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Update for August 2006

2006-09-02T00:57:00.000-07:00

This is just a quick note to say what I am up to...
I’ve been working and it’s really tiring having to travel all the time and go to work for 9 hours a day. This means that I haven’t been up to much, not even at the weekends when I’ve been playing Mario Golf and going on the internet a lot, not doing much as my internet is so slow. Last week however I went to see my Dad in Cardiff. On Saturday I brought lots of lovely Vinyl from Spillers records. I got albums by Comets on Fire, Espers and Devendra Banhart, and singles by The Long Blondes, Pippettes, Raconteurs, Aberfeldy, and Sonic youth. I also brought two Taschen art books on Marcel Duchamp and Willem De Kooning. On The Sunday I visited Caefilly Castle but there was no sign of any cheese.
Next Friday I am going on holiday to Scotland with my Dad which should be interesting. Expect me to add pictures of me atop of Ben Nevis soon after. We are spending one night in Kendal, two nights in Fort William, two nights in Port something or other on the Isle of Skye and two nights in Edinborough.
My only other future plans are going to see The Long Blondes at Cardiff University Students Union on October 22nd and going to see Yo La Tengo at Cardiff point on 7th November.

CURRENT LISTENING; Hefner – Catfight!
Comets On Fire – Avatar (Sub Pop)
Espers – II (Drag City)

JULY Update

2006-07-29T08:02:00.000-07:00

I've not been up to much this month apart from working. I made some frames for David Walliams and Damien Hirst popped by. Artists i've done frames for are:
Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gary Hume, Richard Hamilton, David Bailey, Cy Twombly, Gilbert And George, Jeff Koons, Peter Saville, Chen Qi, Picasso, Joan Miro, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Tom Gallant, Poppy De Villeneuve, Jeremy Dellar, Georg Baselitz, Banksy, Jamie Reid, Sir David Frost, Darren Almond, Mary Huggonier, Tudela, Peter Doig, Ryan Gander, Jamie Hewlett, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk, Robert Mapplethorpe
This is a more complete list than my last blog
I haven't got anything interesting planned for August but i'll try to put more stuff on this blog (19:19)

CURRENT LISTENING:Dead Meadow - Feathers (Matador)
Howling Bells - Howling Bells (Bella Union)
Joy Zipper - American Whip (Mercury)

19:19!

2006-07-25T19:19:00.000-07:00

19:19!

Update For Late May

2006-05-27T16:16:00.000-07:00

I haven't been up to that much recently as I have been hard at work for over a month now. Payday is next week - YES! Not that I can spend anything though as I have been buying loads of Cds recently. So far at work I have been cutting, joining, sanding and tidying the workshop. I have played my part in making frames for Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Cy Twombly, Tracey Emin, Peter Doig, Darren Almond, Picasso, Gilbert And George, Jamie Hewlett, Richard Hamilton, banksy, Peter Blake, Miro and many others whose names I cannot remember. It is a good job and I am enjoying it, it's not too hard and the days seem to go by quickly. The only problem is the travelling as three days a week I have to take a long trip home via Tetbury and I don't get home until 8pm when I finish work at half 5!
I have not done any artwork since starting work as i've been tired and at the weekends i've been away or on this computer whilst I have the chance, but next weekend I may continue working on the large painting I started before I began working. For future works I am planning to use gloss paints so I will probably need more room so the fumes won't affect me or the smell of my room.

CURRENT LISTENING: Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 2004 (Mute
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas (V2)
Beck - Guero (Interscope)
Jenny Lewis And The watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (Polydor)
The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea (Rough Trade)
Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album (Geffen)
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic (Domino)

New Job and stuff

2006-04-11T02:31:00.000-07:00

I haven't updated my Blog for a few weeks as I have not been up to that much recently and have been concentrating on Painting and Job-hunting. As many of you will know by now, I am starting a new job as a trainee frame maker at Derbyshire in Stroud. I start on the 24th of April. It is going to be quite expensive paying for travel and that is my only worry. On the weekend at the end of the first week, I shall be attending the reunion of some of my university pals.

CURRENT LISTENING:Dinosaur Jr, The Elected, Jerk With A Bomb, Mudhoney, Deerhoof, etc...

The Go! Team at Cardiff Coal Exchange 07/03/2006

2006-03-13T20:31:00.000-08:00

This is the first ever gig review I’ve ever written so I’m sorry about the overall quality of the writing, I’m not a music journalist although obviously I’m better than the NME’s writers.

For all the effort I was putting in, I knew that this gig had to be worth it. I had missed them before as I couldn’t go to reading last year and all the Go! Team’s other shows were too hard to get to. I had suffered a minor setback as I had lost my Young person’s railcard which I haven’t renewed yet, so it cost me £25 for a single from Kemble station to Cardiff. Needless to say I was pretty eggy.
I arrived at the Coal exchange on time, but the gig was delayed, keeping everyone outside for about half an hour later than planned. The Coal Exchange is a nice medium sized venue with a wooden finish inside. Hilariously enough I nearly made the mistake of going into the ladies as I found my way out from the Gents. Some of the music played by the PA was pretty lame, such as Liberty X. The gig was sold out so was very full. I watched the whole gig from in front of the mixing desk which wasn’t a good idea as I got a bit squashed as others moved back and I had nowhere to move to.
The first band on were Seattle duo Smoosh, who turned out to be better than most people thought with a surprisingly heavy piano and some nice drumming. I am not sure about their rap-style song although it sounded cool and reminded me of ‘The denial Twist’ by the White Stripes. I noted to myself that Smoosh were better than the Strokes when I saw them live at Reading.
2nd on, Australian femme-punkers The Grates were more conventional and my first thoughts on them were that ‘someone’s heard the Yeah yeah yeah’s album’. Nothing wrong with that though as the Yeah Yeah yeah’s rule, although the Grates weren’t as brilliant as YYYs but were still pretty good. Their frontwoman was extremely hyperactive, a bit like Karen O, and I don’t know if they’d be as good without her making it more fun. Anyway it was their drummer Alana’s birthday, although we never found out her age. Ninja from the Go! Team thought she was over 25 as she didn’t reveal her age but she looked as if she was still a teenager.

Before the Go! Team, the in-between music got slightly better as it sounded like a compilation done by the Team Themselves. They started off the set with a barely recognisable but still brilliant ‘Panther Dash’ with complete added rapping. At this point I thought it was going to be a bit like Bob Dylan live as you had to guess what the songs were as they’d been altered too much. Then they went straight into ‘Get It Together’ which was more recognisable with Ninja taking on the recorder duties and adding some freestyles to the scratching at the end. Next up was a new song ‘We Just Won’t Be Defeated,’ which I’d, previously heard on the Team’s 4Music documentary (Actually I found out that it’s now on the reissue of the album). All of the 5 new songs they played were all really good and sound like the best songs from the debut (i.e. Bottle Rocket, Huddle Formation, ladyflash). Then they played B-Side ‘the Ice Storm’ which I don’t think fit the party mood of the other songs although it was still good. This was followed by two more new songs, one of which I think is called ‘Rap the Mike’ and it was so new it had only been performed once or twice before. All the new songs featured more vocals than the songs on the album, this is due to band leader Ian Parton wanting the new material to be more live-band orientated rather than all the samples of the ‘Thunder, Lightning Strike’ debut. I noticed that the new guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Kaori Tsuchida took up more of the vocals even ones previously sung by Ninja. As the vocals on the album are less comprehensible than Ninja’s lyrics to the live show, she took time to teach different sides of the audience the words to ‘Huddle Formation’ and newie ‘Doing It Right’. The version of ‘The power is on’ was noticeably brilliant and a definite highlight. Despite a minor hitch with Junior Kickstart’s horns going off prematurely, Drummer Chi‘s solo spot on ‘Hold Yr. terror Close’ was really well received by the crowd. Then the rest of the band came back onstage, launching straight into ‘Junior Kickstart’. The original set was finished by a storming ‘Bottle Rocket’ and a new song whose name I can’t remember. The encore was ‘Everyone’s A V.I.P. to Someone’ with Ninja instructing people to get their lighter’s out, and then their signature tune ‘Ladyflash’ as a finale with everyone instructed to dance. It was the last night of the tour as Southampton’s gig had been cancelled due to Ninja’s voice being lost (Not that it sounded like she was losing it). This resulted in Smoosh and the Grates coming back on stage with balloons. It was also mentioned at this point that Ian’s parents were both Welsh. As soon as the applause had faded ‘Silver Rocket’ by Sonic Youth was played over the P.A. and so ended an impressive evening which was well worth the hassle as well as the money spent on getting there.

