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
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 […]
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
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)
This week I have mostly been listening to:
Franz Ferdinand
No You Girls
Calvin Harris
I’m Not Alone
Velvet Goldmine
Soundtrack
Julian Cope
20 Mothers
Urge Overkill
The Supersonic Storybook
Urge Overkill
Stull EP
A typical lunch hour in London:
Walking onto Blackfriars Bridge, avoiding the closed pavements due to station refurbishment, I walk past Bobby Gillespie, singer in popular blues and electronica group Primal Scream. There is no mistaking Gillespie, he always appears incredibly greasy and gaunt, a man who has had an eventful life and could be very […]
This week I have mostly been listening to:
Soulwax
Most Of The Remixes… [Disc 2]
Doves
Kingdom Of Rust
Art Brut
Alcoholics Unanimous
Joy Division (Warsaw)
Warsaw (Sessions 1977-1980)
Joy Division (Warsaw)
Excite One
Leonard Rosenman
The Lord Of The Rings Soundtrack
I was very sad to learn of the death of JG Ballard at the age of 78. He had been ill for several years, struggling with prostate cancer, and died on Sunday morning. Ballard is one of my favourite authors, penning such classics as ‘The Drowned World’, ‘Concrete Island’ and ‘Crash’. He said his books […]
At the recent NME Awards shindig after show party I had an unusual experience in a toilet with Oasis singer and celebrity spitter Liam Gallagher. I was busily checking my make-up in the urinal mirror, discussing the joy of lipstick with The Cure’s Robert Smith, when there was a fracas and excitable activity in the […]