODIES-EVELYN WAUGH
RABBIT RUN- JOHN UPDiKE
FOUNTAINHEAD-AYN RAND
RANT- CHUCK PALAHNiUK
SOMETHING HAPPENED-JOSEPH HELLER
THE HEART OF A DOG-MiKHAiLBULGAKOV
GO SET A WATCHMAN - HARPER LEE
RABBIT REDUX- JOHN UPDiKE
LESS THAN ZERO - BRET EASTON ELLiS
ROBINSON CRUSOE-DANiEL DEFOE
AS I LAY DYING-WiLLiAM FAULKNER
RABBIT IS RICH -JOHN UPDiKE
MARCH OF THE LEMMINGS -STEWART LEE
STEPPENWOLF-HERMANN HESSE
PERFUME-PATRiCK SUSKiND
RABBIT AT REST -JOHN UPDiKE
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE-JUAN PABLO ViLLALOBOS
JAMAICA INN- DAPHNE DU MAURiER
HIGH FIDELITY -NiCK HORNBY
LOST BRITTISH SERIAL KILLER-(BIBLE JOHN) -DAViD WiLSON
MRS DALLOWAY-ViRGiNiA WOOLF
LICKS OF LOVE -JOHN UPDiKE
THE DOG CATCHER- ALEXEi SAYLE
GRAPES OF WRATH -JOHN STEiNBECK
The few records I bought this year (2019)
VOID MANES/BLUE WHALE- SPLIT 7" WITH BOOK/WHITE VINYL
BIG BUSINESS-THE BEAST YOU ARE/WHITE VINYL
HEY COLOSSUS-RRR -ORIGINAL PRESS 22/250
HEY COLOSSUS- IN BLACK AND GOLD
HEY COLOSSUS- THE GUILLOTINE
USA/MEXICO- MALAMOROS
GODFLESH- POST SELF
COME- DONT ASK DONT TELL
COMANECHI- YOU OWE ME NOTHING BUT LOVE
TAD-QUICK AND DIRTY/GREEN VINYL
HEPA TITUS- BLUE FAT PUSSY
BREEDERS- MOUNTAIN BATTLES.
I SOLD MORE RECORDS THAN I BOUGHT THIS YEAR.
BIG BUSINESS-THE BEAST YOU ARE/WHITE VINYL
HEY COLOSSUS-RRR -ORIGINAL PRESS 22/250
HEY COLOSSUS- IN BLACK AND GOLD
HEY COLOSSUS- THE GUILLOTINE
USA/MEXICO- MALAMOROS
GODFLESH- POST SELF
COME- DONT ASK DONT TELL
COMANECHI- YOU OWE ME NOTHING BUT LOVE
TAD-QUICK AND DIRTY/GREEN VINYL
HEPA TITUS- BLUE FAT PUSSY
BREEDERS- MOUNTAIN BATTLES.
I SOLD MORE RECORDS THAN I BOUGHT THIS YEAR.
Tuesday, 1 January 2019
MY YEAR OF BEiNG A BOOKWORM!
-Brief interviews with hideous men -DAViD FOSTER WALLACE
-Catch 22-JOSEPH HELLER
-Let's go play at the adam's-MENDAL JOHNSON
-The sandman-E.T.A HOFFMANN
-He cuts hog-MOLLY HARVEY
-Secret history of twin peaks -MARK FROST
-Exquisite corpse-POPPY Z BRiTE
-Antic hay -ALDOUS HUXLEY
-The plague -ALBERT CAMUS
-Recording unhinged-SYLViA MASSY
-The immoralist -ANDRE GiDE
-The fall- ALBERT CAMUS
-When Kids kill - JONATHON PAUL
-A sense of freedom - JiMMY BOYLE
-H -CHRISTiANE F
-The trial - FRANZ KAFKA
-Evil harvest - ROD COLViN
-Brave new world -ALDOUS HUXLEY
-Last exit to brooklyn - HUBERT SELBY JR
-Exile and the kingdom - ALBERT CAMUS
-Show of violence - FREDRiC WERTHAM
-Venus in furs - LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH
-The Double - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
-Fear and loathing in las vegas- HUNTER S THOMPSON
-Crazy cock - HENRY MiLLER
-Men into beasts - GEORGE SYLVESTER
-Seize the day - SAUL BELLOW
-Dubliners- JAMES JOYCE
-Fahrenheit 451 -RAY BRADBURY
-Dead babies - MARTiN AMiS
-One day in the life of Ivan denisovich- ALEKSANDR SOLZHENNiTSYN
-Adventures of Tom Sawyer -MARK TWAiN
-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - MARK TWAiN
-The crying of lot 49- THOMAS PYNCHON
-The diary of a nobody- GEORGE AND WEEDON GROSSMiTH
-Notes from underground- FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
-Closing time - JOSPEH HELLER
-Dr jekyll and mr hyde/Mark heim/Merry men -ROBERT LOUiS STEVENSON
-Franny and zooey -J.D SALiNGER
-Cock and bull - WiLL SELF
-Mountainhead -NEW JUCHE
-A season in hell - ARTHUR RiMBAUD
-The victim - SAIL BELLOW
-Virgin suicides - JEFFREY EUGENiDES
-Tropic of capricorn -HENRY MiLLER
-Girlvert -ASHLEY BLUE
-Fucking Martin- DALE PECK
-Of mice and men - JOHN STEiNBECK
