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MJASmith

  1. Poor show @LondonMidland - 0554 MK -> Euston goes one stop to Bletchley and then is held 15 minutes 'waiting for our driver'.
  2. My new review for @clash_music: Poppy & The Jezebels live in Hoxton last night - bit.ly/JjII5z
  3. Dislike: hotel showers with lower water pressure than your own back home.
  4. Like: hotel blackout curtains that mean you don't know it's sunny until you open them, thus giving you a pleasant surprise to start the day.
  5. Daughter 1 is six today. Off to London so she can watch Matilda with Mrs S, leaving me to have adventures around Covent Gdn with Daughter 2.
  6. Watching 'Happy Endings' + drinking a thrown-together vodka cocktail thing.
  7. @susiesooze My only issue with the album is its pop aspirations; it's taken a while for me to adjust to. Some good songs though.
  8. @susiesooze I'm not sure, to be honest. What do you think of the LP?
  9. From the cement outside the old CBGBs. RIP. yfrog.com/gyldtlej
  10. The worst thing was the records which were all Seventies MOR rubbish. Where did the punk spirit go?
  11. Last week I visited the John Varvatos vintage store / record store on the site of the old CBGBs. It was truly depressing.
  12. @susiesooze It was a shame, but a combination of jetlag and an early start today dictated the outcome. The seats were in D. Was it good?
  13. @BretEastonEllis Not the Psycho follow up then?
  14. But I did get to hear a little of @rufuswainwright soundchecking while I was giving the tickets back and he sounded great.
  15. Painfully, I have just handed back two premium @rufuswainwright tickets for tonight's show at The Lyceum. Gutted.
  16. @ivft Mine also. Am off to the site of CBGBs today in small honour of TH.