I knew it!

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 ~ Comments Off

I said Conspiracy.

Shame it turned out to be true: Bowie pulls out of T in the Park.

Paul McCartney to replace?

UPDATE: T in the Park organisers confirmed that The Darkness would replace Bowie to headline Saturday night’s main stage.

“This year we have one of the strongest ever T in the Park line-ups across all stages, and on Saturday night we’ll see our other headliners The Darkness stepping up to close the main stage, which will be a real treat for the Balado audience.”

Hmmmmmmm

Syndicate

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 ~ Comments Off

RSS, Atom, feed readers, news readers, syndication, XML, and a few other terms aside, what’s it all about?

Prompted by Lyle finally adding an Atom feed, and this post by the venerable Mr.Sippey, I’ve been delving into this whole thing again.

And once again the ‘simplest’ way for me would be to export my blogrolls to OPML and then import those OPML files into a feed reader (FeedDemon, SharpReader or FeedReader for example). But no, you can’t as the blogroll OPML files aren’t ‘standard’ and appear to hold no information. Arse.

Anyway I’m going to continue with this I think, as I’m getting hacked off missing posts and news stories because I am searching them out, let them come to me!

Ohh and with that in mind, I’ve been checking out FeedBurner which looks to make the whole thing a lot simpler for everyone.

Time for a little more research methinks, but for now you can subscribe to my (Feedburner) feed.

Coffee

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 ~ Comments Off

I have a little ritual when I get into work; make coffee, read email. Simple.

Many other people have the same ritual. Thankfully I was slightly more awake than a co-worker of mine was this morning. I mean, do you really have any excuse when you forget to turn your coffee mug up the correct way before trying to putting the coffee in?

Well it made me laugh…

T in the Park #3

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 ~ Comments Off

Saturday on the King Tuts Stage

Now we are getting to some of the better known artists, on the stage sponsored by one of Glasgow’s best venues (where Oasis were discovered if I remember rightly).

• Ocean Colour Scene + Ash – Odd one this. Ash, yes, OCS, maybe… but what does the “+” signify?
• Katie Melua – Live? REALLY? Yawn. Don’t think so…
• Michael Franti + Spearhead – I SHOULD know who he is… can’t place the name at the moment
• Speedway – One of those “heard good things about them” bands
• The Ordinary Boys – the next big thing, if I get the chance I’ll swing by and catch them
• The Glitterati – may have heard of them
• Jerry fish – no idea
• Mohair – On stage knitting?
• Roderigo Y Gabriela – spanish guitars, right? Could be a good start to the day..

Comments please!

Overheard

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 ~ Comments Off

Standing waiting for the lights to change, a wee Glesga granny turns to her two grandchildren: “Now, we’ll just wait for the wee green man. Jinky Johnstone.” (who?)

Conspiracy?

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 ~ Comments Off

Dominic Howard has my deepest sympathies with the news that his Dad died at the weekend. On top of that and David having a sore shoulder, I’m beginning to wonder if my first visit to T in the Park is jinxed.

Ohhh in case you don’t know, Dominic is the drummer for Muse, and David is usually known as Bowie.

T in the Park #2

Monday, June 28, 2004 ~ Comments Off

Sunday at the X-Tent

So here is Sunday’s list of bands for the X-Tent, once again, if you have any suggestions let me know. At some point next week I’ll write up who I’ll be trying to catch, your vote can make a difference!

• The Stands – Heard some of their stuff, not overly moved.
• Hope of the States – never heard of them.
• 22-20s – hmmm they had a single in the charts recently, or in an advert?
• Sons and Daughters – who? Aussie soap I thought?
• Buck 65 – Yeah heard some of their stuff, not bad, already on my ‘maybe’ list.
• Thirteen Senses – Interesting name…
• The Dead 60′s – no idea.
• The Open – ditto.
• Nine Black Alps – ditto.
• The Golden Virgins – ditto.
• Polly Paulusma – ditto.

Tomorrow we move to the King Tut’s Stage.