| RADIO PESTILENTIA - A podcast of metal & experimental noises |
[24 Nov 2009|09:08pm] |
I've not spammed this on LJ, I think, so here we are. I spend a small amount of time making continuous mixes for myself to listen to on the way into work - various collections of things I happen to be listening to at the time - and have decided to try and make this a more official thing that other folks can enjoy if they like.
The playlist will tend towards the more underground BM/noise/doom/ambient/drone arena so people who enjoy that kind of thing might get more out of it.
Podcast Download Link
The previous podcasts and more details can be found on the podcast's page.
You can, apparently, subscribe to the podcast through iTunes via the following link: itpc://radiopestilentia.podOmatic.com/rss2.xml
Comments welcome! Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jujubh for the logo design!!
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| Stuffs |
[16 Nov 2009|06:14pm] |
A recent clear-out has led to some items being marked as 'no longer required' so they're on offer to interested parties.
First is a blue coffee/lounge table, 78cm (l) X 33cm (w) x 39cm (h), shown in the photo below. It's in decent nick - there's a handful of small scuffs but they just add to the natural wood texture (the flash shot doesn't really do it justice) - and has a really useful lower shelf.
After that is a Marshall Valvestate 8010 10 watt guitar amplifier, perfect from practicing or a learner.
It's not been used for a while but still works apart from a slight crackle on the Master Volume knob that's only really noticeable at lower volumes. Here are some reviews of the equipment.
Both items are free to good homes, pick-up from central Edinburgh. Give me a shout or get in touch through whitenoise AT inbox.com.
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| Guitar for sale |
[22 Oct 2009|09:35pm] |
Wotcher.
I'm looking to get rid of a Hohner 6-string acoustic guitar. It's in decent nick but could do with a dust and tuning. It's been sat here in the corner for years now and could do with a more loving home. It'd be superb for someone looking to learn the guitar or just for noodling about at home.
£10 to you, squire.
Comment if you're interested.
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| Altar Of Plagues Tour |
[07 Sep 2009|06:23pm] |
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Wraiths will now be playing both the Edinburgh and Newcastle dates of the upcoming Altar Of Plagues tour (Sept 21st/22nd).
Of course, we are also playing at the hugely exciting Cocoon Festival THIS COMING WEEKEND!
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| FIMBULVETR - 4th September |
[02 Sep 2009|07:18pm] |
Yes! Fimbulvetr is back on the 4th September in our new venue.
We'll have the usual mix of the best in dark, down-tempo sounds so drop in and chill out.
The Argyle Bar is on Argyle Place, just off the Meadows. Here is a link to the venue: http://www.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=the+argyle+bar&near=Edinburgh&dtab=5
We will NOT be on Argyle Street, as noted in error on some previous advertisements.
As this is the first date in a new venue, it would be really great if people can come out to show support. Don't forget that we are STILL not charging an entry fee (although donations are welcome) so do pop by if you can.
And, yes, I am just copying this from my last entry...*ahem*
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| Hard-Fi Dancefloor Upsetters! |
[25 Aug 2009|07:50pm] |
Good times a-coming over the next few weeks!
Not only is Friday the final night of Kabarett's Kleine Komedie, which you should've been going to if you haven't, but it's also when Transmit:Volt hits town!
Yep, Fimbulvetr's slightly more with-it sister club takes a hefty dose of Red Bull and gets her dancing clogs on to take advantage of a late Festival licence and a gaggle of variably competent DJs, making shapes around her handbag as analogies are stretched to breaking point!
We'll be open from 23:00 in the evening with a definite licence until 03:00, 05:00 if the audience is 'avin it large enough. There'll no doubt be a fairly random mix of everything that comes under the underground dance umbrella (techno, ragga, glitch, elektro, dubstep, DnB, whatevs) but there'll also be a late bar on a Friday night at the end of the Festival, possibly more of a draw for some...
Speaking of Fimbulvetr, we're back on the 4th September in our new venue.
