In Fact, Ah

In Fact Ah, 2005-2007

2007-06-15T00:01:00.000+01:00

Its genesis can be traced back to a conversation that took place between myself and PMc at our abode in Pembroke Street, Irishtown in early May 2005. A dodgy webhost in Singapore went belly up a few weeks previous, taking my first blog with him. The conversation was idealistic and fanciful and exciting. We were carried away with doing something that was creative and engaging, somewhere our friends could come and trade friendly barbs and tell nasty jokes about each others' moms.

More and more contributors came on board over time. Cahony, El Commandant P, Dae and Francie made handsome and varied contributions throughout. I will remember the Biscuit Tin series and especially when El Commandant P discussed the political nature of Custard Creams on Newstalk, the one where I claimed that women were more interested in shopping than politics which resulted in a lambasting from many female bloggers, the posts with comments where Cahony and I earnestly told each other to fuck off, Cahony's articulate rantings on Palestine and techno, PMc's astute post about the playing of God Save the Queen in Croke Park, Francie's horse racing punditry and Dae's unique take on the realities that face immigrants arriving in Ireland. A shoutout for the three other one-off posters Shirley, Tom and Euzie must also be made.

Maybe the Irish Blog Awards hex really does exist because on Monday morning, a collective decision was reached to shut up shop. Careers, distractions, 24 hour partying in Berlin :-) and the more important things have ultimately meant that this is no longer viable.

Anyway, enough of this unseemly and drawn-out farewell. So long. For now.

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New Cabinet Announced

2007-06-14T20:33:00.000+01:00

Made up exclusively from planks.

tags:cabinet

Primaverazoidatronoplex

2007-06-14T09:45:00.001+01:00

Of Montreal @ Primavera Closing Party

Well I trust now well over a week later my Primavera companions, like me, have just about recovered from the non-stop partying carried out over 6 nights and early mornings at Barcelona's (and dare I say one of Europe's) most wonderful music festivals. Yes, yes I know Sonar is on this weekend!

The depth, variety and geographical spread of musical talent which descended on Barcelona on June Bank Holiday weekend last was truly mind-boggling. Couple this with the logistical setup of the festival and you have a must-have experience for any music fan. The performance and drinks licence runs from 4p.m. to 7a.m. Thursday - Saturday with a closing party on Sunday night in a Barcelona Club 9p.m. - 6a.m. The peak time for the big name acts would be from about 1a.m. to 4 a.m.

The venue, El Parc del Fòrum conveniently located on one of the city's Metro lines is a purpose built outdoor entertainment venue by the sea with grassy knolls and an assortment of amphitheaters ranging from vast to intimate. Sitting on the top tier of one of the amphitheaters around midnight watching a near full moon reflect on the mediterranean and shoreline in front of an amphitheater packed with thousands of revelers will be an abiding memory.

Of course, besides the festival Barcelona is a wonderful city to visit for any reason and you will not be disappointed with its many charms. I wouldn't quite go as far as last year's must have T-Shirt at Sonar "Fuck Berlin, Barcelona has a beach", but it is close! (BTW guys, if anybody sees any of those T-Shirts out there this weekend at Sonar - Buy, buy, buy. There's a soon to be exquisitely valuable In Fact, Ah mug in it for you!)

We took one excursion away from the festival all weekend when we missed all the peak time acts on Friday night to go 40K outside Barcelona to a club called La Cova (it literally looks like a cave with a few bars stuck in the corners) to see Shitmat who was in town. Line of the weekend had to be from the awesome Shitmat himself after his gig when we were chatting to him "Oh, is there a festival on this weekend?".

As regards the festival (and Shitmat) from my own perspective (in its various states of lucidity over the few days) here's a loose order of hots and nots:

Hots
Battles
Shitmat
Slint
Girl Talk
The Fall
Band Of Horses
Of Montreal
Isis
Nathan Fake
Ivan Smagghe

I was a little disappointed to have missed Fujiya & Miyagi due to an unplanned diversion at the festival, but you've got to embrace the craic when it happens. Apparently F & M were really great.

Nots
Smashing Pumpkins
Dominik Eulberg
Justice
Erol Alkan

Some various video fragments spliced together are below.

At the end of the Girl Talk set which was insanely fun, Girl Talk stage dives, crowd surfs and then almost flattens some poor punter in a fall after which he professes his love for said punter.

