It's a Thursday, you've got bugger all to do- what else but to bombard LJ with reviews of obscure bands no-one else has ever heard of?

Animal Collective - Peacebone

Typically a beret-wearing, chin-stroking band of the highest order, critically-divisive noisemakers Animal Collective have finally made an song that, whilst still very pretentious, is ( Read more... )

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The magnificent Leslie Feist on The Letterman Show earlier this week, with backing vocals from AC Newman of the New Pornographers, members of Grizzly Bear, Mates of State, Broken Social Scene and The National. It's basically loads of quality indie acts (all, incidentally, who I've seen live) all in one place, and it's an wonderful little

Not only is our new flat directly above a bakers, our nearest High Street contains both a Pizza Hut and a Baskin Robbins Ice-Cream Parlour! Hurrah for Ruislip! Hurrah for freedom!

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT (Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 17th August 2007)

Has there ever been so much musical talent concentrated in a single genepool as the Wainwright clan? Loudon the Third was once spoken of in the same breath as Bob Dylan, his ex-wife Kate McGarrigle is an Order Of Canada-winning folk singer. Their son Rufus has received the more recent ( Read more... )

http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com/2007/07/potterdammerung-mega-spoilers.html

Brilliant parody of Deathly Hallows. Needless to say, spoilers abound! 

Yesterday me and Saggi had our joint birthday BBQ. I discovered that sangria is a willfully deceptive, dirty whore of a beverage. Had a good time though!

So, what’s been going on in the exciting world of Adam then? Well, lots of gigs (QUELLE SHOCK), saw Transformers (utterly ludicrous, in the best possible way) and the Simpsons (much better than it had any right to be.) Went to see Gaslight at the Old Vic; its slight plot more than compensated for by some brilliant acting, and the Ukulele Orchestra ( Read more... )

Having predicted that Snape actually had been told by Dumbledore to kill him, and that the reason he was protecting Harry was because of Lily Potter, Deathly Hallows confirmed, once again, how awesome I am. What I didn’t work out though was how this was all related to Harry having ‘his mother’s eyes’; that understated scene where Snape reveals the ( Read more... )

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Well, it's over. It's so weird to think there's never going to be another Harry Potter book to look forward to, but at least it ended on a magnificent high. The first part of the book is admittedly rather slow (although full of nice fan-service), but the last third is truly intense, nail-biting stuff with some fucking awesome scenes (especially for ( Read more... )