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Field Day
Had to pass comment on Field Day. The weather was gorgeous, the lineup was excellent, but the whole event was pretty much ruined by amateurish organisation. It’s received a comprehensive slating on Myspace, and with good cause. 14 bar staff for 10,000 people does not a good ratio make, and even our backup plan of [...]
last.fm still going for world domination
Quite liking last.fm’s new video player. Not hugely different from YouTube, but seems a little sharper to me. Quite liking this song, too.
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Moratorium
It’s been so long I’m just going to declare a moratorium on the previous two months. There’s so much to report I can’t possibly know where to begin. Suffice to say, the job’s excellent and challenging, the house hunt is arduous and vaguely depressing, and the lack of kitchen is putting the waistline under increasing [...]
Video killed the radio star
Pandora are shutting out non-US customers. A damn shame, and probably not the last problem internet radio is facing. That said, I always thought Pandora was too technical - splitting down music to its constituent parts and reassembling them in an utterly mechanical way. Not enough emotion, not enough variety, particularly for us humanist types. [...]
Twitter at ATP, anyone?
And people ask what’s so good about Twitter…
I had another Twitter-related thought recently, namely to encourage ATP attendees to sign up and use it. In a similar way to SxSW / FOWA / any other geek conference you care to mention, we can use it as a realtime virtual community, saying things like:
“Band Of Horses [...]
Two new songs
Took a day’s holiday today to record some songs.
The Last Thing I Said To You Was Don’t Leave Me Here [1:24, 1.7MB]
Reprise (for Anya) [4:54, 5.7MB]
They’re part of my 7plusorminus2 project, about which a full post will appear when I’ve finished everything. As with pretty much everything I do, these are released under a Creative [...]
One person, one vote
Just made my choices for the ATP vs The Fans weekend.
Shipping News
The Knife
Rachel’s
Sightings
Stereolab
Tapes ‘n Tapes
Battles
Part Chimp
Wolf Parade
Band Of Horses
Likelihood of any of them being chosen: approximately nil.
At least I’m being a bit different though: the leaderboard is currently topped by some utterly predictable bands: Mogwai, Explosions [...]
Stocktake
Happy New Year to everyone, of course. Now please check your racks* for the following CDs of mine that have apparently been liberated from my collection. No ‘proper’ posts until I locate at least 25%. Be afraid.
Atari Teenage Riot – Live At Brixton Academy
Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap
Cave In - [...]
The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health
Current favourite tune, plundered from Pitchfork’s 100 Top Tracks of 2006. Reminds me a bit of MIA somehow.
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