Justice, meh. You've seen this done before, but here's them doing it.

Slint. Hadn't listened to these guys much before seeing them this time performing their album Spiderland. Wow and stuff!

Shitmat at La Cova. So we missed much of the peak time acts on Friday night at the festival to go the 40K outside Barcelona to see him. Boy, oh boy was it worth it. Major kudos to El Commandant P for marshaling the troops in the right direction and for the blags, it wasn't half bad craic getting backstage with Henry (that's Shitmat to you guys) after his set. The vid includes bits from before and after the main man's set, he's the clip in the middle in the blue shirt with no sleeves going bonkers behind the equipment.

So that was Primavera.

It was a pleasure always, and a pain to leave. So it was good; and so it must come to an end. Thanks!

tags: Primavera

Reflections

2007-06-11T22:40:00.000+01:00

tags:the end

Shame by the river

2007-06-10T20:37:00.000+01:00

There are fewer pleasures in life that surpass quaffing £50 bottles of champagne while fine dining in Bam-Bou on a Friday night, especially so when the bill is taken care of. Indeed, the past three weeks' dining out have embellished my rotund proportions. Yesterday's barbecue and odd bottle of wine, and today's pork sausage, feta and salsa wrap (my invention) haven't helped either.

Today's beautiful weather and inspiring demonstration of athleticism by Rafael Nadal made a convincing case for getting off the couch. Running and I were never best buddies, but I do try, with the help of Map My Run, to do 25 minutes exercise three times a week. As mentioned already, the past few weeks have distracted me so today was going to be a struggle.

Half way in and I was struggling badly. Legs and chest would not cooperate. A 60 year old woman passing me out on Lambeth Bridge didn't help. In the end, I kicked like Sonia and showed that old lady who the better athlete was. A young girl then glided past, who strangely appeared to take only two steps every 10 metres; she was positively gliding. There was nothing left to do except give up when I got heckled outside a nightclub in Vauxhall (day nightclub).

The End.

tags:running

London 2012 logo fiasco

2007-06-06T22:59:00.000+01:00

What costs £400,000 and looks like it was designed on a kid's magic drawing board? It's the new logo for the London 2012 Olympics of course. Ken Livingstone has given his two cents and recommends that the design company not be paid. Most Londoners think it looks daft and some bloggers have likened it to a Simpsons cartoon that's gone horribly wrong. Oh my.

But not all logos are bad, right? Discuss. My favourites are ...

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When two tribes go to war

2007-06-03T00:01:00.000+01:00

Today Croke Park will pay host to its first full house of this Championship season, as 80,000+ fans will filter through the gates of the GAA Headquarters, eagerly awaiting the clash of Leinster's big two footballing counties. Dublin and Meath championships games have that derby element to them, that fierce rivalry. The four game saga of 1991 depicts this and today's game will not be short of action and physical contests all over the field.

In recent seasons Dublin's campaigns have been more fruitful, but that precious All-Ireland still eludes manager Paul ‘Pillar’ Caffrey’s current troops. Last year, at half time in an All-Ireland semi-final with Mayo, the Dubs and their many followers packed on to the Hill and throughout the stadium thought they had one foot in an All-Ireland Final, but Mayo had other ideas. During that second half the men from the West played their best football of the season and chased and hunted down Dublin like a cheetah after a fragile gazelle grazing on the Serengeti. In the end, that gazelle got fucked, proper fucked and Dublin limped out of Championship 2006 with a whimper.

If Meath are to create an upset today, against a very fancied Dublin side, they will have to hit them from the start, harass and chase down everything and give Dublin's forwards no time on the ball. As Mayo showed last year, Dublin can cave under intense pressure.

In Alan Brogan, Dublin have a player who could manage to find acres of space in Coppers on All-Ireland night. His work-rate off the ball is magnificent and if allowed such space will punish you on the scoreboard. Meath will have to nullify his threat and ensure their own forwards take their chances to be in with a shout with 10 minutes remaining. No doubt new manager Colm Coyle, who was part of the Meath team which eventually triumphed after game four in 1991, will have his troops ready for battle, and with Coyle in charge, expect a very physical approach from Meath.

