October 2010
1 post
Band Playlist: Wilco →
Right well that weekly playlist thing didnt go well, did it?
I make a lot of playlists so I’ll use this to post them.
Over the last few months, I’ve found a new favourite band. I may say this a lot but this is one you can trust me on. Wilco have gone through several incarnations around the mind of Jeff Tweedy, a true songwriting genius in the vein of Dylan (see ‘What...
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
1 post
Weekly Playlist 1 - 03/05 →
I’ve started doing these weekly playlists, inspired by mr Paul Kaaya. Here is the first of these, compiled from the week of the 26th of April to the 3rd of May.
1.) Why Can’t We Be Friends? - War
Just a very catchy song. I think I first heard it in the Simpsons or something but it was on the radio on one of my dad’s dodgy soul programs and i realised how massive a tune it is....
April 2010
2 posts
Bombay Bicycle Club live @ Pure Groove
Yesterday in the early evening, young London indie band Bombay Bicycle Club took to the stage in a packed and sweaty Pure Groove Records to shake loose the winter blues on this sunny Record Store Day. Playing an acoustic set in which they brought out a couple of B-sides, some tracks off the new, all-acoustic album and a few old favourites, Jack, Jamie and co came on armed with Banjos, Mandolins,...
Happy record store day, kids →
I didnt get a chance to buy the new single by Blur, my favourite band, a limited edition specifically for Record Store Day. I watched the man in front of me in the queue take away the last copy from Rough Trade. Fair enough, I hope he enjoys the record. As long as he actually listens to it unlike the cunt who is selling this. Rough Trade says this record cost £5 (it still has the fucking sticker...
December 2009
2 posts
i need to use tumblr more often
but alas i rarely have a working computer. you should see my twitter.
November 2009
1 post
So, Ian Brown’s a wife beater, then?
October 2009
8 posts
the most recent curb your enthusiasm,
in which larry david pisses on a portrait of jesus and someone thinks the painting is crying and declares it to be a miracle, is genius.
‘I bet you’d grow a mean beard dead fast too.
Wow, three...
– Sam Storey, in his drunken astuteness
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
amazing
ah liek toitles
On a stop light green means go, red means stop and yellow means slow down, but...
– mitch hedberg
the doors of perception →
started reading this morning. pretty interesting.
tumblr?!
not quite sure what this is but i might as well.