Wednesday, 30th April 2008 – 20:31
I mentioned a couple of months back that I’d bought a ticket to see Billy Bragg at the Sage Gateshead. Well, last night was the long awaited show, and this is my long awaited report on it!
I went for a bit of a walk after work, as there wasn’t really time to make it worth [...]
Wednesday, 30th April 2008 – 19:52
I’ve got something of a soft spot for Coldplay. Their last album X&Y was a pleasant thing to listen to, and three years later[1] I still give it the odd play. Anyway, the next album is out in June, and Violet Hill is the first single from it. It’ll be out on round shiny thing [...]
Monday, 21st April 2008 – 22:37
I mentioned eMusic last month, not long after I signed up for the service. After that, I sort of forgot about it for a few weeks, but went back in time to use up my first month’s allowance of tracks. And then I started browsing properly. A Good Thing about eMuisc is the handy “save [...]
Sunday, 6th April 2008 – 23:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGV8xCkpXjE
Now this is fun. The Last Shadow Puppets are the brilliant Alex Turner, singer and songwriter of those lovely Arctic Monkeys and his friend Miles Kane of The Rascals, a band I currently know nothing about, but will be checking out in due course. Alex clearly has far too many ideas fizzing around in his [...]
Tuesday, 1st April 2008 – 23:09
I’m sure I’ve mentioned the long-running music show Later… with Jools Holland once or twice. It’s always been a delight - the diverse range of artists taking part means there’s always something good, and often something new to discover, making it essential viewing[1] for anyone at all interested in popular music. It was on Later… [...]
Saturday, 29th March 2008 – 9:19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hERot7SrVYo
One of those random, unfocussed conversations on a mailing list led to a fiend[1] mentioning this song, which I loved at the time, and still enjoy now. Way back then, it wasn’t easy to get hold of, and it wasn’t until the early 90s that I eventually got hold of it on CD[3]. Of course, [...]
Thursday, 20th March 2008 – 18:34
After my recent mention of the mutterings about Apple’s possible future music services, I was reminded to have a look at eMusic, another online music store, with a somewhat different business model.
With eMusic, you pay a monthly fee which allows you to download a fixed number of tracks each month. The difference is that the [...]
Wednesday, 19th March 2008 – 8:30
It’s reported in the Financial Times[1] that Apple are having discussions with the music business droids about introducing an unlimited music subscription service. Now this could be a Napster-style monthly fee kind of thing (which I’d be prepared to pay around £10-£15 a month without pausing to think about it[3]), but it’s reported that the [...]
Monday, 17th March 2008 – 14:16
Ooooh, this has been sitting on my pile of things to talk about for months. So long in fact, that my initial comments about it being only available from those nice Townsend Records people are no longer accurate. Yes, you can get this one from Amazon, and you really should. If you’re not familiar with [...]
Wednesday, 13th February 2008 – 20:27
I’ve mentioned Billy Bragg a couple of times before. He’s been one of my favourite musicians for something like twenty-five years, but as with so many others, I’d never got round to seeing him live. So when I got the March-April brochure from the Sage Gateshead, which told me that he would be appearing in [...]
Les Bessant: Forty-something computer geek who seems to be mutating into a camera geek.
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