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Dancing Mice World

2012-01-26T00:51:00.001Z

China ?!?!

Recording and Mixing Done

2012-01-24T22:09:00.001Z

13 Difficult Lessons finally polished off last night. Cover to be tweaked, then off to DiscWizards for re-mastering and manufacture.

What Our Politicians Get Paid For

2012-01-24T22:02:00.001Z

LAZAROWICZ, Mark mark.lazarowicz.mp@parliament.uk

10:36 (11 hours ago)
to undisclosed recipients
You may recall you contacted me either recently or in the past about the Daylight Saving Bill, which would allow for a trial period in which the clocks were put back.

I thought I would give you an update, as the Bill was discussed again in the House of Commons last Friday.

I took part in the debate, and the vast majority of MPs supported the proposals. There was opposition, however, from a few MPs, mainly from the Scottish National Party and the Conservative Party. The outcome was that the Bill ran out of time. As this was a Private Member's Bill, unless the government takes up the proposal, this effectively means the Bill is dead, at least for this Parliamentary session.

I realise this news will disappoint you, but I thought you would want to know what happened.

If you have any further comments, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Regards,

Mark Lazarowicz

MP for Edinburgh North & Leith

www.marklazarowicz.org.uk

Follow me on Twitter @marklazarowicz

Anthony Moffoot anthony.moffoot@blueyonder.co.uk

21:53 (5 minutes ago)
to Mark
Hello, thanks for keeping me posted. I should tell you that I am pleased the bill has failed; I remember the trial 40 years ago, it was horrible and it seemed wilfully perverse and pointless to repeat it.

Regards

Big in Pittsburgh

2012-01-10T17:32:00.001Z

http://www.wrct.org/playlist/16156/?sort=album

Good choice.

Dancing Mice QR

2012-01-09T17:17:00.001Z

Try it and see!

Gig 38

2012-01-08T01:30:00.001Z

Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh 7/1/12
Henry’s Christmess (sic) Do
Setlist: A Physical Husband, Tamagotchi Girl, Watching Waters Rise, Cool, Mouse In Love, It’s Abnormal, Blue Screen, Selling The Party, Christmouse.
Sound: Leonora. First class from beginning to end. I had amplifier on stage as monitor,we will probably do this again.
Reception: Enthrallment , some exceptionally complimentary commments from complete strangers. “Cool, controlled, tight, other-dimensional.”
Notable for: Equipment failure- Roddy’s pedal shorting, his amp getting switched off, Gavin going silent when fuzz pedal switched on. Oh how we laughed. No , really we did.
Special guests: William and Fiona

Attempt from Tablet

2012-01-04T02:47:00.001Z

Suspect the colour will be white.

“Greater Than” Killer

2012-01-03T15:47:00.001Z

Managed one today. Probably my last.

Pocketband

2011-12-28T14:31:00.001Z

Great Android, first attempt here.

User 129116

Year-End

2011-12-23T18:59:00.001Z

Another diary on the rack

I’ve Lost My Address Book

2011-12-13T19:57:00.001Z

That’s Christmas cards stuffed then.

Tree 2.0

2011-12-07T22:49:00.001Z

Asperger Day

2011-11-15T23:11:00.001Z

At “No. 6”. Apparently they often like knowing busroutes.

Tallinn is Lovely

2011-10-21T19:40:00.001+01:00

Estonian wins the competition for obscure variations of the vowel o
with "Õ"

Robert Fergusson Society revived

2011-10-06T22:48:00.001+01:00

First meeting since 2008. Website to be reposted on Google Sites.

https://sites.google.com/site/robertfergussonsociety/

Wreath Laying 22nd October, Canongate Kirk

Solferino Gets Patchy Review Shock

2011-09-30T18:10:00.001+01:00

Dancing Mice – Solferino http://regenmag.com/reviews/dancing-mice-solferino/

September 8th, 2011 | Add a Comment

Dancing Mice
Category: Electro / Experimental / Pop
Album: Solferino
Stars: 2.5
Blurb: An all-over-the-map electronic experiment, with mixed results.

