It’s strange sometimes, how life’s little coincidences spring upon us and catch us off our guard: sometimes in a good way, sometimes not. I’m looking at this as one of the good ones. I’d always planned on doing this today as a brief thing to kill half time in the Spain – Portugal Euro 2012 [...]
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I’m writing this in a bit of a mood, to be honest. I was flattened by a migraine yesterday so missed the first of two shows at Jodrell Bank (last year’s show with the Flaming Lips was a stunner), and overnight we had a month’s worth of rain in one go, so tonight’s gig with [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Until today, I had not owned a record-playing turntable for over a decade. I know. Disgraceful. But the truth is that when the last one died, it was when CDs were so utterly dominant that new ones came in but two flavours: the cheap and scary [...]
There are more than a few ways of ‘discovering’ music new to oneself. Press reviews, radio play, friend recommendations and spending money on a whim are all winners. Even (current bugbear alert!) terrible, twee covers of the likes of Pixies, Stone Roses, The Smiths or Joy Division have a use if someone hears it and [...]
Hello! Especially to anyone who has arrived here from a link that I posted to this on this blog’s Facebook Page, as this is all about you. Because if you did, it’s because you are among the lucky 17-42% of people who ‘Liked’ my page on there who will have been seemingly permitted to have [...]
Lots to do and no time to do any of it seems to be the order of the day here. It’s not helped by the constant helpings of European Football (which is on as I type, so please forgive occasional losing of track or bouts of unexplained swearing, although the latter is mostly to drown [...]
There are two things in life that I can honestly say that, despite my best efforts and a genuine desire to be otherwise, I am genuinely crap at: Art, and Technology. This is a bit of a fib as of course this isn’t anywhere near the full spectrum of things I’m genuinely crap at, but [...]
I type this with a vague feeling of regret, which is a feeling I commonly associate with the Afghan Whigs. Back in the 1990s, there were seemingly always flyers posted about the place announcing that the band were once more rolling through town, and every time this happened I never went to see them, [...]
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