Frozy, Dog Legs and Los Crip­is

Last night I went to see my friends Frozy play with Dog Legs and Los Crip­is. Los Crip­is are from Argen­tina, but play over in the UK quite frequently. I don’t know any other bands from Argen­tina, so they can be my favour­ite one. I tried to take some photos, but the light­ing in the bar was appalling, and I don’t like to disturb people with flash, so here’s a music video instead. Don’t watch it if you don’t like blood. Los Crip­is have an album out now, and Frozy have one coming soon. Why not give them some money?

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DIY Space for London needs a home

DIY Space for London has now raised £13,000 but doesn’t have a build­ing. I made these posters to help recruit people to find some­thing suit­able.

No jokes about fireman’s poles here

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Some people I know put on a byo gig on Friday at the old fire station in Stoke Newing­ton. It makes a great venue. More of these, please. The band in the photo above are Tyran­no­saur­us Dead. I didn’t take a lot of pictures, because it’s diffi­cult in low light situ­ations, and I don’t like to use flash if the ambi­ent light­ing is atmo­spher­ic.

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East­er House Gig

Last week­end I went to a house gig in South London. These things seem to be few and far between in London, because people tend to be pressed for living space. Hugh, the host, played, and the other bands were all vari­ous config­ur­a­tions of my friend Nicol from Sussex and three of his friends from Bris­tol and London. One of the resid­ents of the house is a little girl, who helped out by find­ing a toy drum and a stick from the garden, and join­ing in as a second drum­mer while wear­ing a prin­cess dress (while jump­ing up and down on a tram­po­line too when Roxy played in the garden). All gigs need more of that. (Also, some­thing is weird with Band­camp – the audio controls don’t appear in the preview, and you can’t centre them

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DIY Space for London

On Sunday I went to a meet­ing for DIY Space for London. My friend Natalie is one of the initial organ­isers (and I also already knew a fair few of the other organ­isers), and she told me about it last year, but I was either work­ing very long hours in London, or was abroad for most of the year, so I didn’t really have a chance to get involved. I’m in London for the fore­see­able future and actu­ally have some spare time now, so I volun­teered.

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