Our good friends at Club Antichrist are holding their 5th birthday on Friday.




The members of AlterRed will also be there with tickets to sell for our show supporting KMFDM on the 18th July at Islington Academy

Tickets for both events are also available online from Club Antichrist's web-store.






Buy DISCOUNTED Tickets for this gig here -

Please use the paypal button for single tickets or if you want multiple please paypal vxa [at] live [dot] co [dot] uk and write in the subject what its for and how many tix you want.
Tickets are in hand so I can post ASAP!

mood: amused music: Hit Me Hard-Noisuf-X-The Beauty of Destruction

I'm sat on a train to Swansea on the way to the AlterRed wedding. Sat next to me at the table are a couple of tv or film creatives. One of which is talking icessently on his phone. At a guess he's a producer or director.

For the last 10 minutes he's been talking on his phone about a concept for a prop: a ride on banana. Which is curved and slightly peeled and brown at one end.

Keeping composure is proving difficult. Although he seems to have not noticed the huge innuendo potential.

A few months ago I managed to find something I've been looking for ages - a brass 'No Junk Mail' sign for the front door.

Slightly to my surprise, it's proved highly effective at keeping the takeaway flyers and taxi business cards at bay - we perhaps get a couple a week now.

That brings me onto today's. A hand addressed letter with a sticker on it saying 'This is not Junk Mail - important information contained within'. Any prizes for guessing what it contained?

Yes. A missive from the Hovies.

Not amused. Perhaps a more explicit sign is needed, but i'm not sure they'd take much notice of that either.

mood: aggravated

A dish that allegedly was available in restaurant in St. Pölten - the Austrian town where Josef Fritzl is currently on trial....

According to the Guardian the mayor had a quiet work with restauranteur to remove it or face a boycot.

mood: amused music: Philosophy-Ben Folds Five-Naked Baby Photos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7906639.stm

The perp denies all charges and is defending himself in court. Always a winning strategy.

mood: amused

More things that you just couldn't make up

mood: amused music: Enjoy The Unknown-And One-Bodypop

Right on!

Unbelievable. As I see it, the fatal flaw in this argument is the assumption that cultures are static and never evolve.

[Their website is awful too]

mood: awake music: Dead End-Mind.In.A.Box-Dreamweb tags: pc

A believable story\? I think not

mood: amused

I just love the way that Nick Griffin - the leader of the BNP - seems to be talking up a conspiracy theory of a Labour party plot to undermine his party, and is repeating it ad nauseam.

Rumour has it that the reality is somewhat different: it was a ex party member with a grudge.

Naturally, the BNP moved to get the membership list removed from the blogspot blog it was on - for it to simply reappear here. A game of whack-a-mole might well ensure until it is hosted somewhere out of UK jurisdiction. Ironically the BNP is talking about using the Human Rights Act to get the names removed, although it's hard to see quite how it applies in this case. This is deeply ironic as the BNP - like other fascists -believes in depriving large sections of the population (e.g. all non whites, non heterosexuals) of their human rights, and strongly opposes the HRA.

None of the mainstream parties need to get involved at all in this - there are plenty of anti-facist activists more than willing to assist. And assist they seem to be.

Like mainstream politicians, the BNP really doesn't understand damage limitation in the internet age.

Incidentally - today's PM programme on BBC Radio 4 had an entertaining interview with a BNP spokesman - who was trying very hard to defend the indefensible. It's about 20 minutes. Get it on iPlayer here

mood: amused

The BNP carelessly loses its membership list

It appears the party has known about this for some time and has sought an injunction - presumably against the press.

By all accounts the list has been leaked by a disgruntled party member - onto the interwebs, so the injunction won't help a great deal.

The prospect of civil war breaking out in the BNP is a fantastic one - especially after UKIP having similar problems.

Where will that list end up next I wonder?

mood: amused

Got home this evening to find half of my street was suffering from a power failure.

Not sure when it had happened, but there were already two EDF vans down the end of the road, and supply engineers at work.
I was impressed that they had already isolated the fault to a junction in the main supply cable at the end of the street. They reckon it had got a bit waterlogged, and there was certainly a lot of water about.

They reckoned on it taking 3 or 4 hours to fix. This has happened a few times in my street, each time with holes in the ground and emergency generators. It rather suggests that EDF need to completely replace all of the supply cabling in my street.

Life without electricity is tricky - no cooking, no light, no internet. Not even the light from any streetlights as they were out too.

Thankfully I'm going out tonight anyway. On the positive side, in the quest to find something to do (and a net connection), I have discovered a really nice cafe within 150m of my flat which I'd never been in before, so I guess it's not so bad.

mood: not amused

It's properly snowing in London.



This is somewhat unusual for October, and is probably as much snow as we got for the entirety of last winter.

mood: awake tags: snow

Just managed to bag myself a ticket to see Shpongle next week from EBay, Was kicking myself for not getting one when they originally went on sale. Seeing as some are changing hands for about £60-70 each, £42 wasn't a bad deal.

I have no doubt that this will the best concert I see all year.

Who else is going?

mood: bouncy tags: shpongle

...I'd suspect an April Fools joke.

The idea of concealing the details of ones terrorist plot in hardcore child pornography is certainly an odd one.
The possible explanations quoted in the article are that either the terrorists are also kiddie fiddlers OR that the methods used by paedophiles to securely distribute pr0n can also be used to securely distribute terrorist materials. Seeing as child porn gets a lot of attention from police around the world, it's hardly an inconspicuous choice.

mood: amused music: Universal-Seigmen-The First Wave

Just got back from seeing Matthew Bourne's production of Dorian Gray. Wow! Without doubt one of the best bits of theatre I've seen in a long time.

This production transposes Wilde's novel into the modern age: Dorian Gray is the poster boy for immortal a brand of cologne and finds sudden fame, and all of its trappings.

The lighting and set design were very slick indeed, and naturally, as might be expected from Matthew Bourne, it was brutally homoerotic.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing his production of Edward ScissorHands in December. Who wants to come along? Tickets are about £10 upwards, and even the cheap seats at Saddler's wells are pretty decent.

mood: accomplished music: Universal-Seigmen-The First Wave

Carly Fiorina is a senior advisor to McCain. Carly was formerly the CEO of HP before being made to walk the plank for HP's poor perfrmance and (probably illegal) surveillance of journalists.

Listen to her on BBC Radio 4 Six O'clock News dodging the question about Palin's creationist views, denial of the man made effects of global warning, belief that all abortion is wrong and the way in which it relates to McCain's policies - which are supposedly somewhat different.

Fiorina is described as being rational believer and supporter of science, and the highest powered busineswoman in America.

It will be available here

mood: amused

this documentary is fascinating.

It describes the background of the 1958 Notting Hill race riot. That there was a great deal of racial prejudice is probably not news to anybody, but the archive material brings home just how pervasive and widespread it was. Most shockingly, there is one contemporary account of a black person attending a service at Church Of England church and being politely told by the priest that it would probably be better if they didn't come again as it would 'upset the regulars'.

Despite the enormous amount of prejudice, some black american GIs - of which a fair number were stationed in London still at that point - found life easier in London than they did back home.

I can thoroughly recommend listening to this.

mood: accomplished music: Pendulum - Coma-Pendulum-Pendulum