This offering from Scottish electronic act Dancing Mice has the feel of musicians who have just discovered all the different sounds a synthesizer can make. As a result, they try to fit in every possible sound they can in what sounds like an experiment in the possibilities of electronica.

Most of the resulting sounds from this trial range from the nondescript “Blue Screen,” the horns at the beginning of this track giving the impression of an ‘80s pop ballad, adding to the innocuous sound, to “Poison,” an interesting electro-tango that features so many different pieces of melodies that it can’t seem to find its own groove. Several tracks feature high-pitched, tinny electronic loops that fight with, rather than complement, the core rhythm, like on “Nunc Dimittis,” where the strong guitar and haunting chanted vocals are overpowered by distracting sound effects, and “Roger’s World,” where rattling effects at the end ruin the palpable mournful atmosphere.

However, there are spots where the experiment pays off and the sounds come together in more satisfying ways. On “(We Were) Always On Our Own,” while the background is too busy and again interrupted by high-pitched sound effects, the compellingly airy main melody and emotional lyrics – “How could all these days have ended / One last look into your eyes before you go” – make it worth multiple listens. Here, as on the album’s strongest tracks, the focus is on the content of the song, not as much on the various audio tricks available. “Jerusalem’s Home,” though it drags near the end with a repetitive melody, begins with a heavy bass sound combined with sea-chantey style vocals, a combination that by all logic should not sound as good as it does. The highlight of the album is “Gone Girl,” an electronic take on the rockabilly ballad The melody is infectious, the sound effects are kept to a minimum, and singer Ian Deary provides an appropriately wistful vocal for the melancholy lyrics – “His life was filled with stories only he believed.”

Solferino illustrates the gamut of possible results of experimenting with sound. Sometimes the combination of sounds doesn’t work, resulting in a mess, as on most of the album. But the few bright spots are all the brighter because of the musical risks taken, creating a memorable, engaging and truly unique sound.

Bumped into my Barber

2011-09-20T18:36:00.001+01:00

In Bonnyrigg, he is thinking of opening another branch, which would be handy.

Big in Michigan Again

2011-09-16T01:09:00.001+01:00

Gavin noted a fair bit of Dancing Mice play at WCBN in last three months – including “Busman's Holiday”

See http://www.wcbn.org/ryan-playlist/searchplaylist.php

and do an advanced search.

Paris CDG 2E

2011-09-07T13:32:00.001+01:00

Eiffel 11

2011-09-05T18:31:00.001+01:00

Paris in Colour

2011-09-04T17:59:00.001+01:00

Paris ECNP

2011-09-03T16:28:00.001+01:00

Replies

2011-09-01T01:19:00.001+01:00

I completely share your frustration and anger at what's happened to this project over recent years.

But I can only ask you look at all the background reports on the options that were before us at the last Council meeting - the risks associated with pressing on to St. Andrew Square (just now) were monumental and would have seen the Council's debt levels rise to over £1.5billion, requiring over 11% of our annual revenue budget to service that in interest payments alone every year. In addition, cancelling the project would cost the Council hundreds of millions.

Frankly, in the current economic climate, we simply could not support the St. Andrew Square option. It would have meant £15.3million of Council-Tax Payers money being spent on tram interest payments every year for 30-years, instead of on Education, Social Work, Parks, Libraries and all the other services the Council delivers.

We thus considered the Haymarket option was preferable. It was the lesser of several evils that were before us.

We have received a very high level of representations urging that the project budget 'not be extended' simply by dependence on the Council Tax Payer, and at the expense of other Council Services.

We will look at what has changed at the meeting on Friday and base our decision on the information that we are presented with.

