A couple of gigs for Saturday 17th...
Bridge and Tunnel + Wolf Colonel, ROTA sessions at Notting Hill Arts Club, 4pm-8pm Free
Life Without Buildings, the Spitz (Spitalfields), 8pm £5

Yeah well, went to Ladytron + Olympic Lifts last night, pretty good all round. A 'proper' review' of that and Smog from last weekend will be up very soon. I met A LOT of people and was all talked out by the end of the night. It was completely sold out, and the bar was very crowded and was £3.20 a pint, so that meant I wasn't too drunk ;) Glad the OL slipmats arrived in time, I wonder if they sold any? Playing Sheffield tonight.

One gig in London tonight is the fantastic Jacob Golden who is playing the Barfly acoustic night at the Enterprise in Chalk Farm, admission is only £3.

Don't forget that Ladytron, Olympic Lifts and DJ Andrew Weatherall are playing the Scala, Pentonville Road Kings Cross (beside Thameslink station) tonight. Tickets are still available at £9. The ad in last week's Time Out stated that Mina and Le Hammond Inferno were also on the bill, though I've no confirmation of that.

The White Stripes set for Jo Wylie's new show will be on Channel 4 at 11.35pm tonight. I was supposed to go to the recording but was otherwise engaged, so it'll be interesting to see what I've missed. White Stripes did three songs for tv, and two more for the crowd apparently.

Tuesday night and I haven't even done the new releases yet! Here goes...

The Fall Are you are Missing Winner
I haven't heard it myself and I've been giving recent gigs a wide berth, but
I'm told that this is up there with 'The Unutterable' - still on form
apparently.

bis Return to Central
Now on Artful records, leaning even further towards electronic music.

Chris T-T The 253
12 track album from Chris T-T on snowstorm, dedicated to the bus route from Euston to Aldgate (which goes past my old flat). Great reviews everywhere and has played recently with Elbow and Turin Brakes.

Brian Eno Compact Forest Proposal
5 studies for "010101" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2001. 10 active cd players were used in this installation, each playing a specially cut cd featuring a single layer of the total music. The cds had a different number of tracks, some silent, and each player was set to play in random order. The final music is an ever changing combination. This cd
represents possible conditions of the installation piece (obviously it doesn't have the same effect as the installation)

Radiohead I Might be Wrong - Live
Well, I might be wrong but I reckon this 8 track live album was recorded at this gig in Oxford. In which case I'll not buy it as I have the whole gig on minidisc! It's good though. It features tracks from Kid A and Amnesiac plus a new track 'True Love Waits"