THE SETLIST (As Far As I Can Remember):
Siren/Intro
Panther dash
Get It Together
We Just Won’t Be Defeated
The Ice storm
Huddle Formation
Rap The Mike?
We Listen Everyday?
The power Is On
Hold Yr. Terror Close
Air Raid Guitar
Junior Kickstart
Doing It Right?
Bottle Rocket
New Song (Possibly Titanic Vestation?)
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Everyone’s A V.I.P. to someone
Ladyflash

Last.Fm and Some more New Work

2006-03-06T00:51:00.000-08:00

Firstly, You can now check out what I am currently listening to (On The Computer) in the form of charts and stuff on www.last.fm/user/DjTimellis/ . Also it has some journal entries and stuff unique to that site.

I have been doing quite a few new paintings in my sketchbook including these shown here. These new paintings are experimenting more with the layout of the circles and the orange/red colour scheme. They have been inspired by the circle paintings of Kenneth Nolan.

By next week, I should have written and posted a review of The Go! Team in Cardiff. Also I would quite like to see Giant Drag at Cardiff Barfly on April 15th.

Anyone reading this blog, who fancies kidknapping me and asking for answers. I don't have any so please don't bother.

CURRENT LISTENING: The Detroit Cobras - Baby (Rough Trade), Mudhoney - Blindspots (Sub Pop), The Elected - Not Going Home (Sub Pop)

My Newest work

2006-02-24T12:49:00.000-08:00

In my recent work I have been looking into the ‘Sublime’ quality of music and I tried to show this sublime quality by painting a representation of that feeling. Although my prints seemed to work, I was not fully satisfied with my results. I feel that my prints were to pretty and nice, that they may correspond with a universal ‘sublime’ feeling but didn’t express how something ‘sublime’ doesn’t have to appeal from something that everybody gets the feeling from. I wanted to show how something that appears as imperfect and distorted such as a piece of Lo-Fi music can give a sublime feeling. For my end results of this work I want to represent a ‘sublime’ experience that I’ve had whilst listening to music. I believe that something that is less immediate can ultimately be more rewarding and this is a message which I’d like my paintings to inform the viewer.
I have been looking into reasons why different people like different types of music, and I have been thinking about this whilst thinking about my new work. With my next picture as I am thinking about representing music that I like, maybe it will reveal something about why I like the music that I do. Maybe I didn’t like my previous works as they were too universal and I like to be different to everyone else which may relate to how I came to like alternative music. I am not sure what I want to do with future work yet, I may try to somehow look at different ways in which people like music and try to represent them somehow.
This picture shown here is a small painting in my sketchbook that I did after using a stained glass effect onto a photo of my previous work from the degree show. I am not satisfied with my results and feel I need to experiment a little more with my image and materials before I make a larger piece.

CURRENT LISTENING:

Black Mountain - Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)

Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)

My Birthday Message

2006-02-12T17:16:00.000-08:00

It's my birthday today so I thought i'd write a brief message. Firstly I'd like to thank Kate and Damien for their card. I haven't done that much today but I did get to play on my Sega mastersystem with my sister on Winter Olympics. I also played on Alex Kid and remembered how great it is.

CURRENT LISTENING:Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Rough Trade)

Update For Early February Plus CV Highlights

2006-02-03T08:15:00.000-08:00

This month I am Looking forward to my birthday on the 12th. I have also started the first stages in resuming my artwork. I hope to have some early paintings done by the end of next week. Job wise I have rung up about a couple of jobs recently and I may be turning to the darkside as I am applying for a job as a junior Graphic Designer.
I Am also looking forward to seeing the Go! Team play Cardiff in March, and also I am hoping to go and see Sleater-Kinney play Bristol Fleece at the end of May if I can sort out getting there and back.

CURRENT LISTENING:Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others (Matador)
Pixies - Live In LA (www.pixiesdiscs.com)
Mudhoney - March To Fuzz (Sub Pop)

Here is an extract from my Cv for you all to enjoy...

Career Highlights:
· Participated in a final show for my Art Foundation at Gloscat in Gloucester
· Participated in 2nd Year Show in May 2004 for Plymouth University at Exeter Race
Course
· A well received Dj Set in aid of the 3rd Year show at the Funk Mess Fancy Event
· A Dj Set In aid of the 2nd Year Show as part of the event
· I received a high 2:1 mark of 66% for my Thesis on the artist Christian Marclay
· Participated in the 2005 Degree Show for the University Of Plymouth at the Exeter
Campus and was featured in the accompanying catalogue
· Participated in “45 Degrees Southwest” Show in Brick Lane, London as part of the Free
Range events of July 2005 and recieved further offers to buy my work.

Interests:
· I enjoy listening to, buying and playing a variety of different types of music like Indie/Alternative Rock, Electronica, the Blues, Folk, Punk and Alt-country
· I am always being creative by making art or music and designing or writing stuff
· I am interested in Cooking, in particular Breads and Pizzas
· I Enjoy Comedy and have a good sense of humor. I especially enjoy Alan Partridge
· I visit art galleries and read art Books
· I like to go on the internet and look at music and art based websites as well as buying
and selling using ebay.com
· I enjoy reading non-fiction especially music biographies
· I enjoy learning about Science and History by watching documentaries and visiting
museums and wildlife parks

My Ideal Woman

2006-01-30T05:16:00.000-08:00

What I’d like in a girlfriend
Alternative, not into fashion or trends,
Decent musical tastes (doesn’t have to be exactly like mine though but it would help),
Long dark hair is preferable but I like girls with hairs of all colours as long as it’s quite long,
I like a nice pretty face (this is probably the first thing I look for in a girl),
I’d like my girlfriend to Wear dresses and skirts as girls dressed in those quite often look amazing (Not denim or anything with buttons as that would put me right off),
A good sense of humour,
I would want her to be not too tidy,
I wouldn’t want a girl, who was too outgoing as I like a good night in,
She’d have to want to go to gigs with me,
She would have to put up with me and all my quirks although I’d listen to her advice, because i’m not arrogant and i’d be willing to put up with her faults not that she’d have any

What I wouldn’t want in a girlfriend-
I don’t fancy girls who are trendy and into fashion,
I don’t like earrings especially dangly ones,
I don’t like girls who wear too much denim,
I would like a girl who wasn’t interested in celebrity gossip and watching crappy reality TV,
I don’t like girls in uniform,
I don’t like them to wear shirts,
I don’t want a girlfriend, who is into R&B and trendy nightclubs,

CURRENT LISTENING: Pulp - A Different Class/ We Love Life (Island)
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die (Moshi Moshi)
Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (Dreamworks)

My Future Art and Stuff

2006-01-23T12:23:00.000-08:00

My Book has just over 12500 words so far, the bit I had on my previous post was quite lame and the rest of my book is better. I needed to write this post and apologise. I am going to start working on my art again soon and I have done some quick experimentation playing about with images on the computer. I want to use my orange prints with circles but fracture them up without losing the original image. I am still trying to represent the sublime feeling I get via listening to music. There is a reason for me ‘fracturing’ the image but I can’t explain it well enough. My new paintings should be a little like the image below but without the black lines and with more vivid colours. I am thinking about my new work as I am going to ring up soon about having my artwork sold in a gallery in Stroud.
And sorry guys about not being able to come to the Uni Reunion, but unfortionately money has the better of me.
CURRENT LISTENING: Black Mountain – Drugonaut (Jagowar)
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Frank Zappa – The Muffin Man

Update For January 2006

2006-01-12T14:06:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year Everyone!

