Rant about N.M.E and music magazine sections in supermarkets.

Okay so aside from getting a lovely letter back from Nadine Shah today... (I'll get to that later. But not today.)

I feel the need to have a rant about something.

For the last few weeks I have been buying N.M.E magazine... now to be perfectly honest, I do not rate N.M.E... I see it as lazy, dictating, fad journalism alot of the time. A 'cool' persons magazine bought by 'cool' toff kids who get their daddy's from the south to get them tickets to festivals and then hold up queues for the tap water because they're using it to 'wash their hair'.... Give me strength.

I get tricked by N.M.E every time the manic street preachers are on the cover. Granted, it's the cheapest option from all the other music magazines (Q, Mojo, Uncut etc... which are all nearing the £5 mark) and so therein lies it's only real appeal. I pay a couple of quid for a feature on the manics and then the rest of the magazine is tripe. Mostly full of rubbish, egotistical, hyped up, boring, poncey bands.

The other thing about N.M.E which annoys me is how it nearly always, almost every single week places the word 'Radiohead' on the cover and almost every single week you will also find that there might only be a few sentences at best regarding radiohead which will justify highlighting their name on the cover. The sheer cheek of it being that Radiohead - Thom Yorke in particular have never had a good relationship with N.M.E. In fact, from the outset, Radiohead had no support from them, only cruel and esteem battering reviews. How the tables have turned. They're one of the biggest bands in the world now and N.M.E need to include their band's name on every cover because it's helps them sell copies. Quite pathetic.

But in anycase, the reason I've purchased the last three issues in a row is because they've been covering Glasvegas, and I LOVE Glasvegas. I went to see them in Hawick a few weeks ago and shall be seeing them again in Sunderland next month. Brilliant.

I wasn't actually intending for my rant to be about N.M.E magazine, but it was the purchase of N.M.E that lead me to my main gripe...

Music magazines in tescos? Where abouts will they be located do you think?

Mens Interest!!! (No, seriously!)

Music magazines in Sainsbury's?

Men's Lifestyle!!!

(I haven't checked the other supermarkets, but If I get the chance to do so you can bet your bottom dollar that I will!)

Oh. My. Goodness.

This can't possibly just be me, but is this not, surely - blatant sexism???

In a men's magazine section, I expect to see (sad, but true) FHM, Zoo, Nuts etc... and then probably something more tasteful, like 'Men's health'...

But shouldn't Music magazines... and while we're at it, photography (yes, that too!) be in a general interest section? I mean for goodness' sake, women are not the minority in music. They're not! Maybe 50 years ago they may have been, but half the bands and artists today in these magazines feature women and I am certain that those buying the magazines can't be alot different in numbers???!

As a point of interest, I should also make a point of saying that the editor of N.M.E is in fact... shock! horror! of the female variety, as are most of the team of writers... I can't speak for the other magazines because I don't have them on hand to check, but I don't really think I need to take my point any further than it is already.

Confining music magazines to the 'men's interest, is just completely and utterly ridiculous.

The End.

I can't think why I have never noticed this before. It could well be because I am 5.4 in height.

Bootlegs: Radiohead Meadowbank stadium, Edinburgh, 22nd Aug Edinburgh

Okay so the radiohead meadowbank stadium Edinburgh 22, August 2006 bootleg is now back online.

http://www.winterjargon.com/bootlegs/Radiohead/radiohead-edinburgh-22-08-06.html

And the main page of what will become the bootlegs home page will be located here: http://www.winterjargon.com/bootlegs/index.html

For now at least.

x

Getty Images - Photo of RADIOHEAD

Getty Images - Photo of RADIOHEAD: "radiohead edinburgh 2006"

More pictures of this show before i forget the link....

(I am working on re-building everything that was deleted off bandcamp as i write)

Sad Face Day

I logged into bootlegs.bandcamp.com this morning only to find that it no longer exists.

Removed.

Gone.

No explanation or warning from bandcamp.

