Thursday 3 November 2011
Friday 28 October 2011
The Fire's On
Our fave time of year... Mark, our lovely if a little, erm, perculiar, logman came at the weekend with a cubic mtre of logs. He delivers and stacks em if you get him a pint... Here is his blog :
thelondonlogcompany.blogspot.com
thelondonlogcompany.blogspot.com
My Head Hurts. Again.
The Gowlett was happy to host a lot of thirsty, friendly punters last night for yet another memorable, although instantly hazy due to the quantities of booze imbibed, Lucky 7s. We were particularly pleased to welcome one Mr George Wise, of Oop North Extraction. Hopefully he gets back to Yorkshire safe today, and doesn't miss the pub too much... Well played, Wise.
Anyhoo, below is the link required to take you through the night again if you were here, or to see what you missed if not..
http://soundcloud.com/hairyredman/lucky7s271011
I need to go back to bed. With a few codine and a can of coke. But first, I am curing a side of organic salmon for next week's special salad (Gravadlax with a tricolour beetroot salad & dough balls...). Then I need to cure more venison ready for smoking. We've run out, because I really didn't expect as many of you to love it, so it should be ready for next weekend... And then it's off to the QED Charcuterie Festival @ The Southbank Centre. So bed will have to wait. But the coke and codine can come right now thank you very much...
Anyhoo, below is the link required to take you through the night again if you were here, or to see what you missed if not..
http://soundcloud.com/hairyredman/lucky7s271011
I need to go back to bed. With a few codine and a can of coke. But first, I am curing a side of organic salmon for next week's special salad (Gravadlax with a tricolour beetroot salad & dough balls...). Then I need to cure more venison ready for smoking. We've run out, because I really didn't expect as many of you to love it, so it should be ready for next weekend... And then it's off to the QED Charcuterie Festival @ The Southbank Centre. So bed will have to wait. But the coke and codine can come right now thank you very much...
Friday 7 October 2011
This week it went a bit wrong...
I'm having a bad day. Self inflicted, so spare me no sympathy, but as a result, I have drunkenly done something to last night's recording. I've got it all here, but in 2 different formats, and my twatbook doesn't let me import them from one to the other. Anyhoo, in the meantime I will post the unedited 3 and a half hours for your listening pleasure... As soon as my head starts working again, I'll repost a snappier version. Enjoy.
http://soundcloud.com/hairyredman/lucky-7s-061011-mkii
http://soundcloud.com/hairyredman/lucky-7s-061011-mkii
Thursday 29 September 2011
Lucky 7s. Still the best legal 3 hours you can spend on a Thursday
Wow. 2011. Almost October. And I thought that it would be a good idea to record a lucky 7s session. Well over 15 years after being at Zion Train's first ever webcast gig. Which only about 20 people could probably see in the world, as the only people who owned the correct soft and hardware... I digress.
The important thing is that you, dear reader (and very soon listener) are about to be furnished with a way to pretend you were at tonight's Lucky 7s.
Lucky 7s is almost 4 years old. It came about when my mate Niko said he had a great idea to bring people down to the pub we were running in Nunhead. People bring their own 7" singles and DJ themselves. I promptly told him it would never work there (and I was right, we did try several times) but that it was perfect for The Gowlett. And there you have it. Nearly 4 years later, every Thursday night a normally sane and peaceful corner of Peckham's South West reaches - and a vital 200 metres before the postcode and the size of one's horizontal stripes, apparently -changes. More of that another day maybe... It's a celebration of music, pure and simple. There is no bad music or good music in my humble opinion, just music. Sure there are arrangements of the 7 available notes and their variations that some may feel are better than others, but without the sh1te you wouldn't truly appreciate the sublime.
There are few rules to Lucky 7s, but it seems prudent to mention them:
1) You bring records. 45s. 7" singles. Whatever you choose to call them.
2) You play them till the fool with the mic tells you it's not your turn any more (generally 15 minutes)
No censorship (other than due to mahoosive scratches). No complaints (other than from our neighbours). No extra time (even though most people seem convinced they more than anyone else deserves at least one more choon).
And that's it really. Never could we have imagined quite what a several headed monster we would unleash upon The Gowlett, but Thursdays will never be quite the same. Sometimes 200 people, sometimes 20. OK, only once or twice 200, but it has happened, and my god what nights they have pretty much all turned out to be... For many many reasons, across a large spectrum of brilliance. So now we are going to record it all and post it here. Who knows what next? Well I do, if I'm honest : a few terse looks in the school playground at drop off time on a Friday morning from neighbours, a stinking hangover and at least one memorable snippet from the night before. Christ, I hope I can shake Wuthering Heights from my head before I attempt sleep...
Not sure if this will work, but here is the file for tonight's brilliance. If you getup before me, let me know if it does work. Or wake me up with a tweet @TheGowlettArms . That always makes me laugh, forgetting to stop the noises on my phone...
Seems it doesn't work. But I will post a link tomorrow. When I've worked out how. Oh dear.
Hey. Guess what. I think that by the time you lot wake up, this should work!!
The important thing is that you, dear reader (and very soon listener) are about to be furnished with a way to pretend you were at tonight's Lucky 7s.
Lucky 7s is almost 4 years old. It came about when my mate Niko said he had a great idea to bring people down to the pub we were running in Nunhead. People bring their own 7" singles and DJ themselves. I promptly told him it would never work there (and I was right, we did try several times) but that it was perfect for The Gowlett. And there you have it. Nearly 4 years later, every Thursday night a normally sane and peaceful corner of Peckham's South West reaches - and a vital 200 metres before the postcode and the size of one's horizontal stripes, apparently -changes. More of that another day maybe... It's a celebration of music, pure and simple. There is no bad music or good music in my humble opinion, just music. Sure there are arrangements of the 7 available notes and their variations that some may feel are better than others, but without the sh1te you wouldn't truly appreciate the sublime.
There are few rules to Lucky 7s, but it seems prudent to mention them:
1) You bring records. 45s. 7" singles. Whatever you choose to call them.
2) You play them till the fool with the mic tells you it's not your turn any more (generally 15 minutes)
No censorship (other than due to mahoosive scratches). No complaints (other than from our neighbours). No extra time (even though most people seem convinced they more than anyone else deserves at least one more choon).
And that's it really. Never could we have imagined quite what a several headed monster we would unleash upon The Gowlett, but Thursdays will never be quite the same. Sometimes 200 people, sometimes 20. OK, only once or twice 200, but it has happened, and my god what nights they have pretty much all turned out to be... For many many reasons, across a large spectrum of brilliance. So now we are going to record it all and post it here. Who knows what next? Well I do, if I'm honest : a few terse looks in the school playground at drop off time on a Friday morning from neighbours, a stinking hangover and at least one memorable snippet from the night before. Christ, I hope I can shake Wuthering Heights from my head before I attempt sleep...
Seems it doesn't work. But I will post a link tomorrow. When I've worked out how. Oh dear.
Hey. Guess what. I think that by the time you lot wake up, this should work!!
Saturday 17 September 2011
Getting There... Slowly
Well done you. You are among the first people to find our new look website and news feed...
You will notice changes as we smooth out the issues we discover over the coming weeks, but we promise it will run (ahem) smoothly as we work out how to type interesting relevant text. But don't hold your breath...
You will notice changes as we smooth out the issues we discover over the coming weeks, but we promise it will run (ahem) smoothly as we work out how to type interesting relevant text. But don't hold your breath...
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