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Laura Hocking

About Me


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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/02/2007
Band Website: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9944606403
Band Members: just me. moi. je. ich. and i.
Influences: Valerian root, caffeine, green tea and late nights.Dita von Teese, Bettie Page, Tennessee Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Matt's idea of pun, pedantry, taboos, tattoos, whores and whoring, sailors, sailor tattoos for whores, whore tattoos for sailors, Italo Calvino, Dylan, Joni, www.Toothpastefordinner.com, Emmy the Great, Expressionism, Edvard Munch, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, trivia, True Romance, odd habits/hopes, photography, apostrophes, pole dancing, Araki, William Klein, highways, printers, buses, trains, water, pavements, seratonin, windows, gin.SCISSORS.
Sounds Like: "Some sort of Laura Marling-alike-but-not-really-as-limp" -THE FLY ||| "Cut glass" VARSITY ||| "Biting into a cream cake and finding a razor blade." - JON. |||
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Laura Hocking playing @Second Sunday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XocHRjfdlQE Ta to Mark Broad for this
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 03:53:00 GMT

We = Indie Band. Final.

Hello,We're now in the live final of Indie Idle. You can witness this quirk live, onstage at Bar Vinyl, Camden, at 1pm today (Sat 25th). We will not be 'battling it out in a live final with electro in...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:57:00 GMT

Vote for me to play the CAMDEN CRAWL

So, like anyone, I enjoy a little unexpected validation, which is why it put a feather in my bow and a string in my step when I heard I'd been shortlisted for Gigwise's INDIE IDLE.Vote here.  You migh...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:43:00 GMT

Back Down, Eddy

Hello,Just a quick note, to explain the song, which is hoffully badly recorded - I did it in the kitchen late one night last year. This is diametrically opposite to the direction in which things are p...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:20:00 GMT

all clear

Yesterday, well, earlier in the continuity of what feels like today, was my Viability Day.Today, 24 years ago, I became a potential person in a fertility lab.  My viability was overseen by various doc...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:41:00 GMT

precarious

You've played tetris, yes. That game where shapes drop down, all uncomfortable corners and uncertain orientation, and you nudge them until they tessellate, and then you can move forward.I'm living so...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:10:00 GMT

Certain things

Gosh how rude, I come to post a blog outlining Certain Things, and the google ad at the side is:How To Make A UK Will Create Your Will In A Few Minutes Complete Online Form & Print A WillNow tha...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:12:00 GMT

Do you like, like,

poetry? Because I wrote some (good stuff, challenging, no couplets...) and it was published in Oxford Poetry '08 right next to Andrew Motion. It is nothing like Andrew Motion's poetry, which is p...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:31:00 GMT

A very short true story.

When I got nervous I used to swallow air.  It hurt but it was not all that difficult.  It was accidental.  It happened because I did not know what to do with my face.  I could...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:33:00 GMT

re Sunday, Im feeling rather penitent.

Voila the mission:In minstrel traditionI'm playing a sessionOn Sunday night. Come to my sessionAnd hear the confessionOf a part-time musicianWhose lack of ambitionFinds comic expressionIn frequent ren...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 02:42:00 GMT