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Music to wash up to

March 14th, 2009

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It’s Saturday, I’m resting at home recovering from evil cold from hell, and I’m avoiding chores by looking for good music to wash up to.
Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Martika’s Kitchen – Martika
The Boy Does Nothing – Alesha Dixon
Dishwasher – Fujiya & Miyagi
Soul Kitchen – The Doors
Wash Your Face In My Sink – Dream Warriors
I [...]


What I listened to in 2008

January 10th, 2009

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Thanks to the awesome LastGraph, I’ve mined my last.fm profile in a very elegant and beautiful way to look at listening habits over 2008, with the output below. No big surprises here. Had a couple of weeks off in late October/November so big chunk of listening there. Intriguied by a burst of listening to The [...]


The sounds of early 2008

February 23rd, 2008

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Here are a few things I’ve been listening to so far this year – I’m on the look out for some new aural stimulation, and trusty last.fm recommendations can only go so far before you need a bit of good old word-of-blog, so if you have a minute let me know what’s been floating your [...]


Belated thoughts on my second trip to Glastonbury

July 1st, 2007

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What’s brown and sticky? A stick. Oh, and also British music festivals in the summer. Aah Glastonbury and the British weather. You can’t beat it.

So some aspects of this year’s festival were no better than my last experience: planning and successfully executing toilet trips was a thankless task; the food ranged from the sublime to [...]


Eurovision freakshow contest

May 13th, 2007

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You might as well watch the Eurovision song contest with the sound off these days, according to EuroGuru Tim Moore. Winning, apparently, has everything to do with the visual theatrics of each country’s 180 seconds of glory. He should know – he’s written a whole book about it.

Perhaps he’s right: the winner and the runner-up [...]


Not the fortunate ones

April 26th, 2007

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Straight men of the world: do you listen to Cyndi Lauper at full volume on the tube? Do you just want to have fun? You big Girl?


Charlotte Church intimidates me

March 3rd, 2007

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Barely 21, Welsh songstress-turned-TV-sleb Charlotte Church has announced that she’s preggers.
Come on Charlotte, just slow down and let the rest of us feel good about our achievements! You’ve already been a child star, successfully morphed your angelic-voiced 13-year-old self into a filthy-sounding twenty-something vixen without going off the rails like one of your American contemporaries. [...]


Plotting disaster

February 25th, 2007

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In Year 7 English at school, I distinctly remember our teacher telling us that the first rule of creative writing was a good, well-planned plot. A harsh but fair woman, she ridiculed anyone whose tales had even a whiff of ‘and then I woke up and it was all a bad dream’. So why do [...]


On gig stalkery…

February 22nd, 2007

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Mika @ Popstarz (in fitting drama queen pose), originally uploaded by minor9th.
So far this year, the gig quota has been pretty excellent – if a little exhausting.
The definite low point was Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, who spoil wonderously complex and interesting drum/guitar/synth interplay with a wiry, creepy-dancing lead singer whose voice I found excruciating [...]


The Electrofunk-daddy Superstar Break

February 18th, 2007

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Now you too can cook up some seriously cool beats. Warning: quite high in phat.


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