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indie bingo, oh yes!!!

2009-09-01T06:07:00.001Z

GRAND OPENING LAUNCH NIGHT: Wednesday 2nd September 2009! Dancing shoes on. Eyes down. Get ready for Indie Bingo! We play the tunes, you cross them off. Full House wins you free bowling, plus vouchers or drinks! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DJs Mike (Candybox / ListenUp! / Bedrock) and Dave (Candybox / Good Ship) playing the

A little mix......

2009-07-05T23:03:00.001Z

.........because I have nothing else to say!RIGHT CLICK THISbye now!

I’m not watching the football….

2009-05-27T20:24:00.002Z

Ahoy you lovely people, i’m exhausted and maybe a little depressed for no discernable reason. Oh well, here’s some stuff that is keeping me going right now. Foreign Born – Person To Person Due 23/6 Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present Dark Night of the Soul thanks!

four months late………………..

2009-03-23T20:01:00.001Z

Howdy cuntos, thought i should update so eventually i have done and this is said update. i really have no excuse for not doing it I guess I am just a lazy lazy cunt! Actually I have been a little busier with doing candybox every week again and also regular dj slots at The Good Ship in Kilburn, how fucking weird that I’ve been doing this for about 12 years and I’m now busier than ever just when

dave tries to objectively review the killers record, fails

2008-11-19T14:22:00.004Z

Ahoy hoy dear reader, hope all is well in your world(s). Had a good couple of weeks since the last post. I saw my joint favourite new band of 2008 play for the second time and also my second favourite new band last night, you can work out who they are by checking my last.fm profile I guess but obviously they are going to feature very highly in my end of year list which will feature very soon so

Lets see how long this one lasts...........

2008-11-02T15:53:00.004Z

Still reeling from having my Keane related post removed I have decided to do it all again with a different new release and see how long this post survives.Before I do so I thought I'd investigate the phenomenon of blogger removing posts and I came across this forum of people with similar experiences of mysteriously disappearing entries. Seems free speech is becoming less free so I'll try my

Keane are quite obviously the antichrist

2008-10-29T13:24:00.002Z

So I had this post up a couple of weeks ago where I reviewed the Keane album, not because I wanted to tell the world how good it was or because I really wanted to listen to it but because I thought it would be interesting to be honest about a bad who I don't really like and never had. I didn't really like it, it was pretty much how I thought it would be but I wasn't particularly rude about it. I

2008-10-13T19:15:00.001Z

here's something to look at/listen to

A Heavenly weekend............................

2008-09-19T18:26:00.005Z

Greetings! Been a couple of weeks so I suppose I should post again huh?????????Thanks to anyone who has taken the time to have a look at this here site, seems a few people do check in regularly which is nice, please feel free to say hi some time, or to call me a cunt or whatever you like really-it would be good to get a bit of interaction going on.Last weekend I spent two nights at the South Bank

a few more visitors, a few more uploads

2008-09-06T19:19:00.005Z

Still no joy with the cunting dj program but i'd thought i'd keep the momentum going and put a few more morsels up for your delectation. In the last few weeks I went ona bit of a mad search for new interesting music like I used to do in my early days of internet perusal and I unearthed a few really good bits and pieces. The first thing I was hooked in by was this video that was everywhere on the

No new podcast,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glasvegas instead.

2008-09-04T19:01:00.006Z

What was it I said about a new podcast??????? Well, Idid start it but my special dj type programme thingummy jig fucked up and I have had to put that on hold, for now!!!! Instead I'm putting up something I've been waiting for for the best part of 11 months the debut album by Glasvegas!!!!!!!Glasvegas - GlasvegasA "new" band to get truly excited about in an ocean of Scouting For Girls', One Night

I AM A LAZY CUNT!!!!!!!!

