solhellnyr

I hate labelling people. I dislike revelling in good achievements. I like to get on with my job, head below the parapet & just get on with things.

Therefore Friday made me feel wholly uncomfortable. The project I am working on has gone very well. The margin a considerable increase on original figures. So people are very happy. In fact now they're all labelling me their star surveyor....& god how I hate it. It puts your head above the parapet & then people expect you to achieve stuff all the time....dammit!

On other news, I now have just purchased a professional CD recorder on Ebay. Something to keep me busy in the next few weeks with a few mix CD's I think :)

& I also have another lead into a club, fingers crossed, if it gets it's 3rd room they want to try an industrial room amongst others....

Oh god & the shriek I have just heard now tells me my wife has just bought a piano.......

Where's that credit crunch again?

So 2 1/2 week into a dairy free (Or as much as I could manage) and I have to confess it does seem to have made some difference, albeit in the last few days.

It's still not right giving up cheese. I love cheese. ....hmmmm lovely cheese....but I do want to feel better & it's not quite been as bad as I expected.

Black coffee has been ok & I even found a saya milk that didn't taste too bad......pity it's the most expensive.

Sadly still not having ice cream, which is just wrong! Wrong I tell you........

Damn that Nurse, why can't it e Dairy free with several scoops of ice cream thown in dammit!

Anyway, I wet back swimming this morning & I have to exercise more so that getting fitter also helps the ol' lungs.....

Fingers crossed eh?

Last Tuesday I had to go for an occupational health screening.

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Phew, what a busy weekend that turned out to be.

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Yes, on the back of a grand night Friday, at which people seemed to bounce round the dance floor for ages, I was also revelling in the fact I'd been told earlier in the evening, that as from 31st October, there will be no more Bands on the last Friday of the month!

Ok, Buk & Skit guys seemed to think differently, abut they are moving to fortnightly & I have spoken to Sharon @ the TUC to make sure B&S know they can't have the last Friday of the month!

So all in all, another step closer to world domination!! Mwah hah hah hah hah!

Now with 6 hours to play with, it's a whole new ball game to look at, space for Guest DJ's at last.

Added to this, I've been offered the blue room to run Electrocute on New years eve this year.
Can it get any better???

Recently Electrocute was dogged by technical problems, with disc's skipping & all sorts of silly shit.
Turns out the deck's feeder mechanisms were shot. So currently they're in being repaired.
I should have them back in time for July's Electrocute on the 25th!!!

Just in time for the new CD's which dropped through my door this morning.

SAM - Destruction Unit
Angelspit - Blood Death Ivory
Kloq - Move Forward
Straftanz - Tanz Kaputt EP
Straftanz - Forward ever, backward never
Red Cell - Lead or follow
Stray - Abuse by proxy
Combichrist - Frost EP: Sent to destroy

This month is going to be a very good month :P

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3 weeks ago I had a blood pressure warning from the opticians. On a technical term, my blood vessel on the retina had "gone all wiggly". What with that and the recent asthma/hayfever combo, I'd been feelig a bit sorry for myself & absolutely shattered, as I was at Electrocute on Friday & really didn't feel too inspired overall. It was quite frustrating, especially afer May's technical problems with my decks skipping all over the place.
Still, today I took them to the Denon doctor's, hopefully it's nothig more than a service required.

A trip to the quacks produced a better esult & the blood pressure isn't high as such. Good news, although I could do with lowering it a bit.

Also knowing that all the stress in the last 12 months or so, house, baby, shit job to new job hasn't helped me get my head together, I found eating became a habit.
So, knowing I've become a fat bastard again....(shush! That bit doesn't need comment) & after much prevaricating about it, yesterday I finally took the plunge again & went back to the gym.
I didn't over do it. Surprisingly, as I normally do & this morning I didn't ache too much.....so at 6.30am.....yes I didn't know that time existed either!.....I went for a swim the following morning too.

I was feeling pretty good about it all, managed another gym trip & a swim, then chasing my son round the house larking about at the weekend I hurt my calf muscle. Today I made a dash through the rain to the car & made it worse.....I'm not enjoying this getting old shit. I'm not ready to lie down & pack it all in.

Asthma has been playing up too. This was getting better, but this weekend it's all flaired up again & I feel like shit.
Don't now how I will ever get fit in time for Infest now.
Almost feel like I'm wasting my time......which just ebds up making me feel even worse.....it's all a bit of a vicious circle at the moment.

Does not look like it'll be cooler than this year, judging by the dates:

29th May - 1st June...Warm warm warm!!!!

Now I have over a year to lose a shit load of weight again!

PLAY UP POMPEY!!! POMPEY PLAY UP!!!!

Nuff said :)

So, I've finally decided to post a few bits up about the weekend, as I have finally found time after in amongst reading everyone elses!

