Treecreeper show at The Wheelbarrow tomorrow...

As those who exist virtually on Facebook might already know, Treecreeper has a show tomorrow night at The Wheelbarrow in Camden.
A new venture from an old friend of ours Jay (sometimes know as Beans On Toast), who used to run The Flowerpot and Nambucca before it burned down.

A free show, with plenty of good music and good times. And our roadie Cooper's birthday as well, so could be a good one.

I'll be the fat, greying guy whinging on stage. Come and say hello...

Independent Online

The Independent Online has put up a gallery of the images and poems from the Sideshow exhibition, which has also been up all week at Wilton's Music Hall.

Pretty excited about it, check it here.

All is Greed

It seems the rioters have damned themselves in the nation's eyes by having the nerve to target luxury goods and aspirational consumer objects in their lootings. The fact that this is just a mirror to the sort of greedy, grasping, materialist society that an irresponsibly managed free market, gluttonous financial and corporate institutions and a gross over exposure to advertising has created seems lost on most commentators.

The rioters should presumably all be nice, easy stereotypes for the media to swallow and regurgitate for our simple understanding. Some dreadlocks would be nice, people, and some placards spouting vague anti-globalization messages next time, please.

Of course robbery, thuggery and seemingly un-ideologically motivated violence couldn't possibly be representative of the kind of dull, aching, aimless anger that you see on the streets every day, could it? It's just common-or-garden criminality, right? I mean, these youngsters don't look like they could spell "insurrection"...