FishboneFishbone lit up Camden’s dark and dingy Underworld last night as they brought their world tour to London. Fashionably late, the band sauntered on stage to an uproar from a crowd whose impatie...
Going all Pink Floyd in my last post reminded me of one of my all time favourite covers: Sparklehorses heart-wrenching take on Wish You Were Here.Bitter experience has taught us that cover versions c...
Syd BarrettAs a founding member of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett (born Roger Barrett) is a solid fixture in the history of rock. Spending just three years with the band, Barrett contributed significantly t...
Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy BirthdayThere is a lot to love about Cage The Elephants new offering, Thank You Happy Birthday.Before you even get to the music, the art work is worth a gander. Th...
FishboneI am now the hugely excitable owner of a ticket to see legendary skankers Fishbone punking and funking all over Underworld - a small club in the heart of Camden.The ticket price got me thinki...
The Strokes - AnglesIm about 30 seconds into the new album from The Strokes, Angles, and it has already compelled me to get some words out there. Ive spent five years waiting patiently for Julian Cas...
Alex TurnerRichard Ayoade found fame in Garth Marenghi, The IT Crowd and The Mighty Boosh and he can now safely add Submarine to this list of achievements. The film was brilliant; hilarious...
Since my move to London back in September, the citys been pretty good to me. I really am loving having so much culture and entertainment on my doorstep. Well, not literally on my doorstep. The only c...
I thought it was about time I put some words together on Radioheads recent release, The King Of Limbs, because Im sure this album has been somewhat overlooked in the publicity department. I like...
Ive never given post-rock much attention in the past, but I think this album is brilliant. Its the sort of music you can let your imagination run wild with.As Ive just demonstrated, its hard to write...
Bob Dylan is doing my head in. I love the mans music, but hes such a miserable pain in the arse. When I started reading his autobiography, Chronicles, there was a soundtrack running through my mind o...
I just remembered that this video exists - my day just got a little brighter.Red Hot Chili Peppers circa 1984.
After relaxing comfortably into the Journalism student stereotype and having an actual, out-loud conversation about blogging, it turns out that all the cool kid bloggers are on Bloglovin. So now I am...
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Sunday night was fan-bloody-tastic. Dinner, drinks and dancing. I sound well classy, dont I? Im not.It wasnt really dancing - more jumping up and down, getting a lot closer to sweaty strangers than I...
Pop-up Cinema. So, its not music, but its something I did that I found really interesting - and it ties in with the media, so "Why not put pen to paper?" I thought. Then I thought "The bl...
Ahh Gruff Rhys, a man whose name sounds like a description. Maybe thats just me.Sometimes I can waffle on about how good an album is without really meaning every word, but this review is pretty damn ...
So, my attention span seems to have failed me yet again. Only this time, instead of getting distracted mid-sentence by something shiny, I got distracted mid-blog by real life. When I say "real li...
This morning, whilst leafing through my online newspaper that is Twitter, I had a quick glance over the front pages of the national papers, and this is what I found:Wikileaks and the cyber war they’v...
Ive given in. My Internet life is continually expanding and this blog is the latest addition to my online world.It started off with a harmless email address back in the 90s and over the last ten-to-f...
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