Legend are one of my new favourite bands, I *highly* recommend their album "Fearless" from last year, one of my favourite debut albums ever. The members of the band have been around a while in other projects ( I think the singer is mostly from a metal background 0_o), and their sound is already fully formed and very distinctive, but not formulaic at all. You could be right about the 1998 vibe, they also have some tracks with very Depeche Mode style leanings, and the singer was wearing a Sisters t-shirt in one of their promo shoots I think. They seem to be one of the new breed of bands who finally manage to escape the "goth vs industrial/EBM" dichotomy and incorporate both without effort or artifice, and I'm really looking forward to more from them. There will definitely be two or three more of their songs on future mixes.
Speaking of future mixes, my July one is finally up...events of the last couple of months have derailed my catching up slightly...Dominion, the long-running club here that I've DJ-ed at for the last 12 years, has dissolved, and is currently in the painful re-birthing process, my finances have become distractingly non-existent, and I've had more demands on my time and energy lately than I've been used to for a while. And my father died in September...so there's that.
Due to the backlog and the overflow from one one month to the next, the "grimness" might have been retro-active - I don't remember June being particularly bad, so as this mix was finished in October, chances are by rights it should have been a "September or October mix"...and yeah, they were pretty terrifying months. My stubborn streak won't let me skip or double-up on any months though. :P
Oh, man, I'm sorry to hear about your dad. I'm nowhere near ready to enter the dying parents phase of life, and I can't even imagine how tough that must be to deal with. I hope you're doing OK.
Thanks, I am doing ok. Mostly. I think. Or at least "ok about being not-ok ".
Anyway, yeah, I was nowhere near ready either...he was a fairly sprightly 75, and not at all ill really. He developed diabetes a few years back but was managing that fine and seemed full of beans, and then he had a massive heart attack out of pretty much nowhere. Huge shock to everyone, including his doctor. 0_o One of life's twisted ironies is that my mum had fairly major heart surgery during the summer, but had pretty much made a full recovery by September. Funny, huh? She seems to be bearing up though, or at least she's a stoical enough person to fake it.
I have support and stuff though, so I'm not dealing with it all alone. Except in the existential sense. Or epistemological. Ontological? Excuse my half-baked ill-remembered philosophy, it's times like these that made me wish I'd studied it seriously back in college.
Anyway, enough babble, I should sleep. Need to remember to do that more lately.
Also, at the risk of sounding like I'm in an AA meeting, gotta say I owe you thanks for starting up this whole monthly music mix thingy - it keeps me on my toes, musically speaking, and contributes to my overall sanity, I suspect. Times like these, stuff like that helps. We started these in 06 or 07, wasn't it? Yikes. Where does the time go?
That kind of sudden thing is just terrifying. It would be nice if the world were stabler than that. Does your mom live in Dublin, or is it a trip to see each other?
I just paged back through my mixes-- all the way back to June of 2006! A long time indeed. I agree that it's sanity-promoting to have a little pressure to pay attention to music. It's also interesting to look back and see the ways my listening has and hasn't drifted. So many bands I've already mostly forgotten about! I guess off-loading some memory onto the mixes was always part of the point... it's definitely working in my case :)
Speaking of future mixes, my July one is finally up...events of the last couple of months have derailed my catching up slightly...Dominion, the long-running club here that I've DJ-ed at for the last 12 years, has dissolved, and is currently in the painful re-birthing process, my finances have become distractingly non-existent, and I've had more demands on my time and energy lately than I've been used to for a while.
And my father died in September...so there's that.
Due to the backlog and the overflow from one one month to the next, the "grimness" might have been retro-active - I don't remember June being particularly bad, so as this mix was finished in October, chances are by rights it should have been a "September or October mix"...and yeah, they were pretty terrifying months.
My stubborn streak won't let me skip or double-up on any months though. :P
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Anyway, yeah, I was nowhere near ready either...he was a fairly sprightly 75, and not at all ill really. He developed diabetes a few years back but was managing that fine and seemed full of beans, and then he had a massive heart attack out of pretty much nowhere. Huge shock to everyone, including his doctor. 0_o
One of life's twisted ironies is that my mum had fairly major heart surgery during the summer, but had pretty much made a full recovery by September. Funny, huh?
She seems to be bearing up though, or at least she's a stoical enough person to fake it.
I have support and stuff though, so I'm not dealing with it all alone. Except in the existential sense. Or epistemological. Ontological? Excuse my half-baked ill-remembered philosophy, it's times like these that made me wish I'd studied it seriously back in college.
Anyway, enough babble, I should sleep. Need to remember to do that more lately.
Also, at the risk of sounding like I'm in an AA meeting, gotta say I owe you thanks for starting up this whole monthly music mix thingy - it keeps me on my toes, musically speaking, and contributes to my overall sanity, I suspect. Times like these, stuff like that helps.
We started these in 06 or 07, wasn't it? Yikes. Where does the time go?
Anyway, more babble anon, I'm sure, bye for now.
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I just paged back through my mixes-- all the way back to June of 2006! A long time indeed. I agree that it's sanity-promoting to have a little pressure to pay attention to music. It's also interesting to look back and see the ways my listening has and hasn't drifted. So many bands I've already mostly forgotten about! I guess off-loading some memory onto the mixes was always part of the point... it's definitely working in my case :)
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