Yours sincerely,

Councillor Angela Blacklock

Leith Walk Ward – Labour

Mr Moffoot
I note your preference for a cancellation of the project but will be honest and say that I cannot support a cancellation at this stage, after so much has been spent. I would prefer to spend some more and have something to show for it, rather than cancel the project and still have to find more than £100M to cover all the cancellation costs and refunds of developer contributions. I know that prudential borrowing would commit the council to significant repayments for around 30 years but we would then have a tram line running into the city centre and I hope this will make plans for the extension to the original Newhaven destination all the more possible.
As you rightly point out, I have received a significant number of emails from people still wishing to cancel the project at this stage, but I can honestly say this is closely matched by the emails I receive supporting the St Andrews Square option. Those people are either supporters of the project and accept this as step 1 towards the full line to Newhaven, or are from people who are not particular fans of the scheme but would rather see something for the £700M than nothing.
Would I have started the project knowing what I know now? Perhaps not, but I do have to make a judgement based on where we are today, and as I did with residents who contacted me prior to the June Council meeting, I have been honest in saying I just cannot agree with the rationale behind cancellation at this stage.
When there are different views it is not always easy to reach a decision and whichever way I (and the group) go, some will be satisfied and some will not. I appreciate my response is not necessarily what you want, but I want to be honest about where I stand on this with you, and give a direct reply.
Louise
Cllr Louise Lang
Liberal Democrat for Leith Walk ward
Vice-convenor, Regulatory Committee

Gig 37

2011-08-21T04:10:00.001+01:00

Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh 20/8/11

Setlist: A Physical Husband, Death Makes You Feel Like A Man, (We Were) Always On Our Own, Watching Waters Rise, The g Factor, Four Times On The Floor, Cool, It's Abnormal, Selling The Party, Blue Screen

Sound: Leonora. Great soundcheck but worst ever on stage when playing. Good front of house though.

Reception: Warm, relaxed.

Featured the first Dancing Mice Pub Quiz viz:

Q 1. By what name is Lieutenant George Lee Sheridan better known? A. ‘Phones’: the Stingray co-pilot.

Q 2. In which city is the oldest copy of the Koran housed?
A. Tashkent.

Q 3. In which annual event do Isis and Goldie compete? A. The Oxford and Cambridge boat race reserve crews’ competition.

Q 4. What is the collective noun for a group of crows.
A. A ‘murder’.

Q 5. Who was the first famous woman to wear a white wedding dress? A. Mary Queen of Scots.

Q 6. What is the cinema called in Springfield (the Simpsons’ town)?
A. Googolplex.

Q 7. If something is described as zygal, what does it look like?
A. H-shaped.

Q 8. Who shot and killed Robert F. Kennedy (John F. Kennedy’s younger brother)?
A. Sirhan Sirhan.

Q 9. How many soldiers was a centurion in charge of?
A. 83

Q 10. According to the Reimann hypothesis the non-trivial zeros of the Reimann zeta function lie on which line?
A. z = ½ + iy

Dancing Mice Festival Gig

2011-08-15T18:04:00.001+01:00

Henry’s Cellar Bar Edinburgh Saturday 20th August 2011 8 p.m.

Harrogate BAP 2011

2011-07-28T20:31:00.001+01:00

24- 27th July 2022 .Good fun with Ian Reid, Bill Riddle and Douglas Patience. Included a visit to Menston.

Ivy Gone

2011-07-11T10:34:00.001+01:00

The ivy at the back of the house exploded out of control, had to go.

St Andrew’ s Square

2011-06-30T23:58:00.001+01:00

The very silly decision , much as we expected

Jane at 61

2011-06-27T21:27:00.001+01:00

In the garden …

…and wallpapering.

Difficult Lessons

2011-06-23T00:41:00.001+01:00

So far, The Dance of the Black Mouse, Four Times on the Floor, The Man In the Island, Scarred By Love, Arizona, Cool, Thrills, Land and Sea, Assembly, Time Alone

DM Financial Report

2011-05-25T23:12:00.001+01:00

Dear fellow shareholders,

Today I announce the interim financial results of Dancing Mice PLC.

Financial results for the year so far (for ever actually) show an income of 2 cents ($0.02) to the Spotify account. Further breakdown of the financial results reveal the bulk of the income(all of it!) is related to the “Eroded” account.

Detailed breakdown: I think this may mean they have actually taken in ($5.02) from Eroded as they keep the first 5 dollars from each release each year.

We may get a few more cents as Spotify is stopping free users (of which it had very many), therefore paying users result in income from advertisers if people actually play your stuff. I don’t know if the income is due to me playing our tracks a lot which is now stopping as I was a free user?

