February 12th, 2010
Played the Ruby Sessions the other night.
We slightly bent the rules on the whole acoustic ethos thing, but the performance was all the better for it.
After dropping the gear off at Crane Lane, I decided to avail of some public transport to get home.
Namely my feet.
Had
my earphones in and was nicely cocooned by James Hetfield whipping
Mexico City into a frenzy. You can always rely on 'Tallica to provide
some good walking BPMs.
As I went to cross the street at The
Olympia, a visibly swaying young gentleman began doing the whole
take-your-earphones-off mime act that I so dearly love seeing from
absolutely bollocks drunk strangers.
Observing the fact that he
was solo and that I had the tactical advantage of sobriety, I decided
that the urge to hear whatever revelatory pearls of wisdom he possessed
was stronger than the sense of a potential mugging / being vomited on.
I
decided to put on my best non-plussed death stare (which for me
involves pretty much zero alteration of my regular face), hit pause and
cut Hetfield off mid bark.
"What?" I said.
The walking distillery responded thus :
"Sorry
man, I'm not a faggot or anything but I'm going to get stuck into this
young one round the corner and need to know if my teeth look ok."
Before
my brain could even process the many subtleties of the sentence, he had
thrust his face not an inch from mine and helpfully gurned so that I
could begin my expert inspection.
"Uh, they look fine," I said, drawing on my college dentistry days that never existed.
"No salad in there?" he asked concernedly.
"All clear," I assured him.
"Thanks man!" he breathlessly thanked, before carrying off on his way again.
As
I continued on with my own journey, I had a completely unwarranted
sense of pride regarding my dental mastery as well as the thought that
a load of some well masticated lettuce was the last thing the "young
one" should be worrying about getting in her mouth that night.
Oh, Love's young dream rejoice for romance is not dead.
Happy Valentine's Day guys!
Disko.
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Soundtrack :
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
February 13th, 2010
Did any of you catch us on Newstalk the other night?
We popped up on their show Culture Shock and had a very enjoyable (albeit brief) yabber with presenter Fionn Davenport.
Managed to squezze in a slick acoustic version of Victor's Mother Juliet between all the in depth news analysis.
You know, topical and pressing issues.
Like the best songs about unrequieted love.
And the shittiest nineties bands.
Our apperance on the airwaves ties in nicely with some cool stuff we've got coming up in the next week or so.
On
tuesday (the 16th) we're gonna be DJ-ing at ALT, the Indie night club
at Andrew's Lane Theatre Dublin and then on Friday the 19th we're
playing at Dublin's Shebeen Chic on George's Street! Support comes from
the awesome Little Green Cars and Mighty Atomics.
This is all towards the release on March 15th of the Victor's Mother Juliet EP!
It's gonna be a good month!
Disko.
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Soundtrack:
Go - Pearl Jam