The Cactus Farm: 09/01/2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Trip to Norway photo blog 21-27th September 2008

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironmanrecords/sets/72157605126110912/

I don't have time to write a blog so i just take pictures in the hope that somehow I'll find the time to write the story to go with them. I've just added all the pictures from my recent trip to Norway and back working with Seasick Steve.

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Monday, September 29, 2008

Life in a Blender 29th September 2008 to play a 30-minute acoustic set at 9 pm

Barbes (9th St. and 6th Ave. Brooklyn) is having a fundraiser for Obama on Monday, Sept 29. All funds are going to get the vote out in the crucial swing states.

Life in a Blender will play a 30-minute acoustic set at 9 pm with Don, Al, and the original bass stallion, Dave Moody. Original Blender Charlie Shaw will dazzle you with his interpretive beat keeping.

Joan Grossman will show a short film about the Iraq War at 8 pm.

Michael Hearst is playing after her.

Chicha Libre plays at 10 pm

Suggested donation is 25 dollars but you can give what you can.

you can call me if you want at 206 295 6024.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Police Bastard " Cursed earth e.p. 7"

New release on Twisted Chords

tc023 Police Bastard „ Cursed earth e.p.“ 7”
Birmingham Deathpunk strikes back! The English Anarcho-Punk heroes are back! Back with their powerful hardcore-punk and a lot of anger and energy. 5 well produced songs will blow your mind. This record comes with beautiful silver printed sleeve. “This world disgusts me/shit spreads around me/makes you proud?/ makes me fucking sick” (Police Bastard “Mental slave”)

Twisted Chords
Reutweg 1a
76327 Pfinztal
Fon 0049-7240-36205
Web: www.twisted-chords.de

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Love Music Hate Racism gig in Coventry THIS SATURDAY 27th Sept - Neville Staple, Bashy, MistaJam + more!

From: Love Music Hate Racism

Saturday 27th September 2008

Kasbah Club, Primrose Hill Street, Coventry.

NEVILLE STAPLE (ex-The Specials, with his amazing live ska band)

BASHY (Mobo-nominated rapper)

MISTAJAM (Radio 1 – top hip-hop/urban music DJ)

+ LOADS OF TOP LOCAL BANDS inc Ripps/King Hermit/7th Wave/The Strikes/Shadowplay/Senses

+ SPEAKERS, WORKSHOPS + LOADS MORE!

2-6pm: Local bands, workshops, etc (Ticket for this bit only = £5)

6-10pm: The Main Room event (£10 ticket for evening/all day)

Following the election of two fascist BNP councillors in nearby Nuneaton & Bedworth, Coventry LMHR & UAF are staging a massive event to encourage more people to unite and actively oppose the BNP in Warwickshire.

Tickets: www.seetickets.com or direct from Kasbah

Info: lmhrcoventry@hotmail.com / www.lovemusichateracism.com

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Birmingham gigs coming up

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Fri. Oct 3rd: JOHN COOPER CLARKE + BOB LOG III(Fat Possum) + The Birmingham Monologues part1 + Nadeem Rangzeb. Advance tickets £10: Ticketweb , also Swordfish, Jibbering Records and The Polar Bear Door: £12:

Fri.Oct 10th: The Reverend Ted Chippington + The Birmingham Monologues (part2) + Nadeem Rangzeb

Advance tickets £5: Ticketweb , also Swordfish, Jibbering Records and The Polar Bear

Door: £7:

Sun. OCT 19th: THE CREEPING NOBODIES (Toronto)+ WANDER PHANTOM (Nottm) + THE COURTESY GROUP ( Galaxy of Brum). Pay £5 on the Door only

www.myspace.com/thecreepingnobodies

www.myspace.com/wanderphantom

www.myspace.com/thecourtesygroup

Fri. Dec 5th: DAMO SUZUKI with Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple) & Charles Hayward (This Heat, Quiet Sun, Clear Frame) playing sets with PRAM, The COURTESY GROUP & one other act TBC. Tickets onsale soon

www.myspace.com/thecuratesegg

Birmingham shows from
CAPSULE

http://www.capsule.org.uk

Wednesday 17th September
PELICAN + TORCHE
@ The Factory Club . Birmingham
Doors 8pm
Advanced Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
Polar Bear - Kings Heath
Swordfish Records - Birmingham city centre

“Thunder Pop.” is the way the band describe themselves, ex members of Floor and Cavity, Torche mix the classic harmonies of the Beach Boys with the heaviness of the Melvins. Chicago instro-sorcerers Pelican create cinematic melody upon glacial heaviness, they achieve the sort of inevitability usually reserved for weather systems and natural disasters.
MORE INFO
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Tuesday 23rd September
KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT & AXOLOTL
ES & FURSAXA
ISLAJA, BLEVIN BLECTUM & SAMARA LUBELSKI
DREAM TRIANGLE (TOMUTONTTU & SKATERS)
@ The Hare & Hounds . Kings Heath
Doors 8pm
Advanced Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
Polar Bear - Kings Heath
Swordfish Records - Birmingham city centre

Each performance a unique and brand new collaboration, each of the acts features a combination of Finnish artists from FONAL, who have invited a US counterpart to collaborate on a composition, highlighting the parallels in strands of the recent evolving trend of ‘weird/avant folk’ between the US West coast and Finland’s northern communities.
MORE INFO
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Friday 24th October 2008
OXES
BEESTUNG LIPS
BILGE PUMP
@ The Hare & Hounds . Kings Heath
Doors 8pm
Advanced Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
Polar Bear - Kings Heath
Swordfish Records - Birmingham city centre

