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Maps + Heather McVey + Sam from The Morning People
The Soul Tree, July 2nd 2006

A last-minute sounded-like-it-could-be-fun gig selected from the GreenMind mailing list, on the grounds that they're called "Maps", and addedentry likes maps, and, well, it was only £2 (and a band has to try pretty hard to be not worth two quid).

( Anyway, yeah, to cut a long story short, they were )

definitely worth the ticket price, and I'll be downloading the tracks I liked if I can find the damn things.

Oh, and, not wanting to put the indie kids off, but other people like them too! (BBC local: Could Maps put Northamptonshire on the, er, map?)

But don't take my word for it -- make your own minds up:
- Maps [see also myspace]
- Heather McVey
- The Morning People [see also myspace]

All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to read nothing

Okay, how precisely would you go about committing an act of terrorism using only a paperback book? For the purposes of the exercise, you have to use the physical object, not its informational contents (so e.g. "Buying a paperback book on how to make bombs and following the instructions therein" would be instantly disqualified). You are allowed to pre-prepare the book using other items, but you'll get bonus points for making suggestions which would work with an unprepared book, e.g. the surprisingly unreadable Dan Brown novel that you've just bought in the duty-free.

My favourite suggestion wins a potentially-lethal pair of nailclippers. (I reserve the right not to award the prize if your suggestions all turn out to be variations on a theme of papercuts, but I trust you'll do better than that, won't you, chaps?)

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