This is one of my great favourites, Come on up to the House by Tom Waits (from the Mule Variations album). The video is just perfect.

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Never has the retirement of some fat, sweaty scotsmen meant so much…

Last night was Arab Strap’s final performance, at the ABC in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Due to some rather awkward mishaps with transport, which I am entirely at fault for, we nearly didn’t make it.

We arrived towards the tail end of Don’t Ask Me To Dance, which was a shame as ( Read more... )

Geek humour for the day comes to you courtesy of Raganwald and Uncyclopaedia:

• Pop on some Gil-Scott Heron and sing along to The Revolution will Not be on YouTube.
• When you’re finished with that you can get down to some extreme programming as we always imagined it would be - one-handed debugging while pulling off some nifty snowboarding moves. That’ ( Read more... )

Tuesday. Meadowbank Stadium. Radiohead. Wonderful.

Truly fantastic set… as always during the pre-match analysis you have to ask, “what song will they start with?”. Well, we got it completely wrong since they started with Airbag, which was absolute magic. The crowd was full of idiots (I don’t know what it is about Radiohead gigs, but there’s a ( Read more... )

I’ve just been listening to the current episode of the Coverville podcast, which focuses on U2. And I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not the music that I dislike, it’s the band. All the covers on the podcast are really nice - but the covers done by U2 of others’ songs are awful.

Unchained Melody, you would think, would be difficult to do ( Read more... )

I was going to hold this off until I had more to add, but I couldn’t resist mentioning this while I had the link to hand.

Two music-oriented podcasts

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  The Roadhouse
  
  An hour long show with rare and new blues stuff. I’m not really a big blues person but sometimes you get too much variety with playlists. With this you’re never surprised by death ( Read more... )