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Working the racking to Capital FM
A recent poll at work apparently suggested that 571 people would rather listen to CApital FM than Lincs FM at work. Last shift, this change was finally implemented ( Read more... ) -
The Mysterious Richard Hawley...
and I'm not talking about the mysterious transcendence of his music; the engima of his lyrics or even the labyrinthine majesty of his voice ( Read more... ) -
Weekender and Baggy
Watched Flowered Up's long form video of their classic "Weekender" track, dating back to, 1991 or so? As ever, incredibly impressed by the whole thing, although ecstasy, rave and dance culture was completely lost on me back in the day. Anna Haigh, who was Boca Juniors singer and kind of Andrew Weatherall in house vocalist, turns up in the video and ( Read more... ) -
On Ed Sheeran
*blows dust away* Haven't been in here in a long time ( Read more... ) -
Who needs Valium when you've got Pearl Jam?
BBC4 devoted it's usually excellent Friday night music schedule to a 20 year "celebration" of Pearl Jam. Now if it had been a 20 year celebration of the "Ten" album, one that despite it's hideous "All for one, one for all, yay let's rock" newspaper advertising department on a friday cover, and "Jeff Ament plays Colgate 4 and 8 string basses" ( Read more... ) -
Upside Down - The Creation Records Story
Watched this on BBC4 on friday evening, and if you throw in the hour of film of Creation Acts at the BBC that followed it, it was a really worthwhile evening's viewing ( Read more... ) -
The Goths are Still Around Still
And not just in crappy vanilla photoshoots with short of imagination photographers either. I hear the music more and more, and I hear aforesaid music being talked about more and more ( Read more... ) -
A car crash video it is hard not to watch
The video itself has become a legend of awfulness in my mind - everything about it - Fergie's attempts to look coyly seductive, Taboo creeping the suddenly necrotised flesh off my bones, Apple de Ap being crap, or ultimately Will.I.Am, the only man in history who can't talk without requiring an autotuner ( Read more... ) -
Radio Head
Lately, the radio has become important to me to the point of paranoia ( Read more... ) -
Jane's Addiction, maybe again
Have I written about Jane's Addiction before? I can't remember, and I'm really not going to bother looking. I've been listening to Ritual de lo Habitual again and loving it all over again. Loving in particular that it is not the Red Hot Chilli Peppers - it has an unseedy kinkiness and an intelligence and also a poignancy that the Peppers with all ( Read more... )