One of my best friends called me whilst I was on a date to tell me Dead Confederate were playing a gig, that night in London. He knew I couldn’t go. He knew how much I love them. He also knew how pissed I would get for missing them on my doorstep. He laughed mockingly when...
He singeth. He’s still scared of his own voice though – hiding it under effects – but Mark Ronson‘s vocals are pretty good from what I can hear on his new track Lost It (In The End). Mark has done it again though. It is an awesome tune. This album is shaping up to be...
Listening to classical cross-over brings me as much pleasure as sitting in my office with the ear piercingly high pitched band saw gradually melting my brain through a single glazed window from the building works over the road. So it was with a certain degree of trepidation after I saw ‘classical music’ as an influence...
I’m a huge fan of Wired UK – but never have I expected to find decent music within the geek bible. Yet, tucked away in a corner of one of Wired’s pages, I found a snippet about a young British girl they predict will soon be storming all over our charts. Wired are famously prophetic...
Thom Yorke performed Give up the Ghost at the Big Chill Festival during his 12 song solo set. Although he has been performing it since around February – it was only after singing this last weekend that he revealed it was in fact a new Radiohead song. Despite murmurs from the Oxford group that after...
Yately – somewhere west of London and near Sandhurst – is the home of Adam Crisp also known as Entrepreneurs. This means Yately could soon be home to one of the greatest producers in the UK. Last year Entrepreneurs gained some recognition with a remix of Marina and the Diamonds - but it seems what’s...
Going to Seattle? Don’t go to the music museum. It’s shite. Do eat seafood, rent a boat with fishing rods or take a short drive past evergreen forests for a trip to Microsoft town. Other than the museum I struggle to come up with a reason why you wouldn’t visit Seattle – it’s lovely and also where Nate...
Music videos rarely move my juices. What I do know is that Lady Gaga‘s Telephone is not nearly as annoying as Alejandro. The videos and the music. I also know that the new IAMAMIWHOAMI music video has put anything that poker faced bandwagon has churned out to shame. What’s better? I’d say the: music cinematography...
Antony Hegarty is back at last with the Johnsons. The roaming minstrel has been just about everywhere of late apart from with the group that brought him fame – well of sorts. Although I admit I was never the biggest fan when he first came on the scene – I have grown to love his...
I love Iceland. They may have ruined the UK’s local councils by going bankrupt and sent Europe into chaos with it’s ash cloud – but they have Bjork, Jonsi and a lesbian PM who managed to change the law so she can be fully married. Anyway Jonsi of Sigur Rós has just released a new...
Student debt sucks. I finished attempting to increase my brain capacity over four years ago and am still about as close as world peace to paying it off. To avoid paying it back I may soon take the approach of the members of DOM and remove my surname from the face of the earth. Erik,...
Talented and suave Mark Ronson may be - but subterranean sea deposits can flaunt more charisma than him. Or maybe it was just his way of dealing with another of those irritating as fuck Channel 4 presenters. At least during the most boring interview drawn out on celluloid they managed to play Bang Bang Bang - his latest...
