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No, was living in London at the time, so saw them there three times over the year (missed another gig as well - when they tour, they tour very hard!). I think the Freebutt gig was the tour before anyway? Remember being tempted to come down and see them in Coalition that year.

Seen **** Buttons twice - once ages ago at Green Man, and once last year at Concorde 2. They are amazing live - obviously like any electronic act there isn't really a lot to 'see', other than some pretty lights, but they make the kind of music that just benefits from being heard loud, and with...

Not going to do 12, but a few that stick out: The National - Corn Exchange. Always amazing live, this was just a kind of perfect storm - they were playing in a way too small venue for how big they'd got by then, just after high Violet came out. Great crowd, sweltering outside, lots of singing...

Mark Yeates Will Buckley

Really? I've always found that the expensive joints in Tesco/Sainos are at that price because they're better kept and treated animals. Whether you can taste the difference is not as important as knowing where the animal has come from?

Finally got myself a Perfume Genius ticket last night - surprised it hasn't sold out to be honest, thought by album no. 3 he was now bigger than The Haunt. Amusingly for a £10 ticket, Seetickets were trying to charge £1.25 booking fee and £6.50 transaction fee, fees that were over 70% of the...

I'm not talking about the value range - you can get four standard chicken breasts for £4. You might be referring to these, in which case apologies, but I've never noticed a change in the provenance from the rest of their standard chicken range. Stuff like milk, eggs, bread, tomatoes, peppers...

Think it's all a bit emperors new clothes. No one seems to have noticed that Tesco have done a massive price reduction across their fresh range (eg. 4 pints milk £1, butter £1, 4 chicken breasts £4 etc.). At these prices they're no much more than Aldi and certainly not Lidl. Also, people seem to...

On the strength of your recommendation, and good reviews, we tried out the Schooner last night. A mixed bag. It's a really nice pub and they are clearly attracting a good crowd. Very reasonable bar and food prices. Good atmosphere. The problem last night was that they'd clearly taken too many...

In the Guardian article it says something about how the fine would have to go to charity rather than other clubs because of an agreement with the Premier League over solidarity payments. Can someone shed any light on this? Is it seriously, as it sounds, because the Premier League were worried...

Rachmaninoff - Vocalise On YouTube, sorry, can't post a video.

'I hope car drivers watch this and look carefully for motorbikes' I would tend to go with 'I hope other motorcycle drivers watch this and stop driving like pricks' At the speed he was going, the car driver might have seen him, but assumed he was going at the maximum permitted speed and...

I know. Imagine people finding small observations that amuse them in their day to day life. I'm pretty sure it's never happened before.

And luckily plenty of morons filming it so the black woman will get arrested. If they were supportive of her, as seems to be the case from the video, why would they then post evidence all over the internet?

I think that sort of thing has largely dropped off now though. They've already found all the odd ones who think they can sing. Now you get people taking the piss just to get on tv, the judging panel pretending not to know that they're taking the piss, and presumably only a handful of idiots left...

It's really not as simple as that. The effects of X Factor and it's ill are far more insidious than that. I was amazed this week that at least three of the auditioning males were asked why they wanted to win and said it was so that they wouldn't have to 'try' to get women - this vacuous...

Oh yeah I know, highly unfair. The situation just reminds me a lot of some ladies I used to work with who seemed like nice older ladies but were actually massively passive aggressive over anything they deemed as 'not their job' or someone stepping on their territory (for example - deliberately...

A bizarre situation in many regards. If the BBC is adamant that Diana did nothing wrong, why did they decide to edit it in a way that so obviously implicated her. Once the programme had made such a 'story of The sabotage, why didn't the judges mention it at all at the end? That Diana woman acts...

Possibly true. My main point was that footballers from 10, 15, 20 years ago were rich, but not super rich, and it's easy to see how having that money young, rather than reaching it at a more mature point in an average life/career would lead to a lack of forward planning. To be honest in think...

The stats on ex footballers are still skewed a low by pros who were playing in the pre-Sky millions days. It's very very easy to imagine that someone who was earning a well above average salary got used to living that lifestyle but didn't account for the fact that money would dry up after the...