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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
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10:18 am - Jean Genet! Smarty Pants! Fake Tan! Augst 27th! Leeds!
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Bank holiday SUNDAY 27th AUGUST, the Fenton, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS
Mr + Mrs Hefferson presents....
JEAN GENET (last leeds gig for the foreseeable future) - trashy queer keyboard loving lubed up punk pop dancing shouting screaming stripping and pissing their way to an early grave.
SMARTY PANTS - Lesbotronic pop that's gonna rock off your socks.
FAKE TAN - Imagine elastic bands being stretched tighter and tighter and then suddenly snapping.
Plus special guest performers...
NORWOOD DANCE TROUPE (sheer madness!) and DRAGULA (TBC - sexy zombie boi band gonna make you scream)
8pm start, £3 or £2.50 in fancy dress, some sort of party to follow @ chez jean genet.
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| Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
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2:52 pm - Queer film night *tonight*
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Hanover Square, Leeds, 8pm.
Screenings of Jean Genet's mockumentary 'Piss on Yrself', Queeruption Barcelona film and maybe more!
Hope you can make itxxx
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| Friday, July 14th, 2006
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10:37 am - Get yr hankies out and piss on yourself
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Jean Genet are going on a sleater-kinney style 'indefinate hiatus' in september. We'll still be playing the odd one-off gig here and there (eg LADYFEST ESSEN in NOVEMBER!) but for the most part we shall be no more. We are having geographical differences y'see?
So to say goodbye and thankyou to everyone who's supported us and anyone else that wants to have a first/last squizz we're playing a farewell gig on SUNDAY 27th AUGUST at the FENTON, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds. Sunday you say? never fear! that's bank holiday weekend and we will surely be throwing some kinda post gig shin dig...Supports TBC but hopefully the 7 Inches and Fake Tan. Expect extra special surprises too.
In other news, it's the KAFFEQUEERIA FILM FESTIVAL this weekend (14th-16th JULY) in Manchester. It's gonna be awesome, check out the website www.kaffequeeria.org.uk for more info. Our film 'PISS ON YRSELF' -directed by Edgar 'Googie' Frias, inspired by Bruce LaBruce- will be premiered on Sunday as part of it. Please come along.
Thanks for all the support everyone's given us over the last few years. And don't worry, we'll be back like an acid flashback, there's no real escape.
All our glove, Jean Genetxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p.s. you'll pass this on won't you?
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| Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
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2:52 pm - JEAN GENET PLAY CLUB VIOLET TOMMOROW!
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Yes, we're back in mancs, please come along and show your support/disdain for us.
That's
CLUB VIOLET @ the Retro Bar, Sackville Street, Manchester w Jean Genet.
Friday 23rd June
Only 3 pounds on the door!
check out
www.clubviolet.co.uk
www.myspace.com/clubviolet
www.myspace.com/jeangenet
There is a David Bowie theme to the night and I believe the drinks are relatively cheap n nasty.
We encourage you to wear tit tape.
Till soon, Hel JGXXXX
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| Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
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4:10 pm - Bits and Bobs
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Nomo Crime was amazing! End of story.
Am posting cos I've not in a while, a variety of things you might like to know:
JG are pencilled in to play a squat party in LEEDS on the 17th JUNE. We know not where the location is yet but I believe Pose Plastique will be playing too and I antiscipate DJs, cake and fun as that's usually the way with these things.
Next gig after that'll be CLUB VIOLET at THE RETRO BAR, MANCHESTER on FRIDAY 23RD JUNE. It's a David Bowie themed night I believe. Guess what cover we'll be playing?
Another possible date one weekend in July, also in Manchester as part of an all-dayer possibly at the roadhouse. But this is yet to be confirmed.
Also we are trying to arrange a date in BORDEAUX, France (woo hoo!) for late AUGUST and we will also be playing LADYFEST ESSEN in NOVEMBER and an anti-pride event in CARDIFF on SEPTEMBER 9TH.
