A breath of fresh air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8rKFHxnOe8&feature=player_embedded

Way back when I first got broadband and hadn't yet found WFMU I was casting around for web radio stations. I came upon one named KPIG out of Texas which played what I suppose you'd call alt-country. KPIG as it was has disappeared, if you google it now it's in California playing similar but worse stuff ( Read more... )

I didn't hear "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones until way after I'd heard it by Soft Cell. I'm not sure it was even released in the UK in the 60s ( Read more... )

Jonny Cross, RIP

Redundancy-induced enforced leisure meant that Thursday morning at 10.30 found me at the new Kings Place venue, up York Way from Kings Cross. To see two 45-minute concerts by Abram Wilson, a trumpeter from New Orleans who now lives in London ( Read more... )

They do things much the same there ( Read more... )

There's a school of thought that says that Cilla Black's version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" is better than Dionne Warwick's because it's more credible ( Read more... )

That's art, innit?

http://www.videofantastica.com/view_video/31903/

It goes on a bit, but the first minute is great.

On t'radio that is. Downloads here -

http://www.mp33pm.co.uk/2007/09/season-two-links-to-all-of-bob-dylan.html

A few bob via Paypal to him wouldn't hurt.

We've always been a bit leery about going on long weekends to Eastern Europe. Budapest was great, highly recommended, but our fairly-undemanding dietary demands appeared incompatible with the signature dishes of those former outposts of Stalin's empire ( Read more... )