Shimura Curves gigs this week

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Drink a fish. Heh. I'll see him at rehearsal tomorrow night.

― Pole Glider, Monday, 27 November 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Drink a fish, wow, heh, why did I say that? That was a saying from high school days. One of my pretentious goff friends was writing bad French poetry, and one of the lines was something about "boire un poisson" which was supposed to mean "drink a poison" but actually meant "drink a fish" and it just stuck.

Especially considering I'm allergic to fish, and drinking one probably would have a similar effect to taking poison.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that. I just assumed it was some idiom I'd never heard before (which I suppose it is)

― Reeling in the Eels, Monday, 27 November 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

It's such a melodramatic teenage goff girl thing, somewhere between "oh noes, I'll kill myself" and "I'll drink like a fish - until the pain is gone!"

I think I must revive it.

We have rehearsal tonight. That is, if Dave Q has actually remembered this time.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Argh, speak of the devil, he just emailed to tell us our rehearsal studio IS FLOODED!!!

Wow, we haven't caused a Biblical flood since that ill-fated Manchester gig. Though I still blame The Gossip for that.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I CAN'T WORK!!!!

I'M TOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It looks like my plans for this evening are rapidly going t1ts-up, so I might be able to come to this after all. What time are you on?

Warning - I may be in a suit, not to mention a massive sulk and looking for a prolonged bitch-session.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I may be back in time, hoorah. You can bitch to me matt I am in an irrepresably good mood at the moment.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, we found out what time we were on - I think it was 9.30? 9.40? I'd come earlier if I were you because the other bands look great.

Suits are most welcome. You know we all love a man in a suit.

Hurrah, are you bringing booze, Ed? ACtually, don't, becuase I will not be able to carry it and will end up drinking it instead.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

If I have finished transcription of interview subject (mein gott have I been procrasturbating) I can move on to the unmissable (I'm sure) paperback which the thingbringer brought: Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl.

Other than that am looking forward to tonight MUCHLY.

― suzy sandbox, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i think something's gone wrong in my mouth, i will not be here, have a good one though

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay!

Boo!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll def be at pamflet though!

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha ha, check this out:

http://static.flickr.com/110/309473871_8bee514fea.jpg

I want a badge that says

Xn + Yn != Zn
where n > 2

Most arcane Shimuras badge evah!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Bah! Superscript tags not work here?

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh! And if anyone wants a £3 guest list for tonight, email AMP or our MySpace or text Emsk.

(Do not email me, I will forget.)

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, DRINKS ARE £1.80 BECAUSE IT IS A STUDENT BAR!!!!! YESSSSS!!!

MAKE LIKE LOUIS AT HALF TERM!!!!!!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

ROFL.

Arrangements are being made. Many shadowy dealings going on. At the very least I will be there.

― g0000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

So I am not coming tonight, but assuming our departmental assistant doesn't bollocks up my flight and there are no air or underground delays, I should be able to make it to the Social in time for you next week. Yay!

― mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I am back in an irrepressibly good mood again, a bi-product of which is that I won't be there after all. Definitely coming to Pamphlet though, so good luck and all that.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Awwwww, please bring PBW... no, no, don't bring him. He'll only distract me. No do bring him, la lala laaaa laaaa, god I'll be writing a song about him soon.

Check out my badge that AMPy made me:

http://static.flickr.com/103/309497013_c54a24462d.jpg

I wish I could get that made into a sticker to put on my guitar.

Boo hiss to Matt DC for choosing something else exciting over us.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, is my email about the setlist correct?

Yay, gig! Yay badges!

― marianna longmire (marianna lcl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

What, you want me to do real work, as opposed to posting pictures of badges and talking about cute boys? Come on!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

More talk about cute boys! I like cute boys. I like my cute boy.

― marianna longmire (marianna lcl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

CUET AS FUCK:

http://myspace-720.vo.llnwd.net/01463/02/74/1463544720_l.jpg

Oh yeah, and the boy playing it isn't bad, either.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Given gthat I am still in france and have to make some london drops I rate my chances as 50%.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Bah, no one is going to come... and all my IRL friends are going to the French Disconnection instead. :-(

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone have a red guitar I can borrow?

I have suddenly realised that my entire outfit I am wearing tonight, down to my fingernails, is all red, and my guitar is green and gold!

I shall look like a Christmas tree!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

A very sexy Christmas tree!

Do post pictures, I'm sure the lot of you will look simply scrumptious!

― Courage of Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/780/780012.jpg

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I HAVE A RED GUITAR!

― g0000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you have three chords and the truth?

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear Mr. G00blar,

Pls 2 bring to gig tonight:

1) 1 guitar (red)
2) 1 guitarist (pointy-nosed and blond)

Errr... maybe if I'm really lucky, I can get you or Jim to play the whole set for me, as well, and then I won't have to do *any* work! Hurrah!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Aaaaiyyy!!! Lookit the time! I should be going to soundcheck soon.

