Browsing Posts tagged Mark Lanegan

Waste not, want not.  Black Pudding is one of those foodstuffs that is fairly ubiquitous worldwide, yet one of those things that doesn’t always spring to the forefront of culinary conversation.  It may be that the high fat content is considered a bit of a no-no in these health-conscious times; it could well be that [...]

Because, quite frankly, my previous post was basically me spending the thick end of 800 words about hanging about outside a shop, when the best bit was spent hanging about briefly (there was a queue behind me!) inside one as well. Yes, I bought some records.  It would have been frankly rude not to have [...]

Barrett Martin has the right idea about things.  At a time where reissues are parked out like clockwork every five years, selling the same thing to the same people over and over again, he seems to prefer the more honest and altogether fun approach by picking up a box of tapes, soaking up the memories [...]

Try as I might, I don’t think that this will ever be a regular occurrence – in my defence however, Saturday is currently the one day of the week I don’t work, so I tend to sleep right through them nowadays rather than seek out fresh compilations to badly wax lyrical about.  Nice bit of [...]

This Top 3 has changed so many times, it’s unbelievable.  All interchangeable and all for different reasons, I think I’ve finally settled on an order that I can look at and go “yup, that’ll do”.  Or I could change it all again in a hissy fit.  Anyway, I’ve surprised myself a bit with having this [...]

To be honest, I wasn’t going to bother doing anything on this show as I’ve done enough of these already this year! The plan was to chill out, hang out with friends who I’d not seen for a while (one of whom was celebrating her birthday) and just soak in the show without having to [...]

Blimey.  300 posts, eh?  I’m frankly staggered that my attention span carried past half a dozen, and I remain grateful to those whose own reading habits continue to extend to this oddly-shaped cubbyhole of the internet.  I’d been thinking a bit about what I could do to make this one a bit special, and somewhat [...]

Sunday Whatever

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I usually do these things when I’ve nothing else to do and want to keep my brain in some sort of gear.  This time, I’m doing it because I’ve got a pile of stuff on the go and I want to slow the grey matter down a bit, giving myself time to sit down and [...]

Sunday Whatever

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After a week where I did two live reviews (the Afghan Whigs in London and Mark Lanegan in Wolverhampton), I’m reminded just how much a pain it is to review live shows.  Records are easy by comparison, because they can be written about while comfortably experiencing them and trying to locate the feel of something, and [...]