Let's see how long it takes everyone to figure out the new pictures page. Opinions on the new layout are welcome, as long as they are constructive - with the new phone I've decided to ramp up the picture size and needed some way to deal with that without overloading the page. Does that make sense?



/shrugs shoulders



Anyway, music... went to see The Bug vs The Asian Dub Foundation night. Better than expected really, there was a bit of an experimental touch with ADF using a violin player and The Bug using... well, someone's Dad on sort of jazz guitar. Besides that it was almost an old-fashioned sound system clash, with the ADF on one side of the stage, the Bug on the other both taking it in turns to out dub each other. ADF went for a kinder gentler approach, dare I say it almost ambinet? However The Bug went for a more vicious approach with a couple of scary MC's, one of whom looks like, well let's be frank - a terrorist (I think he may be the MC on Techno Animal's Dead Man's Curse... which will mean fuck all to anyone who reads this) and another extremely hyperactive one who shouted... a lot. Not to say The Bug doesn't have a sensitive side, there was the curiously attractive Warrior Queen, and also some kid who did a guest spot (they had been running seminars for school kids during the day) signing off a typically abrasive Bug tune with "Big up my Mum!" made me smile. Oh, and Adrian Sherwood was the warm-up DJ.



All in all, pretty good - bad points: The Bug was too quiet in places, and seats really don't suit this sort of event. I had a go at taking a couple of videos, the sound quality is officially 'fucking appalling':



ADF.3gp

The_Bug.3gp

Matt_the_critic.3gp



...real player will handle the video format, barely.



Continuing with the reggae theme, got this today.