It's been a while.

Hmm...stuff.

I'm meant to be in the middle of my last piece of work for my college piece of work. I'm doing a fair bit of reading but I feel I should be doing more. There's meant to be some primary research involved so I may be dishing out some questions on here soon. Not sure yet though. Anyway once this is done I've passed and I'm going to university. I better get cracking really hadn't I?

Work is slowly falling apart. Our financial director was made redundant which was shit because he was definitely one of the good guys. Then our sales director got made redundant which was brilliant because he is a prize cock. I don't usually like celebrating other peoples misfortune but I'm so glad I won't be working with him any more that I don't really care. Apparently he is fighting the decision but fuck knows on what grounds because he was fucking useless. Ha. Our IT guy is also leaving to go and live in New Zealand. Unfortunately this means they may employ somebody competent which will be the end of me wasting all my time on the internet at work. The speed of the recruitment process at work means this probably won't happen soon though.

June the fourteenth is seriously bugging me. I have three things I really want to be at but in three completely different places. As the football club end of year do is the one I am essential to that's where I have to be. So I can't be camping in Climping or watching half of Hefner play the 100 Club. Arse. Don't get me wrong the football club do will be brilliant but because I have to be there it feels like I haven't made my own decision and that's a bit frustrating.

This week has mostly been about The Great Escape festival which has been going on in Brighton this week. This is the third year and I'm really gutted I didn't go before on some weird misguided principle which I can't even remember. Anyway it has been great and here are all of the bands which have made it so. I saw more but these are the ones who were really brilliant. Even this is a pretty long list.

Thursday
Doll and the Kicks - first band I saw on Thursday evening. I also saw them acoustic on Friday night and they were brilliant at both shows.

Elle s'appelle - I love me some arty, girl/boy shouty indie pop nonsense. Oh yes I do.

Restlesslist - technically my mates but I'm not sure when they became good. Not quite sure what you'd call their music either.

Okkervil River - I love their last album to the point of madness. Alt-country, americana, whatever you want to call it it's brilliant and they have a great frontman.

Friday
Friday was a bit of a washout as I managed to be in the wrong place a lot of the time. Still managed to see these though.

Slow Club - odd folksiness. And Rebecca has a lovely South Yorkshire accent. South Yorkshire is der sexy.

The Mae Shi - nuts. Disco-punk with something wrong with it. Genius.

Saturday
Saturday was the opposite of Friday. I saw Loads.

Telepathe - synth-pop weirdness. Should be French but aren't apparently.

Times New Viking - loud. Also my favourite band name of the weekend.

Lucy and the Caterpillar - almost to cutesy for me and that takes some doing. Really silly songs

Frightened Rabbit - who I could have sworn were American last night. They aren't but what they play sounds like great mid-90s indie rock.

The Twilight Sad - a band who could only be Scottish. Their debut album is great and they live up to it live.

And then everything else stopped mattering because Nina Nastasia played. Words fail me. Again. We thought of going on after that but couldn't think of anything that would to her and felt it would be harsh to make anyone follow her so we made are way home.

So yeah, new music. It's great. All of that and more for £50. Sometimes this town is brilliant.