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well thats first week proper in office survived, been busy, already as last year doign someone elses job as well a my own qu'ell surprise ....

We are back to 2 long term sickies by look of it one has been recommended to see s shrink so looks like she may be away for a while ..... another of last years long term sickies is off again buthopefully only for a week or so .....

new year same work chaos!!!

Other than that little to report apart from it's bloody cold !!!!!

Weekend calls and no idea what to do .. I may go hunting for a laptop have seen a Phillips one in Currys in town that looks like it might be a good investment at about £500 .. anyone got any experience of Phillips in compter terms, I've had their Hi-fis with no problems for years ...

Just read the post on the possible "limited" future of LJ ...

Might mean I have to bite the bullet and go "Facebook" ...

Guess that means that Goth web resources will get more used in future by promoters and mere mortals ...

Fingers crossed this little piece of communication stays afloat or someone buys it for a fiddy pee!!!!

Now I was going to post at end of last year and then I fortgot me password arrghh!

So 08 it came it now gone, what did I do, not a lot it seems, I did get to 2 Whitby's I did get to Scotland, I didn't have my June holiday as I decided to suffer the plague that weekend I was due to travel down to London ... I did get to see the Alarm twice and a few gigs at the end of the year namely Amanda Palmer, The Damned, Stiff Little Fingers and a couple of others

But really 08 was dominated by work as from May the team had people off on long term sick so at one point there were 3 of us as opposed to the should be 10! We still have 2 off on long term sick but with new recruits things look better (hopefully)

- I walked lots and managed to do my 4 miles on average every day the longest was 14 miles twice the shortest was under 2 miles on the most foul weathered day whilst attending a friends wedding near Robin Hoods Bay ...

- I spent too much time building UK Goth List there has been lots of work on that in the last 6 weeks and a new look to some section and others to be adapted - go have a look at the "best" and most up to date Goth and Alternative club listing currently on line (84 and rising!)

So what to 09 - hoping for a quieter working year for one. Aim to keep the walking going, going to try to be more sociable and see people (08 was not really good for that) - aiming to organise a couple of "Goth Mobs" aka picnic meet up type things with added stuff! First trip of year planned is the Alarm Gathering in Wales at the end of this month. Tickets for Killers at Arena are lurking in the house for March. Whitby for October is booked up with cottage deposit paid for the same place as last time. April Whitby not sure on. We have 2 wedding invites so far for the year.

So I hope everyone has shaken free of 08 - for some it was a crap year, for some a year of change, some a busy year and some a good year ... heres 09 brings to you whatever you wnt / need it to be ..

All over today's papers is the story of the sentancing of the Sheffield man who has been comparedto the British Fritzl who abused and fathered 9 children with his 2 daughters.

This is pretty much the first national coverage of this story which we published details of in the Sheffield Star about 2 months ago .... I guess now he has had 25 life sentences passed on him yet cannot still be named for "legal" reasons that the story has hit the wider media ..

Now I have np doubt the legal reason are to protect the daughters and other family members but how long before he is named somewhere online .. and how soon once he lands in prison will it take for someone to attack him?

Stories at

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/RAPI…
(with links to some of the earlier stories on this case)

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/articl…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/…

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/n…

Heard the announcement today that parrt of the Leeds Met University site is being sold to build the new Leeds Arena, hopefully thats not the building used for Wendyhouse / Mutate .....

**edit** hand head so I got me 2 uni's mixed up d'oh.

Yep 21 years ago to the day I was at this moment in time wandering around London collectors record shops buying rare vinyl for a silly amount of dosh .....

Today marks the date of my first seeing The alarm play at the Town & Country Club in Kentish Town (now the Forum)

21 years ago time flies or something like that, thousands of miles later, hundreds of gigs and several thousands of pounds later I don't regret any of it, well maybe apart from those 2 or 3 nights sleeping rough and a couple of the more dodgy gigs at dodgy enues!

no snow ...booooo ... had hoped for some for a bit of photography but hey ho ..

Did head out for a bit to make the most of that sharp winter sunlight .... I suffer a little from S.A.D so make the most of proper strong sunlight in winter if I can as it does seem to perk me up a bit ... just a pity the wind chill factor was so biting cold so didn't really wander as much as I could have before ending up for a pub lunch ...

Is there a Sunday Sheffeld Goth social meet up in the afternoon these days .. I seem to recall these things used to happen in the past a drink or two some food and silly chat ... okay the times I did it tended to be post Batfink when I was up for the weekend .. but since I've lived up here it's been a very occasional arrnged meet up at the Dev Cat or somewhere ......

well sta\rting this weekend I a\m going back to doing something not done in years since the days of the zstrength fanzine and thats write album reviews .. some new stuff some old stuff revisited ...

what is the key to a good review?
What maks you read a review?

I am always honest with a band even if I like them so this could be interesting ..

Also need to do a Whitby music reciew and the alarm gig from last weeked

Just about to head out and make most of daylight tho no idea where I'll end up!

This morning I appear to get the tidy bug and half the bedroom is sorted out ..... found a several books and cd's I'd forgot that had migrated to under the bed or in the pile of "stuff" I always seem to accumulate!

Anyway the world awaits me ... bet it doesn't really!

Might just be out local somewhere as only about 4 hours of daylight to play with .....

I have been busy and will be for a few months still updating the website UK Goth List

For anyone that went to Whitby in October there is now a list with contact details for about 95% of the traders from the various venues, the ones that are missing are those that only trade at events have no shop or website etc ...

Also posted up are details known for Whitby 2009 including links to announced bands websites or myspaces etc so if there is an act you don't know at least you can get an idea on what they are about.

A new club listing is being built and am missing lots of details which I am slowly working through double checking etc it takes time to verify some aspects. So club promoters take a look at the details so far posted on revised club listing section. If you want to send me details in a similar format with your full website / myspace details and also all known dates for this year and next it will help speed your entry on, either comment here or email me at ukgothlist (at) googlemail (dot) com

Also a new festival list is being built to replace the last one so watch that space too ....

It's slow going but it will get there ...