I'm in New York, Blipperfuckers!!
Apologies with the lack of updates regarding this, the time has most definitley come for the square waves to roar in arpegiotic (is that even a word?) triumph at full blast in the big apple. Blip 2011 is (very nearly at the time of scribbling) upon us. I would have scribbled more on it but things have both been crazy for me on both a work and personal level the week before, leaving me with only a full day to get myself sorted for it.But I'm here now and I have something of a schedule to work to. With bytejacker offering continuing coverage and information, as well as the following schedule I got from the (now sadly absent) James Bentley.(click to see at full zoom)
Dunno where james got that from but there was a bit of a location issue first of all, Bytejacker (correctly) reported that The Sabrepulse gig was at monsters island on river street instead of babycastles. I got there an hour late after some seriously noobish navigation from bedford avenue subway yesterday, mind you this was my Day of arrival in new york itself. credit to J arthur keenes by keeping us enterteined through the sound issues and being a key differentiator between the acts I did see. CD was bought for that as I did enjoy when it did go right. I never saw or heard much of JDDE3J Before but found his stuff too hard and too fast without much melody. I also didn't take stick around for sabrepulse himself as I don't enjoy his material.
BTW Also at the time of writing, the weather in NYC is pretty poor, so I don't know if anything is going to happen for the picnic. but I'll show up around then and see how it goes.
Anyways, I'm REALLY looking forward to the main event at the eyebeam itself. & any readers of this see me at any or all of the above events, feel free to say hi, I'm Laurence, the big bandana'd british bloke with a gameboy cart necklace :D
More coverage: http://blipfestival.org/2011/
Also, as an aside, one last thing I now have first hand knowledge about is how futile it is to buy a Mobile device for 3gdata usage in the US outright and off contract (like I have been doing all the time back in blighty), T-mobile GSM sims (who'd wanna go with AT&T.. right?) only work with a select select few handsets, one of Which is a nokia N900 (which I do own and have bought with me, so there is hope). But this has rendered my Desire Z next to useless for mobile net use :( Don't get me started on CDMA and "activations"!! >:(
