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Cary

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim

About Me



Seem to just work alot...workaholic...lazy prick...

Have some things to do at the SXSW and The Great Escape festivals in Austin, Texas and Brighton UK...

2008 Stuff:
SXSW
The Great Escape (UK)
Lovebox (UK)
Cornbury Festival (UK)

2007 Stuff:
SXSW
The Great Escape (UK)
Lovebox (UK)
Southern Amp
Atlas
Gasoline Cowboy
Luke Thompson

2006 Stuff:
SXSW
Flip Grater
Nathan Haines/Chris Cox
Blindspott
The Feelers
Atlas
Carly Binding
Donald Reid
The Beat (UK)
Anika Moa
Anji Sami
Blindspott...again
Take The Willing
The Living End
Buttercup (US)

2005 Stuff:
SXSW
Southern Amp
Flip Grater
Shihad
Elemeno P
Steve Earle & The Dukes
Pluto
Anika Moa
Steriogram
Nathan Haines
Tadpole
Blindspott
Kriptik

My Interests

reading, reading, reading...television and weed... cooking...procrastination

I'd like to meet:

Poppy, Karen Allen

Music:

MUMFORD & SONS, The Delta Saints, Gloria Cycles, My Federation, That 1 Guy, Cars Can Be Blue, The Notorious MSG, Angry vs The Bear, Bang! Bang! Eche!, Take the Willing, Ragamuffin Children, The Enright House, Blindspott, Flip Grater, Carly Binding, TV on the Radio, Anika Moa, Kriptik, Metallica, Fat Freddy's Drop, Trinity Roots, Gasoline Cowboy, Smog, Iron & Wine, Stefan Grappelli, The Monochrome Set, The Beat, Elemeno P, Manda, The Dykeenies, Jakob, Lonely China Day, Pluto, Shihad, Anji Sami, The Hazy Janes, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Bob Marley, The Skatalites, Mau Mau Chaplins

Movies:

Dinner Rush
Children of Men
Cross of Iron
Diva
Bugsy Malone
5th Element
Running Scared
Saving Private Ryan
Love Actually
The Departed

Television:

I watch far too much...The Shield, Rome, The Bill (sad, I know)

Books:

Irving Welsh (especially Maribou Stork Nightmare), Hunter S. Thompson, Ian Rankin, Harry Potter, The Amtrak Wars series, Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever, I Claudius

Heroes:

Poppy...and anyone who gets through the day with a smile

My Blog

The Great Escape

The Great Escape is done and dusted - great times and hard work down in sunny, windy, rainy Brighton...drug-fuelled, alcohol laden fun... Got to see a few great bands - zZz out of Amsterdam are simply...
Posted by Cary on Sat, 26 May 2007 04:04:00 PST

SXSW Aftermath

The fest has finally wound down and I'm in post-event report/tiredness mode, sitting in the SXSW office early morning trying to focus on the computer screen...and struggling...The fest this year was i...
Posted by Cary on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:26:00 PST

When First Was Best

Going to Michael Franti a week before immersing oneself into thousands of bands playing a fest was probably a good idea...But what happens when the first time you see him play was also the best gig yo...
Posted by Cary on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:17:00 PST

2007 SXSW Band Listing...to date

2007 SXSW Music Festival Band List Current as of February 6th 2007. All information is subject to change Aa (Brooklyn NY); AA Sound System (Edmonton AB); A Band of Bees (Ventnor UK); Aberdeen City ...
Posted by Cary on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:46:00 PST

Appeasing Lawyers

So a friend of mine was bitching that I didn't blog anymore (not that I ever really blogged ever anyway) so thought that seeing as how I would be leaving NZ in a few days I might as well take a few mi...
Posted by Cary on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:18:00 PST

Flip Grater at SXSW

Flip Grater at SXSW   Flip Grater and her management team are pleased to announce the acceptance of Flip to the 2006 SXSW festival held in Austin, Texas. The festival, one of the biggest ...
Posted by Cary on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:24:00 PST

So...pissed in Austin

Yes...it comes...pissed and stoned in Austin...went to this cool 'party' tonight...out west...(and believe me, I mean out west)... So, here I am...sitting at a computer, pissed on red wine, waiting f...
Posted by Cary on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:57:00 PST

Made invisible with your cloud of bitterness

"You've made me invisible with your cloud of bitterness" What the fuck...my boss said that to me a few days ago via e-mail...and thinking that it was quite witty wanted to post it before I forgot it.....
Posted by Cary on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:58:00 PST

Wine and Cigarette hangover

Suffering, suffering today...wine and cigarette hangover...and running round like a muthafucka moving and trying to get ready for Southern Amp't on the weekend - tour managing Blindspott, Elemeno P, a...
Posted by Cary on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:37:00 PST

Sunny afternoon

Sunny afternoon, and sadly sitting inside looking out - deciding how to spend that kinda 'can't-be-fucked-been-working-all-week' rest of the afternoon... Know what I'm doing tonight...Flip gig/photo ...
Posted by Cary on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 04:31:00 PST