Hi, saw you've seen Sharon Van Etten before, just a heads up that she's back in London next month: http://www.last.fm/event/3199896

You're going to see Electrelane at the Scala? Neat-o; see you there!

I only caught his last two songs, he was on really early. Sounded good though!

Your musictaste is awesome. Are you going to see Mountain Man at St.Giles?

Hi Nat, thanks for the note. I really need to sell the pair I'm afraid because it looks like I'm going to have to come down to London to hand them over especially. One other person has first dibs, but if you wanted the pair and could meet early on Tuesday at St Pancras, I'd be happy to give you a shout. Let me know anyway. All the best, Daniel.

oh cool, i just saw that you write for the line of best fit, that's ace. i'm doing an internship at songkick.com at the moment which is pretty awesome, jacked in a truly shit job writing subtitles for channel 5 to do it. not sure what comes after though! what job are you starting? x

it is! i spotted you on here randomly, how small the old internet is! how are things? xx

Yes I am, thankyou very much :) It was our first gig with a new drummer, so didn't go exactly as I hoped, but we had people come up and say nice things which made me feel a lot better. Did you/do you live in Cambridge? x

Atrocious? Really? Why did you think so?

looks like you asked to be my friend a long time ago (over a year) but i never accepted... whoops. I love beach house so much

note to self having just finished the review of "Field Music (Measure)" : It is neither 2007 nor 1974. These are important facts.

It's crazy, isn't it! I've been in the same situation with quite a few people- been to dozens of the same gigs, but never met. Weird...

Yeah goood times that song. I've never heard of the national so i better give it a listen now. Hows it been anyway?

Nice Beach House review on TLOBF!

Hello! Might see you at that Misty's Big Adventure dealie-bob next week- free gigs for the proverbial win. Is your friend (Ida?) on here too?

you got super with that chump? we're 'very high'. am chump's friend from last night. HI.

Super musical compatability win!

Hey hey check your inbox messages if you see this :)

He's not playing any dates near me at all, pity :( Yes, I'm going to both Spiritualized dates, Ladies & Gents at the Royal Festival Hall was just too tempting not to. Fancy meeting for a coffee when I'm down in London?

hi nat, I see that you're going to see the marvellous castanets not once, but twice! I'm very envious

Green Man was great thanks, highlights were Gang Gang Dance, The Wooden Shjips, Bon Iver, Dirty Three, Grizzly Bear, She Keeps Bees, Jarvis Cocker and BSP doing the live soundtrack to Man of Aran in the cinema tent. Animal Collective had a very bad day at the office, unfortunately

Hi Nat, how are you? I see you have some fine gigs to attend

Hi! Long time no speak. How are you? You are missed over at the Editors forum. ;)

i literally just wrote about it on your facebook. didn't realise they were on sale already though, so thanks for the heads up on that!! you going to flaming lips in october?

I agree! SFA-OK back at ya. I'm slightly obsessed with the Furries... just like you are slightly obsessed by The National it looks like :)

Yeah I remember you, The National nut on the Editors foum! I suppose it you're gonna obsess about a band you could do worse.

Thanks for the request.

Hey, me again. at the risk of losing any chance at a ticket in case you're devious enough to buy both or something, there are two tickets to the concert on ebay and they're not profitably priced. I've never used ebay before so that whole user reliability thing would be compromised; have you? because if you have and you only need one ticket, you could buy both; I can buy the second one off you the night of the concert , I'd even pay a little extra for yer efforts if you want.

Sorry Natalia, but I've already sold the tickets. I hope you get a hold of another one somehow. If I wasn't playing a gig with my own cursed band that night I would be so excited about going. My band mate saw him tonight in Brighton and said it was amazing! Good luck, Soren

Hey, look at the DM Stith's Hoxton Hall events page, a guy's selling tickets. there's still hope yet to attend the gig. woop.

Sonic Youth was AMAZING! Best gig I've ever been to! Really want to see them again and again and again... I'm afraid I don't know anyone with a spare Deerhunter ticket at the moment, but if I hear of anything I'll let you know!

it was really good. the bass was too high through most of it and distorted which really annoyed me, but other than that it was a fantastic performance. and they played sea song! quite early on, wasn't expecting it!

sorry about being weird in the CSC earlier, i was just shocked for a second! shame about Spiritualized, but at least you're going to The National! see you round!

Thanks for posting Stereogum tip, you rule...

how's it going nat? there's some cracking music in your library.

Happy New Year Nat, hope you get to see some wonderful gigs in the year ahead

I do indeed. If you give me you want to pm me your email, I'll give your further details.

Hey Nat, I luckily checked my last.fm profile on Sunday and last night caught the Sam Amidon gig you recommended. It was awesome! Thanks so much for the heads up. Great music, and funny too. He was supported by a local band, Meursault (http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701), who are worth a listen too - they were playing an acoustic set. How're things with you? You still living in London?

Actually someone played me some snippets the other day and I loved it. I've been meaning to buy it and now I will!

hey i dunno if you already saw this but thought you might be interested since you said Department of Eagles was your album of the year: http://onethirtybpm.com/2008/10/21/two-brand-new-department-of-eagles-songs-available-for-free-download/

Yeah, they've kinda been treading water since that great debut album and now he's left, I think this may be their swansong.

Great, it sounds like they really pulled out the stops! At Birmingham they played "A Wooden Horse" but no "Lovely Day Tomorrow". They started with "Drowning" and "Something Wicked". I loved the footage that accompanied "The Great Skua". There were bear hi-jinks too at the end, Noble climbed onto the balcony to hit it with one of the flags. I like Secret Machines, though their new album is a bit on the dull side imo. My deepest condolences to the heron's family :(

how was the gig on friday, did you catch any of film school's set?

Naaaaaaaat!

haha I was toying with the idea of going to that! In Ear Park took a while to grow on me but now I think it is pretty brilliant. Their performance on pitchfork.tv was absolutely brilliant as well, so I'm pretty sure I will end up going to that. why did you want to get rid of your tickets for of montreal?

haha yeah I'm everywhere. Of Montreal was a last minute decision since I was walking past the box office and it hadn't sold out I thought I might as well. Pretty damn good gig in the end

Werchter was incredible. The line-up must have been the best in Europe. The National and Sigur Ros were indeed amazing. Radiohead are always awesome, but they were a bit iffy that night. My other top picks for that weekend were My Morning Jacket and The Raconteurs, neither of which I had really listened to before but they both blew me away and now I love both. After Werchter and Latitude, Reading was just the worst festival in the world, I don't think I'll ever go back.

P.S. just checked that myspace link, did you guys play at popaganda last year? you were easily the best student band that played if i'm thinking of the right people.

yeah that's me, the ateaser who got into C&G, and then got harassed by that stupid girl who went on stage with telepathe. yeah I'm at UCL now, 2nd year. You go? or used to go? I'm getting quite involved in Popaganda this year, it's fun.