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October 28, 2010
 

GODFLESH at The Arches, Glasgow 2010

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Tonight, Phil Thompson and myself drove to Glasgow to realise a dream we've both individually held for nearly 20 years. We saw GODFLESH live. Given that they split up in 2002, this was one gig that we simply weren't going to miss.

There's always a niggling doubt when going to see a band you were into so long ago...will they still be any good etc? I am reporting that this gig went straight in to my top 3 of all time. They were unbelievably amazing.

From their first song "Like Rats", all the way through to their last song "Slateman", they were outstanding. The noise that 2 guys and a drum machine can make would fear you.

I've never been struck dumb after a gig before but tonight, with some post gig chit chat with others, I found myself pretty much speechless. I was in total AWE of them.

I now need to wait for my hearing to return and I swear I can still feel the bass rattling through my ribcage. If you get the chance to see these guys live (i never thought i would), then take it.

 

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June 15, 2009
 

Sauce so hot it required blogging about

Over the weekend I spied a rather ominous looking bottle of hot sauce in the supermarket with the words "insanity sauce" emblazoned across it's front. Picking it up I noticed the tag line "The original hottest sauce in the Universe" so of course, I simply had to own a bottle of "Dave's gourmet Insanity sauce".

Taking it home and making mention of it on twitter I decided that I couldn't wait to try it and therefore opened it up and dabbed a tiny spot of sauce onto my finger and promptly recoiled in horror and amazement as the flavour swept through my mouth with all the grace of a blunt and rusty chainsaw. Being the arse that I am, I invited Kathryn, my long suffering fiancée to taste this "delicious new sauce" I'd discovered too....she wont be having any more of it and I reckon I'm lucky not to have received some form of physical attack.

So as with all fearsome hot foods, a little later in the day, once the "nah, there's no way it was as hot as that" mentality had set it, I added a couple of drops to a sandwich. I was now ready to deliver my verdict on twitter.

Yes, it's hot....its very VERY hot, the bottle comes with a warning which if you have any sense, you will heed well. It's also worth noting that I love very hot food. I have a history of ordering very hot curries, making my very own special spicy meatballs with scotch bonnets and I always have a bottle of Habanero brand Tabasco in my house so that fact I'm now telling you to treat this stuff with a bit of respect should hopefully save you from destroying your mouth, throat and innards in one fell swoop. Of course, you should also do a twitter search for "insanity sauce" to gauge peoples real life and up to minute fear.

So even after reading over this blog post that I wrote last night, right now, just before I post it, the mentality is returning to me....nah, there's no way it's as hot as that....is it?

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June 5, 2009
 

In house scotch on the rocks conference

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I was a bit gutted that I couldn't make this years SOTR conference in Edinburgh but at least Stu made sure that I wasn't missing out too much...my own personal scotch on the rocks...lovely.

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