THAT LAMEARSE FLASHBACK EPISODE WE HAD TO HAVE
AKA: SPOZ's RANT JUMPS THE SHARK / Friday November 16th 2007
Sooner or later even the most ardent, insane and suicidal of rock photojournalists need to take a holiday. Maybe it's the 40 hours a week stuck in an office being crushed under 30,000 tonnes of ridiculous deadlines that's forcing my hand, maybe it's following that up with 32 hours of gig photography, photo-editing and writing well into the night (during the same week) that's slapping me silly, maybe it's all of 2-3 hours sleep a night I'm not getting in between, or maybe it's the increasingly lethal over doses of caffeine I needed to employ to fight off the escalating odds stacked up against me.. either way, by Friday evening I was seriously and dangerously close to circling the drain. So In effort NOT to die, I decided to take a night off and catch up on some much needed shut-eye.. aaaaaah sleep, how I miss you more than life itself! :)
*ahem* anyhoo.. in effort to entertain all you dribbling slackjawed primates in the interim before the avalanche of this Saturday night's episode arrives to beat you 5 ways to senseless, we present to you SPOZ's RANT very own lamearse "flashback episode" of the last 12 months. Relive all these ridiculously overhyped moments! Rediscover the many millions of ways I cheated death! Gawk bug-eyed at the host of Z-grade celebrities! The magic! The excitement! and then wonder to yourself "when exactly did SPOZ's RANT turn to shit? oh YEAH! when he got himself a 9-5 job and stopped going to all our Thursday gigs.. arsehole!!"
Oh yes! Taste the many flavours of suck, as you click on through these past adventures that remind you in so many ways why so many rock musicians die before their 27th birthday..
DON'T DRINK THE WATER (
AND OTHER SUCH BODILY DYSFUNCTIONS)starring: Saul Williams, Tony Font Show, The Black Doves /
January 2rd - 6th 2007THE SCIENCE OF STUPID (AND 50,000 OTHER GOLDEN WAYS TO KILL YOURSELF)starring: Special Patrol, Morals Of A Minor, Pivot, Lady Strangelove, Quiet Child, Tokyo City Sex Shooters, 200 Motels, Kasavett, Kamikaze + more /
March 1st - 4th 2007IT'S NOT OVER TILL THE FAT MAN SINGS (AND THEN GETS NAKED)starring: The Pixies, Jarvis Cocker, The New York Dolls, Phoenix, Groove Armada, Gnarls Barkley, The Rapture, Har Mar Superstar + more /
3rd - 8th April 2007SIX DEGREES OF DECAPITATION
starring: Snowman, Bit By Bats, Batrider, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire, Poly & The Statics, 200 Motels, Tokyo City Sex Shooters, Taught By Animals, Booster + more /
19th - 21st April 2007THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGSstarring: Wolf & Cub, Ground Components, Lady Strangelove + more /
18th - 20th May 2007TOO MANY PUPPIESstarring: Dukes Of Windsor, Former Child Stars, Lady Strangelove, Rejusa, Kids In Cults, Young And Restless, Cut Off Your Hands, All Made Of Rubies, Funkoars, Terra Firma, Soft White Machine, Tony Font Show, Fighterpilot, Cam Goodall, The Dairy Brothers, Cal Williams Jnr, Chris Finnen, Laura Hill, DJ Josh + oh fuck I think I'm gonna die /
7th - 9th June 2007EVERYWHERE I GO THERE'S A FLYING FOOT TO MY FACEstarring: Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Off Your Hands + more /
7th - 8th September 2007and who can forget the ultimate in uber art wankery, with my B&W silent episodes..
PUNKYWHITENOISETHINGstarring: Artax Mission,Poly & The Statics + more /
23th - 24th March 2007TIME AND RELATIVE DIMENSIONS IN SPACEstarring: High Stakes, The Sea Thieves, The Spires + more /
1st - 3rd June 2007INERTIA CREEPSstarring: Double Handed, Quiet Child, Superbee /
28th - 29th September 2007*phew* explain to me again how I'm NOT dead yet? :)
Previously on Spoz's Rant:
Mayfield + The Baron + Trixie Plain