We’re just about to get in the van and head up north to see our Brum brethren.
This rolls in, courtesy of Google Alerts. This time it’s the Guardian. No lyrical references, but we’re certainly on everyone’s mind this Wimbledon. What was it that happened at 2:20PM on this day to pop us into everyone’s head at the same time?
Hey, Venus Williams! You need a theme song. We’ve got just the ticket.
Nothing new here – obviously we had a knack for a turn of phrase. ;^)
But this is what, the millionth time this one has been copped? Super Furries using it as an album title, now they’re getting all Wimbledon on us. This one is so obvious, my question is how come it took so long?
Wimbledon… Venus Williams… you know where this one is going.
Check it out on the official Wimbledon site, at 14:21, another TPE lyric reference.
Reporting to you, live, from sunny London.
We had our first group rehearsal tonight and it was stonkin’, to use an old TPE phrase.
I’m jet lagged as hell and just found out that for some reason people care if Michael Jackson is alive or dead. Maybe it’s the jet lag, but I find this puzzling.
Anyhow, let me get a good night’s rest and then we’ve got a ton of news to post. Television, radio… all sorts of good stuff, and mostly because of YOU, our fans.
<yawn> Sorry – I really have to sleep now.
Remember when I got the Daves mixed up awhile back? I never did post Dave Walsh’s photos from the Electric Picnic. Well, In some ways that’s kind of good, because looking at these I’m getting really excited again. See you all very soon.
That Petrol Emotion Live at Electric Picnic – Images by Dave Walsh
By the way, that little button in the lower right corner makes this play back full screen, for maximum TPE visualization!
UPDATE: Okay, I’m an idiot. I got my Daves mixed up. These are actually Dave *Mitchell’s* photos, not Dave Walsh. <sigh>
I’ll try to get Dave Walsh’s up as well, as they’re also super double fab. Sorry, Daves!
These photos are all up on flickr, but they’re so dang good I also want to feature them here.
You can check out other photos by Dave Mitchell on his flickr pages.
published today.
Petrols are great! Incindiary! Fire! Ignition! Still more fire metaphors and puns!
Clearly we created a monster. Still, we love our friends in the press.
Read all about it here.
Getting married is fun.
So is going on honeymoon. Especially if it’s to Tahiti. Highly recommended.
Preparation for the Electric Picnic continues apace. The rehearsals are going very, very well. Let’s just say we’re really excited about this.
Oh, and while I’m at it, it was really nice to come home to an email from a friend that noticed that we were mentioned on the Guardian blog. Funny how the planets seem to align from time to time. See for yourself:
Just saw Control the other night.
I loved it.
Not only was it beautiful to look at, (did we expect any less from Anton Corbijn?) but it was also a great portrayal of what it’s like to be in a band when you’re first starting out. And it was also great that they didn’t glamorize it at all – it was quite bleak, to be honest. And the pacing was quite slow. Some of the folks I went with thought it could have moved along a little quicker, but I thought it was perfect. And the fact that they played all the versions of the songs used in the film was even more impressive.
Definitely worth seeing.
So I’m sure my brain was engaged, but not fully connected.
I wrote the first blog post talking about the things that have inspired me the past few years, including the Gang of Four, and then of course I spend the next two days hanging out with Dave Allen. How cool is that?
Dave and I are sort of on eerily parallel courses right now. I’m in Seattle, he’s in Portland. We’ve both got design/consulting/new media companies. We’re both trying to rally our band mates into taking this new internet/social network/music/community thing head on.
What a great guy, and he’s got a great blog (now in the blog roll of course): pampelmoose.com. You should check it out.
Why were Dave and I hanging out, you might ask? We’re both members of the Recording Academy (the folks who bring you the Grammys), and we just had a two day Music Tech conference about the intersection of technology and the music industry. It was two days of really great information. We’re posting video of all the panels. I gave the first workshop and moderated the panel on digital distribution. Dave moderated the panel on social networking. Pretty critical stuff, if you’re a musician.
You can check out the video archives here.