Something about her is intriguing. But equally, I find something about her is irritating, almost in that “ooh, look I’m a Kate Bush style pixie fairy girlchild” way.

I don’t know. That’s maybe a horribly sexist thing to say. (I mean no one ever calls the Animal Collective twee for the same kind of routine.) But that’s what I mean by “twee” I guess.

Well her voice does make Lisa Simpson sounds grown up.

Her voice is nice in very small doses, but really annoying otherwise.

Yeah, that’s the thing. One song is nice, a whole album is just too cloying.

(What do you make of that crazy spaceship pedal, Pash?)

What is it, exactly (apart from an effect pedal of some sort, with a fancy mirror finish)?

It is Death By Audio, apparently.

(I don’t think even Benjamin really knows what it does, exactly.)

Blargh, internet please stop being boring today. Bah. :-(

Closest match on DbA’s site in terms of panel knobbage is this:

http://www.killerrockandroll.com/deathbyaudio/soundwavebreakdown.html

I must admit, I’ve got my fill of fuzz/distortion boxes (turbo rat/rising sun/zakk wylde pedal) Phasers, now, on the other hand...

No, it’s a custom pedal that they build specially for Benjamin. no one knows what it is!

I’ve got two distortion pedals and that’s pretty much all I need. I need to get into the envelope filters and the harmonic generators now.

The few times I fancy playing with encvelope filter, I usually just run the preamped guitar signal into the back of this little roland monosynth I have, which has an envelope follower built in. One of these days, I’ll pick up one of these:

http://www.blacet.com/IOfp.html

For my modular synth, though most likely I’ll run other stuff through it. I have a real love for a nice clean guitar sound, Usually I just like to add leslie simulator or phaser, sometimes a little bit of chorus. All the more radical effects I have usually wind up getting drum machines or monosynths put through them.

The one deranged distrotion/radical pedal I fancied was the “rattle crow”, from last gasp arts labs:

http://lalweb.com/rc/rc-e.html

Discontinued, unfortunately. Well, maybe not that unfortunately.

I think I saw one of those once on Denmark Street? Was too scared to try it.

Sorry, Archel—missed your post!

I’ve just blogged about the BBC filming thing and don’t really feel like typing it all out again. Read about it here:

http://masonicboom.blogspot.com/

Ahem, Kerr! You’re the one who seems to have bought the album. Pixieish, off-key harpists are too twee for me. Won’t Southern Lord revoke your messageboard privileges if they find out?

Just out of curiosity, how were people supposed to know about this nu-ilx we are building here?

It’s not Nu-ILX. It’s just a sandbox for testing code, and we’re just chatting to build up a database for them to experiment with. Honest.

But castles made of sand melt into the sea eventualleee

Thanks k, should have checked your blog first anyway really! I do hope some kind soul puts your breakfast TV appearance on a video content hosting site like say, ooh, YouTube. Not that I wouldn’t get up in time to watch it on the real telly, of course. If I had one.

Yeah, it’s not like I have one, either! It was quite funny, bandmates gossipping about various presenters with the crew, and I didn’t have a clue who any of them were! Oh dear.

now I’m going to waste the rest of the afternoon on this minipops quiz. I thought I was doing terribly with 62 out of 95, but apparently no one in my office has got over 20!

Ha ha, it’s really been bugging me, what the b-side of the new TSM single sounds like. That riff... it’s just *so* familiar. Early 80s synth tune.

I thought it was Talk Talk or Howard Jones but I was walking around the office singing it, and one of my colleagues is all “why are you singing Nik Kershaw?” God, it’s almost exact.

Have you ever tried one of these:

http://www.redwitchanalogpedals.com/deluxemoonphaser.html

This is the pedal I fancy most at the moment.

I’ve never tried one, but I’ve seen them. Pretty!

Everyone gone home?

I’m about to go down the pub.

Hurry up harry.

what’s the bbc filming for? some bbc breakfast feature about what exactly? is it actually Breakfast, the thing from 6 to 9 every morning?

give me a shout closer to the actual date (ie in a week) and i’ll set the video...

Oh boy, is the interwebs still broken?

I am slightly hungover this morning. I cannot BELIEVE we really drank all that brandy on the walk yesterday. But I feel good. Yeah.

Apart from that, spent the weekend getting ready and doing preparation, writing sequencer tracks and the like for my SOLO SHOW!!! I am quite scared excited.

Also, I want a pig. Piglets are the cutest thing on earth ever. Next time someone calls me a pig, I am going to be hugely complimented.

Thehold! At least there’s this.

I can not wake up this morning. I would ordinarily be excited to teach Twelfth Night, but as it is, I’ll be happy if I can string a couple of sentences together.

I, too, am having trouble staying awake. Even though I slept really well last night.