I’m going to go for a win for the Royal men.

tags: GAA

Tony Griffin's Ride for the Cure

2007-06-02T17:45:00.001+01:00

His epic cycle's title is probably slanted towards those who speak American/Canadian English, so don't laugh. But seriously, Tony Griffin is an inspiration both on and off the hurling field. A classy hurler for Clare for the past number of years, this summer Griffin is using his natural athleticism to help him overcome a 7,000km cycle across Canada. Anybody from the Banner who was watching the Clare V Cork game last week probably wished that they had 15 Tony Griffins on the field. Meanwhile, Tony himself was navigating rugged terrain in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Sometimes, it really is just a game. Griffin is aiming to raise 1 million euro in support of cancer research. This journey was inspired by his father's death from lung cancer in December 2005.

The Clare People are featuring a diary of the man himself and it makes for interesting reading. The daily updates leave the reader with the impression that this isn't just another vacuous charity fundraiser. Griffin comes across a deeply spiritual chap who seems to make friends with everyone he meets. Heck, his writing is almost better than what you'll see in Wayne Rooney's autobiography! :-)

Go make a donation here, even if you are Tipperary and the thought of giving money to a Clare hurler makes bile climb your oesophagus.

tags:tony griffin

Folk it, it's Friday

2007-05-31T23:58:00.000+01:00

This spellingbindly pure performance from Joni Mitchell never fails to inspire. As a sixties girl, she was unrivalled when it came to writing songs about politics and for capturing the mood of beatnik folkies at a time of great promise and happiness (wars and political drama aside). Her unique guitar style is something that made everything she composed as fresh as the hippy daisies she probably wore in her hair.

Enjoy the video below of her performance on the Johnny Cash show in 1969.

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Making a hames of it ...

2007-05-30T23:14:00.000+01:00

What's hot:

1. Facebook. Bebo for those what can write good, innit.
2. The Apprentice. More fun than seeing someone have their bank card swallowed by an ATM.
3. Fianna Fáil. 27.5% of the country can't be wrong, right?
4. Gavin Sheridan. Okay, not Gavin, but his blog! The grandaddy of Irish blogging is back.
5. Cheating cheatahs. What's next, lions that can't tell the truth?

What's not:

1. Big Brother. Staler than four month old bread.
2. The weather. And apparently, the wet spell at the weekend drove people online.
3. Irish property prices. Sell, sell, sell.
4. CD WOW. They are being ordered to pay £41m for selling cheap imported CDs. What I want to know is, who buys CDs anymore?
5. Wifi. Did nobody bother to check that this technology could cause you to grow an extra ear?

These lists are too easy and it's very lazy. But the Sindo might like my writing. Any chance of a job there Aengus, or is it still a family affair?

tags:lazy blogging

PrimaPAAARRRRRTY

2007-05-29T20:22:00.000+01:00

See you all next week,

Really wish you could have made it.

Paul & El Commandant P

tags: music

Eoghan Harris Versus Fintan O'Toole

2007-05-28T13:06:00.000+01:00

That poor excuse for toiletpaper, and especially Eoghan Harris, has been credited with saving Bertie Ahern's bacon for coming out and telling us all how naughty the bulk of the Irish media were for asking the hard questions.

Listen here as Eoghan Harris once again demonstrates how he and his employer are simply not willing to engage in serious political discourse.

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Middle Ireland says "No" to change

2007-05-27T00:20:00.000+01:00

Whether the polls got it famously wrong or that the public changed their minds mid-stream is of little significance now. Let their voice be heard loud and clear. On Thursday, Irish voters said it was okay to be a little bit corrupt, said it was okay to have to put up with declining quality of life standards and said that change was unwanted and unnecessary. What they couldn't write on the ballot paper was that their real first preference is for economic prosperity to continue. In short, they got the heeby-jeebies.

Let's look at the detritus as it lies strewn across the Irish political landscape. The only real socialist, Joe Higgins, joins a long, sorry list of independents, PDs and Sinn Féiners to lose out to the big two.

An interesting point to note is that in this age of environmental goodwill, the Green Party has failed to match this trendy public sentiment with an increase of support. Fianna Fáil might do well to add this ready-made package to their own without sacrificing too much in terms of cabinet assignments.