WHAT'S MORE?
We made a film! Tis a rockumentary about us, inspired by Bruce LaBruce's Super 8 1/2, Mr Edgar Frias aka the evil Miss Googie Frias directed and must've edited out about two hours of laughing! It worked very well indeed. The film is called PISS ON YOURSELF and we have submitted it for the KAFFEQUEERIA QUEER FILM FESTIVAL which will be held in manchester in July, so fingers crossed!
Hope yr all chipper, Hel JGxxx
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| Saturday, May 6th, 2006
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2:02 pm - NEW JEAN GENET SHOWS!
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Sadly our support slot for Kevin Blechdom at the Brudenell Social Club on May 18th has been cancelled (as has the gig itself). However we have all this fun coming up...
Friday 26th May - the Brudenell Social Club, Hyde Park, Leeds, ALL TOMMORROW'S PARTIES PARTY w Grabba Grabba Tape, That Fucking Tank and The Warm, 5 pounds. (And remember to get yrselves down to Soul Circus on lower briggate after for Suck My Left One, the razzmatazz/pussywhipped collabarative clubnight, oughta be a winner)
Wednesday 31st May - The Packhorse, Leeds w Pose Plastique
June 3rd - NoMo Crime, Bardens, London w the Corey O's, Smarty Pants, Dragula and shitloads of other wonderful bands and DJs (we're playing in the evening but there's stuff going on in the day, don't miss it should be a winner :)
June 23rd - Club Violet, The Retro Bar, Manchester. (Bowie themed night!)
we hope you'll be joining us xxxxx
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| Monday, April 24th, 2006
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11:35 am - Lesbians on Ecstasy, Michael J Coxx, Jean Genet + Up Late!
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What more could you ask for?
Tuesday 25th april @ brudenell social club, leeds 8pm doors, £5 in
LESBIANS ON ECSTASY (alien8 records)
Since their inception a year and a half ago, L.O.E. have been rocking asses and minds across the continent with their slamming live shows. Their unique brand of dance music is humorous, political and sexy. L.O.E. hijack the back catalogue of popular lesbian anthems, dragging them kicking and screaming out of the folk festivals and onto the drugged up revelry of the dance floor. They pillage shamelessly from the likes of Tracy Chapman and Melissa Etheridge, juxtaposing them against Tribe8 or Team Dresch, not forgetting the lesbian standards of the Indigo Girls and others. L.O.E. don't sample these artists, but cheekily reference their themes and lyrics, creating booty shaking dance hits that maintain the politically infused edge of these sapphic songstresses. The infectious spirit of their music, (not unlike the spirit of their infectious sisterhood) is one of sharing and collaboration. L.O.E. embody this spirit in their fusion of dance music and dyke music. Straights and dudes love them too.
The band is fronted by loveable spazz Fruity Frankie on vocals. Bernie Bankrupt supplies the samples, laptop noodling and keyboard lines, while Véronique Mystique rocks out on the monster bass. Jackie the Jackhammer brings the beats on electronic drum pads and live drums. They make for a formidable live unit and have quickly built up a reputation as a party band that delivers the goods.
The musical landscape covered on this debut is vast. Styles range from electro punk to hard techno and straight-up pop. Standout tracks include "Revolt," a moving anthem in which the Lesbians explain their mission to make a dent in the male-dominated world of dance music. The sound on this track is reminiscent of legendary New York out-dance band Liquid Liquid. L.O.E. wink at the Rough Trade classic "High School Confidential," making a hard techno track laced with some serious metal riffage, and render K.D. Lang's "Constant Craving" practically unrecognizable, brilliantly subverting it into an anti-consumerist rant.
In the brief time that they have been together L.O.E. have performed along side the likes of the Chinese Stars, King Cobra, labelmates Les Georges Leningrad, Tracy and the Plastics, Kids On TV and Le Tigre among others.
