[discovered this in the drafts folder, don’t know why i didn’t publish it first time, seems perfectly fine to me, though admittedly standards are slipping around here]

There’s a bit in the excellent and really quite heartbreaking Minutemen documentary ‘We Jam Econo’ where Mike Watt explains that because, as a band, they were all about the working man and stuff they used to start and finish their gigs early so that people could go home and get a good night sleep for work tomorrow. Recently (over the last few years) I’ve been to gigs and had to leave before the band who I’ve gone to see have finished playing, or in one particularly infuriating case even started, playing (yeah Peaches, you, and the support were shit even by support band standards and the crowd were a bunch of pricks and i never bought any of your CDs since then so there!).

I know going to bed early isn’t particularly rock and roll, I’ve had to live with the fact that a mutation in a phosphorilation site on the protein product of the core-clock gene period (per) has always held me back from fully living the rock and roll dream for a while now, so I’m used to it, but then my general experience of club and gig promoters is that they’re a bunch of utter wankers so I’m inclined to believe that they’re doing it on purpose for evil money making reasons.

D. Boon wouldn’t approve.