This month I haven’t done that much as usual; I haven’t even done hardly any work on my book for ages although I’ve done some research. I am currently working on a mini art project involving photographs of all the things that I’ve bought for the last 3 years.

For my book I see myself as an investigative journalist dishing the dirt on how music is marketed and sold to its listeners. Also I am looking at the psychological reasons for taste and taste relating to personality. The 1st chapter which will probably end up as an intro is all about me and how my musical tastes have evolved and why they were so. The following extract is from this chapter and is about how my tastes have changed;

For some reason now I listen to mostly American music for some unknown reason. I only listen to a couple of British bands. Back in the 1990’s I listened to British music almost exclusively. It might be due to the way that I access new music these days as I usually come across music via free downloads from record company and band websites. Back in the day I used to get to hear new music on British radio which played a lot of British music. But now I tend to listen to my cds or music on my computer instead. This is also due to me not reading NME so I am not interested in any of their over hyped crap anymore. These changes in how I access new music has also made it so that I don’t really listen to brand new music as a lot of the stuff I am into is quite old now. I also listen to a wider variety of music as I can now download different bands which helps broaden the horizons.

CURRENT LISTENING:
The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars)
Yo La Tengo – Prisoners of Love (Matador)
Bright Eyes – Lifted (Wichita)

The Number 1 Album of 2005 is.....Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

2006-01-01T14:31:00.000-08:00

This is the only album that i've heard from this year that's an actual classic. Sleater-Kinney never cease to write such amazing songs. It has been said that this album is a change of sound for the trio, but I see it as more of a progression from One Beat. The production is also really good and sounds like it was recorded on full volume and I thought Dave Friedman only could do one sound but this proves how good he actually is. ‘Modern Girl’ is possibly their best song up there with ‘the size of our love’ from the Hot rock. Other highlights include the single of the year ‘Entertain’ and the closing double whammy of ‘Let’s call it love’ and ‘Night Light’. Some of the songs aren't as good but the overall sound of the record elevates them. I have this album both on Cd (With Ltd Edition DVD) and on double screen printed vinyl with a picture of a cross section of a tree on it. This would be awesome live when I eventually am able to go and see them.

Albums Of The Year 2005, No.2: The Fiery Furnaces EP

2005-12-31T19:37:00.000-08:00

Not a proper Ep but a 10 song collection of singles, b-sides and rarities. Includes the Awesome single ‘Tropical Ice Land’ as well as the electronic(y) ‘Single Again.’ When I got this album it blew me away, then I got Gallowsbirds bark which was a huge disappointment but Blueberry boat is even better than this and is one of the best records ever. A bit like a way more superior Flaming Lips but also not like anything else that I’ve ever heard. This collection is still brilliant and this proves that Eleanor Friedberger is more talented than her boyfriend Alex from Franz Ferdinand. Lovely stuff!!!

Records Of The Year 2005 No.3 - The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

2005-12-29T18:12:00.000-08:00

Although not as good as the White Stripes best album De Stijl, Get behind me Satan is still better than the rocky Elephant which most people seem to love. Features some of Jack White’s best songs like the excellent piano driven singles ‘My Doorbell’ and ‘The Denial twist’. I like the more acoustic feel of this record and love Jack White's production which is better than that of their last album. The use of the marimba should be used more often in music. Other highlights include forever for her (is over for me), instinct blues and take, take, take. Hopefully one day they will get round to releasing this album on vinyl as that would have made my year.

Records Of The Year 2005 No.4 - The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

2005-12-28T23:45:00.000-08:00

Abso progging lovely! Cedric and Omar follow up Relationship and Deloused with another brilliant album. The first song is the least good song on the album and it just keeps getting better. I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t one long song as I’d heard through the grapevine that it was. Although the sheer quality of the music more than makes up for that. The highlight of the album for me has to be the last bit from track 6 onwards when all the tracks blend in to one long sequence of genius.

Albums Of The Year 2005 No5 - Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning

2005-12-27T11:25:00.000-08:00

Outstanding singer-songwritery from Connor. This is only marginally better than the also excellent Digital ash in a digital urn. This is possibly the best alt-country album ever! full of classic ballads and upbeat numbers. It has a timeless quality Like the White stripes new album. Emmylou Harris does backing vocals on some songs like what she did for another great singer-songwriter back in the day. Highlights include ‘We are nowhere and its now’, ‘Landlocked blues’, ‘Another travellin’ song’ and ‘Lua’.

Albums Of The Year 2005 No.6; Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die

2005-12-26T15:02:00.000-08:00

I have only just purchased this recently but it is awesome. 13 tracks in 41 minutes, but it seems like a lot more songs in even less time as time flys when you’re having fun. There are so many twist and turns that you never get bored. It’s an indie album but a lot of it doesn’t really sound that similar to other 'Indie' artists' songs and the songs don't even sound that similar to each other. There are amazing upbeat pop songs such as ‘Wishbone’ and ‘Cemetery’, the electro of the last single ‘Do the Whirlwind’ and even reggae styled instrumental ‘Rendezvous Potrero Hill’.

Records Of The Year No.7 - Boom Bip - Blue Eyed In The Red Room

2005-12-25T14:40:00.000-08:00

I first heard of Boom Bip through the classic tune ‘Roads Must Roll’ which I heard on the John Peel Festive 50 back in 2002. When I heard that Gruff Rhys and Nina Nastasia were both on this album I knew I just had to get it. It didn’t disappoint. Electronica meets post-rock on this stunning almost instrumental album done not with the use of samples but with live instrumentation, not that it matters either way, I’m not a stereophonics fan! Highlights include ‘Aplomb’, ‘The Move’, ‘Dos & Don’ts’ (features elements of the circus theme) and ‘the matter (of our discussion).

Records Of The Year 2005 No.8 - 50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean

2005-12-24T13:25:00.000-08:00

Kristen Hersh’s new band in full length Album shocker! They said they were only going to do Eps as that’s apparently a better format. I would probably disagree as I am more inclined to listen to a full length album. Any way this album is better than Kristen’s recent solo efforts and the reformed Throwing Muses album. Punky full throttle genius. This features re-recordings of Bug Material including the fantastically catchy ‘Clara Bow’. Other highlights include ‘Petal’ (a way more superior version to the demo given away with comes with a smile magazine) and the new songs ‘Sally is a girl’ and ‘Ginger Park’. The free download Ep ‘Free Music’ is just as good too.

