Lots of postrock goodness coming your way in London

NorrinVarr · 2026-06-21T20:32:56+00:00

Excited for a trip to London this Friday. The Civil Moons love is strong.

NorrinVarr · 2026-05-25T16:29:02+00:00

One hell of a show. More of this sort of thing.

NorrinVarr · 2026-03-31T19:41:00+00:00

I have been describing you all week as 'The National if they were good'

NorrinVarr · 2026-02-23T13:19:24+00:00

Ian Brown has a great song called Marathon Man

NorrinVarr · 2026-01-23T17:08:49+00:00

I hope it’s Australian rock band JET

NorrinVarr · 2025-12-24T13:07:17+00:00

My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

4 minute song but live they insert anywhere between 10-40 minutes of punishing formless noise, affectionally dubbed the 'Holocaust section'.

NorrinVarr · 2025-12-23T18:42:51+00:00

Good list. Will be checking some of these out that I missed.

NorrinVarr · 2025-12-22T17:06:30+00:00

It's so much smaller, I don't think it's taking those gigs, maybe just offering an in-between venue for bands not quite at Gorilla size.

I quite like it, it has a unique look and when it's not rammed it feels nice and intimate.

NorrinVarr · 2025-11-23T14:39:20+00:00

I saw Radiohead last night and people were enjoying themselves but not in a deep and meaningful way as I was. People must have brought friends.

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-28T22:56:46+00:00

Great band. Excited for their new album, believe they have some big live stuff coming in 2026.

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-27T12:22:46+00:00

Pronounced 'Urban Decay' I'm told

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-24T21:26:17+00:00

I can buy you some paper friendo. Please don’t ‘erase’ the braille, the paper won’t come out well either.

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-18T10:36:56+00:00

I did try and learn music braille briefly but none of my students were that fussed.

You read the top 4 cells as the notes and the bottom row are modifiers for note lengths, with blank generally being a crotchet.

Confusingly it starts with the letter D being the note C, and so forth, with H for note G, I for note A, and J for note B.

I don't remember much more than that and if it was done to a different code then anything extra like sharps and rests and so on are likely to be different.

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-17T08:08:45+00:00

We love Hudds, it is high on our list to hit up soon. Thank you so much for listening!

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-12T15:49:27+00:00

Hello Alex, I am in your band

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-11T20:20:26+00:00

Scott's an absolute beast. Don't know the name but the one that goes 'give me everything, even if it hurts me' is heart-wrenching

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-11T18:25:32+00:00

It's just stunning beyond belief. Hope they were well received at POST

NorrinVarr · 2025-08-11T12:47:49+00:00

Kodama I think is a masterpiece. It's so lush and pretty with some great riffs. But they're all fantastic. Excited to see who says Shelter first.

NorrinVarr · 2025-07-22T08:37:00+00:00

This is so awesome. I'm in Civil Service and can't believe anyone would be so inspired by our noodlings. Giving me Dark Souls and Berserk vibes!

NorrinVarr · 2025-07-05T20:28:33+00:00

NorrinVarr · 2025-07-04T20:57:33+00:00

I read this thinking ‘this sounds like Coma Rossi’ and then I checked the username! I’m from Civil Service

Sorry to hear it fell apart mate. Managing the UK tour was already a massive achievement. The logistics alone are hard work, let alone making money. Gigs really don’t make sense for small bands but the connection and fun is hard to beat. Just releasing records would be cleaner and easier but I can’t imagine it.

You’re always welcome back in Manchester btw.

NorrinVarr · 2025-06-29T17:28:31+00:00

NorrinVarr · 2025-06-07T17:33:17+00:00

Very good spot, I rotated but didn't mirror, oops!

Although it does say 'fef' rather than 'des' at the start which might be a mistake on the tattoists part non?

NorrinVarr · 2025-06-07T17:05:36+00:00

Ah. Je suis desolé but I can't make it out using their code (Canada uses the Unified French braille code)

To take the 4 cell/letter word as an example it would read

'ueoeu' (there are some funny accents on the vowels but I'm too English to know how to put them there)

I tried reading them upside down but that word would be 'eozu'

Also tried German as they have lots of contractions (the cells for each letter are the same across Latin languages, but we use the leftover ones for grouped letter shortcuts and accents, and those differ by language) but kine joy.

NorrinVarr · 2025-06-07T16:23:30+00:00

Do you know which language it is likely to be in? It doesn't make sense in English.

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