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Rob Goldblade

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Banger of drums, arts journalist of modest repute, consumer of cheeses, admirer of the natural world with all the living creatures and leafy things thereof.I play drums and yell a bit for Gold Blade, Inca Babies, There'll Always Be Diseases and Pure Sound. I have also drummed and recorded with Bone-Box and the late, great Fes Parker.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Shaun Goater, Jeeves, and any member of the Zygon race. Oh, and I was getting swamped with band requests that I never had time to listen to, so if you're really bothered and not just trying to get your friends collection up, send me a message.

My Blog

To the memory of Fes Parker

 Its perhaps unlikely youll have heard of Fes Parker, or heard his music. His was a distinctly localised talent, raw in the extreme and unlikely to travel any roads of commerce far beyond his native...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:25:00 GMT

Incas go to Warsaw

Inca Babies  Warsaw, Poland 14  16 November 2008 Absent friend So it's the first gig without Bill. This gig specifically, in fact, nudged us into facing the future after Bill's death  we cancelled...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:56:00 GMT

Sophie and Gold Blade at Manchester

On Saturday at the Gold Blade Manchester gig we'll be proud to help promote S.O.P.H.I.E (Stamp Out Prejudice Hatred and Intolerance Everywhere). This organisation was started by the parents and friend...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:56:00 GMT

Bill Marten, 1960 - 2008

Bill is dead  an unreal phrase which still doesn't ring true in my head, no matter how many times the thought of it brings me up short. Bill was a lovely, quiet soul, a keen-minded history buff...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:04:00 GMT

Thought for the Day

"You know," said Arthur thoughtfully, "all this explains a lot of things. All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:42:00 GMT

Inca Babies in Manchester

Inca Babies Big Hands, Manchester, Friday 14 December 2007 It's been round about twenty years since the last Inca Babies gig in this country  I'm not sure exactly, because I wasn't there. Back in t...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:26:00 GMT

Raven, Paul Fox RIP

What a cruel day. I wake up, it's a chilly, grey and damp Sunday outside and I really don't feel too well already. I get up, have breakfast and the first message I get when I check my e-mail is a fri...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:46:00 GMT

Inca Babies gig

The Incas go to Munich Roughly twenty years after the last Inca Babies gig and it's considered just about time for another  the occasion being a reunion celebrating the anniversary of the band's old...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:52:00 GMT

Denied an Unsane fix

Just got back from The Star and Garter in Manchester, where Unsane were supposed to playing. I'd been looking forward to this for weeks  my eardrums were ready for destruction, I was anticipating a m...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:56:00 GMT

Recording the new Gold Blade album

    It's been a long time in coming, but the recording of the new Blade album is pretty much finished. I'd have liked to have done it earlier than we did, but the trade off for a heavy giggi...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:25:00 GMT