Archive for the ‘music’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Current favourite tune, plundered from Pitchfork’s 100 Top Tracks of 2006. Reminds me a bit of MIA somehow.