10 years of Diskant : Earz Magazine

10 years of Diskant

August 14, 2008 · Words: Martin S ·

10 years of Diskant Congratulations are due to the writers at Diskant.net who’ve reached a mighty ten-year-milestone of writing about music online– in internet terms that’s older than Castro!

Recently they’ve republished some older pieces from their archive, I particularly liked this one about The Beech, a big house in Nottingham that the writers rented for a while and had all sorts of crazy problems in, including collapsed ceilings, “wanted” landlords and “scumbag burglars”.

“The benefit of the old landlord was that he was never about. He didn’t live locally and so he never bothered us. We were free to do what we wanted to the house and he was cool about rent being late etc. However, if something broke we were fucked. The peak of this occurred one morning when I was washing my face in the bathroom on the way to running out of the door to work. I heard a strange creaking noise from the roof just as I walked out onto the landing. I got about 2 steps out of the room and the ceiling collapsed behind me, just missing me. The entire back of my person was white with dust.

We stepped over that pile of rubble every day for about a month.

The landlord’s phone was never on and so the messages went from “Hi, the ceiling has fallen in, this is urgent can you send someone to fix it?” to “Hi. I’m standing on the ceiling. How is this possible? BECAUSE THE CEILING IS ON THE FLOOR”.

It was when we finally got hold of the landlord that we realised what we were dealing with. His reason for being so unobtainable was that he had had both his legs broken in a “freak mugging incident”. How many people do you know that have had anything broken in a mugging? It became pretty obvious that our landlord was up to his neck in shit with someone.”

Link to Diskant article.

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