PLUS SUPPORT FROM...
MICHAEL J COXX sheffield rapper from the gravy train school of sleaze
JEAN GENET local queers peddling bouncy girlboy filth
UP LATE lo fi punk rock from sheffield
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| Monday, March 27th, 2006
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1:24 pm - aLAF
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Jean Genet play Dublin on Friday, with many other great bands as part of alaf (a lesbian arts festival)...come come come! xx
Grrrl Rock
Friday 31st March, 2006
8pm
The George
Grrrl Rock night kicks off at 8pm on Friday 31st March 2006 in the George. The night is fully funded by the George and all the bands are kindly playing for free.
So it’s the 5th Year for the aLAF Grrrl Rock night in the George. Fancy that. If you’re a music head it’s the one night of the aLAF Festival you cannot miss. Free admission (until 10pm), great atmosphere, live bands, jaysus what more could a girl ask for ??
Leanne Harte - rock
Leanne Harte is an artist, musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist because it's in her blood. She's in Rock'n Roll for the long haul and most importantly, Leanne has got what it takes to one day become a living legend; something that cannot be manufactured.
At just nineteen years of age Leanne Harte's bio seems to read like an old seasoned Rock musicians, and when you hear her play, she damn well sounds like one too. And why not! Leanne started singing and playing acoustic guitar at the early age of eight. By eleven Leanne penned and studio demoed her first ten original songs and received some national radio airplay in Ireland on RTE.
Last August Leanne went to London and Wales to record her nine track debut album with legendary producer Chris Tsangarides (Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Free, Joan Armatrading, Depeche Mode) Leanne recorded the album with Irish guitar legend Gary Moore's backing band, Jon Noyce (Jethro Tull, Gary Moore) on bass and Darrin Mooney (Primal Scream, Gary Moore) on drums and percussion. The album is due for release in 2006.
www.leanneharte.com
Smarty Pants - pop
what do you do when you've soaked up every ounce of pop culture from watching bad girls and hollyoaks, heat magazine has saturated yr mind, you have an obsession for girls who wear knee socks, and you've read too much queer theory? you discover the astounding revelation that you cant and dont want to play guitar so opt for keyboards and drum machine, an easier and lazier altnerative. you write songs about libraries, crushes, discos and jimmy carr and practice once a week in yr bedroom while munching on partyrings and watching the l word.
www.myspace.com/smartypantsdisco
Jean Genet - electro/comedy/pop punk
We're a queer girl/boy duo who write tasteless sordid songs by playing keyboard demos, drum beats and karaoke tracks with the odd badly played guitar riff. We attempt to distract audiences from our lack of talent by dressing cheap and covering our nipples in tit tape.
www.jean-genet.livejournal.com
Nad Mika - electro trash
Näd Mika_ loves to shock and entertain at the same time .She always shocks with crazy mixes of 80's trash stuff crossovered with any kind of Discotech beats as a dj.
She started at small friendsplace partys where she just played her favourite music and the people went insane and dancing their asses off.
It all took about 5 years to let aim in what she always was: A beat kickin' electronic beat bitch which likes to get your genes switched. Right now shocking the crowd with visual overkill on stage with her trashy "friends" Pam Pom, Patsy Puh, Master Clump and Dr.Puszy.
The show is extreme and glamour and trash. It is art and perversion.Most of it is fun and an absolute visual overkill.
www.nadmika.com
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| Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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5:26 pm - QUEER MUTINY
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If you can come, you'd be a fool not too....
UPDATED PROGRAMME
Friday
8pm
* Dress-up Banquet Dinner & Entertainment-
* poetry by Matthew,
* music from Peter Fox, Rachel Dean and others,
* femme performance + films inc.
* Tel Aviv short film
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* Film ‘Dangerous Living’.
