I am reading the John Robb (daft haircut music journo and TV talking head) history of Manchester music "The North Will Rise Again". At the moment I'm on the kind of post punk A Certain Ratio and The Fall era - fascinating tales of the music taking place in and actually enhanced by the industrial decay and council estates of Hulme and Moss Side. ( Read more... )

So Banky has been educating himself ( Read more... )

So, if I'm not going to get to see them live due to my nocturnal playtime habits and knacering worktime ones, I thought I'd go onto this mysterious "Bandcamp" site they keep plugging, and actually, you know, listen and download a track. No flute insertion required. Although the advert on my lj page here as I write this suggests I try Scientology. ( Read more... )

Bloody Liam Gallagher pissing all over the World of Twist classic Sons of the Stage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgEw_YtfxYM

With his own bad Primal Scream 1994 sounding cover!

I wonder if anyone has ever considered doing a Davina Fit style workout DVD with Black Francis and Kim Deal of the Pixies, I wonder if Black and Kim have ever even considered watching one ( Read more... )

Sis was telling me last night, as we got a lot more tipsy than we'd intended at the start of the night, about how amazing the Manchester Arcade Fire show, and how much fun the after show was. Sis was expecting it to be a kind of posh private bar, but it was basically just a room with a massive beer fridge in ( Read more... )

OK, while I debate whether to write, gasp, some kind of proper feature about either the musical taste of the gay community or how nauseating I find the X Factor Help for Heroes song - not as nauseating as the fact the MY hero David Bowie actually gave them permission to use "Heroes" in the first place ( Read more... )

...the Saturday night x-factor duets are taking place ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd try and paint a picture of how the student music nights are doing these days ( Read more... )

...of these old Shamen videos - Boss Drum and En-Tact period. As opposed to their early albums where I remember string vests and terrible lank haircuts being the order of the day ( Read more... )