2008-08-27T16:49:00.003Z

I know I know, what did I say 2 months ago???? More posts, very soon - BOLLOCKS!!!!! I am in the process of putting together a brand new podcast which should be up in a couple of days all being well so check back soon, in the meantime here is a re-up of an old school Radio Kickabout podcast - Covered, from way back in October 2005, when I was really enthusiastic about doing this shit.DOWNLOAD

2008-06-18T20:26:00.007Z

Well, 6 months since I last posted here. I am still alive, I have moved, I've been scarred for life and been promoted at work. May have lost a bit of weight, may have lost a bit of hair, may have become a heavier smoker, Thats not for me to say(but I just did???!????). One thing doesn't change though and that is my love for music. I am getting increasingly more bored of the xfm fodder, new

2 more albums of 2007.....................

2008-01-06T17:41:00.000Z

Ok, I was too hasty in saying there were only 48 best albums of 2007. I guess I was being pretentious, or stupid, or both. Anyway, here's two more records that certainly deserve to join the list,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Let DownGruff Rhys - CandylionThanks to everyone who's visited this last week, I really am going to try to post a bit more this year so keep coming

The 48 albums of 2007

2007-12-27T15:28:00.001Z

There have been many great albums this year, here are 48 of my favourites with links:-Kings Of Leon - Because Of The TimesThe Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark HorseBeirut - The Flying Club CupThe National - BoxerAlela Diane - The Pirate's GospelWilly Mason - If The Ocean Gets RoughBand Of Horses - Cease To BeginBattles - Mirrored Future Of The Left - CursesBenni Hemm Hemm -

I remember this blog.........................

2007-08-08T18:41:00.000Z

i used to write this blog didn't I?????????It's still here?Should I update it???????Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm I'll think about it.In the meantime here's a picture of Steve Guttenberg.Enjoy!!!!

2006-10-16T21:27:00.000Z

Alright.Back again, on a rare night in. Found some good links for y'all over the last seven or eight days. I hope you like them. Might be a bit more chatty next time, who knows.....Favourite Sons - Down Beside Your Beauty (Think Echo and The Bunnymen ,U2, Interpol etc)Hot Club De Paris - Drop It Til It Pops (Good fun scousers sounding not unlike The Futureheads)Jarvis - Jarvis Cocker (Debut solo

don't call this a comeback..........................

2006-10-08T21:12:00.000Z

3 months eh????? Went like that (like what?, that doesn't work so well in syntax).Those gigs I mentioned last time round were great. Arthur Lee died. Steve Irwin died. I formed a band.But enough of the small talk, heres a couple of forthcoming longplayers for your delectation.Toodlepip.Brakes - Beatific VisionsThe Blood Arm - Lie Lover Lie

Ha ha ha, Jim Davidson is bankrupt!!!

2006-07-10T19:11:00.000Z

Hello dear reader, are you still there?????? Not going to make any excuses for not updating because I have been busy and there has been a World Cup on.Since I last wrote a band I mentioned last time(Cherry Ghost)have signed to Heavenly, home of Doves, The Magic Numbers and Ed Harcourt amongst many others and I can't wait for the records, the gigs, the press etc. This is untypical of many who get

Kickabout:Not dead, just resting!

2006-06-12T21:28:00.001Z

Can't believe it has been 5 weeks since my last post. Well I can, because the date at the top of the previous post gives it away. Anyway, I have been a busy bunny. I don't knowhow anyone has time to update these things, oh yeah being single helps. Been listening to a lot of new music that a lot of more professional blogs have been pointing me towards. One of my favourite blogs of late has been

Phoenix Nights

2006-05-02T18:48:00.000Z

I've really liked Phoenix since I first heard them back in 2000. I heard Too Young, the first single from the LP United and went out and bought a promo copy of the album. I copied it onto a Minidisc and listened to it loads. I may have played Too Young in my very first set at Candybox. I lent my promo to my then girlfriend, we split up a few months later. I didn't get my CD back.A couple of years

Thanks Jesus!

2006-04-15T15:25:00.000Z

Hello, remember me?????? Been remarkably busy of late what with work, getting pissed, going to see Morrissey in Sweden and DJing a Be Your Own Pet gig its been a social whirl the last couple of months so I am extremely grateful for this Easter break. Thanks Jesus!!!!!!I have been finding time to check out lots of new music and there is a lot of great stuff that has been on constant rotation. I

2006-03-15T20:02:00.000Z

Look at this advert for the forthcoming new Flaming Lips album, and listen to Colin Murray with his "Oyt Noy"

Seattle do!