While Bertie Ahern can deservedly bask in FF's clinical vote getting and distribution success, he has his work cut-out to maintain support in face of what appears to be an economy in decline. It is simply not realistic to hope that the flagging construction industry will not have too much of an impact on all other areas of the economy. Tradesmen who have made vast amounts of money from a booming property market are now finding lucrative work in short supply. This is particularly true for rural Ireland. Oversaturation of new houses has seriously reduced the demand levels we have seen in the past 10 years. What is to become of these people who have no easily-transferable skills to put to use in other areas of industry? The dole queues will be supported by the wages of young middle-class Ireland who failed to reap the same monetary rewards afforded to carpenters, bricklayers and roofers. Admittedly, this doomsday prediction might happen no matter who got elected this weekend. But when was preparation for this ever mentioned in the past two electoral terms?

All of the failings and disappointments of this government have been ignored by the electorate. The scandals, the dereliction of duty to provide adequate healthcare, the failure to put in place any immigration policies have all been ignored in favour of maintaining the status quo. Are the countless Tribunals now a waste of money? Does Bertie Ahern and Fianna Fáil have carte blanche to act as they wish without fear of being held accountable? Will the notion of standards of conduct in public life now be considered as nice-to-have but not essential? Time, and Fianna Fáil's upcoming term in government, will tell.

** Political persuasions and opinions aside, In Fact, Ah would like to congratulate Michael Kitt on his topping the poll in Galway East. Who says there's no such thing as an honest Fianna Fáil politician?

EDIT: Shed a tear with us and lament what could have been.

tags:irishelection

Come On Liverpool!

2007-05-23T14:17:00.000+01:00

tags:soccer

Janice Dickinson on Jonathan Ross

2007-05-23T09:31:00.000+01:00

If you didn't catch Jonathan Ross last weekend here's an edited down version of his interview with Janice Dickinson. Don't you just want to punch her really hard in her perfectly sculpted nose? Unless of course you are Liam Neeson.

tags: soccer

ATP Versus The Fans: A Review

2007-05-22T22:41:00.000+01:00

Many jokes were made about the number of beards being stroked at the recent All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead. Ordinarily, this many older men being present in a Butlin's holiday camp would have every parent scampering. Even The Go Team! tried to address this reserved behaviour, not usually seen at music festivals up and down the UK.

All of that aside, this new model of music festival staging was appreciated by them all, bands and appreciators alike. What's not to like about having a bed to sleep in when cold smelly tents are the norm? It's a dream for fans to be able to half curate the line-up.

Luckily, our chalet was located a mere two minutes from the stages, with us having many of the performing artists as neighbours. On Saturday, Daniel Johnston emerged from his chalet to perform an impromptu song from his stairwell for a handful of us festival goers.

Lowlights:
- Architecture in Helsinki. A mess of a performance.
- The food. Everything was fried.
- The sound at the Pavilion Stage. As one observer put it, it was like listening to and watching bands play in a mall.
- Daniel Johnston's opening set. For a talented songwriter, the man can't play guitar very well and admits to the fact by sayingn that he's practicing very hard to become better.
- The decibel level for The Annuals' performance. Painful on the eardrums.
- The queue to see Battles.

Highlights:
- Daniel Johnston playing outside our chalet.
- The Go Team!. A lot of fun.
- Band of Horses. Sublime.
- The Two Gallants. Probably the highlight.
- Apples in Stereo. Teenage rock played by 40 year olds.
- Yo La Tengo. Eclectic to say the least.

Check out some photos @ Pitchfork

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Tuesday, The Invasion

2007-05-22T14:14:00.000+01:00

tags: soccer

Monday of Final Week

2007-05-21T12:35:00.000+01:00

tags: soccer

Guess who's Back....Back again?

2007-05-18T03:26:00.000+01:00

The In Fact, Ah crew thought she had gone into the Int0rweb abyss.....but no...she is slowly coming back.

She has joined the world of My Space .

tags: Sligo Aine

All aboard the ATP train

2007-05-14T22:16:00.000+01:00

Let's just get on with it already. It was last December when I first posted about the upcoming All Tomorrow's Parties festival. Highlights now include Modest Mouse, Sparklehorse, Daniel Johnston, Patti Smith, The Go Team, Echo and the Bunnymen, Yo La Tengo, Battles and of course, Band of Horses. Phew. The situation/event demands military precision and a highlighter pen if one is to see the main draws.

