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Souvenir from Thursday's gig. i love the fact that, due to a bombardment of setbacks* suffered by Patsy, who runs Hijilled, the poster had to be made old skool style, with letters cut out of a newspaper, scanned onto the background, which, though you wouldn't realise it, is the dust jacket of a recipe book. Favourite quotes: "Can I touch your pick?" & "You're a pregnant woman, Katherine, you can do what the fuck y'want"

Please note that the former quote, about touching someone's pick was said to me by someone else. I would never fucking ask to touch someone's fucking pick. *mostly caused by a crass level of bureacracy

#hijilled #thirstyscholar #mcr #manchester #live #music #event #livemusic #women in music

Oh dear oh dear! It's been so bloody long since our last gig - we hadn't planned a "hiatus" (vomits after typing the H word). What a stunner of an event that last gig was, though, and I refer, not only to ourselves playing a set that had few hitches (let's forget the final song, when I forgot to tune the bottom string back to E) but also to the stellar performance from the headline act. A very talented man from Glasgow. Anyway, after that we were due to play more dates put together by the same promotions company... but then the company that owns the promotions company (a different company) sacked most of the promotion staff and restaffed it. Some controversy involving a rogue promoter, unmet by yours truly, that the CEO held everyone else accountable for. So that put paid to our plans for more gigs with them, and, I think, a small tour in Scotland! Sucks to be a tiny artist, sometimes. Don't quote me on all of this, mind, some of it comes to me via Chinese and sometimes even Welsh whispers. Anyway, unrelated to all that, I had to move back to my original hometown for a while. That's the biggest drag... So meanwhile we're working on the 14 songs I've written. Turning them into things that not only I have written. Which I find more interesting. It's no good having a big ego that desperately cleaves to a song in its original state. Things have gotta grow. And we're goin' on down to play an acoustic set at Manchester's The Thirsty Scholar at the end of September. Don't worry, the exact date and all that will be posted soon. Probably post it up tomorrow or something. If you're reading this - I don't know who y'are, unless you announce yer self - thanks all the same for your indulgence. We hope to see you at a gig real soon. Unless... you're really creepy....

Memento from last night @ Gulliver's

#gulliver's #manchester #live #Band On The Wall #stickpin #daniel docherty #gig

I made a video for Careen, using old clips from the animations of Emile Cohl, from 1908 and 1910. One of the world's first animators, in fact' Fantasmagorie' is considered the world's first animated cartoon. Also some scenes taken from 'The Hasher's Delirium.' As he was a member of the so-called 'Incoherents' Cohl's work seemed suitable for the song, which is kind of about flailing around existentially (it *was* written when I was 19).

#stickpin #emile cohl #fantasmagorie #the hasher's delirium #careen #schtick

pt.2 of short clip from the soundcheck

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Short clip of us soundchecking the Casual Elitists at Band on the Wall, taken by Amritha, 7.8.16

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15TH JUNE - THE CASTLE HOTEL - OLDHAM STREET - MANCHESTER - DOORS 8PM -

Q/Where did Stickpin go?

K’s recording 14 songs

Q/What songs are these?

Rock songs. At least one of which is about archaeology.

Q/Got a release date?

No.

Q/What is K doing now?

Writing for a couple of commissions and working as a project assistant

Q/ What is D doing now?

Running a bar and becoming a grandad.

Q/ Did I hear that the pair of them can be heard on Fab Radio International, Monday nights for their Prog/Not Prog Rock radio show 9-11pm

You must have done, for that is true.

Q/ What sort of stuff do they play?

Blue Oyster Cult.

Q/ FUCKIN A

#stickpin #acoustickpin #narwhals #the castle #Live Manchester #june 15 #2016

This was after The Nosebleeds gig at Tiger Lounge. It was a tough one, playing melodic rock to a 70s cabaret punk crowd. But did I care once the mojitos arrived?

Here's some stuff about The Nosebleeds anyway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nosebleeds

#kh #mojito #stickpin #nosebleeds #tiger lounge #manchester