Exploits of the Frictionless Man as it wanders around the world like some kind of slippery hydra. Music, words and pictures a speciality.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Jolanda Cram mends the Beaver Dam.

I was having a dream about a large pig that was talking to me in its oinky language. It was one of those big slobbery pigs, not a cute pink thing. The sort of thing you imagine Norman princes chasing through the Forest of Dean. But when I awoke I realised it was the sound of a big motor bike being revved repeatedly just outside our bedroom window. By a pig.

Satori are playing a gig tonight in the Uplands Tavern. I hope lots of people turn up, I really do, because Anthony might go crazy on stage otherwise and beat members of the audience to bloody pulps with his music stand. I’m not sure why he has a music stand, since he appears to know the words to most of the songs. Maybe it has motivational messages on it, such as “At least you’re not in Stalingrad” or “some sources rank the SdKfz 234/2 "Puma” as the best armoured car of World War II” maybe even “the Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind was an anti-aircraft vehicle based on the Panzer IV.” Who knows.

September is nearly here and I have failed to book many gigs for it. Time to get off my fat behind and do some proper work. Watch me book!

9 comments:

Ardbeg D-H said...

Good luck to the Satori boys for tonight.

My personal view is that a music stand is inversely proportional to the size of a man's penis.

I, of course, am only claiming that because at the recent Satori Mark I reunion Anthony's big butch music stand that looked like it had been fashioned from steel girders and powder coated in black by the set designers from The Matrix somewhat dwarfed the small pink one that I had borrowed from my 7 year old daughter...

Joe said...

Could you find a way to play in Carmarthen?
(I could rally round and shout from the rooftops)

I was planning a bit of a shout anyway, but if I had a reason, that would make me feel vindicated.

Mr Frictionless said...

I'm sure we could, I will see what I can do. Do you have any recommendations as far as venues are concerned?

Have a shout, scare some horses. I mean pigeons. Always confusing the two.

Joe said...

There's a quite little pub on the river towy called The Jolly Tar. They always have a good crowd, and live bands.

I would bet they could do with some actual musicians turning up though!

*Sorry* I've woken up stiff and sore and grumpy :-(
I hate exercise!

So I did a search for Jolly Tar Carmarthen, and it turns out I live in a chav town...
...Cool, surely I should automatically qualify for my ASBO...

Anyway, here's the link:
http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/ven/2169.htm

Mr Frictionless said...

Cheers for that, I will have a look. Time to break out the "Urban Camouflage: Nocturnal Chav" then.

Mr Frictionless said...

Joe, tell me it isn't this bad:

http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1435

If we go in, do we come back out in one piece? Jeebus.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a suitable time to get the SdKfz 234/2 "Puma serviced and do a recce.

Anonymous said...

Please explain a CHAV - sorry not been in circulation for some time.

Mr Frictionless said...

I refer you to the good old wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav