Hello, my name is Looptron.

Synaptic Crossfire. [Twitter]

• 08:54 cleaned the bathroom and registered to vote and it's not even breakfast time. Rockandfuxxingrollerball. #

Synaptic Crossfire. [Twitter]

• 00:46 is enjoying a solitary post-gig Dominos. Ho hum. #
• 07:35 has ringing ears and a sore head. Ouchy ouch. #

This is an automated post.

Hi. Because I'm fully intending to be waaaaay too hungover to be able to post the following important message the day after the gig I'm actually writing this a couple of days before from the comfort of my sofa and setting it to auto-post:

"Thanks very much to everyone who came along last night!! It was awesome/awful* and I had a really great/shit* time!!"  (* - delete as appropriate)

Easy.

If you liked what you heard then you'd possibly like to know that the next gig is at Synthetic in Stockwell on September 25th. They run an awesome night and it should be lots of fun. There's also an EP available in CD and download formats, plus some free stuff to download here. And if you wanna be kept informed of the latest drop an email, hit up Facebook or MySpace or follow me on Twitter for as-they-happen pointless updates.

Updates about what? Well, I reckon me and Dodger will be recording some/all the stuff you heard last night, plus I'm working on a new EP on my ownsome. Both of these products should be along shortly, and I'll probably give at least one of them away free to anyone who sends an email and wants to be on the mailing list.

You heard it here first.

Synaptic Crossfire. [Twitter]

• 10:14 is wondering if Uncle Feargal being on the radio when he woke up is an omen. Teenage kicks, anyone? #
• 11:17 is currently living in a world.... a world without interweb. #
• 11:57 oooooooo, it's back. no it's not. yes it is. no it's not. #
• 14:17 is playing at Industry in Shoreditch later. www.looptron.com/gigs.html for the gory details. #
• 16:58 is off to soundcheck. #

Pretty patterns.

Now this could be one of my better ideas - last time I gigged with Cassette Electrik I played the set in front of what possibly looked like a looped bit of a MASK cartoon that seems to be the default holding page for their visual rig. Not that I've got anything against MASK, you understand. Big fan.

Anyway, not having the time, equipment or flippers to do visuals myself I've long since resigned myself to just not having any of that stuff (relying on my innate "charm" and "animal magnetism" - pffff, right) but it occured to me that since there is gonna be a laptop+projector there anyway there I may as well at least have a projected backdrop.... so I cobbled together some HTML and Javascript, dug out some old photos I took in Hong Kong and Shanghai, applied some filtering and a wodge of script.aculo.us and created some moving browser based wallpaper.

Which looks like this. (Go to full screen mode for the full effect.)

Not bad for a rapidly hacked together piece o'crap, even if I do say so myself. How many other rockstars can code their own backdrop. Eh? I shall whack it on a USB stick and from now on anywhere where they have a laptop+projector I can have a backdrop. Simple!

Hopefully see ya tonight. I shall probably be blogging from soundcheck anyway on (because if there's one thing common to all soundchecks it's the endless waiting).

Synaptic Crossfire. [Twitter]

• 13:52 @martinspain Have them killed. Modifed cattleprod should do it. #
• 22:29 fail. #