Bah, proper rehearsal as well tonight. In a studio. Which I don’t feel particularly ready for. :-(

Still, that’s something to look forward to/wake up for.

Hello everyone! I am tired too. Today must be Sleepy Monday, I expect the moon is aligned all wrong or something.

You sound a bit happier today, Kate. :)

Yeah, I am a bit happier, CJ, thanks!

I didn’t go to sunno))) in the end on Friday night, I sold my ticket (took me forever, which was not fun with a bad back) and went home and did some stretching from the yoga book and just chilled out and relaxed, which was really what I needed.

Also, Hawkwind just friended *me* on MySpace! Heh! “You list as an influence, so please be our friend”—excellent.

Hawkwind still exists?

They’re probably really healthy because their silver machine is antiseptically clean.

I think there are actually two Hawkwinds going... ;-)

I’m very tempted to leave them a note saying “MySpace is deep... thanks for the add” but I’m sure they get that all the time.

made a daft choice of staying up till 3 last night to watch a crap film Eaten Alive

I awoke at exactly the time i was supposed to get up, which means i had no lazy-lie-in-clock-gazing time. drat.

Hello there. Shall I bother reposting what I’ve been up to from the last.fm watercooler thread, or shall I just grin a lot?

It’s up to you...

I’ve just realised that my legs are sore. I didn’t feel the walk yesterday, but today I’m a bit, err, strained.

I watched the really really crap Prime Suspect, then meant to watch the South Bank Show’s thing on Spamalot, but fell asleep before it started. Then I woke up again at 2am and couldn’t get back to sleep properly :(

Good weekend for you then I gather, FP?? :))) Repost it! I need a smile today.

The main bits are:

It’s weird how, you can chat to someone for a couple of weeks; you can meet them; and within a few hours of meeting them, you both feel that you’re so right together, it feels as if you’ve always been with each other.

We’re both a bit scared how quickly it just feels “right”

In other news, my ex just texted me to ask me how my weekend went. She was subtly trying to find out what was going on—let me know she’d heard I’d been away for the weekend—and has now just come out and said “what’s the deal with you and ______”?

hello all. G00blar, you were great on Friday.

Yes we did drink 3 half bottles of brandy and 4 pints of Ale (OK 3 pints of Ale and 1 half litre of lager in my case) a piece and walk about 10 miles up a hill.

And I ordered a troubadour octave mandola this morning, a chromatic tuner and a book on how to play it by a guy called Simon Mayor who used to play childrens folk concerts. in the foyer of the barbican, with his partner Hillary Jones, when I was small and he was very good. I’m quite excited about learning from his book.

Ooh, that sounds like a good choice. Pictures?

I only had two pints of ale and a little bottle of wine, tho. But way too much brandy. Way too much.

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Pretty! I like!

Whilst googling I found these bonkers instruments:

http://www.risa-music.de/English/Products/Solids/solids.html

Sunn o)) was great. Fantastic. Awesome.

Bah. I’m glad you had a good time. I just went and stood in the queue for about five minutes, and my back started spasming so bad, I knew there was no way I was going to enjoy the evening. Not fair. :-(

The vibrations from the sound would’ve helped your back no end. You should’ve asked if you could lie down at the side of the stage or something hehe.

They had the mega rare 2nd press of the white box set at the London gig, but they only had 10 copies and they all sold so none left at glasgow. It has 2 extras in it, live white(mega rare) and the Candlewolf peel sessions 12“ but on red vinyl this time(new press) But it was £100 apparently. I did however get the live white on its own at the glasgow gig for £30 so I was quite happy as I already have an original candlewolf 12”.

This time all the shirts and hoodies weren’t sold out but all I had the money for was the live white so oh well. I’ll get a hoodie and a shirt another time.

Check your email kate.

Yay, I got to read Emsk’s MySingleFriend profile for me, and I was really worried because she said yesterday “it wasn’t all sweetness and light” but I’ve read it and it’s perfect. *I* would want to meet the person she describes, and you all know how much I hate myself.

I feel genuinely tired an rubbish today. I curse the brandy.

Green tea is doing its best to restore me. I have a long day and a long night ahead of me, I have no time for brandy hangover befuddlement.

...and I’m listening to sea shanties and wishing I had AN BOAT.

I am listening to http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

I’m not sure if I’m inspiring enough awe in my students: I asked them today how many had read Twelfth Night all the way through for class (like they were supposed to). 3 hands went up, out of 23. There’s no way I would have admitted that to a teacher (in that small of a class) as a first year.

You need to wear Kates new boots and put some fear into them.

Ack! Here eeryone is. Been in withdrawal today.

Hello Mitya. How are you?