The OXES are back, and in grand style, taking a turning point in their songwriting as they dabble in more straight forward rock numbers, and more, well mental rock numbers. Playing with time signatures, guitar leads/solos, off kilter rhythms, and even remixing a song, the OXES have taken a step into a slightly new direction.
MORE INFO
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Saturday 1st November 2008
'Release The Bats' ATP Halloween Party
SHELLAC
LIGHTNING BOLT
PISSED JEANS
OM
WOODEN SHJIPS
+ DJ ANDY WEATHERALL
@ Space 2 . Custard Factory . Birmingham
Doors 7pm
Advanced Tickets: www.seetickets.com
www.wegottickets.com
www.gigantic.com

And from the following shops from next week
Polar Bear - Kings Heath
Swordfish Records - Birmingham city centre
Ideal Skate Shop - Custard Factory

FANCY DRESS PARTY
Ticketholders are advised that as Lightning Bolt will be playing on the floor of the venue and not on the stage, people wishing to see their performances - which will be the first on every night - should arrive early to be able to see them.
LONDON SHOW HAS SOLD OUT SO DON'T MISS OUT!
MORE INFO
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Sunday 16th November 2008
MURCOF with live strings
+ OREN MARSHALL
@ The Hare & Hounds . Kings Heath
Doors 8pm
Advanced Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
Polar Bear - Kings Heath
Swordfish Records - Birmingham city centre

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28th sept 2008 cannabis memorial day birmingham

From: Colin Preece

National Green Day

80 years of the blessed herbs prohibition.

80 years of victimization, incarceration and religious discrimination.

80 years of lies.

28th September

Cannon Hill Park.

Beside the Golden Lion Of Jah.
BIRMINGHAM
ENGLAND

1PM onwards, forward, forever and forever, into ghanja forthe healing of all nations.

hemp4shed
sustainable human environmental development

My Jah bless us with the healing of the nations in the name of THC.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Life in a Blender - Bring-a-Friend, Make-a-Friend, Take-a-Friend, Leave-a-Friend

Say you there! Deep in the crater of economic ruin as Old Grin and Twinkle just shrugs. Slide on over. I'm here to join you and offer you some entertainment.

It's Life in a Blender's
Bring-a-Friend, Make-a-Friend
Take-a-Friend, Leave-a-Friend
Night of the Friendlies
Who Touch so Much
And Love Without Boundaries
Friendzy Frenzy
N I G H T !
featuring HORNS
at
THE LIVING ROOM
(Glamorous Ludlow St. near Plain Old Stanton St.)
Friday, September 26, 10 pm
with
SuRPrisE AcT at 11 pm
and
Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse
at 12 midnight

Call 206 295 6024

Just read the reviews:
"They said Cher could never be tamed and thunder never shared?well Life in a Blender does both."
The Wall Street Journal

"A depraved caterwauling that makes grown men wet their pants on impact." The New York Times

"If the paisley police come to arrest me, tell them I've taken a trip down miniskirt lane via Peace Pike with two fingers in the air and a song of freedom written across my proud chest somewhere underneath all the hair and a bunch of crap. " The Herald World Tribune

"A Life in a Blender show runs like this: grey to black to beige to toenail red to pale yellow to cusp-of-puberty orange to dingo brown to white with some dots to puce and back." The Gazette for Contemporary Modern Business Thought

"Ink up my Seal of Approval because I'll be using it all night long to stamp each song 'Approved!Fist in the air!' Can't wait to give it--my approval! Woah!" The Royal Canadian Intelligencer

"A night tailor-made for fun-niks." The Chronicle of Industry and Righteous Behavior

"Their three-hour encores are legendary single-note guitar wallows during which the lead singer barks like a tommygun and the rest of the band acts as if they are applying the Heimlich maneuvre to their long-dead instruments."
The World Capitol Globe Microchip News Implant

"I felt like Hamlet's uncle was pouring hot poison in my ear. But that would me make me Hamlet's father and a pretty awesome ghost. " Mao's Little Red Book

Hear Life in a Blender's music in Dane Cook's new hit movie "The Cuddly Jackass."

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Dufus - Port Chester, NYC recording, Hoboken

Dufus are playing some shows and doing a recording in NYC and surrounding areas this week, let us know if you'd like to join in for the recording...

Saturday, September 20 10PM $15
> House of Love
> 274 S. Water St.
> Greenwich, CT
> w/Ching Chong Song
> Huggabroomstik
> and more...
>
> Saturday, September 27 9PM $9
> Maxwell's
> 1039 Washington St.
> Hoboken, New Jersey
> w/Jeffrey Lewis
> Pregnant Barrakuda McMurder
> Jettison Sister
> maxwellsnj.com
>
> Saturday, October 11 9PM
> Chapter House
> Stewart Ave.
> Ithaca, New York
> w/USAISAMONSTER
> ----------------------------
> Plus, dufus willl be recording an album this next week in Brooklyn.

> The dates are September 24/25 and the band invite you to be a part > of the large group vocal/soundmaking parts... if you're interested, > please email quankmeyer@hotmail.com
> ----------------------------
> www.dufus.tv
> www.myspace.com/dufus

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