Saturday
* 9am-11am: Breakfast
* 11am-1pm: National Queer Mutiny Meeting - All welcome
* 1pm-2pm: Lunch
* 2pm-3pm: DIY cock making & clothes alteration
* 2pm-3pm: Sound engineering skills share (this might be moved to later on)
* 3pm-4pm: Femme identity discussion
* 3pm-4pm: Talk: Shamanism
* 4pm-6pm: Prisoner Support Group
* 5pm-7pm: Rope bondage skills share & Perve play on a budget
* 7pm-8pm: Dinner
8pm Bands inc.
* Jean Genet (Leeds)
* Sugarcubed (Doncaster)
* Psychofags in bin bags (Portsmouth)
* Boycunt (Leeds)
* Smarty Pants (Manchester)
* Geek Girl (Manchester)
Then DJs- mishmash of electro/punk/bangra/riotgrrl/disco/grime/techno
Sunday
* 11am-12pm: Brunch
* 12pm -3pm: Messy Queers Photo Project / Barbers & Bootshine / Vacant Video Making
* 3pm-4pm Queers without borders
* 4pm-5pm Discussion on HIV/AIDS
* 5pm-6pm Talk on modern Queer/gay rights history
* 7pm-8pm Dinner
8pm onwards: Bands inc.
* Rachel App (london)
* Mz Sojourn, (Leeds)
* Husbands (Brighton)
* The Seven Inches (Leeds)
ill not be announcing the venue over the net so please could you ring these numbers nearer the time and we will direct you on how to get to it 0776375436 or 07757562788
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| Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
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6:31 pm - Ireland Ahoy!
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Some staggeringly good fortune has befallen us! Jean Genet has been invited to play aLAF LESBIAN ARTS FESTIVAL in Dublin on 31st MARCH. How on earth do these things happen to us? Hurrah!
The night is part of an annual queer run festival which was set up here in
dublin five years ago to promote and celebrate queer/lesbian creativity.
http://alafireland.com/
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To live a bit more in the present don't forget next sunday (feb 19th) we are playing an acoustic set as part of Kaffequeeria at the Basement, Lever Street, Manchester. It will be an afternoon event running from 2pm-6pm. See www.kaffequeeria.org.uk for more details.
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| Thursday, January 26th, 2006
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9:52 am - What the fuck is going on?
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so last night's gig was shambolic to say the least, i am actually still drunk which is the reason i'm 'blogging'. that's how shambolic. don't let that put you off though! we had great fun and went down very well it seems. tonight i have vowed not to do any of the following things:
switch my microphone off half way through a song
switch my keyboard off half way through a song
forget all the words to all our songs
lose all our props (might be a bit late for that now though!)
Am really looking forward to tonight, really wanna get back into the swing of gigging once more.
yrs drunkenly,
helena jg
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| Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
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10:26 am - JG SHOW IN LEEDS *TOMORROW*!
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Queer mutiny presents....
Jean Genet - queer duo play sordid songs with keyboard demos and tit tape.
Boycunt - "raw psychotic trash"
+ more bands to be confirmed,+ disco! + a cake stall
at The Crow, this wednesday 25th January.
very short notice i know, but this is a venue with a short lifespan, so its now or never. so come along and party there while we still can.
for details of venue call: 07763754356
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| Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
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3:22 pm
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Kaffequeeria acoustic JG date = 19th february 2006 (hope this is ok with you heffer!)
So, Elton John got married today and Jean Genet were not invited to play at the ceremony. Nor even to attend! I s'pose our invites might've just got lost in the post... I wonder if the queen was there (stop it!) Oh well, guess we might just have to cut our losses and settle for George Michael.
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| Monday, December 12th, 2005
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5:37 pm - *NEW JG SHOWS FOR 2006!*
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It's been a long time and we shouldn't have left you without a dope beat to step to, step to...
After several illness/burnout induced cancellations we can finally confirm a coupla new dates next year:
THURSDAY 26TH JANUARY 2006 - Killing Fantasy @ Retro Bar, Manchester
FEBRUARY 2006 (EXACT DATE TBA) - Kaffequeeria, probably at the basement, definately in Manchester, we will be playing acoustic, unplugged and probably in our pants (what's new?)