Oh, why does this whole process take so long? Boywiththeboat and the hottphotog will be snapped up by the time my profile actually gets approved and goes online...

Why am I *doing* this anyway? I’m only getting my hopes up for nothing. I guess I’m just so *bored* without ILX.

Morning. I am sleepy.

Good evening, Ned.

I am now throwing soup at my hangover.

Yum! Soup!

mMmm, pumpkin soup, it was nummy. And now I want some more of it. But I have none left. Bah.

I am also wondering if it was such a good idea putting on such a saucy picture. But I wanted to use a photo where I was actually smiling, and the really eye-catching cleavage one is the only one I have where I’m smiling.

Whens your solo gig, Kate?

Bah. Poxy fule. I hate poxy fule. I actually had to do some *work*.

And now I have no more work to do.

Here, have a Curtis brother. He looks as pissed off as I feel.

And here, have another:

White Rabbits!

We wish you a happy new month.

(and I hope it gets better quickly. I’m fed up with crap at the moment)

Hares.

Happy new month. It’s my little sister’s 25th birthday today. That freaks me out.

Good morning.

God, those Curtis Brothers are hottt. I had forgotten those photos. I think I shall listen to Now Here Is Nowhere first thing today, while I start the month end malarchy.

I am starting to feel much brighter. Though I lost the beautiful Edwardian chest of drawers at CB Antiques through acting too slow—someone bought it yesterday. :-(

I finished my Big Book Of Nothing today, which was very very good. And it ended with the most beautiful quote...

“We are the music makers

We are the dreamers of dreams

Wandering by lone sea-breakers

And sitting by desolate streams

World-losers and world-forsakers

On whom the pale moon gleams

Yet we are the movers and shakers

Of the world, forever, it seems”

That nearly made me cry on the train this morning, it is so beautiful.

I used that poem (‘Ode’ by Arthur O’Shaughnessy) for a eurythmy performance at school—here’s the next two verses for you kate:

With wonderful deathless ditties

We build up the world’s great cities,

And out of a fabulous story

We fashion an empire’s glory:

One man with a dream, at pleasure,

Shall go forth and conquer a crown;

And three with a new song’s measure

Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying

In the buried past of the earth,

Built Nineveh with our sighing,

And Babel itself with our mirth;

And o’erthrew them with prophesying

To the old of the new world’s worth;

For each age is a dream that is dying,

Or one that is coming to birth.

GOD, I HATE SUBEDITORS!!!!

If you do not understand a contraction, then ASK. Do not guess.

“Mog-speed” meaning “a cross between Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor” has been changed to “Mogadon-speed” which means nothing at all. WTF?

lol

Is that a contraction of Loop and Laibach?

In what universe does mog-speed make any more or less sense than mogadon-speed?

I have to say, that was my first thought.

(Sorry for type casting, but I’m guessing that most of Plan B’s readers would know both Mogwai and Godspeed... and be able to figure that out.* Guess I guessed wrong.)

*If you are not a Plan B reader, you are not expected to know this.

Anyway, the point being, if it’s unclear, fucking ask me, don’t just make something up. Who the fuck are Mogadon anyway?

Calm down Kate, take a mogadon :-P

Oh noes, I am too stupid to read Plan B (I still know who Mogwai and GYBE are)

Is there a new plan b due out? I usually get an email telling me there is so I can order.

Wh Smiths still haven’t got The Wire in. They insist it’s just late and they will get it in.

Anyone seen it about elsewhere?

ilx is still po-ul I see

A quick google (it’s a marvellous invention, google), shows Plan B will be out the first Monday of the month. Which is next week.

xpost po-fu, obvs.

Ailsa, why are you always so *nasty*? It’s beginning to get me quite down, the way you’re always so specifically unpleasant to me.

I don’t think I’m going to post to this board any more.

It’s kind of worse than not having any ILX at all. :-(

Er, what? I’m unspecifically unpleasant to everyone from time to time :-) Where exactly am I being unpleasant to you?

You said it’s OK not to get what you meant by Mog-Speed if you aren’t a Plan B reader as you wouldn’t be expected to know who Mogwai and GYBE are and that people who read Plan B who know who they are would get what you were talking about; I suggested that I know who they both are but still would have no clue what you’re on about, therefore I now believe myself to be stupider than yr average Plan B reader.

There’s a real sub on here now. We can ask him!

I want to hear some mogadon-speed.

Or moog-speed.

I can confirm that ailsa is occasionally unpleasant to people other than kate

Oh fuck off you.

:-)

Typcial sub’s answer: Everybody’s wrong! Mog-speed is utterly confusing — although it might not have been in context, though I’d be surprised, hence po-fu jab — and the sub shouldn’t have changed it to his best guess at what it did mean.

Pls don’t leave Kate!

We won’t leave Kate!

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