Klub Kakofanney begins the Weekend

Space Heroes of the People, originally uploaded by Damian Cugley.

Last night I slithered and slid over the snowy streets of Oxford to see Space Heroes of the People and two other very fine bands at the Wheatsheaf.

Picture Book are on tour from somewhere far away and were great fun. Space Heroes of the People have a new song since I last saw them, not to mention new remixes of some of the ones I am familiar with. And now with live vocals replacing the vocal samples, thanks to a new vocoder. The evening was rounded out with the band whose name I have temporarily forgotten (Rabbit Spleen Happenstance or somesuch) who played 1920s jazz while wearing hats.

As always I tried taking a few snaps of the band on stage, and as usual the dim lighting mostly defeated my little pocket camera. The guys in Picture Book in particular moved too rapidly for my camera to even believe they existed. Some people were taking photos with much more impressive-looking equipment, so there are probably better shots out there somewhere, linked to from the Last.fm entry for this gig.

Pleased to see also that cleanskies has made it and is now fit enough to be going out again. Afterwards oxfordslacker and I helped carry the instruments, on the strength of which I got a lift home, which was a relief—I had left my bike behind in the underground car park at work after wrenching my knee earlier in the week falling off because of the snow and ice.

Saturday I spent doing the usual catch-up of household chores like taking the compost thingy down to the bottom of the garden, which felt a little more adventurous than usual because the garden was all over refrozen snow and lit with brilliant sunshine. I remembered my big clunky boots this time and made cracks in the snowy crust on the way down. (If you click through to my Flickr photostream there are photos of some other mysterious footprints I found.) The big boots and the crunchy refrozen snow also allowed me to stomp confidently in to town to visit the comics shop.