November 2010
6 posts
Weird UK Place names- part II
- Godalming
- Leatherhead
- Dorking
- Cocking (in Cocking someone had scratched off the “ing” on the sign)
- Hurtmore and Shackleford
- Moodiesburn
- Shirley
- Gaydon
- Norney
- Dollar
- Drum
- Yett O’ Muckhart
- Alloa
- Clackmannanshire
- Killingsworth
- Fieldhead
Part I:
- Woodplompton
- Clitheroe (split it in two…)
- Lympne (pronounciation anyone?)
-...
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October 2010
10 posts
Weird English place names
We are collecting them.
- Woodplompton
- Clitheroe (split it in two…)
- Lympne (pronounciation anyone?)
- Papworth
- Biggleswade
- Godmanchester
- Pontefract
Steph is coming today!!!
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Vancouver - Lower East Side
I have never seen anything like what goes on in the Lower East Side of Vancouver, where we’re staying. Peter tells me that, a few years ago, they closed all the looney bins and chucked everyone out onto the streets. See ya later, good luck. And now Hastings Street is the hang-out of junkie Vancouver, people are strung out on the streets instead of straightened out in a mental hospital....
September 2010
9 posts
The Chelsea Hotel, snakes and live vaginas.
Scott’s livingroom was packed. It was sold out and people had to stand or sit on the floor. Old friends of Peter’s, friends of mine and David Gahan from Depeche Mode showed up and Pat DiNizio from The Smithereens played a set before us.
Scott had painted his apartment for the occasion. The diningroom blood-red, the halls pitch-black and the livingroom bubblegum-pink. His two (yes,...
The nice side of New York
New Yorkers are rude. Ok, a lot of New Yorkers are rude. Most people would agree. Apart maybe from a lot of New Yorkers. But the nice things that happen here are really nice and wouldn’t happen in cities where people are nice. For example. We get out of the subway at Bergen St, Brooklyn. The sun is setting and we can see the Manhattan skyline from the platform, the sun reflecting on the...
“Tu es une fille fatale”
– French guy at the Googies show
Geert Wilders was boring
Seeing Geert Wilders speak was boring. His accent was more interesting to listen to than what he had to say. He said everything they wanted to hear, but said it in that Dutch politician tongue, where every, word, is carefully, accentuated. Rosa P. Leonettie, who spoke before him was much more entertaining and probably a better spokeswoman for the thousands of redneck idiots gathered there who had...
Fashion Week
Tonight is the start of Fashion Week and the whole of New York is full of costumes, photographers and fourteen year-olds with rediculously long legs. There’s photoshoots on street corners, boys with handbags and people with in-ears talking about limos and eta’s. At 6am this morning they came and set up cirus here downstairs, and now there’s stark naked fourteen year-olds running...
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Arrival
After a nice plane-ride (thanks to Xanax!), we arrived in New York and found ourselves on the 13th floor of Scott Griffin’s office, where we are staying.
The view from our bed.
After we dropped our bags, we took off and Peter showed me where he had lived at the Chelsea Hotel. We saw two of Peter’s best friends and at night I held a big black snake, which I wanted to call Betty....
April 2010
19 posts
The Adelphi
I had told Peter about the Adelphi quite often, and so I was very excited to finally show him where I come from and what the Adelphi is all about.
Peter was pleasantly surprised to not find a dinky old café, but a large room with a stage and a backroom with a pool table where the front of a double decker bus acts as a bar.
The room was pretty much filled, and Peter was received very well. They...
“I got my male and female mixed up.”
“Story of my life.”
– One technician to the other before our radioshow in Preston
“Shut your gob.”
– Peter learned a new English expression on the train to Blackpool.
Rodeohead. What a fine way in which to wake up... →