The fact remains, I love Germany. It's a great country, with great beer, great music & life's pretty good there all in all. (OK, I grant you they really do need to work on their customer service a little, my wife, who is German, so I am allowed to say this, are somewhat blunt & sometimes typically have the manners in dealing with issues of a grumpy rhinocerous which has somehow been stung on it's anus).

Still, that aside wasn't the WGT great this year.....even if I had a poor day to band ratio. In fact I stayed an extra night this year to catch the opening parties, saw less bands than last year & have a worse band to day ratio.....I truely need to learn to how to get out of bed on time!

So Thursday, opening party. Finally met & spoke to Monsieur Weeks, somewhere between sets & after he'd had several drinks.....
Greetings Steve, nice to meet you.
Friday.....failed to see any bands.......major bad headache & blocked synnuses........bailed early.
Saturday, felt much better & failed to see Reaper, they were good apparently, but then so was Hocico. Good to see Covenant for the 1st time, although disappointed that he manaaged to forget words to one of the club classic's......
Sunday, I arrived at PArkbuhne to in time for Kloq, who were really very good. Followed by Inertia, who weren't. Tactical Sekt arrived to recover the situation & then Neuroticfish who was just fucking amazing!
Monday, I managed to see Deviant UK, who I thought were really good. Wonder why I needed to go to Germany to see them. But given some of the acts, at least they really wanted to entertain to audience & I think they did.
Saw Gothika out of curiosity. Would have been happier if the singer hadn't. The chap with the music box was mad & loved it. Great beats, great music.....then came the singing, which really I didn't take to.
I tried to catch Necessary Response, but the venue at Morris the Bastard just isn't big enough, nor cool enough, so I heard a song & went to get beer....& then a cocktail...or 4 ...or 5.

Best of all, was meeting all the people I met last year, plus new faces & bumping into familiar faces from the UK I ddn't know were going.
Mark (An Englishman in New York), Douglas (Mad Aussie), Lawrence (Mad American), Deviant UK, Skinjob, Stuart & Tan, Horny Simon, Mr Weeks, his mate Jurgen to name but a few. It was a good weekend.
Same again next year then!

Well, after I enjoyed last years WGt so much, I've just booked my flight & hotel for 2008's!
This year I am planning to go to leipzig a day earlier & join my friends on the "Americans in Leipzig" dinner the night before it all kicks off.
I get the idea that this now should really be the united Nation in Leipzig dinner, as it consists of american, canadian, brits, dutch & norweigan's to name but a few.

Looking forward to this 4 day event of crazy partying till the sun comes up again!
In fact I managed to get back to the hotel as others are heading of to work in the morning.

Should be a good 'un....even if bands haven't been confirmed, I'll be intending to see Neuroticfish's swansong.

If you haven't ever been, go. It's one hell of a different experience!

I need some advice & help.

Electrocute has been going pretty well so far...at least I think so, apart from the bands, who eat into the Blue rooms time to do Electrocute, but I need to be spreading the word even more in an effort to prove to the venue, the night will be better without the bands, giving scope for guest DJ's etc.

Thoughts, help & advice much appreciated.....

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As if the purchase of the WGT ticket wasn't enough, now I've gone & ordered my Infest ticket & I don't even care who the line up is.....

Ps, tickets are currently £5 off if you order now......

Well, that's gone & done it now.
Having already sorted flights & a hotel, now the tickets have gone on sale & I have just ordered & paid for mine for the WGT 2008!
So that's me on a defo for the WGT this year now & no mistake :)

I feel awesomely bouncy already!!

I wonder who I will bump into this year???

As part of the TUC Friday Night Rock Night, In Reading, Once a month we bring you!:



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If there's ever a reason for me to get the hell over to Leipzig this year for the WGT this is now it!

Neuroticfish Goodbye Concert at WGT 2008
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We just got the news that Neuroticfish is finally calling it quits. It has been a bit quiet around the band the last few years since their release Gelb in 2005, but the official announcement has just been published that Neuroticfish will do a special goodbye performance at next year's Wave Gotik Treffen which takes place from 9-13 may 2008.

In the early 90ies Sascha Mario Klein decided to bring his alter ego Neuroticfish to life - inspired by bands like Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode. Fed up with the typical artistic differences between him and other musicians he quit his former band-activities. From this point on he concentrated his creativity to his neurotic visions and Neuroticfish was born.

Yep, I'm at least going to appease my need to DJ and keep my hand in.
I've managed to land a once a month night at the TUC rock night for the blue room for more industrial/EBM/Bleep from January!

That should keep all you bleep fans happy!.....I know I'm chuffed to bits about it.

so, 1st night will be 25th January by the looks of it, as it will be the last Friday of every month.

Huzzah! I say!