The operation took a knock, or rather our driver did when he was thrown from his bike on Holloway Road last week, smashing his collarbone in the process. Not to fear. The old man-like contingency is to take the train to the fantastically kitsch Butlin's holiday park in Minehead, Somerset.

The proliferation of smaller festivals in the past few years is testament to the diversity and hunger for music that will never get a mention during prime time radio or TV. That said, who could have guessed that MCD would organise a stellar line-up for Oxegen in 2007, especially considering the allegations that surfaced last year? Paul and El Commandant P are tackling Primavera the week after, so expect a full debriefing from Barcelona.

Here's something to whet the appetite for all Patti Smith fans ...

tags:atp

Finding a time capsule!

2007-05-10T11:58:00.000+01:00

Any readers out there ever bury a time capsule as a child? I did once, I remember preparing it. Unfortunately, already I'm dubious about under which extension or new patio or other minor development of one of my childhood homes it is under. Ah well.

I'm sure some of you may have done this as a child, but an altogether rarer occurrence I imagine is finding a time capsule planted many moons ago. The film Amélie was beautifully crafted around such a discovery.

Something I stumbled across yesterday gave me a feeling which I can only imagine is similar to how Amélie felt upon finding that box of bits and bobs which someone held dear many years in the past.

Via the essential blentwell.com I found hometaping.org has posted a previously uncirculated recording of a 1998 Daft Punk DJ set at legendary New York club Twilo. Twilo shut its doors for the last time in 2001 having been hounded by Rudy Guiliani and city authorities. Its place in the NY music scene's history books seems to grow ever closer to the seminal Studio 54 ever since.

Apparently Daft Punk's less celebrated but equally important compatriots Cassius were spreading the gospel of French Electro-House on that night in Twilo also. Quite a tidy line-up for a night's dancing! It may be difficult for Europeans to fully appreciate but many American's speak of the broadening of the mass market for European electronic music in the States which Daft Punk's huge success over there ushered in.

So this DJ set for me is something of a record of the zeitgeist of the time in the US and its awakening to modern European electronic and dance music. Coincidently, Audion (28) who plays Dublin tonight and is originally from south Texas spoke of Daft Punk in an interview linked from my post yesterday. He mentioned how Daft Punk's influence on the electronic music scene and market in The States was 'monumental' in the late '90s. It's great to see North American artists contributing so much to cutting edge techno and electronic music's development of late, something which Daft Punk's success over there may have played some small part in, however popular their sound.

Of course, besides all that waffle, the mix is serious fun. I hope Amélie herself in her setting in the late 90s got to dance to some of these sounds from her fellow Parisiens. The quality is great and obviously taken from source. Look out for the still amazing Daft Punk mashup white label involving the Beastie Boy's Intergalactic and Alan Braxe's Vertigo.

Lil Louis' ubiquitous (at the time) ode to the vocalisation of female arousal French Kiss rounds out the mix. As the story goes this track was banned at certain venues which may or may not have taken themselves too seriously!

Enjoy the mix quickly before that server it's on goes down!

Once again, big up to hometaping.org whose writer personally sourced this recording.

If anyone is heading along to see Audion tonight, say hello, I'll be the one in the Wasted German Youth Super Raver T-Shirt ;)

tags: music

Blog and Viral Round-Up

2007-05-09T23:07:00.000+01:00

Jim Carroll's relatively new blog On The Record gives us a sneak preview to the lineup for this Friday night's Later With Jools. This show's 11.35pm slot explains why freeview recorders were invented. Oh, and he likes Fox's Classics. El Commandant P is diligently studying for exams at the moment but we're hoping for a few more Biscuit Tin installments shortly afterwards.

Via Mulley. What more can you say? Truly funny.

There has been a flurry of election pisstakes recently. My favourite so far has been Bertie Ahern's appearance on Dragon's Den.

Perfect for Dublin shoebox apartments.

tags:irish blogs

Have faith in humanity

2007-05-09T19:25:00.000+01:00

Richard Whelan died in the early hours of July 29th 2005 only three weeks after one of his friends died during the July 7th bombings. He was stabbed to death while on the 43 bus in Islington, north London. Reading an eye-witness account of events directly after the attack made me swallow hard. Here was a description of a city that, at the time, had lost all hope. The city in this article was one where fear prevented ordinary decent people from becoming extraordinary decent people. Read The Guardian's article at your own leisure.