Okay, so I know that it was a bit of a risk. I read the terms and conditions and it didn't actually say anything about uploading live shows for free. I know it isn't illegal. Only selling is illegal. Sharing is not. I figured that I may have discovered a loophole. I got excited. I put many hours of work uploading shows. Many people downloaded them. Many people shared and embedded.

I was wrong. Now all the nice links cannot be used. And the time I spent doing it was kind of a waste.

I didn't make a penny obviously. But neither did they. Which is probably why they're more willing to overlook the fact that Amanda Palmer uploads covers - music she also does not own - for free, even though it blatantly says 'no covers' in the FAQ.

Double standards?

I'm not really having a go. I still love you amanda. I still love you bandcamp. I'm just a bit gutted that's all.

Anyway, after thinking it over I have decided that I'm going to still go ahead with the project. There will be a few complications I will need to work out, and obviously the embedding will have to go, plus the nice bandcamp stats.... but I think I can still figure something out, and in someways it might actually be better for me to do it this way.

I hope that bandcamp either have the decency to reply to the email i sent them, or at least add a new thing to their terms and conditions which says that 'Amanda Palmer is Queen and therefore she can upload whatever she wants but the rest of you peasants shalt not'

;)

'I'll be back'

'I'll be right here'

'Be Good'

Terminator

E.T

Tori Amos Plugged '98 Tour Berlin, Germany June 8, 1998 | bootlegs

Tori Amos Plugged '98 Tour Berlin, Germany June 8, 1998 | bootlegs

Just posted the first Tori Amos show...

Many more to come.

1998 doesn't seem that long ago to me but when I think about it for long enough I realise that actually - it is! Over ten years long in fact... (Ahhhhhh!!!!)

...which was probably around the time I first discovered Tori Amos come to think of it. What an ideal age! (To be discovering Tori Amos - that is.)

It also never really occurred to me prior to this 'bootlegs project' - how difficult is it to actually find any information about gigs dating back more than 6 years or so...

For example, finding live photos from the concert is near impossible. If you get just a little bit hopeful you'll find yourself trying to sort through a big mess of ancient pages and dead links. With this particular bootleg I considered myself as fortunate to find anything even as remotely relevant as this delightful chap having a meet and greet with Tori Amos on the same day as the actual show itself!

(I hope you don't mind Michael!)

Yes, these days it's very easy to get videos, photos and whatever you like.

Back then? Not so much.

In fact it's actually great that people took the initiative to record them in the first place. Thank goodness for all those old faithful and discerning gig goers!

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Posting New Topic - UK Birdkeepers Message Board

These are La's gouldian finch babies, parent reared.

They are called Slender Baby and Shirley Bird.

She is selling them because their mother keeps on trying to do rude things to them in the seed pot. Which is not a particularly pleasant thing for anyone to see.

Radiohead at Coliseu dos Recreios - Lisbon, Portugal July 24, 2002

Dear Jack,

I have just uploaded another Radiohead show...

Here it is:

Radiohead at Coliseu dos Recreios - Lisbon, Portugal July 24, 2002

I was planning on uploading the bootlegs I had first, except I had some problems with my CD rom drive thingy, namely that it keeps ejecting all my copied cd's before I get the chance to rip the music they hold.

In anycase, I found a random bootleg online and uploaded it. It takes such a long time, but I've had a good amount of interest so far and hope that in time it might be worth it.

Radiohead played this show in 2002 just prior to releasing their 2003 'Hail To The Thief' album. The first half of the set was used as a sounding board for the songs which would end up on the album and this is for the most part what makes for interesting listening as with some of the tracks - Go To Sleep, I Will and Sit Down Stand Up in particular now serve as alternate or rough draft versions of the better known studio ones.

The banter between the crowd and the band was notable - both being in good cheer. The sound quality is slightly scratchy and distorted in places but certainly not unlistenable.

I have made do with using a picture of Ed and Thom at the Q awards 2002 for now, which sadly was the only remotely relevant picture I could find. (Purely because of the year!) If anyone has or can find any better ones please let me know.

x

Radiohead Meadowbank stadium, Edinburgh, 22nd Aug Edinburgh

22nd Aug Edinburgh

Just found a bunch of pretty good photos from the Radiohead, Edinburgh gig from 2006.