2006-03-11T16:59:00.000Z

So, Speed Circus won that particular vote on Xfm and got played again on daytime radio, thanks if you voted they really are fabulous…………………….>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Twilight Singers have a new track up on their Myspace, go listen now.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Band of Horses – Everything All The TimeFound this forthcoming album the past week and I’m loving it. Signed to Subpop and

Should be in bed..............

2006-02-21T02:00:00.000Z

A quick late night post, I am tired but I’m off work all week and have some good stuff to share with you.Now I don’t know if you are aware but there is an album of Radiohead covers due to be released very soon entitled Exit Music Songs for Radio Heads. I had no idea of this until I heard Mark”Ooh Wee”Ronson’s version of Just on the radio the other day. I quite like it but it’s not as good as the

3(Gigs),thats the Magic Number(s)

2006-02-19T12:59:00.000Z

Broke my gig-going duck (I have one of those!!!)this week with gigs by the mighty Speed Circus, Magic Numbers and Dawn Of The Replicants.Thursday was the Magic Numbers, The Concretes/Shout Out Louds and Morning Runner at Brixton. Now I’ve always loved these NME awards show gigs, 4 band bills great value for money and all that but for some reason I really couldn’t be arsed with Morning Runner. Not

I just want to smoke it.............

2006-02-15T22:26:00.000Z

I’m giving up smoking next year, not my choice but a choice made for me by my country’s MPs, thanks a lot MPs!!!!!!Don’t know how I’m gonna DJ, or pass time between bands at gigs etc, oh well; I’ll just have to make the most of this last year or so and smoke like a bastard!!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SEMIFINALISTS – S/T APRIL 2006Semifinalists are three Non-Brits based

More leaks than the whole of Wales...........

2006-02-12T18:29:00.000Z

Holy living fuck its been a good week for leaks!!!! New tracks from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Morrissey among others and full albums from the likes of The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, The Concretes and Johnny Boy has meant that my hard drive is positively bursting at the seams(I actually do have a knitted PC!),all good stuff that I have been waiting for for ages which doesn’t disappoint. Here are a few

2006-02-09T18:45:00.000Z

Quick new post today, couple of extra Creation classics for you. bye!Ride-NowhereRide-Carnival of Light

Kickabout supports Creationism

2006-02-07T16:56:00.000Z

Firstly a public service message……………You know when you come in from a night out, maybe you’ve just been to the rehearsal rooms to rock out for a few hours, and you’ve had a couple of beers, and you feel like making yourself a late-night snack. So you have a look in the kitchen for something quick and simple to make and you see there is half a French-stick waiting to be coated in peanut butter? We

Whack My Bonobo

2006-01-28T22:23:00.000Z

Charity shops are rubbish aren’t they, my local Cancer Research shop has got a couple of old ladies selling musty old clothes, I have never seen scientists trying to find the cure when I’ve been in there……..But some charity shops are o.k. take the Barnado’s shop in Brixton although there are no orphaned children to be seen at all. However there does seem to be a generous donor of goods who

Kickabout finds the next big thing...........

2006-01-23T23:18:00.000Z

Had a look around HMV today and came across a brand new album by a band that are calling themselves ARCTIC MONKEYS. I was intrigued by the cover which as you can see above is really artistic and evocative of our times so I thought “What the hell….” And shelled out my hard earned £11. I got the cd home and put it on and I was astonished by what I heard. Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m

The Long and the Short of it

2006-01-19T14:57:00.000Z

Wow, last night this blog reached 10,000 hits, thanks to everyone who has had a butchers over the last few months, keep coming back and I’ll keep giving you stuff!!!!! If you haven’t already subscribed, you can do so by filling in the box at the bottom of this page, you’ll receive updates on what is up on here and I might send you exclusive stuff as well, but no Spam or any other constituted meat

iPod madness and Keys To The World

2006-01-15T22:55:00.000Z

I was coming home from dj’ing at Candybox last Thursday on the N5, very tired and quite drunk so I did the usual thing and put my ipod on and tried to drift off to sleep or at least to take the edge off my hangover. I settled down for the 45 minute journey to sunny Burnt Oak and my ipod did an amazing thing, it knew what songs to play, to soothe my head and ease me home. I can’t remember the full

Level 42, they're my Beatles.............

