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Posted: Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 12:27 AM UTC
Well no work done on the tank last night I just had an evening with Mr Zappa and his good mate Jack Danielsand went to bed feeling very mellow indeed the only down side is my head is trying to hatch today, why do life`s little pleasure`s cost so much

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Posted: Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 04:31 AM UTC

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my head is trying to hatch today



Know what you mean- I had one of those "gerroffiz" days today; unfortunately I've had one of those days at work when everyone wants you to do everything yesterday if not sooner.
Ungggh. AND I've got a late (10pm!!!) finish tonight.
:(

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Posted: Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 08:12 PM UTC

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Spacemen3? I am not familiar with them



Tremelo and drone british 80's psychedelia. Check out the link below, and there's links on the page to their albums that have some audio clips. Check out Revolution and Honey on Playing With Fire, The Sound of Confusion from Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To and Ecstasy Symphony?transparent Radiation and Take Me to the Other Side from The Perfect Prescription.

http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/spacemen_three/bio.jhtml
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Posted: Friday, March 04, 2005 - 02:04 AM UTC
MC are you familiar with Alabama 3, country teckno disco mix, great stuff, best album last train to Nashville best track, She don`t dance to teckno any more.

Just been to the Kitbox in Whitley and got the Dragon Firefly nice kit.

Dave
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Posted: Friday, March 04, 2005 - 02:41 AM UTC
Not too up on the Alabama 3, apart from Got yourself a gun or whatever it's called off the Sopranos (Blue Moon in Your Eyes, maybe?)
A coupla friends really rate them, but I haven't really checked them out meself. I think I should, coz the other half (because we watch lots of Sopranos) is always singing the theme song.

As for Kit Box- it's a gem! I always call in when I can and try to buy something. I don't like the idea of the place closing down, and I always feel guilty for getting stuff mail order. Tell you what though Dave, the Firefly is a nice model, but the instructions are a bit vague in places( a picture of the tank and a picture of a part near to each other with a line indicating that the part should be stuck somewhere in the general area of the tank) and the tracks are (I think) a serious pain. Check out Tank CArl's track tool .
Tank Carl's Tool
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Posted: Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 12:02 PM UTC

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Spacemen3? I am not familiar with them



MC
Thanks for the link, very interesting, especially the Ode to Street Hassle track,certainaly worth further exploration.
Cheers October
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Posted: Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 12:14 PM UTC

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Well no work done on the tank last night I just had an evening with Mr Zappa and his good mate Jack Daniels



Downed tools myself this weekend,Smirnoff and The Best Band You Heard In Your Life did the trick.
Cheers October
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Posted: Monday, March 07, 2005 - 09:02 PM UTC

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Just been to the Kitbox in Whitley and got the Dragon Firefly nice kit.



Have you started that yet then Dave?


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Ode to Street Hassle



Aha! yes I forgot about that one!
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Posted: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 02:07 AM UTC
Still busy with the 1/16 scale Tiger but I hope to have it finished this week then on to the Firefly.

Dave
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Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005 - 02:16 AM UTC
So, here it is- another Friday, a lull at work so I crank up the volume on my sound system (today it's the turn of The Brian Jonestown Massacre) and check out what's happenin' in the land of Armorama.
Seems like everyone's taking early holidays or something!
Unless of course everyone's gone and got themselves into the Spacemen3 and are pinned in some darkened room somewhere... :-)
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Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005 - 12:47 PM UTC
All,
Wife says ---hello---she is from N Wylam
aye
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Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005 - 01:00 PM UTC

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Unless of course everyone's gone and got themselves into the Spacemen3 and are pinned in some darkened room somewhere...



If only, MC,if only.
But no, it's been a week of nose to the grind stone, trials and tribulations and general kit mayhem.
I have however when possible been attempting to relax to the strains of Tangerine Dream and The Orb.
Cheers from the Backside of the Moon.
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Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 09:04 AM UTC

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I`m having a bit of a come back with the Alex Harvey band at the mo I`m playing NEXT to death and luving it.