More details of this gig (and the bootleg) can be found on my previous post.

Radiohead - Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland 22nd August 2006

Hello Earth,

My first Radiohead bootleg has been uploaded and can be listened to and downloaded for free here: Radiohead Bootleg: Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland, 22nd August, 2006

Please Note: This music is intended for personal use only and is not for resale. (As that would be

illegal)

However, any voluntary donations received will go towards the upkeep of

the bootlegs website and would be extremely appreciated. Thank You!

Radiohead, Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland, 22nd August 2006

album na

	1.	Airbag 05:13
	2.	2 + 2 = 5 03:46
	3.	The National Anthem 04:44
	4.	My Iron Lung 05:11
	5.	Morning Bell 06:06
	6.	Videotape 05:22
	7.	Nude 04:25
	8.	Lucky 04:26
	9.	The Gloaming 04:01
	10.	Where I End And You Begin 04:08
	11.	Paranoid Android 06:57
	12.	All I Need 04:27
	13.	Pyramid Song 04:44
	14.	Fake Plastic Trees 05:15
	15.	I Might Be Wrong 04:55
	16.	Idioteque 04:08
	17.	How To Disappear Completely 07:19
	18.	You And Whose Army 03:46
	19.	Bodysnatchers 04:50
	20.	Just 03:57
	21.	Karma Police 05:08
	22.	There There 07:46
	23.	True Love Waits 03:30
	24.	Everything In It's Right Place 06:46
	25.	Creep 04:44

This was the third time I saw Radiohead perform.

Deer Hoof and Beck were supporting.

Deer Hoof were certainly interesting. A four piece band with oddly structured songs, a generous use of pauses, outstanding and unique minimalistic drumming (By this I mean the kit was minimalistic, not the actual style) with sometimes no more than a sentence worth of lyrics to a song and fronted by a fairly eccentric Japanese girl.

Beck... well everyone knows who Beck is. I only really know his well-known songs, but he was entertaining and the puppets, and pre-performance video of their time in Edinburgh was great.

By the time Radiohead opened with Airbag I was about one metre from the barrier at the stage. I remember singing my head off with the crowd and thinking how lovely Thom Yorke looked in his little denim jacket!

The following songs however were slightly torturous. The crowd for some odd reason were really violent! This is not what anyone would expect from a Radiohead gig. This is the same band that hung up posters around the huge blue tent they had made on the the Big Top tour saying “Radiohead kindly request NO MOSHING”

This was without a doubt the scariest crowd I ever had the misfortune of being in, though I think it was possibly a case of a small number of people spoiling it for everyone else. After the fourth song I’d had quite enough. My jeans were half way down my backside, my hair was getting pulled in every direction, I had actually been lifted up and suspended off my feet for a good few seconds by the sheer force of the crowds’s movement and left there until dropped and had absolutely no control whatsoever over any of my limbs or which direction I was headed!!!

In hindsight I should have gone over the barrier but as that's where the crowds undercurrent was coming from - I decided to go back through the crowds which took forever as it is rather a large stadium. Thankfully during 'Morning Bell', Thom decided to stop the song half way through in order to calm the crowd down and express his disapproval. This bought me enough time to get out without too much casualty.

So all in all this was a bit of a strange gig for me because there was a fair amount of shock and tears involved. :( But heck, crying at a radiohead concert! I’m sure it’s not the first time it's ever happened right?

The open air stadium was an excellent venue and made for an enjoyable atmosphere. The band were in full swing as usual and Thom's voice seemed to get better with each song. Videotape, Nude, All I Need, Bodysnatchers were all new songs on the setlist at that time and were to be recorded a year later for the 'In Rainbows' album.

Radiohead closed the set with a rather sarcastic version of ‘creep.’ A song that I never in a million years expected I would ever get to see them perform!

All in all it was nothing if not a memorable gig!

I will be adding more gigs soon on my bootlegs website !!!

Lots of love,

Girl from winter jargon.