Just when you thought it was safe to take a breath, another great band has bought the farm.

This time it's Breathing Space, a superb York-based band. Originally, the name 'Breathing Space' was just the name of the first solo album by Mostly Autumn's keyboard player, Iain Jennings. However, as Iain assembled personnel to both play on the album and ( Read more... )

( Picking up where we left off... )

On Friday night, I accompanied friends to the NIA in Birmingham to see French musician Jean Michel Jarre and his band. This was the 6th time I'd seen Jarre play, and as usual, I came away raving about the show. I won't describe the concert in any great detail as I'm writing a review of the show for the Hippy Towers musical review blog (yeah, about ( Read more... )

Walking to work, on a beautiful sunny morning, with Eat Static's excellent album Implant playing on your MP3 player...

Aaaahhhh, life is good.

That is all.

It's been a fun weekend. We've not long got back from our friends gaff in Worcester, where I've been since yesterday afternoon. The chief object of the weekend: seeing French musician Jean Michel Jarre in action.

( OMG, it's full of stars )

...isn't dead by any means, just somewhat neglected. I have been writing scads of reviews, though, which I'm cleaning up and finally posting up, so there'll be a flurry of activity Real Soon Now.

As a reassurance of sorts that I haven't forgotten my password, I've recently put up a new review - of Dan Vincent's excellent This Building Is Under ( Read more... )

Courtesy of psychochicken , here's an interesting meme: "Name 20 albums which have affected your life."

Well, clearly I could do with hundreds as opposed to 20, but as it is, this is going to take me a while. So I'll do it in two halves. I'll have to do the other 10 when I've got a few spare minutes sometime down the road!

So, with no further ado (and in roughly ( Read more... )

The plastic took another hit this morning ( Read more... )

I would just like to say that Dream Theater are really, really ace.

That is all.

Being confronted with a new album by one of your favourite bands is always very exciting - it is for me, anyway. The excitement is all the greater when the band in question isn't afraid to play around with their established sound, to strive towards something greater than what they have already accomplished - but it's sometimes a double-edged sword ( Read more... )