Bitten by an ape

Music with a banana twist

Marathon

The two girls dance frantically in the space in front of the stage: they move around the floor, a few times almost hitting the waitresses passing by with plates and glasses. They laugh as they spin round and round, they lean against the loudspeakers – at one point they even lay their heads directly onto [...]

Day one: ranting, rehearsing and…restaurant.

It’s pretty amazing for me as a European to discover there are at least 7 or 8 music venues in such a small town as Chapel Hill – population about fifty-thousand. Loz and I have been driving around town last night to check some of them out, leaving our CD and press kit and enquiring [...]

Doubts of the day

Ring-a-ring-ring, identity withheld:
‘Hello?’
‘Eric?’
‘Oh, hi Alex!’
*Whatthe…he’s recognised me just by my way of saying his name?!*
I’ll try another accent next time!
Anyway, he was on a golf course and I decided that it was not really a good moment to chat. We’ll touch base tomorrow – oh yes, time to get back to work. Itchy hands, itchy [...]

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…the awareness that we are, in this network, dots crossed by numberless lines; that we wear and present to others different masks at different times – to the point that our sense of identity withers away. The creation of our own escapist universe, which is not less uncertain than reality, but delusionally more manageable. Finally, our relationship with technology, at the same time useful and threatening.…

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