In The City – Live

Update:

Intense. John Robb spied me from across the room and mouthed, “You!” with pointed finger before walking toward me T100 style. I ducked into the conference room before he could scalp me like he does in The Last of the Mohicans.

I’ll condense the 1-hour Blogging in the USA talk into a few sentences: One blog good, lots of blogs, bad. Be funny and shit. Don’t post MP3s without good content. All fairly standard. Was nice that (Joe?) from A New Band A Day piped up. He has a wonderful blog. Skip to the end, most bloggers are a bunch of cunts.

In The City Trends: “Buzzword” in the new buzzword.

I wanna see some bands already.

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So I’m here. I’m an In The City virgin, apparently it’s been crap for a few years so there’s not much to live up to. Which thus far is just as well. Everyone’s talking to each other with very sincere looks on their faces. There goes John Robb, Mohawk cutting through the crowd like a scene from Jaws.

Saw a band while everyone else was too busy mulling away in conference rooms over what kind of underpants Guy Garvey wore while they recorded Elbow’s new album (I’m told a Jersey Brief). Lisbon duo Youthless were great. Of course if I say otherwise I’m likely due a beating from said band as they’re currently kipping on my floor. They play at the Umbro Design Studio at 9.30 on Friday. Plug over, honest, they’re well worth watching though.

In The City Trends: Those with lanyards, have front of pass facing you. That way someone might think you’re famous. They’re giving out some cool bags full of stuff. Apparently you should “totally go for the lemon flavoured energy drink!” It’s no “beware of the brown acid” but it’s a mantra I’ll certainly take heed of. Off for some blogging talk.