I'm going to be in London from 24th December through to the early hours of the 29th December. Most of this is over the bank holiday period so will probably largely consist of family stuff but hopefully a cinema trip or two as well.
Then at 6am (way too early) I fly from Heathrow to Belgrade over in Serbia (via Zurich) to spend just over a week (and News Year Eve!) with Jasmina and her family and friends. Haven't seen Jasmina for over a year now so really looking forward to catching up - and also spending another New Year out of the country as I've not done that for a while!
I return to the UK on the evening of Thursday 7th January and will probably be back in the office on the Friday :p
Yay for Festive Holidays!
We've just released the electronic PDF version of the new Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space. The PDF is available to buy now @ http://tinyurl.com/yc4a3kw
If Twilight was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest (Cracked.com)
I can just see a bank robber donning that one!
Dragonmeet: London is pleased to announce the following as very special guests for this years show.
Erik Mona (Paizo Publishing/Pathfinder)
Robin D. Laws (Author/Game Designer)
Simon Washbourne (Barbarians of Lemuria)
Brennan Taylor (IPR/Galileo Games)
Andrew Looney (Looney Labs)
Gregor Hutton (Box Ninja; 3:16)
Gareth Hanrahan (Game Designer & Author)
Jeff Richard (Moon Design)
Mark Barrowcliffe (Author; 'The Elfish Gene')
Jonny Nexus (Author; 'Game Night')
Stephen Deas (Author; The Adamantine Palace)
David Devereux (Author; Hunter's Moon)
Jon Hodgson (Artist)
Linda Pitman (Artist)
Best wishes,
Angus
I have a reasonbly crowded schedule of meetings with various European distributors, and a few publishers, at the show. Plus a reasonably crowded aftershow party schedule - so one way or another I'll be pretty knackered by the time I board the plane back to the UK on Sunday.
See ya!
New Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space Preview is up... http://tinyurl.com/ylkpnyt
Kermit covering Radiohead's Creep... you know, it's odd hearing a childhood icon say the f-word!
...but not as odd as watching the video of 'Hurt' that has Kermit covering the famous Nine Inch Nails song (which Johnny Cash also very successfully covered).
This is really not a video to watch if you want your childhood memories of our fav...ourite green friend to remain intact... although I always wondered what happened to Kermie after the Muppets... little did I realise he spiralled so far down...
This is really not a video to watch if you want your childhood memories of our fav...ourite green friend to remain intact... although I always wondered what happened to Kermie after the Muppets... little did I realise he spiralled so far down...
- Music:True Blood Soundtrack
A preview of the Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space RPG Character Sheet for you all :) http://tinyurl.com/yldyt52
Unfortunately finding a new venue has proved trickier than I had hoped - especially as we'd only be there for two meetings before taking December off (and the first of those meetings clashes with Spiele in Essen which a number of people attend so our potential first meeting in a new venue would have a smaller attendence than usual).
As such the decision has been made to put the club on a short hiatus and relaunch it in January 2010 at a new venue.This will hopefully give us time to find somewhere suitable with longer term potential.
I will update the mailing list and website/facebook group with news as soon as everything has been arranged and confirmed.
Please accept my apologies for the temporary Gameforce Holiday and I hope to see many of you at Dragonmeet in London on Saturday 28th November (www.dragonmeet.co.uk) and also in January at our new location.
Yours Sincerely,
-- -- Angus Abranson Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd www.cubicle7.co.uk Publishers of SLA Industries, Victoriana, Starblazer Adventures, QIN: The Warring States and the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game oxxxx[====================>
Advanced tickets offer you savings from buying tickets on the day and also allow you quicker entry to the event.
Tickets are available to be purchased via Paypal and can be ordered at http://tinyurl.com/y9ayget
We look forward to seeing you on the 28th!
-- Angus Abranson Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd www.cubicle7.co.uk Publishers of SLA Industries, Victoriana, Starblazer Adventures, QIN: The Warring States and the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game oxxxx[====================>
Fleetwood Mac were on their "Tango in the Night" tour and playing Wembley Arena. Niot onyl was Tango in the Night one of their biggest albums spawning some great tracks, but the line-up was one fo their best (that fragmented shortly after the tour) - Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevuie Nicks.
They played a brilliant set that housed not only a good chunk of 'Tango in the Night' but also their back catalogue such as The Chain (from Rumours) and Sara (from Tusk).
In support they had The Adventures, a band getting significant airplay at the time with their hit single "Broken Land" *(that was the most played song on Radio 1 in 1988) and album The Seas of Love.
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
The Adventures - Broken Land
My second ever gig saw me return to Wembley Arena and another tour of a classic album - Def Leppards "Hysteria" Tour. The album was huge, they were huge and they had a string of really great hit singles floating around the charts from the title track "Hysteria" to "Animal" and "Pour Some Suger On Me" to the ballard "Love Bites". I loved every minute of them live and even ended up buying my first gig t-shirt at the show :p
I can't really remember too much about Loverboy, the support for the night, apart from they were very, very 80's MOR.
The video I selected for Def Leppard is actually from the 1988 Tour.
Def Leppard - Animal
Loverboy - Queen of the Broken Hearts
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Generally, yes. Probably more 'ok' than I've been in many years in many aspects.
2) Do you think you will ever settle down properly?
Depends in what way 'settle down' really. In a job, in an area, with a partner...?
Job wise I've always been pretty settled. I was with Leisure Games for over 20 years and now I'm running my own company I can't really see me moving on from that for many, many years to come - if ever - unless things didn't work out and went belly up (which hopefully they won't).
Area wise - no idea. I still *really* want to live abroad again - preferrably in several countries and cultures. The thing that I have to do is either get a place which is 'base camp' that I can store all my stuff or sell most of my things to make everything a lot more managable when moving. There's no way I can jump places with the amount of stuff I currently have!!!
Partner-wise. I don't know. Maybe one day. I'm happy being single and having my own space. Being able to do what I want to do and not feel guilty about not spending time with my other-half. Work - especially now I'm my own boss and am at the beginning of the journey - has to be my primary focus. That said I watched (500) Days of Summer recently and it certainly hit a few home truths in some areas, so you never know. I could bump into someone tomorrow that would change my entire outlook on steady and longterm relationships.
3) when was the last time you turned off your phone, didn't go on your computer, and got outside and did something that allowed you to be alone with your thoughts and nature?
My phone is on 24/7. The only time it gets turned off is when I'm in the cinema (and recently even then it only gets put on silent vibrate), the last time I wasn't on *a* computer was when I was away - but then I can check my email through my phone. The last time I didn't check email at all anywhere was probably when I was in Cornwall for 5/6 days back in March/April 2008. I also forgot my phone on one of those days too actually.
Last time I went outside and was alone with my thoughts and nature was probably a couple of months ago when I popped over to Avebury stone circle (about 20 minutes by bus from my place) and chilled out for a few hours under the sun and shade of a stone.
4) If you had a garden with great soil, what would you grow?
Not sure I'd have time for gardening at present, but if I did I'd try and start up a veg and herb garden and become a bit more self-sufficent.
5) Have you stopped putting salt on your pizzas? :P
I hardly have pizza's anymore! Seriously. After we moved to Swindon I think it was the best part of 4-5 months before we had a pizza...and no salt on that one (although I have done once since). I mainly cook my own meals these days, and take pack lunches to work, so rarely actually eat out anywhere. I haven't had an Indian since March!!! Chinese since July!! What's happened to me!!!!! :p