Tuesday, March 28, 2006

isn't it funny...

....how one song can hold so many memories? my iTunes is on random play and i had a really cool memory then i thought i wonder if every song i listen to will have as many. sure enough most of the songs held one or two great memories.


sorry by the paddingtons: i remember a great day out in london with annette drinking mulled wine and jumping in the car at wycombe station and throwing this on singing it whilst going around wycombe the wrong way! also walking along the high street at 2 in the morning with rob singing like bitches.



22 grand job by the rakes: reading festival 2005. jumping around at about 4 in the afternoon drunk beyond belief with this on the ghetto blaster whilst people walked past looking bewildered. also the rakes playing this with paul smith, russell and gordy from bloc party and dirk towers of london.


slow hands by interpol: killers on camera studio around summer time 2005. end of a great night, slow hands comes on the magic stereo and a mass bundle ensues consisting of me, rob, ross, scandal, paul riley and chappers. magic.



boys don't cry by the cure: as well as being possibly my all time favourite song this along with a few other cure songs is the song of the roundabout days. just turned 18 and nobody else had, the only pub that would serve us was the roundabout. the jukebox had the cures singles cd on it. we had some amazing nights in that place. i remember trying to be sick with scandal watching. im puking up air then all of a sudden he pukes the biggest puddle of sick seen this side china since 1763! moony and rob rolling up in the toilets and stinking the whole pub out. the endless games of pool. my own seat. man, i love that place.

fix up, look sharp by dizzee rascal: i remember owingtothis playing this song at holmer green football club back in summer 2004. that was a funny night. ross nearly got beat up twice for dropping two different peoples weed all over the field. moony loves this song. moony is this song!

there's so many more, anyone else got any?

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Surprising.....

Well well well, the winner of the best venue in mighty Wycombe is the Multi Racial Centre, I think I'm, right in saying that there hasn't been a gig there for well over a year. Even when people put gigs on there, there weren't that many. Memories of underage drinking and early Psyche Out spring to mind. Battle of the bands and all that. I remember being totally wowed by the amount of people you could fit into such a small room. It was intimate and there was such an air of romanticism about it. Maybe I'm going to deeply into this. So there you go, Traders love the MRC. Maybe we should put a gig on for old times sake. Psyche Out, Owingtothis reunion!, Finding Barry reuinion! and RBAP. Would be funny.
Results:
1. Multi Racial Centre-12
2. White Horse-11
3. Roundabout-10
4. Union-4
5. Red Lion-0
6. Town Hall-0

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Poll

New meaningless poll. Vote or something!

Fighting is for failures!

Amazing time last night, cheers to anyone that backed me up in the fight and especially Danny, Wilko and Ball. However Alex Wutar desrves a very big thank you from me. I think without his expert claming techniques I would probably have been arrested. Makes you realise actually how many people you can consider a friend when you get involved in a fight. It's wierd. I hate fighting but when one of your best friends girlfriends gets started on you know you've got to do someting about it. Maybe violence is not the answer but this is another downfall of alcohol. It all turned out to be an incredible night anyway. Some people make me laugh so much and some people piss me off! I love Wycombe and I love the Antelope.
Peace and fucking.........BELIEVE!
xTx

Monday, February 20, 2006

the boy murray

This picture had to be posted here! It sums him up I think.
Story: We were in Brighton to see The Strokes and had been drinking ALL DAY. We started in the Pav Tav which is an amazing pub in Brighton which could be described as quite similar to the Antelope i suppose. Carried on drinking in the hotel bar, then at the gig we went a bit mental. He fell over about twenty times during their set! We left the gig and were strolling along the beach when some bright spark came up with the idea of stripping and going in the sea! It happened! I left him on the beach and scattered all of his clothes around and went to meet Smyly. He finally caught up with us about five minutes later with his clothes inside out and totally dripping wet! Decided to take out his wet anger on me by whipping me in the face with a poster and then got denied from numerous bars and clubs for being too drunk. We went back to the hotel to carry on drinking, he could only manage one before he retired. He went to bed and left me without a key. I rang him up and he couldn't talk. Finally got him to bed then I decided it would be funny to keep, him awake al night so he had a hangover in the morning. He was having none of it so he decided to throw the TV on the floor to shut me up-didn't work! Kept him awake with my ramblings for another half an hour then he decided to ring as many rooms in the hotel as possible to piss people off. Then his worst idea of all which was to throw a mug on the toilets tiled floor which made the most amazingly loud shattering sound! This shut me up, it takes a lot to shut me up doesn't it. Anyway, moral of this story don't go naked in the sea on Brighton beach because it will make you angry!

Friday, February 10, 2006

make your life worth living


Ben Traders mini list of bands you may not have heard of but you should listen to because they could possibly change your life!



Broken Social Scene
Tilly And The Wall
Architecture In Helsinki
Coco Rosie

Help! She Can't Swim


Listen and enjoy!

bentraderisgod

xTx

tradercore

Monday, November 28, 2005

The Traders & Co

Made by Sofa....

Sunday, November 27, 2005

New Poll!

Wow, I've finally updated the poll. I know this whole site is all about the Christmas gig, but I really can't big it up enough, it's going to be immense!

Monday, November 21, 2005

Team Trader Triumphs!

Team Trader represented by Scandal, Rob and myself are very proud to announce that we won the White Horse music quiz held by Bluehand last night! The winnings were very willingly spent on booze. Stonking set from the Genuine Freakshow boys as well. If you've never seen them then you definately should.
The Christmas gig is shaping up rather nicely. If you don't know already Another Story and The Great Blind Degree have had to pull out and have been replaced by the awesome 'Action and Action' and 'Cats and Cats and Cats'. How many 'ands' in that sentance! The posters have been printed, expect to see plenty around town. You can get your tickets from Jimi at the Horse or at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/7676. Lots and lots and lots of fun.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

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