Regards

Roddy

Wasp’s Nest

2011-05-22T12:21:00.001+01:00

Scary, but interesting. “Raid” spray and a broom handle sorted it.

New Car

2011-05-18T23:22:00.001+01:00

Mercedes C220 CDI BlueEff Sport . Eco –friendly.

Rome 6-12th April 2011

2011-05-10T22:56:00.001+01:00

http://www.amoffoot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/travel2011.html

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjurC4so

Sun and Moon on the A1

2011-04-18T00:07:00.002+01:00

Driving at sunset on the A1 near Dunbar this evening, the sun was setting ahead of me and directly behind me on the horizon was the rising full moon. Eerie magic.

Gartloch Distillery Cottages

2011-03-30T23:19:00.001+01:00

Nostalgia

2011-03-30T01:03:00.001+01:00

Woodilee Hospital, Lenzie where I started training. To the left of the tower on the first floor was the residency complete with monster cockroaches.

Spring Walk

2011-03-27T15:32:00.001+01:00

The clocks change, always a nice weekend

Gig 36

2011-03-19T18:28:00.008Z

Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh 18/3/11

First public appearance of 3D films.

Setlist: A Physical Husband, Death Makes You Feel Like A Man, (We Were) Always On Our Own, Watching Waters Rise, Agenda For Change, It's Abnormal, Cool, Mouse In Love, Dungeness, Selling The Party.

Sound: Leonora. Fraught soundcheck but great when playing

Reception: Warm, relaxed. 3D much appreciated.

Dancing Mice in 3D

2011-03-16T23:45:00.002Z

Dancing Mice in 3D - Gig at Henry's Cellar Bar Edinburgh Friday 18th March 2011 10.p.m.

Car Back

2011-03-10T16:36:00.004Z

In the repair shop from 4/2/11. Definitely going to reduce my excess.

Eenty-Teenty Helligalum

2011-02-27T21:01:00.003Z

Eenty-teenty Helligalum
Pitching totties doon the lum
Wha's There?
Johnnie Bear
What d'ya want?
A pint of beer
Whaur's yer money?
In my pocket
Whaur's yer pocket
I forgot it!
Get doon those stairs you stupid blockhead!

Mary's 62nd

2011-02-27T20:49:00.003Z

Strange rhyme courtesy of Gerry:

"Aunt Jemima, what's for dinner?

Pigeon's milk and nanny-goat's vinegar

Aunt Jemima's what's for dinner........?

Pussy's laid an egg!"

Sung to the tune of Men of Harlech

Speedtest

2011-02-23T00:00:00.001Z

Say Cheese

2011-02-13T13:35:00.004Z

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7

Tram Blah

2011-02-10T19:21:00.001Z

http://www.holyrood.tv/popup.asp?stream=http://vr-sp-archive.lbwa.verio.net/archive/090211_public_audit.wmv

It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow

2011-01-24T22:14:00.001Z

J is for Jigsaw

2011-01-18T22:29:00.001Z

J is for jigsaw, a pastime so gentle

Although it looks simple, it near drove me mental

New Songs

2011-01-12T22:16:00.003Z

Final guitar and sax laid down for new "French" song, very exciting all of a sudden. We need a gig however.

First Pie

2011-01-04T16:51:00.007Z

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Good Car

2010-12-30T14:16:00.002Z

Got the go-ahead from physio regarding driving. Car started first time after 87 days lying unused in all the snow etc. Great stuff.

Lunch Outside

2010-12-19T13:16:00.001Z

Headstone

2010-12-06T19:59:00.001Z

Narnia

2010-11-30T23:21:00.002Z

I looked out of my bedroom window and Lo! I was in Narnia

Sheds in the Snow

2010-11-28T12:16:00.001Z

Lucy Tatton

2010-11-21T12:49:00.004Z

Lucy struts her stuff

Claremont Hotel, Hove, 6th November 2010

Electric Toothbrush

2010-11-17T19:21:00.001Z

Why didn't I get one years ago?

Bankart Repair Pics

2010-10-25T01:14:00.001+01:00

Shut Up and Deal With It

2010-10-14T20:22:00.001+01:00

…was the wording on the get-well card from my niece.

