It’s amazing how the music industry moves on nowadays; careers tend to be a bit more slow-burning than meteoric in these less-stellar times . Blues Funeral marks the solo return of an artist whose last singularly-released album was in 2004. Eight years ago. To put this into some light-hearted perspective: The Beatles played their last [...]
Browsing Posts published in January, 2012
Quite a few of my closest friends are vegetarians. I have no idea why this is, I have never asked them and have seen no real reason why I should pry into this as it neither alarms nor offends me. Having said that, there are occasions where I (at a percentage of carnivorousness approaching utter [...]
Well, it’s my own fault for moaning earlier this month that I was bored. It’s certainly picked up release-wise in the last week or so, for as well as the things already covered in the last week or so, there’s this gem released just the other day, something odd on its way in the post [...]
I’m not sure if it was just me who was in the dark about this one, but the first I heard about a new album from Joseph Arthur was through his Twitter feed on Sunday evening, which stated simply and cryptically “Redemption City 011812″. The following day, a further tweet announced that this is a [...]
And to think that I nearly didn’t go to this show. For shame. In fairness, I had a decent enough excuse in that I seem to have had a succession of bad colds from around just after Christmas that pretty much only completely cleared up last night. I had my fellow gig-goers’ best health in [...]
The first record of 2012 is here at last! Well, the first one I’ve got round to buying, anyway. I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while after buying their (his?) debut EP on a whim at the end of last summer and really enjoying its baffling stylistic multi-direction, each song suggesting a [...]
A bit of a slight revisit this one, as thanks to the joys of preordering I’d been enjoying the downloaded tracks for a short while beforehand (and enjoying to the extent that I’d included this among my favourites of 2011). Thanks to the arrival of the 2xCD package that arrived yesterday as well as the [...]
Will someone hurry up and release something already? The pre-Christmas deluge of awfulness followed by the post-New Year hangover means that it feels like ages since anything of any quality has come out. This should all pick up a bit soon enough though, as the first gig of the year comes this Saturday, and with [...]
Well. After seeing that title, there was no way that this was not going to be bought. And, before I carry on with this: if you are not of a certain vintage, if you are not from the UK, or if you were both of the former but went playing outside after TISWAS finished, none [...]
Happy New Year all! Well, 2012 is a mere 16 hours old, and already I’m sick of people on the TV banging on about the Olympics, in between adverts encouraging people to borrow more money at calculator-worrying levels of interest in order to spend it on stuff they don’t need in the first place. Then [...]
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