-Great expectations -CHARLES DiCKENS
-Requiem for a dream- HUBERT SELBY JR
-The collector - JOHN FOWLES
-The girl next door - JACK KETCHUM
-The art of loving - ERiCH FROMM
-The rum diary - HUNTER S THOMPSON
-American psycho - BRET EASTON ELLiS
-To kill a mockingbird - HARPER LEE
-Confessions of a mask - YUKiO MiSHiMA
-Oliver twist -CHARLES DiCKENS
-Down and out in paris and london- GEORGE ORWELL
-Fight club - CHUCK PALAHNiUK
-East of eden- JOHN STEiNBECK
-Catch 22-JOSEPH HELLER
-Let's go play at the adam's-MENDAL JOHNSON
-The sandman-E.T.A HOFFMANN
-He cuts hog-MOLLY HARVEY
-Secret history of twin peaks -MARK FROST
-Exquisite corpse-POPPY Z BRiTE
-Antic hay -ALDOUS HUXLEY
-The plague -ALBERT CAMUS
-Recording unhinged-SYLViA MASSY
-The immoralist -ANDRE GiDE
-The fall- ALBERT CAMUS
-When Kids kill - JONATHON PAUL
-A sense of freedom - JiMMY BOYLE
-H -CHRISTiANE F
-The trial - FRANZ KAFKA
-Evil harvest - ROD COLViN
-Brave new world -ALDOUS HUXLEY
-Last exit to brooklyn - HUBERT SELBY JR
-Exile and the kingdom - ALBERT CAMUS
-Show of violence - FREDRiC WERTHAM
-Venus in furs - LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH
-The Double - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
-Fear and loathing in las vegas- HUNTER S THOMPSON
-Crazy cock - HENRY MiLLER
-Men into beasts - GEORGE SYLVESTER
-Seize the day - SAUL BELLOW
-Dubliners- JAMES JOYCE
-Fahrenheit 451 -RAY BRADBURY
-Dead babies - MARTiN AMiS
-One day in the life of Ivan denisovich- ALEKSANDR SOLZHENNiTSYN
-Adventures of Tom Sawyer -MARK TWAiN
-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - MARK TWAiN
-The crying of lot 49- THOMAS PYNCHON
-The diary of a nobody- GEORGE AND WEEDON GROSSMiTH
-Notes from underground- FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
-Closing time - JOSPEH HELLER
-Dr jekyll and mr hyde/Mark heim/Merry men -ROBERT LOUiS STEVENSON
-Franny and zooey -J.D SALiNGER
-Cock and bull - WiLL SELF
-Mountainhead -NEW JUCHE
-A season in hell - ARTHUR RiMBAUD
-The victim - SAIL BELLOW
-Virgin suicides - JEFFREY EUGENiDES
-Tropic of capricorn -HENRY MiLLER
-Girlvert -ASHLEY BLUE
-Fucking Martin- DALE PECK
-Of mice and men - JOHN STEiNBECK
-Great expectations -CHARLES DiCKENS
-Requiem for a dream- HUBERT SELBY JR
-The collector - JOHN FOWLES
-The girl next door - JACK KETCHUM
-The art of loving - ERiCH FROMM
-The rum diary - HUNTER S THOMPSON
-American psycho - BRET EASTON ELLiS
-To kill a mockingbird - HARPER LEE
-Confessions of a mask - YUKiO MiSHiMA
-Oliver twist -CHARLES DiCKENS
-Down and out in paris and london- GEORGE ORWELL
-Fight club - CHUCK PALAHNiUK
-East of eden- JOHN STEiNBECK
If it wasn't for my wife I would have gone to ZERO gigs this year
5/1/18 -Oxford bully- Brickwork lizards-flights of helios I remember hating this support band, I cant remember why but I'm sure if I saw them again, I would hate them again.
20/4/18-Oxford tap social- brickwork Lizards This year I have seen more bw lizards than the dwarves, this doesn't reflect my taste
27/4/18- Oxford Wheatsheaf- Pink Diamond revue perhaps I was playing in other acts tonight as it seems odd to have only seen one band, but of course I cannot see myself.
24/6/2018- Oxford bully- pieranormal fest-Brickwork lizards-undersmile-von braun-lee riley and macarena- rabbit spazz band. I don't think I was the only one confused trying to figure out when the spazz bands set started, or ended for that matter!!!!