God, I hope the other bands brought a guitar amp...

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly? Won't be there til 9 at earliest.

― g0000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

RAWK!!!!!!!!

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

RUIN!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Gooblar and his boy friend and lady friend are lovely! Gig was fun, too.

― marianna longmire (marianna lcl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks! Lady friend?

― g00000blar (g00blar), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

She told me her name twice, but I was v. v. drunk. Eleanor? (sp)

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, Elena. Yes, she is lovely.

― g000blar (g00blar), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW can anyone remember the name of the band that headlined on Wednesday? They were possibly the most Lex band ever.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Ebony Bones, like what it says on the flier.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the lex would implode in a puff of contradictions.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

They were possibly the ~~most Lex~~ best band ever (except for Shimura Curves, obvs)

Fixed.

― g0000blar (g00blar), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

To be honest I missed most of the set, because I saw a man with a beret and thought they were going to be horrendous funk rock nonsense. Bad move.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, actually they were wicked funk rock nonsense.

― g0000blar (g00blar), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

They weren't funk rock at all. They were 60s Motown/dirty garage with a side helping of ESG. They were very, very good. And I think they would make the Lex's head explode.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Good helping of dancehall sensibilities as well.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

they sound potentially great!

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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Well, I might as well announce this here before the rumours get out.

The show last night will be the band's last.

Shimura Curves are over. I quit last night. Marianna quit this afternoon.

Thanks for your support.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

WAHT!?!?

― g000blar (g00blar), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

um, what happened?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Results 1 - 10 of about 57 for shimura curves reunion rumours. (0.23 seconds)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Everything good comes to a natural end and I think that's happened now.

Cheers girls, it was a lot of fun. I'll remember these songs, and those performances, as long as I live. And when I think of 2006 they'll be among the first things that come to mind. It was awesome.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 December 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

skepticism/denial

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

when's the Behind The Music episode?

― bliss (blass), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

when's the "Behind the Breakup" posting?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 8 December 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, you can't split up until you've had a run of at least 3 top 10 hits. And I reckon you could have had them - I'm serious. Sod all this 'natural end' business - STICK AT IT! You have something very special - real pop smartness, great songs, you look great and you stand out from the other dross without even trying. Don't chuck it all away AGAIN Kate - this could have been the one, and now you'll never know. The world is full of people who had 'a great band' once (ha I should know) but packing it in is always the easy way, sticking it out through the bad times because you believe in the music is harder, but it's the only way. And your music is worth believing in.

Of course I don't know what the reasons are, and it's none of my business, but I'd bet there's nothing that can't be quickly fixed by talking it through.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 8 December 2006 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Dr C OTM - I'm sure there are all kind of reasons why this is for the best, but disproving the Shimura Curves Hypothesis makes me sad.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 8 December 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm laying off the 'hypotheses' as I have no idea.

My guess is "give it 3 months off" and maybe then it'll resolve, whatever it is.

Maybe there will be a 'statement' sometime.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 8 December 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Ack

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 8 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Things don't resolve - you resolve things.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 8 December 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for saying nice things about the band, guys. I (and I'm sure the others) really appreciate it.

I'm sure there will be statement at some point, when we've discussed it. Until that time, could you please respect the privacy of the five of us, as a band, and as people, and keep the gossip and the hypothesising off public forums?

Thanks.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 8 December 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Things get less important with time.

Anyway, I'll lay off the 'hypotheses' even though. (xpost exactly)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 8 December 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't see any gossip and hypothesising, Kate. (I might be looking in the wrong place though).

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 8 December 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, stop before it starts, probably.

I was thinking about starting a "so how did your band fall to bits (gloriously or not)" but maybe not a great idea for the moment...

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 8 December 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Latest gossip: That bloke everyone saying Pete Doherty murdered. One of the members of Shimura Curves actually murdered him.

Out of respect for the band, I won't name which member did it at this point in time!!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Friday, 8 December 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, and considering two of the ladies aren't even ILXors (and therefore probably have no idea about this sandbox), I don't think it's particularly fair to have any sort of a forum about it here.

― marianna longmire (marianna lcl), Friday, 8 December 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

the price of fame

― sede vacante (blueski), Friday, 8 December 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

behave yourself sede ;)

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Friday, 8 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you should carry on until you have no original members, like Soft Machine or Dr. Feelgood. That should be the ultimate aim of any band.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 8 December 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

lol heroin

― amon (amon), Friday, 8 December 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay a couple of people connected with the band have requested I lock this thread for a bit and, as its by extension a thread about them themselves, I'm going to do that.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 December 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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