This is the flyer for this week’s Lofi Hifi, with our good friends in Wilson Fisk and Tall Ships, a band who haven’t been around long and just keep going from strength to strength. We’ve also got one of our old DJs (and my old housemate) Patrick ‘Dangerwank’ Dishman coming down to do a super special DJ set in the midnight hour. I can’t wait. I’m also very happy with the flyer, as I did it in pen and spent ages on it and it just looks cool in general. I think with retro appliances you can never go wrong really. I want to draw more. I want to do comics quite a lot now. Still got a bit to go on my assignment for Wednesday - a screenplay about a kid who can stop time. That’s pretty awesome too really. Check out the bands:

www.myspace.com/wilsonfiskband

www.myspace.com/tallshipsfromfalmouth

OK, so I realise this is pretty much fascism, but I can’t help but agree with its sentiment. I think it’s from the Luminaire, a live music venue in Kilburn - it was posted on facebook by a friend of mine. I’m not going to rant on and on about how people should shut up during gigs (particularly smaller, more intimate ones) because I don’t want to come across as a bitter bastard, but I just wanted to post the photo to provoke some thought.

Here’s a generic one for our night which I knocked up whilst sitting, interestingly enough, in the cafe of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. For the first time in my life, I was late to a pantomime, and rather than walk in in the middle of the show, I waited until the interval, so I had around half an hour to spare. It’s pretty minimal and was also kind of a chance for me to practice my shading and just have a bit of fun but I thought I’d put it up anyway.

So me and a number of my close friends run a club night called Lofi Hifi at the mighty fine Cavern Club in Exeter. We were lucky enough to inherit it from a number of awesome people, like an heirloom passed down through several generations of a West Country Indie family. It’s every fortnight and we’ve got some great acts coming up in the next few months, including, as the poster suggests, the excellent Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club. This is the poster made for us by the Cavern. They’re good to us. We do our own flyers too though. This is an excuse for me to sit and scribble and drink coffee and avoid real work, and I relish it. I’ll be posting up the next one when It’s done for sure.

And I thought I’d drop in some Peanuts just for fun, but also because it’s always genuinely heartwarming and because I feel like Charlie Brown quite often myself. I scrape along and get by, and things work out sometimes and sometimes they don’t, but they always work out. One day I’d really like to do a concept album about Charlie Brown and the Peanuts universe. I think it would have to be twee. Maybe I’d do it all on ukulele and glockenspiel. Who knows. I have so many ideas for stupid, pretentious concept albums. I recently joked about doing ‘The Complete Works of Shakespeare’ - a song for every play and each sonnet set to music. One day this will happen. I might skip a couple of the History plays though.

Hello blogosphere. It’s nice to be broadcasting to you. For my first post I’d like to show something very cool which is being organised by my good friend Mark. It’s a project which began yesterday called ‘100 Poems In 100 Days’ and is fairly self-explanatory. There’s a youtube channel which will have a new video of a poet reading a poem of their own composition every day for the next 100 days. I’ll be doing one on the 4th of February. This video is the first one and features Mark himself giving an intro to the whole thing, so check it out.