There is a strange cultural happening going on in Great Britain today, and it’s a rather welcome one. As entertainment continues to be dumbed-down left right and centre, there’s a backlash of TV programming and music aimed at inclusively celebrating the fact that we’re not as stupid a nation as the Fourth Estate would have [...]
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It’s a strange thing, scribbling about music. Translating sound into words in the hope that the person at the other end can vaguely translate it back again in their own minds is akin to typing out a recipe in one language, babelfishing it into another, and then getting someone to translate it back again with [...]
And now, back to where I was. Which is furiously catching up with things from the past two weeks before things from the next two weeks swamp me completely. Fortunately, a couple of these treats arrived in the form of pre-release/pre-order downloads that mean that instead of being two weeks late with this (and hopefully [...]
There’s much been said about the classic Side 1 Track 1s of musical history, and rightly so. However – and this my be a bit weirdly compulsive of me – when I have a quick sample of something completely new to me, it’s not the first track I head for. Instead, I decide on blind [...]
It’s been a silly old 2013 round here. Stresses, strains, constant six-day weeks and a bit of soul-searching have been hammering away at the back of my head, with somewhat inevitable results. The weather not bothering to make its mind up about what it’s doing hasn’t helped the general feeling of unspecified malaise either, although [...]
While it’s nice to look forward to something hoving into view (and there is hoving aplenty going on this week and next, now that release schedules click back into gear post-Christmas. Although it’s a shame that HMV aren’t honouring any of the gift vouchers that loads of people received under their various trees), it’s just [...]
Hello, people of the future! For I wrote this a couple of weeks ago and didn’t post it. With any luck, I’ve won the lottery in the meantime and I’m pressing ‘send’ from my new beachside castle. I suspect I won’t be though. Anyways, I’m holding off a while until we’re a bit closer to [...]
The three years in which this blog has existed has been something of a struggle for consistency, pretty much to the point where I have given up any notion or pretence of striving to achieve it. Then again, I set this up to be so personal to myself that nobody would ever read it (with [...]
Just a quick snippet before I go off and do something else – I don’t usually go on about single song releases as I struggle to get everything typed and posted before it finishes, but I’m happy to make an exception for these guys as not only is it a fine old song to start [...]
Well, that’s that plan knackered. What was supposed to happen was – as I tend to enjoy doing with other such highly-anticipated titles – I was going to write about this particular record during its first playthrough. I suspect that this approach is something that would horrify most artists, who would probably want the songs to [...]
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