When poxy fuleness happen, we could come here!

Oh wow, a Shimuras thread I didn’t even start. We are discussing who will go to Norf vs. Sarf on the Real ILX.

And burritos, mmmmm.

Argh. The real ILX is slow and cumbersome and won’t load anywhere near the end of the existing Shimura thread :(

I am faintly disgusted with myself for choosing North over South but Brixton is a bit of a pain for me to get home from anyway. There are other reasons for not coming tonight but they’ll get me into trouble.

This is listing a new answer for the 25th at 3.33am but there isn’t one showing.

Now it isn’t, obviously, as mine is now the last message, but it was, honest.

Yeh, it was image flooding that I deleted directly so the message count is wrong

Hurrah, check this out:

http://asap.ap.org/stories/1035199.s

Also, remember we be playing on Wednesday:

“no bra, wet dog” sounds like a great night in.

My plans for this week are a bit up in the air at the moment but hopefully I’ll be able to make this. Definitely be at the Pamphlet party next week though.

Kaet do you have any idea when you guys would be going on at the Pamplhet party—looking at my travel schedule and trying to see if there’s anyway I’d be in town in time to come.

No idea, but since we’re headlining, I’m guessing about 10? I really don’t know for sure, though. Would be lovely if you could come, tho!

There’s a lot happening that weekend, isnt’ there?

Is it my imagination or is there a Poptimism on the Friday? And Gooblar gig on the Saturday?

yes it does seem quite busy. starting to feel a bit of trepidation about poptimism already—i’m sure people are quite nice, but I have the feeling it will be like crashing a party.

no way! it’d be great to mitya.

Ha ha I interviewed Susanne No Bra about a year ago for ESM.

Fun gig, can’t wait, will come.

Cool. It should be an... interesting evening.

Wet Dog are also Vic Godard’s current Subway Sect.

Mitya—we get new people and/or coming along to Poptimism every couple of months or so. Yes a lot of us know each other but it’ll be very open and friendly, especially once the booze has started flowing and people have started dancing. Also we need to meet the Blue Russian.

Am I right in thinking that the 6th is Pamphlet/Shimuras, the 7th is StenceFAP and the 8th is Poptimism, right?

Uh-oh, I better check that there’s not a conflict between Poptimism and my pretty boy ogling Gooblar’s gig.

Wednesday is Pamphlet/Shimuras Xmas Do

Thursday is StenceFAP

Friday is Poptimism

Saturday is pointy nosed floppy blonde Rimbaud eyelashed guitar boys Gooblar’s gig

I’ll miss Mitya due to being at BeardFest ATP :(

As of right now:

Wednesday 29 Shimuras: I think I can come

Wednesday Pamflet/Shimuras: nocando

Thursday StenceFAP: my fiancee’s birthday, so no.

Friday Poptimism: Quite possibly!

Saturday gig: Hmmm...I’ll have to check my schedule.

Pls 2 bring yr guitarist on Wednesday, kthnxbye. ;-)

Actually, don’t, because given my life, he will fall utterly in love with one of my bandmates and I’ll drink a fish. :-(

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I CAN’T WORK!!!!

I’M TOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Yay!

Boo!

i’ll def be at pamflet though!

Ha ha ha, check this out:

I want a badge that says

Xn + Yn != Zn

where n > 2

Most arcane Shimuras badge evah!

Bah! Superscript tags not work here?

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.)

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

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

ROFL.

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

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!

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.

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:

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.

Kate, is my email about the setlist correct?

Yay, gig! Yay badges!

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

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

CUET AS FUCK:

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

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

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

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!

A very sexy Christmas tree!

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

I HAVE A RED GUITAR!

Do you have three chords and the truth?

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!

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

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

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

RAWK!!!!!!!!

RUIN!

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

Thanks! Lady friend?

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

Ah, Elena. Yes, she is lovely.

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

Ebony Bones, like what it says on the flier.

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

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

Fixed.

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.

Yeah, actually they were wicked funk rock nonsense.

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.

Good helping of dancehall sensibilities as well.

they sound potentially great!

they have no myspace or website I can find, I want to see them again.

OK that is a lie, I couldn’t find a myspace for them when I was drunk and tired on wednesday night.

You forgot the awesome dresses/skeleton suits! Also the singer is ridiculously hot.

Ed: www.myspace.com/ebonybones

“Like Harry Potter with a vagina”.

Also this!

Also this!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/musicalneil/

playing goldsmiths tonight.

Bloody students!!!

Stop talking about how brilliant they were. Talk about how brilliant *WE* WERE some more people! Humph!

God, they seem to play an insane amount of gigs.

Don’t these people have jobs?

So you still think you’re going on around 10pm, shimuras?

No, apparently we’re going on at 9.30 exactly.

At the moment they’re saying that we’re only playing 5 songs. Which is a bit... HUNH?!?!? since we were told 30 minutes before, and 5 of our songs is only 15 minutes!

If we *do* only get 5 songs to play, any requests?

Maybe they thought “Shimura Curves = prog = 6 minute songs”

Rivers of Clerkenwell, Mother, Sticky & Brown, Magnus, Noyfriend.

Easy :)

Although I think that probably clocks in at about 10mins. Prog Noyfriend out for ages.

Like, most “rock bands” songs are about 5 minutes long. So 5 songs plus about 5 minutes of faffing = half an hour.

Our songs average two and a half to three minutes long, and they’re all on a sequence to minimise faffing. When I say 8 Songs = Half An Hour, I mean, 8 song sequence = 29 min 48 seconds! I think we’ve won that discussion.

