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Beards. Hats. Robots. Pirates.

I'd like to meet:

First up, here's some people I wanted to meet that I have met. Yay!

1. Ben Lee (and Tina Dico, not pictured) - 01/02/2006

2. Fyfe Dangerfield (and the rest of Guillemots, not pictured... tragically) - 28/03/2006

3. Fyfe Dangerfield (and MC Lord Magrao of Guillemots, again, not pictured) - 16/10/2006

4. Wayne Coyne (but, sadly, no Michael Ivins or Steven Drozd...) - 09/11/2006

5. Megan Hickey (and the rest of her touring band, not pictured) - 08/12/2006

6. Fyfe Dangerfield (and his supports, Richard Burke and Al Hutchins, both unfortunately not pictured) - 17/12/2006

7. Eef Barzelay - 28/01/2007

8. Ben Folds - 28/01/2007

Other than those who I have already met... Well, I'd like to meet them all again, obviously. And Django Haskins and Snuzz. I'd like to meet Ben Kweller (full set of Bens) and at least SEE Eels and Counting Crows. I'd also like to meet Patrick Stewart, the Pope, God, Richard Nixon and The League of Gentlemen. Yay.

Music:

The Old Ceremony Ben Folds (Five) Guillemots The Flaming Lips Bright Eyes Eels Okkervil River Modest Mouse Built To Spill The Good Life CAKE Elliott Smith Rufus Wainwright Eugene McGuinness The Dresden Dolls Beck Johnny Flynn Regina Spektor Why? Clem Snide Weezer Wolf Parade My Morning Jacket Snuzz

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange Donnie Darko Back to the Future The Shining Borat Star Wars

Television:

Futurama, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, American Dad, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Coronation Street, Dr. Who, The League of Gentlemen, Shameless.

Books:

Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

Heroes:

Patrick Stewart.

My Blog

GIG CHEESE IS DEAD!

...Or possibly just living underground in Albania.Anyway, after much deliberation, I have made the decision to relocate everyone's favourite music blog to a more "convenient" location. Basically, I wr...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:09:00 PST

Gig Cheese: April

God! April seems like ages ago, doesn't it? It does for me. I mean, okay, so it's nearly the end of May now, but it seems like much longer. That said, the end of April doesn't seem that long ago. Anyw...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Fri, 25 May 2007 09:30:00 PST

Gig Cheese: March

Gig Cheese is starting to earn somewhat of a name for itself. That name being Gig Cheese. Which it was already called, anyway. But now it's EARNED it. People write to me and say "never write another G...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:16:00 PST

Gig Cheese: February

So, I haven't been very well. That's not the excuse for the lateness of this blog or anything, but that's just the scenario we find ourselves in at the start of February 2007. As I said at the start o...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:14:00 PST

Gig Cheese: January

January has been a good month for the Alex, with lots of lovely things happening and lots of lovely smiles, welcoming 2007 to the world with a nice bang. As well as the attendance of three lovely gigs...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:18:00 PST

Gig Cheese: December

After my last blog about the gigs that I attended across the course of 2006 (I'd just like to add a slightly related point here - I have adapted very well to 2007 and haven't ONCE messed up writing th...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:35:00 PST

2006: Gig Overview in Deceleration

It's almost been exactly a year now since I saw my first "official" gig (by which I mean, a gig by a band/musician that I like, rather than one with the rest of the family, e.g. Spice Girls, Steps, S ...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:37:00 PST

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.

So, last night I went to see what is fast becoming one of my favourite bands of recent times, the brilliant "Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly", AKA Mr. Sam Duckworth, at the Birmingham Carling Academy 2. It w...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:03:00 PST

The Strange Design of Conciousness

I was thinking this afternoon about thought. Weird thing to think about, I know, but just stop for a minute and think about it. Like I said, weird thought. Let me elaborate. I read a con...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:56:00 PST

gUiLLeMoTs

So, last night me and my dad went into town to see the first date of the gUiLLeMoTs new UK tour. First of all, however, we went to "The Sunflower Lounge" pub where the band were meant to be doing a me...
Posted by Your Uncle Alex on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:49:00 PST