MOG MOG

BECAUSE THE WEB MOSTLY SUCKS

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My liver has finally stopped aching from my weekend sojourn in Minehead. All who made the expedition had a splendiferous time at the Dirty Three curated ATP festival. Myself, rather blearily, included. Although owning a few of their records, I'd never seen the Dirty Three do their thing, and 'hazard!', I cried; they are bastard-well brilliant! If there were medals for sheer presence, a tidy row would be pinned across Warren Ellis' chest. I particularly enjoyed his twix song banter....this is a song about waking up in the morning, staring at the phone not ringing, finding you only have one piece of stale bread, no butter, but there is some rancid marmalade, and then thinking to yourself 'I should have gone out last night'.....or something like that - all delivered in a comically nonchalalant low melbourne accent. They were dramatic and subtle in equal measures. Beautifully eardrum-buggeringly loud too. Joy. Nick Cave's performances had us all with our arms in the air and our inhibitions left somewhere in the Somerset countryside. Bobby Gillespie made for a brilliantly hopeless tambourinist. Bill Callahan made me cry like a small girl.

Happy days.

Posted on 05/02/2007
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nicki says:

Think I'd really need to crank this up to get the "rancid marmalade effect"...but, alas, I'm in my cubicle, and the tweens (word of the day!) in Marketing already don't like me.

Proper stuff, tho.

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kb says:

it does sound like joy...

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five-four says:

The toms and acoustic instruments go really well in the beginning. It's gets my blood pumping faster, like dance music. A lot of excitement. I love it when the violin comes in.

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Bradbanks says:

yo yo remember me? I left you with batman and robin in chrsitchurch...

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zincke2000 of Merla says:

Hi Tom Great music ya got here. i'm new to this mogging thingymagigying , but wondered if you recall we met around this time last year at the beautiful days festival you played the night before us(a fantasticle gig it was too i might add) i'm in the band merla. your lovely lady and a merla wife were cutting some rug together for a while. Any how just thought i'd drop you a message . all the best, keep up the ever inspiring work you do. David

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Raundi says:

very primal in a cerebral sort of way... they look a little like the bee gees with a few less spa treatments (and perhaps a few more parties) under their belts.

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