Monthly Archives: May 2009

Music Week #6

This week I have mostly been listening to:
We Are Scientists
Crap Attack

Six By Seven
Catch The Rain

The Shins
So Says I

Velocity Girl
Sorry Again EP

Velocity Girl
Gilded Stars And Zealous Hearts

Melody Maker: New Kids On The Rock

Money Off

On my walk home last night I had an experience that I have never had before. As I was striding down the Mile End Road, just after the junction with Cambridge Heath Road, I noticed something on the floor. As I got closer I realised it was a wad of money. There were £20s and […]

Music Week #5

This week I have mainly been listening to:
We Are Scientists
Brain Thrust Mastery

PJ Harvey & John Parish
Black Hearted Love

Kaiser Chiefs
The Angry Mob

Tiger
Shining In The Wood

The Jesus And Mary Chain
Barbed Wire Kisses

Knowledge is The Law

Walking down The Cut the other day I saw what appeared to be a mental person swerving straight for me, as they do. Upon closer inspection I realised it was my friend and sexy man actor Jude Law.
He was hardly recognisable, with wild hair, dirty and crumpled clothes and mad bloodshot eyes. He was obviously […]

Black Tongue

I am happy to say that I have been rather prolific of late with the old songwriting. I believe it is a truism that black moods lead to more artistic inspiration and I have been rather inspired these last few months.
I am really looking forward to mid-summer when I am booked into the Davy Lawrence […]

Music Week #4

This week I have mostly been listening to:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zero

Operator Please
Get What You Want

Mega City Four
Terribly Sorry Bob

Explosions in the Sky
Travels In Constants (Vol. 21): The Rescue

Explosions in the Sky
Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever

The Raincoats
Odyshape

B-Movie
Forever Running

Second Trek

I went to see the new Star Trek film at the Genesis for a second time. It is very rare for me to do this but I thought this was a film that deserved a second viewing. The last time I did this was for the Lord of the Rings films, which I enjoyed much […]

Dick Tears

Halcyon Company, the producers of the Terminator series of films, have announced they are to make a cinema adaptation of the 1974 Philip K Dick novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Halcyon holds the rights to produce works by the late author in conjunction with Electric Shepherd Productions, the production arm of his estate.
The […]

Bags

Are the rapidly enlarging and engorged bags and sacks underneath both my eyes due to aging? Or are they due to panic, intense anxiety, stress, acute paranoia, clinical depression, alcoholism and sleepless nights?
Maybe it is both reasons. Oh, what a shame.

Music Week #3

This week I have mainly been listening to:
The Rifles
The General

Kings Of Leon
Molly’s Chambers

Gene
Fighting Fit

A.C. Acoustics
Peel Session (21st May 2002)

The Cure
The Head On the Door (Deluxe Edition) (CD01)

Fad Gadget
The Best Of Fad Gadget (CD1)