She will I am sure enjoy cheaply –framed photocopies of my arthroscopy pics as a wedding present.

I was Johnny Colon’s Drummer

2010-10-11T13:42:00.001+01:00

Trades Council

The Trades Council at 14 Picardy Place was used for
concerts in the late seventies. Now Ego/Luna night club.

1978 29th November Freeze & Johnny Colon

Shoulder Repair 4.10.10.

2010-10-05T23:42:00.001+01:00

Capsule repaired and tendon decompressed. Worse inside than the scans suggested, but still should be worthwhile. Thanks to Miss McBirnie (surgeon) and Dr Semple (anaesthetist) and the nice nurses in the Day Surgery Unit.

Album of the Summer

2010-09-29T08:29:00.002+01:00

Review of Solferino in Music News Scotland, issue 64

Read the review here

“Solferino is an album full of short punchy and artistically performed songs. Arranged and performed with oomph and enthusiasm this could just be the album of the summer.”

Lisbon 21-26 September 2010

2010-09-27T22:25:00.001+01:00

With Friends of the National Galleries of Scotland

Lisbon – Tagus cruise – Gulbenkian Museum -

Palacio de Fronteira – British Ambassador -

Belém – Pasteis de Nata - National Gallery -

Queluz – Sintra – Cabo de Roca – Casceis

Clube de Fado

View videos here

Gig 35

2010-09-20T00:35:00.002+01:00

Free Cell Madness

2010-09-16T22:19:00.001+01:00

Tag-Cloud

2010-09-13T23:26:00.001+01:00

North Shields

2010-09-12T21:20:00.001+01:00

Where “Moffoot” probably originated

Me and Windows7 part 2

2010-09-12T20:35:00.001+01:00

Next Gig

2010-09-08T00:21:00.001+01:00

Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh

Sunday 19th September 2010

Michael Rother

2010-08-17T23:25:00.003+01:00

Played the old Caley cinema in Edinburgh 17.8.10 Powerful and moving , the real deal.

Dinger-beat, guitar, bass, electronica performing from Neu!, Harmonia and Rother back catalogue and new live stuff. Opened with Hallogallo, then Silberstreif, included Immer Wieder, Watussi, Dino( I think).

Thanks very much to Ian Clark for the treat.

Michael Rother and Friends – Silberstreif.

DM U.S.A. 2

2010-08-12T23:48:00.001+01:00

Thank you so much for your kind words. It was my pleasure to play Dancing Mice. I really like the CD. If you wouldn't mind, I would very much appreciate it if you could send some more music my way.

Thanks also for listening to the show. It's nice to know there are people out there interested in what I play. I like exposing my local community (and by virtue of the internet, the world) to unusual and
eclectic sounds.

I assume you already have the station's address? You can just send to my attention. Let me know.

Best regards,
..Saramin

http://groovewitch.wordpress.com/

WCBN 88.3 FM Ann Arbor Michigan

DM U.S.A.

2010-08-11T17:20:00.002+01:00

http://www.wcbn.org/ryan-playlist/searchplaylist.php?advsearch=fromto&playedfrom=10+days+ago&playedto=now&keyword=dancing+mice

And top 40 in NC

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.chapel-hill/browse_thread/thread/2d20a0b852a2a759?pli=1

Chimneys

2010-08-09T22:41:00.001+01:00

Chimney stack crumbled after 127 years, rebuilt by Christie of Edinburgh.

Motoblur2blog

2010-08-05T01:45:00.002+01:00

What will this display like?

Hm white text.

Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.9

88.7 With a Bullet

2010-07-31T13:56:00.001+01:00

Solferino hits the charts

http://www.wxdu.org/node/308

Blue Light

2010-07-18T19:07:00.001+01:00

Terrible abdominal colic, ended up in an ambulance to A&E. Jings. However i.v. Buscopan worked its magic. Very anticholinergic, nauseating but slightly mind-expanding.