2006-01-09T21:18:00.000Z

Hello pop-pickers, had a busy week dj’ing and drinking and stuff so sorry about the lack of updates, I’ll try to do more this week, honest!Starting from today I am going to post one of my favourite albums every couple of weeks or so, I’m going to go for the sort of record that maybe didn’t get such a big reception at the time of release but has remained one of those albums that you never get

Back to work tomorrow grrrrrrr.....

2006-01-03T01:04:00.000Z

Wow, shitloads of views yesterday!!!! Thank you to those who visited, especially for the first time, I hope you liked what you saw and you’ll come back again. Thanks has to go to the great site TOTALLY FUZZY for linking to here, if you don’t know them have a visit and find a whole variety of delights from across the blogiverse(if that is a word, or even if it isn’t!).So yesterday saw a

Happy New Year

2006-01-02T01:02:00.000Z

Happy New Year one and all, I have just recovered from my New Years Eve drunken dj’ing to 1000 punters at Popscene at 2am, just after a mass evacuation due to some twat setting off the fire alarm. I rocked it though, even if I do say so myself!!Further to my list of 22 great albums from 2005, I’ve put together a little compilation of tracks from each of those 22, feel free to grab it.KICKABOUT 22

Goodbye 2005

2005-12-30T19:53:00.000Z

My top 22 albums of the year (in no particular order)1.Black Mountain – Black Mountain TRACKS HERE7.The Magic Numbers – The Magic Numbers A LIVE SETMy Morning Jacket – ZTeenage Fanclub – Man MadeThe National – Alligator Elbow – Leaders Of The Free WorldClap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say YeahRichard Swift – The Richard Swift Collection Volume One LINKSuper Furry Animals – Love

One Year Older, One Lost Week

2005-12-16T00:19:00.000Z

Where have I been??? Don’t know to be quite honest, had a birthday last week and I immediately felt that year older!!! I’ve been so tired, falling asleep at work and then crashing when I get in, that’s when I have been in otherwise I’ve been punishing my liver for whatever reason it deserves. Went to a couple of gigs by my mates SPEED CIRCUS (more of whom in a couple of weeks) and blah blah blah,

Hungover Thursday Part 2479

2005-12-01T17:53:00.000Z

I still love record shopping……………As much as we all love the instancy of downloading, there is still immense satisfaction of finding a record you’ve been looking for for ages in a grubby old record store. I did just that yesterday, to be honest I was just killing time before meeting up with friends but something told me I should go into Music and Video Exchange on Berwick Street and something also

Radio and Richard Swift

2005-11-27T20:25:00.000Z

Radio Kickabout Part Two-TracklistingHeres the tracklisting as promised for the latest instalment of Radio Kickabout. See if you can guess the theme…………………………Opening JingleRadio Free Europe - R.E.M.Mexican Radio – Wall Of VoodooRadio Head – Talking HeadsRadio Radio – Elvis CostelloAd BreakThis Is Radio Clash – The ClashRadio – LudesRiot Radio – The Dead 60’sOn My Radio – The SelecterRadio –

Gigs,gigs and uploads

2005-11-26T00:33:00.000Z

Clap your hands….. I was right!!After a couple of days pondering I realised I was right, the Clap Your Hands show was a big let down!!!! Don’t get me wrong, the record is still great but in terms of performance I’ve seen a lot lot better. If it was the first Uk show maybe you would have thought there was a touch of jet-lag going on, I even thought it was the collective cynicism of an oh so trendy

Clap your hands say.......................

