Kevin Pocock

Hellooo. Well I’m having issues with various updates to my site’s back-end, so this is coming via my mobile app (my Twitter feed isn’t working either)

Anyhow, if this makes it through the mess, you should seriously consider getting along to The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, Balham SW12 9HD this Sunday. Because from 1pm (1300) this Sunday, the OneTaste collective is holding an uber, mega festival all day (well, from 1pm). I’ll be there, but here are the reasons for you to come:

- great entertainment from the likes of Inua Ellams, Benin City (you remember them, right?), Kate Tempest, Ross Sutherland…

-Newton Faulkner’ll be there. I kid you not. He’ll be there and playing!

- what…you want more?

Honestly it looks set to be a cracking day, and if you’re interested head to the OneTaste site.

Right well, YouTube Pick of The Week will follow tomorrow and I’ll catch you soon!

So, if you weren’t at Poejazzi at Camden’s Proud Galleries last night, you missed out big time. It was the best damn Monday night I’ve had in a loong while, let me tell you. But ‘what did I miss?’ I hear you ask. Well let me tell and show you.

You missed (as ordered on the bill),

Tim Clare

Louise Golbey

Kasai Masai (http://www.kasaimasai.com/)

Benin City

…and 12 Tone Brass Band (clip quality not great).

All of who were fantastic.  But if you weren’t there then you missed out a bit. Which is a shame. However, tomorrow I’ll let you know about another grand happening in London town this Sunday. So don’t forget to check back then.

Cheers! Kev

Man alive my eyes hurt. They feel like The Borrowers have found there way into my opthalmic nerves via my ear canals and are well-wishingly rubbing my lenses with wet and dry paper with just a tad too little water. *Argh* etc.

Anywho, you’ll have noticed that I’ve updated my site’s background picture because I can and this one is showing the Old College in Aberystwyth on the left and the…err, um, a church I think, on the right. I’m not religious, nor am I particularly interested in old academic buildings, I just tend to think that here the juxtaposition of the two architectural styles is pretty neat. Blimey, where did that come from? What are The Borrowers doing to me? 

In other news, traffic to this site has soared to 300 unique users this month all thanks to David Beckham that music off of the Adidas advert, as my new, updated investigation into it (aka the right one) has landed me once more at the foot of the first page of Goolge search results. Hurrah! Or Boo! if you’re my brain considering what the best way is to hold onto those visitors and stop them leaving me for somewhere shinier and more new, making subsequent months looks unimpressive from the heights of the three-striped inspired throne-room.  ”No, don’t go, I’m nice!” etc. Back to the pic though and I’ve added it to my Flickr stream, or you can click the image for a larger view of it:

Now it’s my duty to report that it is actually a very small world. Or at least, London is a small town. Today I was checking out the band lineup for the launch party (of an art collective) I’m attending, and lo and behold I see the name of Benin City. That would be the Benin City that are friends of mine and who’s gigs I’ve been excitedly attending for the best part of the year. So, guy I know from school starts art collective. For the launch party of said collective, he needs great, freakin’ fresh, rocking, bands. He (or a friend) chooses to include a band that I know via old connections with the poetry scene, meaning I happen to be good mates with the two frontmen, and consequently friends with the other members.

Random eh? What can I say except that the guy behind the art collective (he’s called Ben Slow) or one of his friends in The Wonderland Collective has superb taste in music, and Benin City have a good eye for a great gig (I know this one to be true). It’s completely random, but it’s genius and means that I get to see a whole lot of good mates on one uber awesome night of super genius-ness. Yes! 

Unfortunately, I’ve actually run out of interesting things to update you on now, which is especially irritating because it means that I have to tell you that I received my first two Twitter Spamollowers (spam followers, see what I did?). Woe is me, woe is me. And my eyes ! MY eyes!