We'll have the usual mix of the best in dark, down-tempo sounds so drop in and chill out.
The Argyle Bar is on Argyle Place, just off the Meadows. Here is a link to the venue: http://www.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=the+argyle+bar&near=Edinburgh&dtab=5
We will NOT be on Argyle Street, as noted in error on some previous advertisements.
As this is the first date in a new venue, it would be really great if people can come out to show support. Don't forget that we are STILL not charging an entry fee (although donations are welcome) so do pop by if you can.
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| Vast |
[24 Aug 2009|03:28pm] |
Not posted in a while so have the unending vastness of the Universe as an apology...
Don't forget that Transmit:Volt kicks off at 23:00 this Friday, Henry's Cellar Bar! Come along and dance your little socks off.
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| TRANSMIT - Downtempo Electronica - Tonight, free entry! |
[03 Jul 2009|06:03pm] |
At a loose end tonight? Why not take it slow with an evening of downtempo electronica...
Playing the best of laid-back electronica whether you are looking for the perfect pre-club appetiser or a relaxed spot to spend the evening chilling out with friends Transmit fits the bill.
Transmit is FREE to enter. All we ask is that you consider making a donation to help with our expenses (suggested donation: £3). We're open from 8pm so you can come along for a few drinks before heading off into the night...
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| When the SMTP servers are aligned... |
[24 Jun 2009|12:41pm] |
I very rarely get spam emails at work. Sometimes a handful leak through the various filters we have set up but they're mostly harmless.
However, on my arrival this morning I found a message that indicates dread forces at work...
Against my better judgment, and for the edification of certain mystic scholars amongst my readership, I've transcribed the foul incantation below. Even now the words writhe on the screen, as if alive. God help us from whatever formless things may be unleashed should someone speak these inhuman words aloud...
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| Sunn-shine |
[04 Jun 2009|12:04pm] |
The obligatory post-holiday comedown's kicking in so let's have an AMUSING RECAP of Primavera '09!
Firstly, some of you may've heard about the 'issues' we had with the apartment. Basically, it boils down to this ... *deep breath* ... the owner of the flat wasn't the owner who the letting agency thought was the owner and he appears to have gone bankrupt recently so was going around his properties changing the locks but (possibly) didn't know we were there and offered us somewhere else to stay but we said 'get tae' and wouldn't budge until the letting agency-approved owner came around and she was pregnant and smoking fags but got us new keys although only one of them worked so we had to sit around for TWO DAYS fearing for our lives and luggage until they asked Donna how old she was so she shouted at them and they gave us half our money back eventually.
If you're utterly bamboozled and slightly worried by all that then you have a vague idea of how we felt at the time. It all became horrendously absurd with people leaving through one door as other folk came in through a different door, various people claiming that other people had changed locks and the letting agency doing ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL. Huge thanks to Serge for his no-notice translation skillzzz!
Anyway, if you ignored the first-day scramble for beer tickets the festival itself was great fun with highlights from Lightning Bolt (absolutely mental, is-the-drummer-going-to-explode weird punkyness), St Etienne (far, far more banging than I remember them being first time around), The Bug (super-heavy dub ragga that would've been better without the MC, frankly), Aphex Twin (say no more), Jesu (great sounds from the music but Justin's occasional vocals were pretty frail, as usual), Bat For Lashes (superb set, similar to the Glasgow gig but slightly compressed for time) and Throwing Muses (Kristin Hersh is pretty terrifying when she screeches, I tell you that!) with lots of other good sets throughout the three days.
Set of the weekend was, for me, quite clearly Sunn 0)))'s mighty performance of the tracks from their Grimmrobe Demos early release. I was a bit worried as to how they'd cope on a festival stage in the Spanish heat but the timing was immaculate, with a crescent moon appearing over the stage just prior to their arrival, and the festival PA making their drawn-out guitar riffs sound utterly monstrous.