10/7/2018- Camden underworld- Dwarves,hip priests, nick oliveri death electric All support bands have to be worse than the main band, that is why I have seen hip priests multiple times this year alone,I will never watch them headline as I hate them, although it is comedy gold to watch panda boy.
10/9/2018- aylesbury theatre- camel Bands should have a limit for how long they are allowed to perform for, anything over 45 minutes and you deserve to be shot on stage.
11/11/2018- Camden black heart- hewhocannotbenamed - hip priests Hewho is a legend, my favourite bit was finding the bassists signature plectrum on the floor and upon reading his name I threw it back on the floor.
18/11/2018- Camden black heart- blag dahlia acoustic, nick oliveri acoustic if only blag and hewho were on this stage at the same time instead of a week apart, both of them together must be great, and annoyingly I've yet to see it happen!!!!
and so next year I'm staying in!!!!
20/4/18-Oxford tap social- brickwork Lizards This year I have seen more bw lizards than the dwarves, this doesn't reflect my taste
27/4/18- Oxford Wheatsheaf- Pink Diamond revue perhaps I was playing in other acts tonight as it seems odd to have only seen one band, but of course I cannot see myself.
24/6/2018- Oxford bully- pieranormal fest-Brickwork lizards-undersmile-von braun-lee riley and macarena- rabbit spazz band. I don't think I was the only one confused trying to figure out when the spazz bands set started, or ended for that matter!!!!
10/7/2018- Camden underworld- Dwarves,hip priests, nick oliveri death electric All support bands have to be worse than the main band, that is why I have seen hip priests multiple times this year alone,I will never watch them headline as I hate them, although it is comedy gold to watch panda boy.
10/9/2018- aylesbury theatre- camel Bands should have a limit for how long they are allowed to perform for, anything over 45 minutes and you deserve to be shot on stage.
11/11/2018- Camden black heart- hewhocannotbenamed - hip priests Hewho is a legend, my favourite bit was finding the bassists signature plectrum on the floor and upon reading his name I threw it back on the floor.
18/11/2018- Camden black heart- blag dahlia acoustic, nick oliveri acoustic if only blag and hewho were on this stage at the same time instead of a week apart, both of them together must be great, and annoyingly I've yet to see it happen!!!!
and so next year I'm staying in!!!!
2018-The year I sold more records than I bought!
Gewalt- limiter 7" (3 nail cover)
Gewalt- wir sind sicher 7" (clear black smoke)
Gewalt- tier 7"
Gewalt- so soll es sein 7"
Big Biz- solid gold metal boxset
Deerhoof- 2017 joyful noise boxset (on this years list due to it not being completed till 2018)
Hey Colossus- RRR (2lp remaster)
Henry Blacker - the making of....
Residents- ghost of hope
Nudist-bury my innocence
Pink Diamond Revue- miss lonely hearts 12"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- skeleton tree
Xordox- neospection
The Ex-27 passports
Die Nerven- Fake (yellow vinyl)
Dwarves- take back the night (white vinyl)
Candy Now- s/t
Firewater- international orange
Liars- 1/1 (clear vinyl)
Teenage Larvae- pelt of the sun 7" (4/21 black)
Hepa/titus- champagne of incest (13/23 silver edition clear vinyl)
Creston spiers-MMXVII
Daughters- you wont get what you want (london fog)
Gewalt- kein mensch 7" (clear)
Lead into gold - the sun behind the sun (clear)
Residents- intruders
Gewalt- manipulation
Dead can dance- within the realm of a dying sun
Lydia lunch- marchesa (gold)
Liars- titles with the word fountain(green)
I don't even consider myself a record collector anymore!!!!
Buying so few records this year did afford me a few new guitars too :)
Gewalt- wir sind sicher 7" (clear black smoke)
Gewalt- tier 7"
Gewalt- so soll es sein 7"
Big Biz- solid gold metal boxset
Deerhoof- 2017 joyful noise boxset (on this years list due to it not being completed till 2018)
Hey Colossus- RRR (2lp remaster)
Henry Blacker - the making of....
Residents- ghost of hope
Nudist-bury my innocence
Pink Diamond Revue- miss lonely hearts 12"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- skeleton tree
Xordox- neospection
The Ex-27 passports
Die Nerven- Fake (yellow vinyl)
Dwarves- take back the night (white vinyl)
Candy Now- s/t
Firewater- international orange
Liars- 1/1 (clear vinyl)
Teenage Larvae- pelt of the sun 7" (4/21 black)
Hepa/titus- champagne of incest (13/23 silver edition clear vinyl)
Creston spiers-MMXVII
Daughters- you wont get what you want (london fog)
Gewalt- kein mensch 7" (clear)
Lead into gold - the sun behind the sun (clear)
Residents- intruders
Gewalt- manipulation
Dead can dance- within the realm of a dying sun
Lydia lunch- marchesa (gold)
Liars- titles with the word fountain(green)
I don't even consider myself a record collector anymore!!!!
Buying so few records this year did afford me a few new guitars too :)
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