Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

I turned up during Global Noise Attacks set at last nights gig in the Man on the Moon. They’re kinda fun but rather more, erm, on display than necessary…still, I’m guessing it can get pretty warm on stage even in the winter.

Next up were Rome Burns, who seem to have forgotten to invite Captain Sensible to turn on Simons lights, so there was an impromptu ceremony with the guy from Devilish Presley. (I wonder who turned on the Cambridge christmas lights this year…? It only got into my conciousness last year because there was some controversy “we can’t have someone from a band called ‘the Damned’ turning on Christmas lights!”). Still, Nev was rocking out, to the point of injuring himself if his post-stage mopey face was any indication of what was going on…

They were followed by Screaming Banshee Aircrew, who are a band I’ve been meaning to see for a long time, having heard a few of their recordings and been mighty impressed. They didn’t let me down – nice stage presence, beautiful voice, daft songs about weeding. Shame they managed to short themselves out before their finale, but somehow they seemed quite shocked that they’d managed to keep going so long without breaking anything. Must see more of these guys (though preferably without repeating the bit where I say stupid things to their cute female singer…).

Finally there was Devilish Presley, who came on after a considerable amount of furious faffing around by the sound engineer trying to ressurrect whatever electronics SBA had managed to short – I decided to sit out the way at the back for these guys, having seen them only last weekend. I like their show and they seem good people but you can have too much of a good thing, better to catch with people instead, even if its really too noisy for proper talking.


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Its a bad thing when you are woken up by configuration management nightmares, isn’t it?

“Just /how many/ configurations do you want to maintain? In CVS? With a team of 20 developers?”


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Is it time for reinvention, is it time to move along…?

I wrote a long and confused entry trying to explain the quietness happening here. I can’t. Its just the way it is. I’m not feeling particularly engaged with the world at the moment, like I’m not really a part of society any more. Like I don’t have anything useful to contribute, but equally, like it has nothing for me.

Its not that I’ve not been doing stuff, its just not felt like it was things I wanted to write about – nothing particularly interesting. Well, there was some geocaching and the Last Dance/Devilish Presley/Rome Burns gig in Colchester, and tonights in Cambridge. But I don’t have anything to say about them that you won’t have read anywhere else.

All of which suggests that I’m in need of some kind of change to my lifestyle – but what? I have some ideas but I’d like to hear if anyone has any thoughts before I bias the discussion by suggesting the things I’ve already thought of. Besides I don’t have any idea about *how* to go about the changes I have thought of, but thats another story.


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