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5:28 pm - LAST EVER RAZZMATAZZ AT BAR PHONO THIS THURSDAY (15TH DECEMBER)
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Pay yr dis/respects!
RAZZMATAZZ FUNERAL SPECIAL
THURSDAY 15TH DECEMBER
INDIELECTROTRASHPOPUNKRANDOMNESS
@ BAR PHONO FOR THE LAST TIME
10 WHILE 2
CHEAP DRINKS, "INDIVIDUAL" DANCING AND MORE FUN THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT!
This is gonna be the last one forra while and definately the last monthly one so DO NOT MISS IT. You'll be sorry if you do!
Dress for a funeral, or cum casual, the choice is yours!
PLEASE BRING I.D. COS THE BOUNCER IS A MEANIE
HOUNDS OF LURVE,
HELXXX
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| Saturday, September 17th, 2005
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12:27 am - All your friends are having babies...
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...but me I'd rather catch scabies
Oh yeah sure it itches like fuck
But at least you don't have to clean up!
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| Monday, September 5th, 2005
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1:13 pm
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*NEW DATE*
hot off the press, we're playing at the brudenell social club THIS SATURDAY the 10th sep, with the Sonic WIngs of Neptune and some others, usual gojonnygogogogo non sense. hell yeah. we might even be a bit soberererer and not fuck up so badly as we did at gET bENT, tho that was mighty mighty fun...
xxx
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| Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
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10:35 am
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Here we are / In Manchest-ar
In a room full of / BENDARS!
Gimme a GET! get get get Woop!
Gimme a BENT! bent bent bent Woop!
Get bent over a table
Get bent over a chair
Get bent over the sofa whilst yr boyfriend does yr hair
Get bent over a table
Get bent over a chair
Get bent over the carpet whilst yr girlfriend munches down there
Get bent, Get bent,Get bent, Get bent, Woop!
Get bent, Get bent,Get bent, Get bent, Woop!
We're here / we're slightly queer
And we'd like if you bought us a pint of beer...
Get bent over a table
Get bent over a chair
Get bent over the sofa whilst yr boyfriend does yr hair
Get bent over a table
Get bent over a chair
Get bent over the carpet whilst yr girlfriend munches down there
Get bent, Get bent,Get bent, Get bent, Woop!
Get bent, Get bent,Get bent, Get bent, Woop!
SO YEAH we wrote a new song last night for TODAY at the nigeria centre in manchester, GET BENT check out www.kaffeequeeria.org.co.uk or .net something, laters x
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| Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
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5:06 pm
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So our last leeds date for a while, supporting the socially awesome SCREAM CLUB last nite, despite not being able to plug in our keyboard, was muchos fun tho my uber grande wig was not suitable for the climate. some bordering on porno pics can be found at sparklejess lj photo gallery here:
http://jessicarose.fotopic.net/c656543.html
the club were cool as ever, and after the show we recorded a one time jean genet exclusive of our song called 'scream club' recorded in one take on some crappy karaoke microphone, cindy said she was gonna remix it... crazy. then we partied at hanover square. we are harbouring fantasies of being their support band for a us tour... one day, maybe...
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| Sunday, August 14th, 2005
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11:37 pm
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The other night with printed circuit and best fwends was awesome, debuting our karaoke terrorism number 'wtf?' (over 'eye of the tiger') in an unintentionally cut up manner. we are rap. you can see some sweaty shots from claire here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/circuitron/sets/751141/ (i can barely update these things let alone do fancy pants links) and there are some beauties by jess that will be on her gallery soon, including a particularly raunchy fist shot. woop!
Scream Club on tuesday we are diggin up some oldies and doing alsmot a full set, suggest ya bring some knitting, a crossword or if you're really hip you'll be doing sudoku...
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