Tapas and gig

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of my mum, the missus parents and a friend visiting.

We decided to go out for a tapas and to see a gig for a local band, Not to Fall.

Teaching my mum how to be photographed without blinking

I can do the non-blinking perfect. The missus not as good

And then on to the bar. La Playazo, despite having really good live music nights, suffers from being on the furthest side of town. Even when you think you’ve reached the edge of Nerja, this place is even more further down the beach.

At least the walk along the beach before and afterwards is nice.

The band, Not to Fall, setting up

Things started off a bit quiet.

Keep it down guys

Then things started to pick up

“This song goes ‘Ooooooh,oh-ohhhhhhhh lalalalalalalaaaaah eeeeeeeeeeeee’”

‘Ooooooh,oh-ohhhhhhhh lalalalalalalaaaaah eeeeeeeeeeeee’

Nice dancing face man

Then things got really out of hand when. First there was the unison crowd wave

Wave everyone, wave

And I started some pop and lock/robot dance mash up

Bam. There it is

So a good night was had by all

Thanks to these guys, “Not to Fall”

Flickr set | tapas and gig

I Reckoner

A few months ago Radiohead announced a video contest for their In Rainbows album.

The guys liked this one so much they are using it as their official video; and just because Reckoner is my favourite track of the album and also because I haven't had chance to post anything proper the last few days as I have guests...

Radiohead - Reckoner - by Clement Picon


You can also check out--and make your own--remixes of Reckoner here.

Untitled Song

Happy Monday Morning World!


Catchy little song!

Pogo Alice

I have a few things to tell you about. It's all a bit of a RED theme. Red face, red dress, red flag but I'll get to that, once I've uploaded my 250ish photos from the past 4 days (I'm now getting a pet hate of TAGS/TAGGING)

But I think you should all take 2:43minutes out of your life to check out this fantastic track by Pogo called Alice.
I've completely fallen in love with it.

He has other songs based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland over at last.fm [HERE]
And they are all free. I expect you all to have downloaded them and have them on you iPods ASAP. They're all as good as each other.
Seriously. Trip-hop and Alice, what's better?
You can find me at last.fm here.

A little bit of Radiohead news.

Not content with distributing In Rainbows in their own way, Radiohead have another way of marketing their singles.

With the release of Nude just around the corner (next Monday on CD single or can be downloaded now at some online stores) Radiohead have set up a website so people can buy seperate components of the song, ie bass, voice, guitar and remix their own version. If they want to people can also upload their creation and have everyone vote on them.

radioheadremix.com

Thats much better then just sticking it Capital Radios 8 song playlist.

Neat.

PS Radiohead take over BBC Radio2 today with a whole bunch of live performances and interviews. It all kicks off at 2.

Friends forever

So this weekend took our count of major things to do before we move down by one. We entertained some of my friends and had a final big night out with all the missus friends too.
By the end of the night there had been plenty of offers and requests for a space staying on the new couch, which is always a nice sign.


Most of Friday was filled thanks to the guys over at Nintendo and passing the time away with some old gaming favourites, mainly Golden Axe.

I was with all the guys.

Games continued with a "Who can unintentionnally pull the funniest face" game.

The missus had a good time with the girls too


There was plenty of drink and some dancing, not by all but some enjoyed it more then others.


Easter had been forgotten about for most of the night until we walked out of the club and right in to a parade, which had a good turn out.


Towards the end of the night there were tired feet and heads. A few tears, making up with arch nemisis, missing coats and the next morning had some of the previous nights heavy drinkers with a huge day lasting hangover and generally feeling of sick.

But overall everyone had a good night.


Usual slideyshow

Another video and some praise

After spending a whole evening, about 5 hours, trying to figure out how cut and shrink a movie I made at the Justice from the weekend, by converting, researching editing suites, downloading freeware and getting very annoyed, Olly has come to my rescue.

So a massive thanks to Olly. For those that haven't checked out Electric Pig, mainly those newcomers to my blog, I highly recommend Electric Pig.
One of my favourite and longest blogs I've been reading. Go check out his adventures in Japan.

But here is my last Justice video. The first taken from the night, the opening few minutes, enjoy...

Justice gig Birthday weekend

*Ok, I really should do all this in date order, but seeing as my flickr basic account only allowed me to upload a batch big enough for my Justice gig photos and that I couldn't be bothered uploading the rest on Picasa, my Justice gig thing will have to come first and the rest of the weekend will follow.
PS my apologies to anyone on dial up, I've not worked out how to do the READ MORE link through Blogger yet, so all photos/vids are going to be on front page.

The lead up to the gig was pretty rushed. After limiting myself to just a few drinks with my pops in order not to be too drunk and sleep through the gig, we managed to get a pizza, rush home get changed, scream at the downed internet, find address of gig and ticket reference via phone, running to bus stop while eating said tiny pizza we made it to Liverpool on time. (Although I was a little dazed when going for pregig drink having fell asleep on bus and still being groggy)




Group shot

The light show was pretty intense at times. The lighting guy did a great job.

There was much dancing.

And Justice made me think this was what a DJ set by the Mighty Boosh guys would be like



And if you haven't bought it, Justice's album Cross is pretty sweet (if you like that Daft Punk electro dance kind of thing)

Infact you may of heard there track D.A.N.C.E, which I tried to record.
PS apologies for the jumping camera, do you know how hard it is to not dance while a really dancey track is being played?...Very hard!


Here are all my photos from the night.

(Some guidance on the above slideshow. Move cursor to top of frame for skip/speed settings. Move cursor to bottom for thumbnails of set. Click photo for more info/link)

Also big shout to Fancy, the warm up guys for Justice. They had possibly the campest lead singer since Freddie Mercury. Just think of a rock band and their lead singer singing like that Chris Rock character in 5th element and you have an idea. They were very very good, even if the crowd didn't get them.


PS If anyone knows any good free software I can use to chop down mp4's if they could let me know that would be great, thanks.

What a weekend

What a packed, tiring but pretty awsome weekend.


Due to the prebooking ways of Lazer Quest Inc, I didn't get to have the lazer gun shooting evening I hoped for, although it was nice just to have a few drinks with some old friends who I hadn't seen in a while.


I am currently trying to upload about 100 photos from the Justice gig from Saturday. I am also uploading a video and trying to figure out how to edit too long videos to stick on youtube, if anyone knows how to chop up mp4's gimme a shout.


Also I'm pretty tired. My new nephew was allowed home at the weekend. Welcome to the World Dylan.
He was quiet most of the time, but kept us all up a bit too much last night/this morning, so I'm feeling a bit tired.
Also just to prove to my dad that this is my blog, who found me after adding me to Skype and joing the 20th Century, "hi pops."

I'll have more photos of the Justice, travelling and the weekend throughout the week. Now it's rest time.

Vide ot_ape

If I had to describe this song I would say it's like that female friend all males have who you love and think the World of but never would have sex with for spoiling it all. (Although secretly you have thought about it!)
So in short The Song You Wouldn't Have Sex With.

RED BLUE GREEn +


had a niggling feeling that this never really got seen much.
Its a kind of video thing to go with Videotape using lots of wierd techniques we were messing with.
Nigel and I really enjoyed making it at the end of last year.
It appeared at the end of a webcast which i think was lost due to transmission problems.
So here it is (roughly) for you to see again.
x
Thom