Albums Of The Year 2005 No.09 - Super Furry Animals - Love kraft

2005-12-23T10:43:00.000-08:00

The best British band, FACT! Not their best album but any album by the Super Furries is a good thing. This album seems to be their mature album, gone are the days when SFA albums tried and succeeded to include every possible musical style into every song. Love Kraft contains mostly ballads and is their mellowest album. Despite including ‘The horn’ which could have been one of their less memorable B sides the album does have it’s highlights which are the instrumental ‘Oi Frango’, ‘Zoom!’, ‘Atomic Lust’, and ‘Back on a roll’. I can also mention Gruff Rhys’ solo album that also came out at the start of the year. Although it didn’t make it on to this list it still has some cracking tunes. I probably chose this album over that as this is by the full band.

Records Of the Year: No.10 - Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

2005-12-22T11:59:00.000-08:00

This probably should be higher up in the list, but as I’ve got so many eels albums and I went off them a bit after 2003’s disappointing ‘Shootenanny’. In that respect it is a bit of a return to form with 2 Cds of Great eels music. I have not had this for very long so if I redo this list next year this could be higher up if I have listened to it some more. Highlights include Old s**t/New S**t, Mother Mary, Losing Streak and Last Time We Spoke featuring singer E's dog Bobby Jr.

The Christmas Countdown

2005-12-20T12:06:00.000-08:00

On Thursday I am beginning a countdown of my top 10 albums of the year. I shall be doing one album a day until the number 1 album of the year is revealed on New years Eve. I have only actually bought about 11 albums from this year so it should be interesting. Even I don't know the running order as yet due to the fact I haven't written the list until last minute just in case I buy another album that's good enough. If I buy another elligable album during the countdown I won't change it until sometime next year when i do a 2005 reconsidered list. I do know what the number 1 album will be as I doubt it has any competition ha ha. This is my 6th or 7th attempt at publishing this post as I keep messing up and publishing it with speling mistaces and deleting the wrong blo...
Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year from Tim

CURRENT LISTENING: A Cd that I am making for Soozey
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (Live)
50FT Wave - Free Music (Free download from throwingmusic.com)

CURRENT READING: John Peel - Margrave Of The Marshes

My Book

2005-12-10T13:29:00.000-08:00

Sadly, I didn't get the Cardiff job in the end as I was beaten by someone with previous experience in the art of Lithograph printing. This does now mean howether that I now have more time to dedicate to my book I am currently writing about Musical Tastes. I doubt that it will actually end up being an actual book, probably just a thesis-style essay. This is the introduction as it stands....

This book is intended to find the answer or answers to why I and other people like listening to music, and why people have different tastes. I am intending to find out why different genres and styles of music appeal to different people. I would like to know what factors influence our musical tastes and whether these so called ‘tastes’ are genuinely up to the individual or dependant on the circumstances of the person’s whereabouts and surrounding people (i.e. families, media, etc…)- basically it comes down to nature vs. nurture.

After this book, I already have plans for another book/essay on the evils of convenience culture. This is brought about by my personal anger at the way people are lazy and cannot be bothered to make their own food and opt for Readymeals instead. Also I hate how people always go for inferior products just to save a few pennys. It is the way that people depend so heavily on convenience rather than quality that I am opposed to. I would like to show alternatives that enable you to have a better quality for a low price just with a little bit more effort.

CURRENT LISTENING: Arcitecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die (Moshi Moshi)

CURRENT READING: Plan B: Issue 9 (Plan B Publishing)

Update for the start of December 2005

2005-12-01T07:40:00.000-08:00

At the moment not a lot has changed from what I was doing last month. I am still awaiting a job interview which is next wednesday. I am still working on creating an archive of my life's artwork so far. I am now taking digital photos of my larger works which are too big for the scanner. It is taking longer as it should as I have to cope with using a camera which keeps causing the computer to shut down when I open one of it's many corrupted files. Also I am dependant on the daylight as it's always too dark when I take photos inside. Also I have wobbly hands and am awful at photography.
In the evenings I have been listening to music, reading and watching good Tv. I am going to try and design an album cover for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I am thinking of doing something involving the bands faces on cats. I will post my effort up online as soon as it's done. Hopefully as I'll have all my archiving done soon, i'll finally be able to continue with my artwork. I'll have to buy some new paints for that though. I have also being trying to master 'Absence of God' by Rilo Kiley on guitar.

Also does anybody want to go to next year's All Tomorrow's Parties. I want to go to both weekends as one features a day curated by Sleater-Kinney and the other has Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Mudhoney curating. I can't affort it really but I would have liked to have gone. I would also like to go and see Belle and Sebastian in Bristol

CURRENT LISTENING: Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (Barsuk)
BRIGHT EYES - Lifted (Wichita)
Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft (Rough Trade)

CURRENT READING: DIY:The Rise of Lofi Culture - Amy Spencer (Marion Boyars)

CURRENT VIEWING: Life In The Undergrowth
Egypt

My self Portrait November 2005

2005-11-22T11:33:00.000-08:00

Here is my finished self portrait. The unfinished version is in my Timellisfoundationonlinegallery blogspot. I am now working on the beginning stages of creating a new painting of my circles on to canvas. I am now planning the colour scheme as I plan to represent happy upbeat music like the Go! Team or something. It's quite hard working with multicoloured circles and not getting stripes or adjacent colours that are too close together. This will take a while as I am still trying to archive all my work which takes up most of my time as there's so much of it.

CURRENT LISTENING: Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (BarSuk Records)
Bright Eyes - Lifted and Fevers and Mirrors (Both Wichita)
Bob Dylan - Live 1975
Four Tet - Rounds
Eels - Blinking Lights and Other revelations

Question Tim: Andrew Gilmour Gray's questions

2005-11-16T16:12:00.000-08:00

Have you got a job yet?
No, but hopefully very soon as the job I am applying for is really cool and I am well suited for it. I am now only really looking for printing jobs, but if this application fails and there are no print jobs I might have a go at telesales or be a postman or something.

How many lists have you got?
Loads, I have so many that I can’t even be bothered to count. I have 3 large shopping lists full of lists and 2 small notepads. I also have lists on this computer of all my Cds and vinyl. I am still planning to do more and more lists in the future including one of all the thinks I look for and don’t want in a woman, but I won’t publish that one. I am probably really sad and boring doing all these lists but it is something to do whilst watching TV or listening to music or something. It’s also an easy way of compiling themed compilations without wasting Cds and never listening to them again. It also is a way of thinking up gift ideas such as Si’s Palindrome Cd.

How long till your next stupid palindrome thing?
I haven’t really got anything in the pipeline. But it’s always something to consider. I may post photos of sighted palindromes or I am thinking about writing about the multiple significance of 19:19. Fascinating Palindrome spots recently have been the great Boston Molasses flood of 19:19, The minutes silence at 11:11 on the 11th of the 11th and me getting animal crossing Characters to say 19:19 and 2 2 5 5. Next I want them to say Good Stuff! As they are my friends now as I have no life.

How heavy is the average 3bed house,including 2 parents(not gay) and 2 kids (10yr boy and 11yr girl) and also including furniture?
I don’t actually Know the answer. I think it might be a few tonnes though.

CURRENT LISTENING: Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch and Go)
Dead meadow - Various (Matador)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs and pretty Girls make graves

Question Tim Part 2

2005-11-11T15:21:00.000-08:00

Ian’s questions

1. If you were to get stuck in a lift with one other person, who would you like that person to be?
Steve Coogan or rob Slagter to keep me entertained

2. Who is your hero?
I don’t really have a real hero, but people I admire are Matt Groening, Steve Coogan when he’s Alan Partridge and all the people who make music and art I enjoy.