I've never forgotten this story. Any time I take a bus at night time in Islington, I think of Richard Whelan. I think of the man who refused to give his coat to give comfort to Richard Whelan's dying body.

Today, the Old Bailey heard how the accused, Anthony Leon Joseph, threw chips at Richard Whelan's girlfriend Kerry Barker. Richard Whelan confronted Joseph who responded by stabbing him seven times, once fatally in the heart. CCTV footage of the murderer eerily smirking as he left the bus was shown to the jury.

Before you give up on this city, it is worth pointing out that an article in today's Daily Mail quoted the prosecuting QC saying that "The people there did everything they could for him, but it was all in vain." A correction to The Guardian article now points out that this indeed was the case and that many people tried to help save the victim's life.

The trial continues.

tags:richard whelan

Matthew Dear as Audion @ Wax Thurs 10th May.

2007-05-09T08:48:00.000+01:00

I think we've all had the experience while growing up of the multi-disciplinary genius. You know, the person who could mesmerise with a flick of a hurl as easily as he could shoot a 3 point basket. Or the one who'd write an English composition that would make Seamus Heaney salivate and in the next class demolish the maths teacher on the finer intricacies of differential calculus. We all know true talent when we see it, hell most of us probably recognise it in ourselves via one outlet or another.

There has always been something mystical for me about those who excel in multiple spheres of artistic or sporting endeavour, their products and achievements in each seem to re-inforce one another to become something more than the sum of their parts.

One such person is Matthew Dear, aka Audion. Unlike many musical artists with different monikers, Dear does not use his Audion persona as a manner to distance himself from past releases under his birth name. He uses the birth name and the Audion handle as different hats to wear for his different projects. As Matthew Dear he is the charming electro-pop would-be king. His deep mellifluous baritone wonderfully brings to life his ability as a lyricist. His first full length artist album as Matthew Dear, Leave Luck To Heaven was very well received in 2003.

Matthew Dear Interview

Since 2003 (as Audion), Dear has been stomping his way through every techno space of note in Europe and The America's playing live and DJing. He has had many successful techno/minimal releases on various leading dance labels. For many in the electronic music community and press his release in the second half of 2006 of "Mouth To Mouth" was without question the Number 1 dancefloor cut of the year. If you have a look on youtube, you can see almost every minimal/techno DJ worth their salt playing this tune in large cities from San Francisco to Berlin.

I understand completely why there are so many video renditions of Mouth To Mouth on youtube. I heard it, not through headphones, for the first time on the floor of Panoramabar in Berlin at about midday on New Years day this year. The mayhem and pure release it invokes among a crowded dancefloor feels like a loaded moment that simply must be captured. Audion's star could not be much higher in techno circles at the moment and his forthcoming 12" Noiser/Fred's Bells due for release later this month is eagerly awaited in DJ booths around the world.

Back in Matthew Dear land, on the first single (Deserter) from his upcoming (June 6th) sophomore album he intones beautifully on introspective themes, "Been around the world/seen my share of existence/smoked too much/an infidel for commitments." "Just keep on searching/don’t be uncertain/your life will only be just what you wanted from it." Dear's voice is not the only element of this album, titled Asa Breed, which has already seen Ian Curtis oft mentioned in previews of it. Expect to hear an avalanche of hype about this release as the summer progresses, his live shows (with band) in support of the upcoming album are already causing a stir on the intertr0n.

Matthew Dear - Deserter

Despite his multi-faceted talents for fuelling the ultimate in mass dancefloor hedonism as Audion while also massaging the soul and emotions as Matthew Dear, (and maybe unlike that school kid you always used to envy) Dear won't be showing off this Thursday night in Dublin. Tomorrow night (Thur 10th) at Electric City @ Wax it's most definitely only Audion who will be in the house. I just hope everyone on the dancefloor is careful of their head on the low ceiling in there when he drops Mouth To Mouth, things tend to get a just a tad unrestrained-jumpy-up-and-downy. Golden.

Audion plays Mouth To Mouth to a packed Dancefloor in Vancouver's Lotus Club last month.

tags: music

Game On!

2007-05-07T18:37:00.000+01:00

Selby's making a comeback and has Higgins truly rattled. I'm relying on this Double Dip I picked up to keep me awake if it goes to the 35th frame.

tags:snooker