We played at yet another festival at the weekend - Castlepalooza, which had many things to recommend it, not least being a half hour's drive from B's parents house. Babysitting and comfy bed to sleep in ahoy ( Read more... )

Right, you should all rush out and buy the new Wire album. Because it is a thing of poptastic loveliness, and the end of the last track feels like light pouring out of your head. Or something.

Arlo just stood up from the ground, unsupported! Rather fantastically, he did so, as far as I can see, in order to dance to ultraruby's Best Of 2010 comp.

before falling on his bottom.

The things you find when trawling the internet for bands you used to see when you were a young 'un...

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The work of Bollywood session musician Charanjut Singh, the intention of the project was to translate ancient Indian classical ragas onto modern synthesizers; Singh appears to have accidentally invented house music in the process.

Do check out the samples.

I have just found an Orbital remix of the Golden Girls' "Kinetic" that may actually be made of pure, bottled mid-nineties.

Leonard Cohen singing "Hallelujah" last night == IN YOUR FACE, STUPID X FACTOR WOMAN.

Awesome gig.

Also, is it wrong to fancy Leonard Cohen?

Yes, it's shameless plug time again. Except this one is for a really good cause and I think you should all go. Go on go on go on go on go on...

One For The Road:A Road Records Benefit & Celebration ( Read more... )

Ten albums that made me! A difficult one, but here's what I picked...

( Cut for teenage angst, drug references, and PROG )

We played with Kraftwerk on Saturday! And hoorah, for the sun shone! Except not entirely hoorah, because it meant that a lot of people stayed outside instead of going into the tent where we were playing, but we still got a reasonable crowd, and our sound was decent despite not having a sound check. Result. We then packed all our stuff up and had ( Read more... )