raining at indian summer

hackney marshes

music?

Fox in the Snow

http://www.staticburn.plus.com/foxsnow.mp3

simple...bit dodgy, but hopefully ok as first effort...

'into the mystic'

The Barbican is hosting a 'new folk' festival... There is a free stage on Saturday 4th Feb which will feature Fence Collective people and others, plus a 'proper' concert at night by King Creosote, Vashti Bunyan and others.

Slightly embarassed by 'new folk' tag, as still dimly remember 'old folk', and I am surely not the only adult traumatised by early memories of village halls full of men in hand knitted jumpers and women singing 'blanket on the ground'.

However, I admit there's a fascination there too... only time will tell if it was a good decision to bring my electro-loving friend along with me.

mp3 blogs

wow - so much free music... not sure if I have enough time in my life to spend sifting through, potentially, years of music but fluxblog, for one, really good sorter, in its own right. Hours of fun.

www.fluxblog.org

rss feeds

With all this new music I'm discovering I'd like to set up a playlist or something but not sure yet how to accomplish this... any ideas would be welcome!

since getting broadband...

Since getting broadband I have developed a horrifying new addiction - itunes - its just too bloody easy and those 79 pences soon add up. However, not every band/song I'm interested in is on there (lucky for my VISA).

Despite earnest searching, the Fence Collective remain a Paypal and Post wait away, though I did manage to buy Lone Pigeon's original release 'Concubine Rice'. Now that the Beta Band are no more I need my low-key brilliance from another source.

http://www.lonepigeon.com
http://www.fencerecords.com

Fakes 2

Richard Dawkins was on Channel 4 this evening discussing the problems with all religions, and the growth of fundamentalism.

I found it easy to put up pictures of the Scientology HQ in Edinburgh and call it fake (see preceding post), but I have an instinctive reluctance to do the same with more mainstream churches. (I'm a well brought up Scottish girl!).

The church he chose was very interesting though - so modern, so reasonable. SUV after SUV pulling into the car park...

No flotilla of ships on the open seas and a meltdown in the seventies for these guys, just a conference call with the president once a week and an absolute certainty they are decent and right-thinking.

In the past I've taken photographs of fantasy landscapes created for real - (Eurodisney and Versailles) - perhaps I should have a closer look at churches...

Society does tend to give them an awful lot of respect, doesn't it?

Fakes

Fake advertising poster (London Underground, December 2006)
Fake plug (London, December 2005)
Fake paganism (Edinburgh, December 2005)
Fake religion (Edinburgh, January 2006)

window shopping

For the full version of this project please click on the following link...
window shopping:closer

christmas pictures

www.alopexltd.co.uk

I have been busy on a basic website for Alopex ltd, so apologies on the delay in updating this blog. Hopefully more content will follow shortly. In the meantime please check out the link below if you are in need of a good designer, or indeed if you're just naturally curious.

http://www.alopexltd.co.uk

Mondital

rural idyll

These images were taken on the same walk as the Mondital ones, just not as far towards Leyton. I could learn to ride this summer - an unexpected Hackney skill.

purple pipe

under london bridge

Not one for clubbing these days, athough sometimes I can be persuaded and so I was on Saturday. Lots of Djs, laptop DJ's and other music types had come down from Glasgow for an OPT1MO night at a very rough and ready club under the arches near London Bridge. It was very rough actually; 20 feral children outside and for a moment walking through them I wondered if I'd make it to the end of the tunnel alive but happily they failed to leap on me and visions of Mad Max 2 faded once inside...

I'm not sure what that club was about, no notice above the door, carpet taped down on the dance floor. It smelled of mould and patchouli. Some of the music good, some of the music bad, but I couldn't help thinking that they'd better not leave their laptops sitting around the place too long. If the feral children didn't sneak them away, the damp would eat through them. We were all leaving covered in spores. If strange mushrooms sprout up in the corner of my bedroom I'll know where they came from.

A damp taster of OPT1MO proper, which is amazing apparently, and having bought 'Kill the Djs' a while back I can sense a lighter, more life-affirming drive, which was definitely in there somewhere, just muted by the carpet.

click here for OPT1MO website...
or here to read about my very interesting 'Kill the Djs' purchase...

the young knives

I went to another Transgressive night on Monday at The Camden Barfly and unfortunately/fortunately missed the band I wanted to see - The Pipettes - who were sold to me as an all girl group, however I've since looked them up on the web and I'm not keen – not all-girl, put together by a bloke and prone to dressing in polka dots..yawn...

However, whilst I may have missed an imaginary, all powerful, Juliette Lewis/ Chicks on Speed wonder moment, I did get to see The Young Knives who I thought were ace...they were desperate Southern England, tubby, Mod Proclaimers with a drummer from God and they cheered me right up.

Sometimes going out on a Monday night can lead to more than ruin.

click here for the Young Knives website
...and here for Chicks on Speed website
...and here for Trangressive Records
...and if you must (though they might be good as I haven't actually heard them)...'the Pipettes'

introducing....alopex ltd

From 1st May Alopex Ltd was registered at Companies House and is now a bona fide trading company...

What happened to Mr Frosty?

From the top of the bus at Hackney Central