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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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According to last.fm, these were the artists I listened to most during 2006:
Guillemots
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Zero 7
Death Cab for Cutie
Thom Yorke
The Go! Team
The Feeling
Madonna
Stereolab
Joni Mitchell
Delays
Bloc Party
Scissor Sisters
Imogen Heap
The Rakes
The Beatles
Bonobo
The Cure
Kate Bush
Radiohead
Quite surprised Bloc Party are so high, especially given that I was convinced I hated them until about December when I realised I’d been mixing them […]
Poor Alanis Morissette, she doesn’t half get some stick for her lack of irony - which you no doubt pitied her for when she released Ironic in 1996. Perhaps one day she’ll rectify her error by getting her chops around these alternative, actually-ironic lyrics.
Related: another Alanis take-off starts off the snippets track from Fitness To […]
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