Yesterday I went to a club called Alcazar here in Stockholm to see our former bass player, Colin, perform with his one man bad - wilmacakebread, released under cocohippo. It would be really interesting since I've never heard his stuff before.
He had rigged his equipment on top of a couple of ironing boards accompanied by a few desk lamps; the set looked like as if a little boy had tried to build his own space ship in the kitchen, which set to mood quite well. There was also a small projection film hanging from the roof above his "cockpit", and this was operated from backstage by a friend of Colin's.
Wilmacakebread's gig was fairly short, 5-6 songs, I can't really remember. But hey, there is this trade-off between quantity and quality and wcb went for quality, at least to my opinion. The music was really good. Bass and drums decorated with quirky sounds from xylophones etc. No songs, just Colin clearing his throat every once in a while because of the smoke machine. It sounds a little bit like Sea and Cake have lunch with Tortoise. Or if you know Matt Elliott/Third eye foundation, wilmacakebread sounds similar to that Third Eye, but opposite, instead of darkness and anxiety wilmacakebread plays happy music…
The band that played after wilmacakebread was Surplus People, a three piece band consisting of three girls playing bass, organs, trombone/singing/megaphone and a drum machine. Their music was really great! I couldn't hear the lyrics, but the musicscape was energetic and sometimes aggressive. Inbetween songs the band cheered and made jokes. I've spent this morning looking for a place where I can buy their stuff and I've finally found a few places. Their cd will get it's airtime on my ipod, that is for sure.
If you are like me you like to learn new stuff, not only about facts and figures, but also about yourself. Well, if you are, I can recommend taking a look at "7 Habits of highly effective people", written by Stephen Covey. I have to be honest and say that the book could fall within the "quick fix" category, but if you take your time to read the book (and better yet, do it alongside with the workbook) then you can get some nice pointers for how you can improve your life. As the title of the book suggests, it is about principles, so you have to make an introspective journey... which is good becuase it challenges you to question yourself.---Another book that I can recommend if you're a Swede or if you are trying to learn the Swedish language is "Svenska Skrivregler", ISBN 914704974X. Not being the one to judge people, but I've got a feeling that we're getting worse at writing here in the heart of the Nordic countries. There are some really simple things that could improve our written Swedish considerably.
The band that I'm playing drums in is currently one guy, or girl, short. Our bass player has left us. He says he wants to play "happy bouncy music" as opposed to our somewhat gloomy lo-fi rock.So, if you live in the Stockholm area and want to join, get in contact with me.
For the moment I'm sort of pissed off. Always bragging to friends and colleagues how easy it is to use a Mac, I have been proven wrong. I tried to install a blog software that uses php, and mysql and this mysql bit caused a lot of anguish. Well, it still is.
I just can't understand how to get around the terminal in Mac OS. Sure, I know a little bit of ASP, ActionScript and XPresso, but I am kinda lost when it comes to Unix commands. I know how to Ping an address on a PC but that is as far as my administration skills go.
So, I have to resort to this solution; we'll see how it turns out...[Edit] I've looked into this blog thing and I think it should be a pretty straight forward thing to build a solution of my own... however, the problem with mysql still remains, unless I do it in ASP and Access, but that seems a little bit lame.
