Blog: Witnessing Lamacq

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On Friday lunchtime I wandered into London's Fitzrovia to pop into The King & Queen to drop off a few posters for the next Totally Acoustic, which is on Thursday 12th from 7pm and features Elizabeth from Allo Darlin' and Model Village. Here is the poster itself:



Nice, isn't it? I did those Kirby Dots at the bottom MYSELF! So, I dropped them behind the bar and wandered off for a short stroll around central London, and as I did so I REMINISCED about some of our adventures in the area, not least the afternoon spent in The Ship when I gathered together a bunch of ROGUES for a quick practice of The Advent Calendar Of FACT and "Boom Shake The Room" before doing a live spot on Mr Steve Lamacq's old 6Music Sunday Show.

This in turn got me thinking about the fact that I was surely due to SEE him soon, for LO! since coming to London EVERY time I've had an album or single or SHOW about to come out Mr Lamacq has LOOMED into view, like some kind of MYSTIC PORTENT of Rock To Come. Just before Regardez, Ecoutez Et Repetez was released, for instance, I got off the TRAIN after a Band Meeting in Derby and bumped into him on the station platform. Similarly, when Mr S Hewitt and I met to discuss the two-man Edinburgh version of Dinosaur Planet Mr Lamacq suddenly appeared before us IN THAT VERY PUB!

He's basically been the MONOLITH from 2001 tracking the development of HUMANKIND in the form of our RELEASES, basically. "My my", I thought to myself, "What a fanciful idea! As if that could every actually be true!! Oh look. There's Steve Lamacq."

And sure enough, just as I was passing the King & Queen again, who should come stomping by eating a bag of chips but The Great Man himself!! We stopped for a quick chat, during which he gave me a CHIP and I told him how nice the upstairs room of the King & Queen was. AWARE that his chips were rapidly cooling I thought it best not to PESTER him by saying "YOU ARE AN OMEN OF ROCK!" (I'm sure he gets that all the time) so did not MENTION how EERIE it was to see him. Also, it would probably have sounded a bit CREEPY.

So we said our farewells and he marched off to FORGE DESTINIES VARIOUS while I walked back to work happy in the knowledge that, know The Lamacq has been WITNESSED we can consider the album ready for release!

posted 9/1/2012 by MJ Hibbett

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You know he's probably just internet-stalking you :D
posted 9/1/2012 by MarkP

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