This photo, surprisingly, has been posted by Sunn's Stephen O'Malley on his blog!
Back into Edinburgh on Sunday and it was pretty weird to see that the weather was EXACTLY THE SAME in Scotland as it had been in Spain. Very strange.
I managed to spend Monday doing some volunteering work at the Royal Ed (doing up a garden) so that was a nice entry back into the working week but I'm now in the office in full effect. Bah!
So, for something fun I'll steal a memette from impishredhead: Ask me to take pictures of any aspect of my life that you're interested in or curious about. Leave your requests as a comment to this entry, I'll snap the pictures and post them as soon as I can...
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| Doors |
[26 May 2009|06:54pm] |
A guy on a music forum I read posted that he was bored and had gone off looking for random images on Google. He eventually found a photo that seemed to have been taken from his doorway. That's pretty weird but inspired me to have a look at what was on the web for my street. I found this rather nifty image...
A little digging indicates that it was taken some time in the 1920s and shows a fishmonger's van parked right outside my door!
Freaky!
Anyhoo, I'm off to the Primavera festival tomorrow once I've run the gauntlet of Prestwick airport. One part of that sentence is good, one not so.
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| Men's New Rocks for sale, size 10 |
[20 May 2009|05:37pm] |
I've had some New Rock boots lurking in my cupboard for a while now and it's fairly obvious that I'm not going to wear them so, prior to putting them on eBay and having to bother with shipping, I was wondering if anyone in good old Edinburgh might want them.
( More details and photos under here... )
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| HUM |
[19 May 2009|12:17pm] |
It's a bit of a slow-down week at the moment, in preparation for heading off to Barcelona and the Primavera Festival. Really looking forward to this, and not just because there might actually be some relatively nice weather over there... There's some great bands playing but also some interesting stuff that I've not heard and need to check out. No wonder that someone's made an online database to check for set clashes! I just need to remember that the pound is devalued and Europe isn't cheap anymore...
Before that, of course, is the mighty Kabarett on Friday so hope to see some folk there.
Things have been quiet in the Underhalls recently, apart from a few live appearances, but there should be some rumblings from Wraiths as the sun starts to fade later in the year. Not only do we have a number of recordings poised for release (the ever-delayed Grey Emperor, the full-length version of Dust In Our Mouths and an as-yet untitled two-track EP) but there's a very special support slot on the horizon. More details soon but we're excited. Very excited.
To tie in with this, there's going to be an entire overhaul of the Ordo Pestilentia website to make it a bit slicker, simpler and more useful.
Speaking of Wraiths, don't blame us for The Hum. It's a very interesting article not least because it's a site-specific auditory 'hallucination' phenomenon that's distinct from the more well-known tinnitus. There's some further information on the wikipedia page but it's all a lot of long words for "we don't know what the heck it is". Interestingly, some of the potential causes are devices generating (intentionally or by accident) frequencies as low as 10Hz and therefore far below the human low-limit for hearing of 20Hz. If this kind of frequency makes people uncomfortable and has led to suicides in the past then it does add some weight to the theory of 'haunted house' activity being linked to even lower frequencies.
There are a few pages with audio reconstructions of The Hum so I feel a Sigillum Dei track coming on...
Geek News Update! The netbook is running well and seems to handle both Reason and Traktor with ease under decent load conditions. Annoyingly, but not unexpectedly, it doesn't like 3D games due to the lack of processing power on the graphics card but it handles 2D games perfectly well (so I can't have Neverwinter Nights but I can have the entire Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series. Playing RPGs on a netbook running a pre-release OS?! Oh, the shame...). I'm pondering getting one of those silicon skin decal things to a) give it some protection against scratches and b) remove the 'manky fingerprint' issue. Anyone had any experience of them?
Also, for those who might be interested, the lastest Zero Tolerance is out now with 1349 on the cover and some of my scribblings on the inside (perhaps most notably a review of the Glasgow Implodes all-dayer).
In shops now, as they say!
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