2005-11-23T00:28:00.000Z

Maybe!!!!!!!!!Saw them tonight at ULU, first impression of the live experience, hmmm a little overrated?????? Possibly????????Might just have been me, or the several others who seemed unimpressed around me, who knows??????Did the multitudinous balloons on stage have more presence than the band did or was it because I couldn’t get more than one beer from the ridiculously slow bars???? Who knows???

Neil Diamond ripped off Oasis ripped off Neil Innes ripped off The Beatles..................

2005-11-17T16:43:00.000Z

Sorry theres been no updates lately but I’m having problems uploading for some reason which is rather annoying because I’ve got some great stuff to share with you all!!!If anyone has tips for speeding up uploads to places like Rapidshare and Megaupload, that information will be most greatly received, if you can help contact me at daveo76@gmail.com.Ta!Neil Diamond in Oasis Rip-Off Shocker!!!!!!!!

FIVE RANDOM CHOONS

2005-11-02T12:58:00.000Z

Been having problems uploading of late, maybe I’m a little impatient? Hmmm????!!!!!! I’ve got a great Radio Kickabout coming your way soon enough but for now here’s a little package of random songs from back in the day that might be a little less known, songs that I loved then and can still listen to now without thinking “What was I on?”!!Scarce - All SidewaysScarce were formed from the ashes of

Dream Brother :The Songs Of Tim + Jeff Buckley

2005-10-29T18:41:00.000Z

What can you say about Tim and Jeff Buckley? Anything you like they are dead! But seriously what can you say that hasn’t been said before, not a great deal. Jeff seems to be better known than his father was but both had relatively low sales while they were alive. In the wake of Jeff Buckley’s album Grace and his untimely death, many a band could be heard trying to recreate his sound which paved

Too much cheese late at night?

2005-10-28T17:20:00.000Z

A Dream/NightmarePicture the scene, a summers evening-one of London’s biggest music venues, myself and approximately 2000 other lucky souls are here to witness An Event. One of those big special gigs that anal indie types like myself had to have been at, and if they weren’t they had to lie and say they were. A mobile phone/lager/whatever company have put this concert on to promote their wares by

Whipping Boy

2005-10-24T21:22:00.000Z

Whipping BoySo when I started this little blog, I wanted to tell the world about some of my favourite bands, bands that have maybe been forgotten about or largely ignored in the annals of rock history and naturally one of the first bands on my mental list was Ireland’s Whipping Boy.In the mid 90s there were lots of these bands around, signed to a major but not really promoted enough to break

Doherty, Make History

2005-10-23T18:36:00.000Z

Babyshambles-Down in AlbionSo here it is, the debut album from Pete Doherty’s notorious Babyshambles. It seems hard to believe that this lot haven’t actually released an album with all the hype and tabloid tittle-tattle that has been flying around for the best part of 18 months, the singles Killamangiro and Fuck Forever the only official output during this turbulent time hinting at the

Covered

2005-10-21T17:32:00.000Z

End of the week and the first of my mixes which I hope you lovely people will enjoy. This one is a mix of cover versions mainly by artists I really love, I’m not going to put a tracklisting up as of yet cos I want the delights to be savoured and appreciated first, needless to say you can find artists such as The Afghan Whigs, The Magic Numbers and The Pink Mountaintops doing songs by the likes of

The Magic Numbers and Dawn Of The Replicants

2005-10-20T18:51:00.000Z

The Magic NumbersSaw the Numbers for the umpteenth time on Tuesday at Shepherds Bush and once again they were top! Felt a bit weird seeing em in this much bigger venue after catching them at The Barfly a couple of times and also in various record stores just before the album came out but the sky id their limit, I think they are going to do rather well thank you in the U.S, and all the reviews

BAD DAYS

2005-10-17T18:55:00.000Z

Tell me why I don’t like Mondays, well Bob it’s the start of the week, five days til a day off and the week has gotten off to a bad start.My boss, who incidentally is a wanker, gave me a slagging today and I don’t even speak to him! Long story but maybe one day I’ll tell you. It really pissed me off and made me think off this song. Bad Days by The Flaming Lips comes from their 1995 album Clouds

Hello World!!!!!!!

2005-10-16T19:28:00.000Z

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