there was a game of pass the parcel

doc scott (the legendary drum and bass DJ - horsemouth remembers him playing shadow boxing  at metalheadz) posts a photo of rishi sunak and boris johnson. this is how he captions it.

'fuck these 2 and fuck anyone that supports them and before you tell me to 'stick to the music' you can go fuck yourself as well' 

it's rare for people in the dance music scenes to express political opinions. the political act is the being together. respect. big up doc scott. 

oh dear harrison birtwistle has died (didn't know he did the soundtrack for the offence)

'birtwistle once told a room of pop musicians at the ivor novello awards: 

'why is your music so f****** loud? you must all be brain dead. maybe you are. I didn’t know so many cliches existed until the last half-hour. have fun. goodbye.'

horsemouth has michael hall's book on him in the contemporary composers series (it's a good read). modern classical music is often generated by compositional procedures, the kind of thing that can be explained and adapted. 

yesterday horsemouth attended a children's birthday party. the children pretty much entertained themselves (there was food, there were swings and climbing frames, there was a game of pass the parcel). horsemouth's job was to porter the party-makings over, to take the site, and to clean and decorate it. mission accomplished he stood around drinking small quantities alcohol and eating nibbles. he bumped into luisa (long time no see). 

at the end he helped porter out what remained of the food, drink and decorations. 

today looks like a beautiful day outside. horsemouth is going to rest after his busy social calendar. he will carry on listening to the new musicians of bremen demos (he should make a list of the nips and tucks). he thinks that's it for face-to-face meeting obligations until the communal endeavour's meeting on wednesday 27th. 

tomorrow is the day on which the crucial events happen in the fog. 

horsemouth was not looking with enthusiasm at yesterday's coronavirus stats. to horsemouth, seeing as the relationship between each of these figures is a week or two - people get sick, then a week or two later they are in hospital, then a week or two later if they are going to die they die, this is a wave going out and a new wave coming in. he supposes it is driven by large community transmission and half-term. the ones today seem much better - it's all going the right way.