3. Where do you see yourself 3 years from now?
The same as today but with a job and hopefully with a haircut. I’d like to say i'd have a girlfriend but i am a realist

4. Who are your six ideal dinner guests (either? Real/fictional/dead/alive?
Homer Simpson, frank Zappa, David Walliams, Kim deal, Alan Partridge and Bender

5. What in the not too distant future are you most looking forward to?
Getting a job as I need money.

And’s Questions

1. Which year of ur degree was ur favourite, and more specifically which term?
Probably the 3rd year. Definitely not the 1st. 2nd term maybe? But my work was quite bad then, so I think I’ll probably go for the 1st. the 3rd term was quite sad as it was the end of an era and I haven’t really recovered yet.

2. How many pairs of socks do you own?
Loads, hold on a minute I’ll just go and count them……..33 and a half pairs of socks. That’s not including the socks that are in the wash and that is not a count of identical pairs either.

3. Imagine your a musical instrument, which one are you and why?
Something monotonous as I’m not that musical or something that makes random funny noises. A whistle that makes silly noises.

4. How heavy IS a tectonic plate?
I looked this up on the internet and the answer is……………………….Very!

10 Years of Pulp - Different Class

2005-11-11T02:54:00.000-08:00

This year is the 10th anniversary of this magnificent album. It was also the 1st album that I got on Cd. The above picture is my 10 year old copy. My Dad got it from Cirencester Woolworths as a Christmas present for me as he also got me and my sister our first CD player. I had just brought the Disco 2000 single on tape and at that time it was my favourite ever song. I'd not really been listening to music for long and I think Disco 2000 was the first indie song I liked. At the time I was more interested in Sonic the Hedgehog and listened to 2 unlimited, Outhere brothers and Zig and Zag. Also this year I started listening to Blur and Oasis as it was the highpoint of Britpop, but I didn't really get into Britpop big time until the end of 1995 and the start of 1996. Listening to this album today still sounds as amazing as ever. The other recent Pulp albums are also amazing and well worth getting as well as this. Pulp are also an amazing festival band and would headline my fantasy festival alongside Pixies and super Furry Animals. Apparently, now Jarvis Cocker is working on a proper solo album, so let’s hope it's a return to the Pulp Sound. Also let's hope that Pulp haven't finished for good and make a return from their indefinate hiatus. Also can I just mention that jarvis is a LEGEND!

CURRENT LISTENING:Pulp - We Love Life
Blur - The Great Escape
Ash - Candy/Sometimes/Nicole

2005-11-09T10:10:00.000-08:00

Here are the first lot of questions and answers. Keep on sending questions to me and I will answer them shortly.

Si’s Questions

1) How long is your hair?
About 64 centimetres is the longest bit of my hair. Hopefully not for much longer though as I really should go and get it cut. Who knows? I may even get it cut when I go for this job interview. I probably won’t though as I am scared of having it cut. I have not liked having my hair cut for as long as I remember. I can never decide how I’d want my hair if I’d had it cut and also I don’t trust anyone to cut my hair. I tried cutting it myself when I was a kid, but it was a disaster which didn’t help. Also I am scared of the hairdressers giving me a bad hairstyle, particularly now the mullet is back. Why?

2) Which desperate housewife?
The only one I know the name of is Bree, but I think that she’s horrible and I’d hate her as a person. She’s a good character though. I don’t like the slutty one either so it’s probably one of the ones I haven’t mentioned. I know this is a vague answer, sorry.

3) Sonic or Mario?
Sonic. The original sonic games are way better than the Mario ones. Mario isn’t even that great in Mario Kart which is the best Mario game

4) What is the best game on any console of all time?
Legend of Zelda, probably Ocarina of time but personally I prefer Windwaker. Mario Kart is the best multiplayer though. My top 5 games are 1. Legend of Zelda: Windwaker 2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3. Mario Kart (Not 64) 4. Sonic 3 5. Street Fighter 2

Hannah’s Questions

Tim do you have a mobile yet???
No, and I do not intend to get one. I have a landline though now I am at home and I plan to get one when I get my own place.

Why do dogs have cold noses?
I don’t know, but I imagine that it’s something to do with having to keep it moist to help keep their sense of smell up to standard.

What artist do you admire most and why?
I think Christian Marclay is my favourite artist at the moment. I like his work as it is all to do with music and sound and that’s what really interests me. I wish that my university work was more influenced by him as his work is a lot more interesting to me than my own. If you are not familiar with his work, check it out. He’s the guy who made a cushion out of tapes of the Beatles, to show how comforting their music was to so many people. He is also the subject for my thesis.
I also have lots of admiration for any artist who sticks with their own ideas and makes the work that they want to make rather than following the ideas and opinions of critics and tutors.

CURRENT LISTENING: The Owl and the Pussycat (Kill Rock Stars)
Lois Maffeo and Brendan Canty - The Union themes (Kill Rock stars)
Aimee Mann - Lost in space (Superego)
Rilo Kiley - XFM Session

Update for Early November

2005-11-05T16:17:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I last updated on my life. I am in the process of applying for a job as an assistant print technician in cardiff. So i'd have to stay with my dad for a bit until I get my own flat but at least i'd be escaping Cirencester. You are all invited to my house warming party by the way. I have also been working on various projects including a mass scanning of all my life's art and design work in order to create a complete archive. I have also been playing the ocharina of time masterquest but it's getting tricky now on the spirit temple/desert collossos. The new zelda is apparenly out on February 1st so I can book time off work when I get a job. This is also the same time as the new Belle and Sebastian album so it's all go for my 23rd birthday on February 12th.

Don't forget to check out my other blog of music top 10s which can be accessed via my blogger profile or http://timstop10s.blogspot.com

Here is a picture of my work at the London show as a taster for when I put some of my archive online.
Current Listening: The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out (Rykodisc)
The Kelly Deal 6000 - Sugar (Nice Records)

Coming soon: Questions and Answers
My new Blog which will be just for archive images of my work

I Just Can't Deal with Baked Beans

2005-10-30T15:21:00.000-08:00

Just to make this point more widely known I REALLY CANNOT STAND BAKED BEANS! THEY STINK AND TASTE DISGUSTING! NO-ONE SHOULD GIVE ME THEM TO EAT EVER!

In Other News, My print pictured earlier in my Blog has been recovered and is no longer MIA. So the art crime of the centuary has been solved. YaY!

CURRENT LISTENING: Boom Bip: Blue Eyed In The Red Room (Lex)
Super Furry Animals: Phantom Phorce (Placid Casual)
Of Montreal : A Spoonfull of Sugar

My Cd and record count

2005-10-18T11:11:00.000-07:00

I'm sure that you will all be fascinated to learn how many cds and records I have in my collection.
I have....
1197 CDs which includes 456 albums and 661 singles, all the rest are free Cds with magazines which i haven't included in my albums count.
372 vinyl records, including 95 LPs, 29 12" singles, 7 10" singles and 241 7" singles

I haven't actually got that many Cds in the last year only about 36 which is only 3% of my cds which I started buying about 10 years ago in late 1995. I only started buying records in early 1994 give or take a few 7" singles.

I didn't mention in my previous post that my other blog of top 10s can be accessed via my blogger profile, which is accessable in the top right of this page.

CURRENT LISTENING: The Go! Team - Huddle Formation (BBC Session)(Memphis Industries)
Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)

My New Blog as well as this one

2005-10-14T11:42:00.000-07:00

Hey! Everyone, just to let you know I have started another blog alongside this one just for my top 10 lists. I thought that as I am planning to publish loads of my lists that it would clog up this blog forcing my other posts into my archives. I am planning to keep this blog for more serious stuff such as my art, djing and palindromes.

