Things to Do for you and for Me

For you:

Go see Martin John Henry at one of these events, I’ve only one song off his new album but it was a peach.

8th of October @ Stereo in Glasgow with some excellent support from The Seventeenth Century and Adam Stafford.  Tickets are 4 pound for entry or 6 pound for entry plus 2 free downloads from each of the bands.

(sidenote:  funny story about Adam Stafford, I’d just finished listening to his album ‘Build a Harbour Immediately’ and was thinking how much I enjoyed it when I had to go down to Fenwick to meet my girlfriend and go to her cousin’s wedding.  Turned out it was also Adam Stafford’s wedding, I didn’t know how to approach the subject of, ‘we’ve never met before and I didn’t even know who was getting married at this wedding but I was just listening to your album and really enjoyed it’, without sounding like an absolute psychopath and so kept to myself and got drunk.  This could have been a post in itself, stretched it out into another ridiculous narrative like the Phantom Band one, but I restrained myself, slightly.)

or a free instore at Avalanche Record in Edinburgh on the 8th as well I think, let me check.  Nope, I was wrong as usual, it’s the 7th at 4pm.

For those who don’t know/remember Martin John Henry was in De Rosa, a band who I’m reliably assured were excellent but who I never got into before they split and all of I sudden I lost the urge to listen to cause I know I would love them and just lament, woe, lament that I hadn’t got round to it sooner.

I’ll be missing both of these due to three 13 hour shifts at work, have pity on me, I’m a former English student, we don’t know the meaning of real work.

For me:

Albums which I wants:

Martin John Henry – The Other Half of Everything (streaming in full here.)

The Moth and the Mirror – Honestly, This World (doesn’t actually come out to the 10th but the two songs I’ve heard have been excellent)

John Knox Sex Club – Raise Ravens (not actually listened to this yet, but I have heard a LOT of good press, streaming here.)

I’m sure there was another four or five albums I wanted but perhaps I have conveniently forgotten them to stop myself bankrupting…myself.  I did do a English degree, honest.

Also,

The Moth and the Mirror at Stereo on Wed 12th of October for their album launch.  This I will be attending, I think.  Tickets ain’t on sale yet though.

edit: For all of us I’m embedding The Other Half of Everything