I am in receipt of the latest Homocrime bulletin. Trust me, Mirah in particular is a MUST SEE ( Read more... )

Instead of anything meaningful, here's the six-current-favourite-songs meme. I'm afraid it's a bit repetitive at this moment, because there are two albums I'm listening to more than anything else ( Read more... )

I am watching the TV movie of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, made a few years back with David Hasselhof in the lead role. It's terrible, of course, but in a good way. The SHIELD comic was a mid-60s, James Bond thing - only with a hard-bitten, cigar-chewing American instead of a suave Englishman. Hasselhof is surprisingly apt casting, and there are ( Read more... )

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Bloody hell, there's some startling stuff on this album. More of the choir arrangements they tried last time, lots of different instruments. Beautiful little melodies. It's amazing.

(Lots of Ros on it, too!)

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You might want to keep Oct 1 & 2 free. I am putting on a Thing. Will announce details next week.

I'm listening to the new Electrelane album, Axes. As always, there's a Krautrocky feel to it, but while the insistent 4/4 rhythms and little piano flourishes still remind me of Neu, there's now a Faust-ish glee in the variety of ideas, sounds and atmospheres. Along with their unabashed rock'n'roll rush, and occasional singing in Verity's unassuming ( Read more... )

This week's celebrities in our store have included Charlie Higson (very unassuming, didn't realise it was him until I looked at his credit card) & his son, and Pete Shelley (who comes in fairly regularly, but is always worth mentioning). But these are eclipsed by E, an ex-colleague who now works in an architecture bookshop. Yesterday she served ( Read more... )

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SOUL MOLE IS OFF. Ed just came in & told me the Enterprise cancelled his booking without telling him!!

[EDIT]: Ed's waiting to hear more, though it's not looking hopeful. I suggest a gathering someplace else if necessary?

Regular readers will know that Electrelane are my favourite UK band, probably my favourite band anywhere. I first saw them three years ago, not knowing much about them except for a short interview which didn't make them sound particularly interesting. At that show and several subsequent ones, I was flattened by their power. They gave the impression ( Read more... )

Over at Tammy's on Friday, she dug out some old videos which I'd either forgotten about, or didn't know existed until last week. She'd intended to do a college video project on riot grrrl, but never finished it, and the tapes went into a box for over ten years ( Read more... )