Current listening: Lots of live songs as i'm compiling a live compilation on my computer

My Top 10 Artists

2005-10-13T10:45:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of my current favourite artists. It was quite hard to do as I don’t really know enough about artists to have any real order, but I tried and have produced this…

1. Christian Marclay
2. Pete Fowler
3. Salvador Dali
4. Jackson Pollock
5. Joan Miro
6. Piet Mondrian
7. Pablo Picasso
8. Antoni Tapies
9. Marcel Duchamp
10. Bridget Riley

The White Stripes Top 10 and top 5

2005-10-13T10:42:00.000-07:00

Here is my white stripes top 5 albums and top 10 songs

1. De Stijl
2. White Blood Cells
3. Get Behind Me Satan
4. Elephant
5. The White Stripes

My favourite white stripes songs are….

1. Death Letter
2. My Doorbell
3. The Denial Twist
4. I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
5. Fell In Love With A Girl
6. You’re Pretty Good Looking For A Girl
7. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
8. Ball And Biscuit
9. Why Can’t You Be Nicer To Me
10. Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise

A special mention goes to these great songs which didn’t make the list…
Forever For Her (Is Over For Me), Lovesick, Jolene, Now Mary, We Are Going To Be Friends, Instinct Blues, Your Southern Can is Mine, Take Take Take, The Air Beneath My Fingers, etc….

Photography by Tim Ellis 2002

CURRENT LISTENING: The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Bob Dylan - Desire

My top 10 albums of all time

2005-10-08T13:22:00.000-07:00

1. Doolittle - Pixies
2. In Utero - Nirvana
3. Radiator - Super Furry Animals
4. Live Through This - Hole
5. The Real Ramona - Throwing Muses
6. Bossanova - Pixies
7. University - Throwing Muses
8. Dirty - Sonic Youth
9. All Hands On The Bad One - Sleater-Kinney
10. Trompe Le Monde - Pixies

Current listening - Giant Drag - Lemona

Timepiece setlist for july 8th

2005-10-06T10:10:00.000-07:00

These are the notes that I took of the songs played on a friday night at timepiece. I think it was on July 8th but it could have been the week before. I might do this again if I go again as it was a fun thing to do. I am not using these as a basis for my dj set as I think I am a lot better than Dj Tezza, although I am sure that he is a legend.

My Cross eyed self portrait

2005-10-05T13:02:00.000-07:00

Here is the first attempt at a self portrait. My eyes aren't really like this I just cannot draw. I yill post better self portraits up shortly and take this down if it starts to annoy me.

Current Listening:Bright eyes - Digital ash in a digital urn
Boom Bip - Blue eyed in the red room
Four Tet - As serious as your life

My university years: A retrospective

2005-10-05T05:28:00.000-07:00

This article is dedicated to Number 30 East Wonford hill in Exeter or as it’s otherwise known THE HERMITAGE

Recently I have just had my final mark of a 2:2 (small palindrome alert), and I thought that I’d write a little retrospective of my university years. I went to the University of Plymouth to do the fine art BA. The reason I chose that university is because I used to live in Kingsbridge and Modbury which are both in Devon. I had previously done a GNVQ in art and design and an art foundation so I pretty much had to do an arty degree or get a job, and I knew that I wasn’t going to get a job. I wanted to do fine art because I wasn’t allowed to do graphics (not that I wanted to anyway) and I wasn’t really interested in design and I had to choose. I wasn’t that clued up on art and I wasn’t particularly interested in the concepts of art but I knew that I didn’t like the ‘we must get our images from life’ approach that we had in our foundation.
My first night in halls was pretty uninteresting. My flatmates didn’t really have anything in common with me. Rather than getting to know anyone as everyone from halls went out together, I went to see the Libertines (who I liked at the time, I still think it was a good gig and I remember Pete Doherty falling over about a metre or 2 away from me, if that happened now I would have laughed at him). I went out to loads of gigs during the 1st year, definitely more than anyone else as I went to them alone a lot. I didn’t socialise much during the 1st year but it all changed during the Barcelona trip when I was invited to join the Hermitage.
My work in the 1st year was a mixed affair due to the fact we had a carousel where we changed every couple of weeks. The main themes of my work were layers in my painting carousel and lists for most of my other projects. I found out during that first year that I was going to specialise in painting, with a bit of printmaking. I knew this as I was hopeless at sculpture and photography and I didn’t want to do Time based work as I wasn’t interested in literature. Other people didn’t enjoy the carousel, but I did as I could change my work every two weeks and it didn’t matter what the end result was. The Highlight of my first year was the trip to Barcelona organised by the mighty Steve Thorpe. As well as being an amazing city, I got to know the coolest people who found out that I had nowhere to stay in the 2nd year and invited me to live at the Hermitage.
The second year at uni was the best year for my studio work as I got 2:1s all the time apart from a 59% where my work didn’t appeal to the tutors. I was doing work using the image of a guitar, based on an idea I had about the similarity between the death of painting and the death of guitar music. I did large monochrome black potato prints direct on to the studio wall. I also made small screen prints; oil paintings and I even made a short film. As the year progressed I started to find layouts for my images by using guitar tablature in order to determine positions and tones for my guitars. I was trying to use really obvious guitar songs such as Jimi Hendrix and Stairway to heaven. My social life in the 2nd year was a vast improvement on my first, all down to my fellow hermatites.
The 3rd year was a great year apart from my studio work which sucked. I did get a great mark for my thesis about the artist Christian Marclay. I was only 4% away from a 1st. I wasn’t ready to start this year work-wise and it showed. But it’s all Ok now as I have my 2:2 which would have been a 2:1 if it wasn’t for the last year. The 3rd year was when I finally got to Dj publicly; I had an amazing reception when I played the funk mess fancy in the S.U. I also played a fundraiser for the 2nd year show but there was no one there due to it being the same week as the may ball. The 3rd year was also when us hermatites when mad with palindromes possibly due to the excessive amounts of tea that we drunk. The only good studio work that I did all year was for my last project, ie. My degree show work which was pictured in my earlier posts. I even had offers to buy and exhibit my work, although I didn’t accept any of these offers, so my work is all still for sale despite one of my prints getting spoilt when I did a London show.
The whole university experience was a good one. But doing a degree in fine art seems pointless as I don’t know how doing and getting the degree has helped me. I sort of regret doing the degree but not anything else really apart from not having any courage to go and talk to any hot girls. I have really grown up, and I have really learnt from the experience of living away from home. I really miss my independence now as it’s weird going back and living with my mum and sister but hopefully that doesn’t last for long. The best part of going to university is (surprise surprise) the friends you make there although a lot of people there are twats but then most people are. My advice to anyone is to only do an art degree if you are truly interested in fine art and believe in your work because I don’t think that I was or still am.

All The Gigs I've Been To.........Ever

2005-10-01T00:28:00.000-07:00

Here is a fascinating list of all the gigs I have been to. I know I said that my blog was supposed to update you on what I am doing now, but I also want to have information about my life so far.

