For the record, here are the bands I saw in Primavera 2012 ( Read more... )

Rage are Christmas Number One in the UK ( Read more... )

Was reading a while back on the web about the reunion gigs of Kajagoogoo. Seriously, this band reunification thing has got to stop! Back to your retirement home, guys.

Why am I picking them out for extra criticism? Well, The Kaj for me really epitomised the sense of youthful optimism that the early 80s was all about - note their jaunty facial ( Read more... )

< controversy > I don't like this thing nowadays of singing in your heavy native accent. Arctic monkeys and Biffy Clyro, I'm looking at you. Americanize yourselves, please - a softer accent makes the singing flow better. And as for The Kooks! In fact anyone involved in Nu Rave should just self-immolate. Or at least get elocution lessons.

Saw U2 on Friday there, my first time ( Read more... )

Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world ( Read more... )

Recovering from Oxegen today. The highlight was the venerable Rage Against the Machine ( Read more... )

Everyone's been very quiet on this, so just wondering who's going to Oxegen. I am on the Sunday only, am I gonna be on me todd??

Was at the newly refurbished Button Factory (aka Temple Bar Music Centre) last night to see these two geezers. Good gig despite indistinct vocals and an annoyingly eager bunch of 10-odd Myspacers who knew every word despite the band not actually having any releases out yet ( Read more... )

Thoroughly excellent gig from Les Savy Fav there on Saturday. Hadn't been in Crawdaddy, it's miniscule with a 350 capacity and stone walls for that underground feel. Nice strong A/C though. I was interrupted while waiting for the band to come on by a guy with a sheet over his head holding a candle in a glass and clinking a chain against it. I let ( Read more... )