Wow, we haven’t done Lost Rivers in ages! We were going to do an Elephants revival, but I don’t think we have time. :-(

Sticky and Noyfriend are both on The List.

I was kind of joking, but I think you should do 8 ‘proper’ Shimuras songs rather than 7 plus Bizarre Love Triangle. I mean it’s obviously one of the most amazing songs ever etc but I’d much rather hear an all-original set.

(I think you should do Lost Rivers AND Elephants personally, but then I am old-school).

The girls don’t like performing Lost Rivers because it’s mostly instrumental except for little bursts of singing, which means they stand around taking their coats off.

Elephants revival might still be the way forward (I can’t remember exactly how long it is, though—is it under 3 minutes?) but I promised my sisX0r she could do guest vocals on BLT, since she had to live through the worst of my Bernard Sumner obesssion.

‘lost rivers’ is like my favourite shimura song!

really? Hunh. I would have thought (Just Keep My Name) Out Of Your Blog would be.

Damn, which reminds me I forgot to remix a less distorted version because the bassline on that thing rips speaker cones.

We only have two songs over 4 minutes—Stronger and BLT.

Would it be cheeky to do a set that doesn’t include the single?

Plus, you know...

DANCING BOYS!!!!!!

you know, the dancing boys does nothing for me (although that’s probably not the point, is it? :)

ack, 9:30 will be tough, methinks.

Oh noes!

Sorry, that dancing boys picture is my new Favourite! Thing! Evah! I’ve wanted dancing boys onstage with me since, like, I was 12 or whatever and saw my first Madonna video.

(If dancing boys don’t do it for you, surely you can look at the hott girlz in the band?)

really? Hunh. I would have thought (Just Keep My Name) Out Of Your Blog would be.

i like that but haven’t heard it very much i guess...‘sticky and brown’ is my second favourite (slightly more predictably)

Lost Rivers is also my favorite. And I also think ending on BLT is too... easy?

bah, I cannot believe I cannot find a better picture of that video that made me want dancing boys than this:

In my dreams, l to r: Jim, K8, Dave...

(He is going to KEEEL me when he comes back from capturing his castle.)

Ending on BLT is great but Noyfriend is the best set closer ever because it has that noisy guitar bit + the dance. You should do it as... an encore!

(Problem is, the last song is always that one that gets cut if there are problems and the set runs over—I don’t mind cutting BLT but I would very much mind cutting Noyfriend.)

I can’t believe this is tomorrow night! Y’all should come since the Pamflet ladies throw kick-ass parties.

Plus, it’s pretty much your last chance to see Shimura Curves THIS YEAR!

i don’t have any contact lenses and i still can’t drink :(

Sexy glasses and virgin marys for you!

lex is fat

aw c’mon anon hater you’ll have to do better than that, everyone knows i rock it like nicole richie

but nicole richie isn’t fat (etc etc)

Breaking news!

We might be performing as a three piece! OMG! A rarity!

4 become 3 a la spice girls

Minus which member?

Also oh no! Does only a three-piece mean no Magnus?

how do you do that hand thing in noyfriend with just 3 ppl?

Ken, we’ve been doing the Noyfriend dance with 2 people for a while now.

Matt, no Magnus.

Kate isn’t performing tonight.

Note: this is still going to be an awesome gig and you’re all still expected to attend! x

LATEST NEWS!

Kate’s coming after all. I do hope she doesn’t puke up on stage, it’s not very becoming. But yay! A full lineup!

i love this will-she-won’t-she drama!

er, re whether k8 will come, not whether she’ll puke on stage, obv

lex yr just not rock and roll enough

Maybe I won’t show up now, just to add to the drama!!

There isn’t a stage to puke on is there? It’s more will she puke on the unfortunate front row?

actually, i might be able to make this if i run away from crappy pub cow-orkers are taking me to over by tower o’ london...

...we shall see.

everytime i hear that somebody has food poisoning i get surprised that they get there before me with the kind of crap that i eat.

hope you feel better k8.

do you guys knwo if the social has a TV (that will be showing sky sports 2?)

No TV in the Social. Definitely not downstairs, where the party will be taking place.

Good luck for the gig kate, marianna et al. One day I will see the mighty Curves in action again.

where y’all going after the gig?

know any decent pub for footie watchage nearby matt?

Well? The Belgian chapter of the Shimurajugend demands a review! :-)

Yeah, who puked?

What a fricking to do.

Oooh, what happened? (I’m sad that I can only go to Shimura Curves gigs vicariously.)

was it good? what did i miss?

i hope the champagne was drunk at least :)

On the plus side, June Sarpong thinks I’m a very stylish girl.

Congratulations on being voted THE WORST MUSIC ACT IN THE FUCKING WORLD, gals!

June Ping Pong—call her by her name!

Speaking of stylin’, I’ve just realised I didn’t brush my hair this morning!!

The shame! I feel so naughty! But that’s what you get when your money is occupied NOT RECIEVING YOUR PROMISED DELIVERY.

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.

WAHT!?!?

um, what happened?

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

?

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.

skepticism/denial

when’s the Behind The Music episode?

when’s the “Behind the Breakup” posting?

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 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.

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.

Ack

Things don’t resolve—you resolve things.

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.

Things get less important with time.

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

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

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...

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!!

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.

the price of fame

behave yourself sede ;)

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.

lol heroin

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.