I was in a local record(?) shop and purchased the SAHB British Tour '76,no Next,but Amos Moses and Framed,whey hey!!!!
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Posted: Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 09:21 PM UTC
For those of you with a penchant for the obscure or just odd (erm, music, that is), check out BBC Radio 6 The Freakzone, which is my regular Monday back to work soundtrack. This week's show kicked off with that marvellous slab of Kosmischemusik that is AmonDuul's Archangels Thunderbird- what a way to start work!!! T'internet is a wonderful thing, really; it's like travelling through time...
I'm a bit confused this morning due to a minor road traffic accident on the way to work (not my fault honest, officer). And thereby hangs a tail... maybe I can swing a sickie for tomorrow!
:-)
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 07:37 AM UTC
Hello gents in the middle of 7 12Hr shifts at the mo! so not up to much sleeping and eating, have been flirting with ozric tenticles ( spelling crap ) strange!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Dave :-)
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 06:08 PM UTC

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flirting with ozric tenticles



You'll be telling us you listen to Gong and Here&Now next. Too much time with the glue mate! :-)

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Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 09:40 AM UTC

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You'll be telling us you listen to Gong and Here&Now next.




To merely know these names could be construed as guilt in it's self :-) :-)

Somebody's going to say Hawkwind before long

Cheers October


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Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 07:30 PM UTC
Ok gents whats the strangest music you have or listen too, I just found Bauhaus on 12" vynil Bella logosy dead fantastic stuff.

Dave
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Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:34 PM UTC

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Ok gents whats the strangest music you have or listen too, I just found Bauhaus on 12" vynil Bella logosy dead fantastic stuff.

Dave



Don't they use that in some advert (can't remember what for, but lot's of dark, gothique shots)?
Yeah I like that one.
Frankie Teardrop by Suicide is a record which for certain un-nameable reasons has a place in my musical heart. At the moment my place of work resounds to the strains of Elizabeth Vagina, by Queen Elizabeth (Julian Cope and Thighpaulsandra). I do like a bit of weird in my music.
Van Der Graaf Generator, Spacemen3, Julian Cope, Bonzo Dog Band, The United States of America, the Image Has Cracked by Alternative TV, Love/ Arthur Lee, Pretty Things (during their SF Sorrow period), Plasticland, Gong, Syd Barrett, Spirit (especially 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus), White Noise, obscure post-1965 British psychedelia (worth looking for are Vacuum Cleaner by The Tintern Abbey- fantastic and Am I the Red One? by Mick Softley) Planet of the Blue Men by Joe Meek and so on and so on.
Anyhoo, what's wrong with Hawkwind? They were great up till about 1980...
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Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 11:37 AM UTC

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Anyhoo, what's wrong with Hawkwind? They were great up till about 1980



Absolutley nothing at all, I've always thought they were great myself.Know what you mean about the post 1980 stuff,but there have been some returns to form -Alien 4 and The Yule Ritual being two that spring to mind.
Equally Nik Turners Space Ritual with members of Pressurehead from 1994 is fairly mind battering stuff.


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Ok gents whats the strangest music you have or listen too, I just found Bauhaus on 12" vynil Bella logosy dead fantastic stuff.



Always liked that track as well and the Press the Eject and....... live album, but not too sure about the rest of their stuff.
As for the strangest music,has to be Magma the French jazz/rock/opera fusion group from the 70's with lyrics in a made up language.Check out Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh or Kohntarkosz.

Cheers October
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Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 08:14 PM UTC

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Nik Turners Space Ritual



My sources close to the ground tell me that they are to be playing at the Ouseburn Festival (yup, Sunny Byker) sometime during the summer. Worth watching for- the band features several ex-Hawkwind including Del Dettmar and Dave Anderson on bass, who was also in another of my faves, Amon Duul II.

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As for the strangest music,has to be Magma the French jazz/rock/opera fusion group from the 70's with lyrics in a made up language.Check out Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh or Kohntarkosz.


ou might like Circle- they're Finnish, sing in a made up language (like I can tell that from Finnish, but never mind) and do some top notch Kosmische-stylee trancerock. They occasionally turn up in the NE- I first saw 'em supporting Acid Mothers Temple. Now there's weird...

... hey! Isn't this a modelling forum?
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Posted: Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 08:38 AM UTC

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My sources close to the ground tell me that they are to be playing at the Ouseburn Festival (yup, Sunny Byker)



Cheers for that info MC


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... hey! Isn't this a modelling forum?



Yes ,yes it is and the BMP-2 is doing my head in

Cheers October.
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