Fame!

It's been a few days since I've written anything. I've been really busy with the band and my vigourous new exercise programme. Phew! Most of the band work has revolved around drinking tea and wondering if we can all play jangly percussion intsruments or if that's going 'a bit too far'. I'm still trying hard with the guitar so maybe we'll have a conventional instrument involved too. We'll just have to write songs with no f's in them. One nice result of our exciting debut on myspace is that I just accidentally found a nice girl band called The Pipettes. Pipette is a lovely word, isn't it? Almost lovely enough to make a career in science seem attractive. Or to make being in an all-girl, polka-dot-shod pop band attractive. Sadly, it has stymied our 'yeah, let's all wear polka dot dresses' plan.

Other music I have 'discovered' recently includes Mogwai. I put the word discovered in inverted commas to indicate my awareness that the rest of the world has been listening to Mogwai since they were in the womb. I first heard them last Wednesday when they played at Northumbria University.

When my giving-up-buying-stuff for Lent ends - next Sunday, it will be hard to choose between buying a Mogwai LP or the Pipettes debut album. I suspect that the Pipettes might win - simply because they've only got one album so they wouldn't present me with further dilemmas. Actually, considering I didn't buy the delight pictured below (as spotted in Windows of Newcastle, priced at £179.99, only yesterday) I think I might treat myself and buy two records.



Wow. she's a beauty, eh?