17/10/96 CAST + the Longpigs + Mundy at Gloucester Leisure centre
02/05/97 THE CHARLATANS + Monaco at Gloucester Leisure centre
24/02/98 SHED 7 + the Dandys at Gloucester Guildhall
23/09/98 MANIC STREET PREACHERS + Mogwai at Hereford Leisure centre
11/10/98 HURRICANE#1 + One Lady Owner at Gloucester Guildhall
06/04/99 OCEAN COLOUR SCENE + Waste at Swindon oasis leisure centre
21/04/99 HURRICANE #1 + Witness + Cube at Cheltenham attic
26/08/99 GENE + Grand Theft Auto at Cheltenham attic
05/09/99 BERNARD BUTLER + Lear at Gloucester Guildhall
09/09/99 THE LLAMA FARMERS + Twist + another band at Cheltenham attic
06/10/99 IAN BROWN at Cheltenham attic
02/11/99 SYMPOSIUM + Crashland at Cheltenham axiom
27/01/00 ELASTICA + Fiji at Gloucester Guildhall
13/07/00 THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH at Oxford hmv
18/07/00 EELS + the Webb Brothers at Oxford Apollo theatre
25/08/00 READING FESTIVAL 2000
26/08/00 READING FESTIVAL 2000
27/08/00 READING FESTIVAL 2000
11/09/00 LOWGOLD + Benn at Gloucester Guildhall
27/10/00 JJ72 + Thirteen: 13 at Gloucester Guildhall
31/10/00 TAILGUNNER + Cooper at Cheltenham branson’s
05/11/00 TAJ MAHAL AND THE BANTAM BLUES BAND at Cheltenham town hall
24/08/01 READING FESTIVAL 2001
25/08/01 READING FESTIVAL 2001
26/08/01 READING FESTIVAL 2001
22/11/01 THE NILS LOFGREN BAND at Cheltenham Town Hall
03/02/02 ASH + Hundred Reasons at Swindon oasis leisure centre
13/02/02 SEAFOOD + Crackout + Mountain Men Anonymous at Gloucester Guildhall
02/05/02 LAMBCHOP + St. Thomas at Gloucester Guildhall
11/05/02 SIX BY SEVEN + Sonara + Mountain Men Anonymous at Gloucester Guildhall
28/06/02 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2002
29/06/02 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2002
30/06/02 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2002
23/08/02 READING FESTIVAL 2002
24/08/02 READING FESTIVAL 2002
25/08/02 READING FESTIVAL 2002
22/09/02 THE LIBERTINES + a couple of bands that I can’t remember at Exeter Cavern club
26/09/02 HELL IS FOR HEROES + Tyler + Mercury Tilt Switch at Exeter Cavern club
08/10/02 THE BUFFSEEDS + some local band at Exeter Cavern club
10/10/02 MUSHROOMHEAD + Ellis + Fallen To at Bristol Fleece and firkin
14/10/02 THE CORAL + the Hokum Clones + the Stands at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
16/10/02 ROADRUNNER ROADRAGE 2002 at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
17/10/02 CAPDOWN + Vanilla Pod + Antimaniax at Exeter Thistle Hotel
21/10/02 FUGAZI + the Onceovertwice at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
31/10/02 ILL NINO + RAGINGB SPEEDHORN + Vacant Stare at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
07/11/02 4 FOOT FINGERS + Whitmore at Exeter Cavern club
11/11/02 HUNDRED REASONS + Sparta + Kinesis at Exeter university great hall
25/11/02 THE LOLLIES + Kendal at Exeter Cavern club
29/11/02 DOVES + the Delgados at Exeter university great hall
26/01/03 X IS LOADED + Scarlet Soho at Exeter Cavern club
07/02/03 SUM 41 + the Mighty Mighty Bosstones + American Hifi at Plymouth Pavilions
17/02/03 HELL IS FOR HEROES + Instruction + Violent Delight at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
24/02/03 KINESIS + Reuben + Miss Black America at Exeter Cavern club
05/03/03 FEEDER + Hell is for heroes at Exeter university great hall
06/03/03 HUNDRED REASONS + Reuben + Two days too late at Exeter Cavern club
09/03/03 TYLER + Silent Front + Jacob’s Stories + Good Morning Captain at Exeter Cavern club
17/03/03 TURIN BREAKS + I Am Kloot at Exeter university great hall
10/05/03 THE 22-20S + the Blueskins + Console at Exeter Cavern club
18/05/03 KATASTROPHY WIFE + Hooker + Tyler + Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia + Adom + Heads on Sticks at Exeter Cavern club
22/05/03 McLUSKY + Corrigan + Jarcrew at Exeter Cavern club
31/05/03 TUULI + Tiny Elvis + Hijack Crash at Exeter Cavern club
27/06/03 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2003
28/06/03 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2003
29/06/03 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2003
22/08/03 READING FESTIVAL 2003
23/08/03 READING FESTIVAL 2003
24/08/03 READING FESTIVAL 2003
05/10/03 I AM KLOOT + Aiden Smith + the Cranebuilders at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
15/10/03 THE THRILLS + the Sleepy Jackson at Exeter university great hall
05/11/03 THE BANDITS + the Mountaineers + somebody else at Exeter Cavern club
01/12/03 MY RUIN + Charger + Murder One at Exeter Cavern club
02/12/03 SNOW PATROL + the Ghears at Exeter Cavern club
07/12/03 MUSE + Elbow + Tallulah at Exeter Westpoint Arena
10/12/03 THE BLUETONES + the Vessels + Kendal at Exeter Cavern club
13/12/03 BEN AND JASON + Polly Paulusma at Exeter Cavern club
20/12/03 WHOLE LOTTA LED at Gloucester Guildhall
03/02/04 SPIRITUALIZED + Mr David Viner at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
25/02/04 LOWGOLD + Headway + Helene at Exeter Cavern club
27/03/04 THE 22-20s + the Cribs + the Ordinary Boys at Exeter Cavern club
18/04/04 LAMBCHOP + the Clientele at Bath pavilion
04/06/04 ELECTRIC SIX + the Fallout Trust at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
17/06/04 NINA NASTASIA AND GUESTS at Bristol St. George’s hall
18/06/04 BOB DYLAN AND HIS BAND at Cardiff International Arena
02/07/04 LOVE WITH ARTHUR LEE + Lucky Jim at Gloucester Guildhall
27/08/04 READING FESTIVAL 2004
28/08/04 READING FESTIVAL 2004
29/08/04 READING FESTIVAL 2004
06/10/04 THE ZUTONS + the Futureheads at Exeter university great hall
12/10/04 THE BEES + Aspects/ Little Barrie at Exeter Uni Lemongrove
20/10/04 FRANZ FERDINAND + the Kills at Exeter university great hall
23/11/04 THE DELAYS + HAL + another band at Gloucester Guildhall
17/12/04 KINGS OF LEON + the Features at Gloucester GL1
04/03/05 ELECTRIC SIX + Make Good Your Escape + Cherry Hinton
07/03/04 DOVES + HAL at Exeter university great hall

Coming soon…My University years – A retrospective

CURRENT LISTENING: I was having a bit of a Britpop revival night last night and was listening to..
Sleeper – The It Girl
Ride – Carnival of Light
Shed Seven – A Maximum High

My Dislikes 2005

2005-09-29T00:50:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of all or most of my dislikes in no particular order…..

Nickelback, Kylie Minogue, George Bush, Baked beans, McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Football, testing on animals, Maggie Thatcher, Peas, Coffee, Denim jackets, getting criticised, Chavs, power cuts, extreme weather, republicans, Dj Sammy, Eamon, ear rings, boy racers, gangsters, the whole US government, fox hunting, countryside rights, two pint of lager and a packet of crisps, poverty, virgin Megastore in Cheltenham, Swindon, dress codes, designer labels, corporate takeover, English nationalism, having my bum pinched, modern R&B, Cirencester, the idea of the un-natural, and lots more things which I have forgot

Current listening; The Go! Team – Phantom Broadcast (from Help: A day in the life)
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat

My Top 10 Websites

2005-09-21T03:33:00.000-07:00

Here is a top 10 of my favourite websites. They are mostly music related apart from the sites of genius fine artist Ian Maslen and the Legend of Zelda Games.