Middlesborough Jingle

2010-07-08T20:14:00.002+01:00

Hi guys,
Been playing a song a week off the album you sent me. Im just wondering if you could make a short mp3 of yourselves so i could play it before i play a track, something simple such as' Hi were dancing mice, and you can hear tracks off our new album, solferino, exclusivly on Jonathan's 1-2 show on 104.5 Community Voice FM'
Cheers
Jonathan

Here it is.

Halifax Home Insurance

2010-07-08T17:32:00.002+01:00

As soon as you inform them that you are getting work done on chimneys which involves scaffolding, they REMOVE the accidental cover. You would never guess that from this, in the policy booklet:

Change in circumstances
• work is going to be done on your home which
is not routine repair, maintenance or decoration;

We may re-assess your cover and premiums when
we are told about changes in your circumstances.
If you do not tell us about changes, the wrong
terms may be quoted, a claim might be rejected or
payment could be reduced. In some circumstances
your policy might be invalid.

Big in Carolina

2010-06-27T23:04:00.002+01:00

Agenda For Change broadcast on Duke University Radio 22nd June 2010

http://www.wxdu.org/plmanager/world/printplaylist.php?show_id=15436

Repair is possible

2010-06-22T17:41:00.002+01:00

Phonecall today from surgeon, MRI shows classic anterior instability injuries and as such is repairable by arthroscopic procedure.

DM – Resonance FM, London

2010-06-17T18:31:00.001+01:00

MRI

2010-06-14T14:00:00.002+01:00

Arthrogram today - MRI & CT . But will it show anything fixable, given that the X-ray showed only age related change at the acromio-clavicular joint ?

Pull The Plug

2010-06-14T13:59:00.002+01:00

Hi Dancing Meeces,
Thanks for sending your new CD 'Solferino' to me (if you didn't then maybe it was your label?).
Anyway I'll be playing a track from it on my show Pull the Plug this Thursday (4pm - Resonance 104.4FM - http://resonancefm.com/ )
Haven't decided which track to play yet...
cheers,
john

A man of taste.

Leeds Music Scene verdict

2010-06-13T22:00:00.002+01:00

Dancing Mice: Solferino

By Alexander Rennie

3.5

A couple of years ago I was handed this band's curious yet beguiling previous LP - 'Eroded.' Having re-read my thoughts on that offering (www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/9417) I can - for once - recall exactly what I liked about it. What is also clear is why I subsequently came to find it somewhat frustrating. It's not that it was a difficult listen, so much as that it resolutely refused to yield those mind-embedding highlights which distinguish truly great music. I still think of it as an album I ought to have loved, but one which became something I merely liked a lot.
Why am I dredging over old ground? Mainly, I fear, because the band's latest offering does so itself. Sure - there are a couple of new tricks added to the armory. The appearance of some female vocals doesn't go amiss ('Always On Our Own,') spoken word samples add interest ('Agenda For Change') whilst beguiling middle-eastern rhythms push the tempo along on the eight minute Crusade-inspired epic 'Jerusalem's Home.' Meanwhile, the off-kilter Tango structure of 'Poison' presumably informs the ballroom cover art. On the whole, however, it's left to the swirling retro sound of the organ to define the gloom-psych sound.
Once again I can see myself giving this disc a prolonged opportunity to prove itself as a 'grower,' but find it difficult to say how kind I - or posterity in general - will be. Too many of the tracks ('Death Makes You Feel Like A Man,' 'Watching Waters Rise,' 'Gone Girl' etc.) sound so similar to favoured tracks from 'Eroded' that judgement is likely to be similar, i.e. slightly equivocal. Having said that, the musicianship is unimpeachable and a considered listen to 'Solferino' is far from being three quarters of an hour wasted. I shall continue to follow future output from the Dancing Mice with considerable interest.

http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12939/

Fame spreads - Chile

2010-06-03T23:55:00.001+01:00

http://es.paperblog.com/we-were-always-on-our-own-dancing-mice-119229/

About Time Too

2010-06-02T18:31:00.001+01:00

http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/work/forwardwork_summary.php#trams

Solferino release blurb

2010-06-02T00:26:00.005+01:00

On 2nd August 2010, Edinburgh’s Dancing Mice return once more on their irregular orbit with an iridescent collection of new songs called ‘Solferino’. Solferino: a colour, a battle and a soup. The songs are short, punchy and evocative, and reasonably well performed. The packaging is arty. The production is, for want of a better word, "better" than their last collection ‘Eroded’ which nevertheless was unexpectedly popular in the Ukraine. Eurovision here we come.

