wow, so three days of music are once again in the past, and though I am sorry to see them go, I am tired out lol

so...who have I seen? here's a list in random order:

David Ford
Seabear
Beach House
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Chapel Club
I Blame Coco
Stornoway
Wendy McNeill
Fyfe Dangerfield
Post War Years
Esben and the Witch
Daniel Benjamin
Triggerfinger
Detroit Social Club
Philipp...

ok erm well, just thought I'd quickly document this a)before I forget, and b)so the rest of the interpipes will know, but here it is:

I have a Sony Vaio Z21. it's a laptop sculpted of carbon beauty. if it vibrated I'd never leave the house again. anyway, it contains some music. because I value the length of my epeen and am as exhibitionistic (is that a word?) as can be, I like people to be able to view my incredible super awesome musical taste.

my computers contain...

on assorted nights I have been playing CS:S on the new KEA (aka bunch of bacon loving noobs/RAGElings/gun fondlers and dog groomers) server, eg CSS://81.19.216.11:27015

during this time I have learned the following things:

• I suck badly at CS:S
• it is important to always be better than Jupitus and MYstIC G
• Jup's kid is waay better than his old man
• I suck badly at CS:S
• shooting Throdgrain is strangely rewarding, even/especially if you're on the same side
• people facing

...

some of you know that I occasionally write for a Dutch music blog called File Under: New Music Well, thursday, friday and saturday of last week I was at Haldern-Pop in Germany, which is a (more or less indie oriented) music festival true to it's small footprint with only about 5500 tickets.

Was pretty awesome, and I saw a lot of bands I didn't know yet, so here's a list of what I've seen:

Day One

• Baddies (surprisingly good on stage)
• Broken Records (awesome)
• Wildbirds

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from which I am now sadly returned. it was awesome though. in fact I note I must have said the word awesome about 3000 times during the week

GLENTRESS



^^red, red and blue routes there. Not me in the vids sadly, due to a forgotten camera, but besides that Spooky Wood is pretty cool. The start is somewhat sobering inasmuch...