Welcome to Declan's stuff and as the name suggests it's a random selection of the rubbish that occurs to me. (But, in truth is mainly about music). You have been warned.
I thought I'd write to congratulate you on the near completion of the Incinerator. It truly is a beautiful and wonderful construction. I don't know if you've had cause to take the Bus to Port Erin recently. However if you do you cannot have helped noticing the reaction of visitors at the sight of this resplendent edifice - they become entranced by the incinerator and seem to hold it in higher regard than Castle Rushen - I mean if you've seen one Castle you've seen them all, but a giant metallic white elephant with no discernible use! You don't see one of them every day.)
However, I am concerned for the future of this remarkable feat of engineering when it becomes operational. Will it become engrimed by the residue of the Island's waste. That would be a terrible thing.
To hell with it - why don't we just finish it then not turn it on. Leave it there gleaming in the Braddan sunshine as a monument to this Governments vainglorious folly. Employ a caretaker or two to keep it sparkling and charge tourists to look round it.
Then in thousands of years time future archaeologists will conclude that it was used in some kind of sun worshipping religious rite. No doubt speculating that the entire Island would make pilgrimages on Motorbicycle and Sidecar, and sing hymns to the accompaniment of a ukele. They may well also conclude that the proceedings were watched over by a mysterious Crowe Woman. Imagine your place in history secured for ever.
Following this discovery, mystics and hippies from around the world will flock to the Island, thus reviving the tourist industry after millennia of decline. You owe it to the hotelliers and tour guides of the future - don't turn the Incinerator on.
You enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways.
You are neither organized or disorganized.
You probably enjoy spending quiet time alone.
You find it easy to criticize others.
You aren't particularly nervous, nor calm.
I'm still in England and I've bought a shed load of records and books!
But I've also bought a digital camera. Which I used when I went to Club Beer with Stevie and Jo. Here are the pictures. 11:12 AM
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Saturday, August 16, 2003
Declan's In England
Hiya I'm in England. I'm going to the Reading Festival, can't wait to see the Polyphonic Spree, Primal Scream, and Beck. Going to go to Camden in London tonight to Club Beer. Which sounds a horribly provincial place for the Cockneys and trendies of London.
I've bought lots of cd's whilst I have been away they include, Dead Kennedys, Killing Joke, a No Wave compilation, Augustus Pablo, Pigbag, The Slits, and Gene Clark. I saw a copy of the Safetyword cd in FOP records in Reading.
I have seen some great performances in the BOTB so far including. The Village Idiots, The Fluid, Nanaki, Malakakaka, Slimpig, Circus World, Cleatus, Suspect Package, and the Blue Field Wanderers.
The first heat of the London Calling certainly produced some controversy.
First up were Black Orchid, a new band to me, who impressed, on their first trip to the Trafalgar. The outstanding aspect of the show was the singer, who was an intense and brooding presence on all their songs. The songs, themselves were dark and strong and rightly received praise from many people present.
Musically they play a blend of grungey heavy metal, which though it is perhaps a little riff heavy for my taste, will win them many fans within the darker elements of the Island's music community. A very creditable entrance onto the local scene, they are a band to watch in the future.
I've been a little disappointed by the Village Idiots recent shows, they've been a little lackluster, as if they were unsure which direction they want to take, and consequently I thought they may struggle to get through this heat.
If the band had similar concerns, they were unjustified because this was a storming performance by a band on top form. This was easily the best I've ever seen them.
Vigourous and exciting, the band palyed with a passionate dynamism that had the audience dancing, applauding and cheering. They can be very proud of this performance.
Maldune had the difficult task of following the Idiots' towering performance, and they made a creditable attempt to rise to the occasion. They play pleasant, mainstream pop-rock in the Oasis mode. And it would be nice to see them play, when they aren't faced with the problems presented by following such a stunning performance.
Result: Maldune won.
8:18 PM
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