Gig 34 – Solferino Launch

2010-05-20T01:05:00.003+01:00

Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh 19/5/10

Setlist: Death Makes You Feel Like A Man, (We Were) Always On Our Own, Watching Waters Rise, Agenda For Change, Talking To Herself Again, It's Abnormal, Gone Girl, Blue Screen, Selling The Party.

Sound: Leonora.Not so good at first ( sorry Leonora), but good at the end, and the audience appreciated the moderate volume level.

Reception: Lots of smiles and applause. Good crowd rapport. About 120 people, lots of CDs and badges distributed. DM begin to rule the world.

Hütter Speaks

2010-05-17T00:53:00.001+01:00

"Everybody is becoming like ... " - he pauses - "a Stasi agent, constantly observing himself or his friends."

Sunny May Morning

2010-05-15T22:30:00.000+01:00

The Cover

2010-04-28T22:23:00.001+01:00

Solferino arrives

2010-04-28T22:06:00.002+01:00

Solferino CD today came from the makers, looks classy.

Now for the gigs and the spread round the web.

Picasa-Test

2010-04-26T00:03:00.000+01:00

DEXT-Test

2010-04-25T12:07:00.002+01:00

Motorol-a-go-go

Canvassed

2010-04-22T18:56:00.002+01:00

Sarah Boyack came round the houses last night canvassing for Labour. She blamed all the tram - problems on the SNP/Lib-Dem council, she said that 2014 estimate for completion was optimistic, and that stopping the line at Haymarket "must be" being considered. She admitted to being one of the original tram enthusiasts/instigators, and said if they had the chance to do it all again they would, but differently, making a RIE-WGH route first with perhaps a spur to Leith. She said that the cost of stopping it now would be greater than the cost of going on with it, so they had no choice but to struggle on, such were the costs of the contracts. Thanks be to Labour.

Volcano Angst

2010-04-20T00:09:00.002+01:00

Hi Anthony,

Firstly, thank you for your ongoing order with Disc Wizards.

As you must be aware, all UK airspace is currently closed.

For some orders, the parts and materials are sourced from outside of the UK, and these are flown into the country to fulfil orders.

This email is to inform you that there will be delays to your order until a normal air transport service into the UK is resumed. At this stage we're unable to provide you with a time-scale of how long the delay will be.

We hope to have more information over the next 48 hours - and as soon as we do know we will inform you.

We apologise for the inconvenience, and we trust you understand that the experienced delays are out of our control.

Kind regards.

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Disc Wizards Customer Care

DiscWizards

2010-04-08T18:05:00.002+01:00

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The People's Queue

2010-03-24T16:25:00.005Z

Posted the masters for Solferino off to London today. Tedious queue at the Post Office, then, horrid obsession that I had not signed the cheque. Luckily the compulsion to check became overpowering and... it was true, I had not added my signature. Funny thing the brain.

Over to Coke

2010-03-23T23:43:00.003Z

How many codes you have - 1
Product and package size and type - Coca Cola 500ml
Color (sic) of the cap - Red
Where you bought it (name and address ...if you have it) - Margiotta's, Dundas St Edinburgh

The production code from the neck of the bottle -Jun 10 A ?? u25EM11011?? – illegible
The code(s) – 38R8NLCJH228

Thanking you in anticipation

And the consequence was 9 points in CokeZone. I was hoping for a new VAIO

Coke's Response

2010-03-16T22:43:00.001Z

Thanks for contacting Coke Zone. We're glad you took the time to email us.

Sorry for the frustration, but thanks for letting us know about the issue with your codes. We want to fix any

issues, so please let us know the following: - How many codes you have -Product and package size and type -

color of the cap -where you bought it (name and address ...if you have it) -The production code from the

neck of the bottle (unless you already recycled it) - The code(s) to the best of your ability. Thanks in

advance!

If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us again.

Sincerely,

Angela

I will see what happens