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Tag Archives: music
The Leisure Society
Saw The Leisure Society play at a charity event yesterday in London. They were absolutely fantastic. Rich and clear vocals and instruments, great lyrics, fun and really nice people. Go buy their album, Sleeper, and go to see them play … Continue reading
How Not to Run a Website
One of, what used to be, my favourite websites – thesixtyone .com (can’t be bothered to turn it into a URL – they don’t deserve any more search-ranking) recently completely changed not only the design, but the fundamental operation of … Continue reading
Mabon
Went to Theatre Mwldan last night, in Cardigan, to watch Mabon play. They’re a Celtic band – five Welsh plus one Scot. Think Riverdance – and you’ll be close to the kind of music they play. One of their pieces … Continue reading
Make an Album Cover
Create your own album cover 1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – Go to “Random quotations” or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four … Continue reading
Seeing Rod Thomas
Going to see Rod Thomas, playing in Cardigan (notice the capital letter) tonight. He’ll be there with a singer called Devon Sproule.
Some Bands
Some, mostly Indie, bands that I’ve been listening to lately: The Raconteurs Metric The Veils Animal Collective Papercuts The Grand Opening The Thermals Fruit Bats The Dodos Ane Brun Secret Machines Squid Felt Tips Gravenhurst Bubblegum Lemonade The Field Mice … Continue reading
New Music
Just got new albums, released today: Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns Bloc Party – Intimacy. Snow Patrol sounding quite similar to previous album, which isn’t a bad thing. Will see how that develops.
Insignificant
Currently reading – Tricks of the Mind, by Derren Brown (check out some of his caricatures on his website). An excellent read! Magic tricks, memory techniques, NLP (neuro linguistic programming), self-confidence tricks (reason I bought the book), how to spot … Continue reading
New Belleruche Album
Somehow sneaked below my radar, but Belleruche have released their new album – The Express. I’ve been following them, since they did a great set in Oxford a few years back. I also went to their first album launch party … Continue reading
iTunes Genius
The new version of iTunes (8) is pretty good. I had some doubts about what Apple are going to be doing with all of my music library. One feature is pretty cool – Genius. It’s a bit like Pandora (before … Continue reading