When I moved down to London I made a list of places that I was determined to visit. I've not seen it for a while, but from what I can remember I don't think I've done very well over the last decade. Cynthia's Robot Bar is one of the places I did get to. It was a bit depressing actually, the robot Cynthia wasn't even switched on.Anyway, I was thinking about doing a podcast with the theme being "Robot Disco", I only got so far though.
Imitation Electric Piano: What We Do We Do
I reckon that's the riff from "WIld Flower".
As you might know (or have guessed) Imitation Electric Piano are a Stereolab off-shoot. The track above is from the excellently titled "Blow It Up, Burn it Down, Kick It 'Til It Bleeds" - an album I was drawn to after hearing the impossibly breezy "I Mean Wow", which I wasn't going to post because it's not really robotic sounding, but I've mentioned it now...
Imitation Electric Piano: I Mean Wow
So there was a human bartender, and an unplugged robot? How disappointing. I have a deep love of both robots and bars. The two together is a dizzying concept.
ReplyDeleteNo - no humans, no functioning robots either. The door was open, there was muzak playing. We tried punching our order into the panel you can see in the picture. I dunno, the management reserves the right? I felt a bit like Arthur Dent.
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