1. www.ebay.co.uk
Probably really obvious and boring. But e-bay buying and selling has really changed my life
for the better.
2. www.ianmaslen.com
The website of an artistic genius. Check out his outstanding work.
3. www.pixiesdiscs.com and www.pixiesmusic.com
Where to buy Cd recordings of Pixies’ comeback tours. I have previously brought
The recordings from Regina, SK (15/04/04), Calgary, AB (19/04/04, Los Angeles,
CA (2/06/05) and Cleveland, OH (08/06/05)
4. www.beestung.com
An online resource for downloadable live Throwing Muses
5. www.rilokiley.net
Rilo Kiley fan site with loads of videos, pictures and live mp3s
6. www.cd-wow.com
I used to use this all the time to buy new release Cds
7. www.drownedinsound.com
Music news and views
8. www.epitonic.com
Free downloads of alternative music. I have used this a lot recently
9. www.killrockstars.com
My favourite record label
10. www.zelda.com
Check out the latest information about the new legend of Zelda: The twighlight
Princess

Pictures from my degree show

2005-09-19T06:30:00.000-07:00

This is the first picture that I did for my final project. It is a large painting. It is up for sale at the moment for £100.

This is one of my three final prints which make up my 'Triumph of Appollo' series. It is a screen print on canvas. It is currently missing in action as it dissapeared after the London Show.

The Perfection Of Time; An introduction to Palindromes

2005-09-19T05:23:00.000-07:00

Time; The indefinite continued existence of the universe in the past, present and future regarded as a whole.

Symmetry; Correct proportion of parts; Beauty resulting from this.

Palindromes; A word or verse etc. that reads the same backwards as forwards

Right! Palindromes have been going since the beginnings of language. Words such as Rotator, Hannah, and Yay! dominate the English language as well as such phrases as ‘A nut for a jar of tuna’ and ‘A Santa lived as a devil at NASA’. But, the numerical form of the palindrome was not yet invented until Mr Andrew Mathews spotted the legend that is 22:55 on a video recorder belonging to Mr Simon Chesher. Spotting Palindromes then became the in thing to do at the Hermitage (R.I.P.) anybody who didn’t appreciate the genius of Palindromes was and still is just saaaaaaaaaaaad. For this version of a palindrome, it can be either visually symmetrical as in using 2’s and 5’s for 22.55 or symmetrical by using the same number in say 19.19. I am not sure about using both of these as it probably wouldn’t work unless it’s for something such as 12:51 which involves 1’s.

Two Classic Palindromes are…
22:55 The original Palindrome. It looks better on a digital clock, but still has a great presence when exhibited like this. Marvel at the way in which the symmetry of the 2’s and 5’s is just pure perfection. Lovely Stuff!!!
19:19 another Classic. Made so by the celebratory use of Paul Hardcastle’s 19 everyday at 19:19 in the Hermitage. I even performed a 19 minute remix starting at 19.00 and ending at 19:19 itself. Other songs about palindrome times include 12.51 by the strokes and 303 by Kula:shaker. The strokes, although not my favourite band, are known By many as the World’s coolest people and their use of palindromes for 12.51 proves the coolness of palindromes. Kula:Shaker aren’t cool though but 303 is one of their better songs and isn’t really about palindromes, so it doesn’t really matter.

Here is a list of all the main palindromes on a 24 hour clock
0.00 3.33 7.07 12.51
0.10 3.43 7.17 13.13
0.20 3.53 7.27 13.31
0.30 4.04 7.37 14.14
0.40 4.14 7.47 14.41
0.50 4.24 7.57 15.15
1.01 4.34 8.08 15.21
1.11 4.44 8.18 15.51
1.21 4.54 8.28 16.16
1.31 5.02 8.38 17.17
1.41 5.05 8.48 18.18
1.51 5.12 8.58 19.19
2.02 5.15 9.09 20.02
2.05 5.25 9.19 20.05
2.12 5.35 9.29 20.20
2.15 5.45 9.39 21.12
2.22 5.55 9.49 21.15
2.32 6.06 9.59 21.21
2.42 6.16 10.01 22.22
2.52 6.26 10.10 22.55
3.03 6.36 11.11 23.23
3.13 6.46 12.12 23.32
3.23 6.56 12.15

Current Listening : A vast spectrum of music coming from my computer’s hard drive.
Worlds

My Top 10 Pixies songs..

2005-09-19T03:29:00.000-07:00

In honour of the Pixies sell out dvd which is apparently out today, I thought I would bore everyone with my pixies top 10. If anyone wants me to write a top 10 of anything they can contact me, and i'll try to do it.
1. Dig For Fire
2. Winterlong
3. Gigantic
4. Here Comes Your Man
5. Planet Of Sound
6. The Holiday song
7. Monkey Gone to Heaven
8. Motorway to Rosswell
9. Subbacultcha
10. Gouge Away

Introduction to my current artwork

2005-09-17T13:24:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of work from my degree show and London show which is now called the 'Triumph of Appollo' Series. And here is the accompanying statement…..
‘My recent work concerns music and what it means to me. I am interested in the relationship between music and visual fine art. For previous projects I have tried to represent music visually putting the two together in order to illustrate the difference. Now I am trying to show a feeling of the sublime that I get from listening to music that I don’t get from doing art. I think this is due to the fact that art is my work and I am thinking about it all the time and music acts as an escape from it. The sublime feeling that I am talking about is when the music that I am listening to seems to fit with how I am feeling, taking me somewhere else emotionally. My work doesn’t reference a particular type of music as I think any type of music can have this affect. It could be something upbeat when you want to dance or it could be something slow and uplifting [when you’re feeling down]. Visually I wanted my work to be calm and non-threatening to the eye, as when listening to music I don’t get a sublime feeling if I find music hard to listen to. I have chosen the colour orange as I find it to be the most comforting colour. Although I have made my work about my feelings towards music, I hope that other people feel the same way when listening to the music that they love’.
When I say I don’t get a sublime feeling if music is hard to listen to, I am not referring to a dislike of challenging music as I believe that any music can give a ‘sublime’ feeling. It’s just that you have to be feeling the music, so at that moment it would be easy to listen to in the sense that it feels good to listen to, so is easy to access emotionally. Besides, to me once you have gotten into a piece of challenging music, it can be a lot more of a sublime feeling than that of something that’s more obvious and immediate.

My work I have done since my degree show has been variations on this theme. I have done some works on paper looking at ways of showing how different moods of sublime enjoyment can be accessed through listening to different moods of music. I didn’t need to look at these moods for my previous project as I believe different moods of music all relate to the same feeling of a sublime enjoyment as shown with my previous work.
I have decided to give this area of investigation a bit of a rest for a while as I pursue other projects. The next art project I am pursuing is going to be some sort of a self-portrait. You can look forward to seeing some of my work towards this in my forthcoming posts.

Hi and Howdy Dudey!

2005-09-15T07:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my new Blogspot!
I am hoping to use this site so that I can inform all my friends and fans of what I am up to. Also I am going to exhibit my work here and post updates on my Dj career. I am going to show the latest music which I am listening to as well as random lists. Also I want to create a shrine in honour of the greatness of numerical palladromes such as 19:19.

Current Listening;The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats, Chunga's Revenge, Freak out and more