Music Music Music

Currently taking up audio space

Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
Was a big fan of Zimmerman Jr's band The Wallflowers. Not in anyway mumbling like his father, here he is on Letterman singing Something Good This Way Comes.


Katy Perry - One Of The Boys*
I suspect that, approaching 40, I am going through some sort of mid-life crisis, as quite frankly I have NO idea quite I like this frothy slice of disposable pop. The 30 year old me would have been horrified at this. I must say that anyone who writes a song called UR So Gay with the opening line "I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf" can't be all bad.


And here she is again Kissing A Girl 'parrently


Lykke Li - Youth Novel
What can I say? Madder than a bottle of chips but lovely tunes - here's I'm Good, I'm Gone it's like, weird man...


This is Dance Dance Dance and if it doesn't make your day just that little bit better then there's NO hope.


My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth
Shara Worden has a wonderful haunting voice that I think appeals to my inner emo goth - edgy, slightly creepy and full of approaching menace [her singing not me]
This isn't on the album I have but it gives you the idea.


The Watson Twins - Fire Songs
Came to my attention when they sang with Jenny Lewis - solo [or duo] they remind me very much of Treana Morris from Wire Daisies. Couldn't find a WT vid on the 'tube so here they are with the afore mentioned Ms Lewis...and you get Sara Silverman as a bonus.


Now I'm off to watch the penultimate episode of Dr Who. Excited? Not 'arf!!

*I have a suspicion that the STBGD may have bloged about Ms Perry a while back - if so then I apologise for being so far behind the curve.

Text of the day

Going to see Goldfrapp tonight - not a huge fan, but I really like the new folky album, as apposed to all that electronica noodling of previous outings. My esteemed gig going companion Mike, who has seen her before, had advised me that this would not be to the same level of previous shows, featuring half naked dancers wearing glitterball horses heads pracing about the stage. Nor would it feature Alison's "eccentric" playing the theramin. However I got a text from Mike yesterday telling me...

"Word on the street us that Ms Goldfrapp has located her theramin, but still appears to be confused about the way it's meant to be played"

Makes me chuckle everytime I read it. Should be in for an interesting show methinks.

ooh I say!

It's the start of Wimbledon today. An event which would, as a petulant teenager, have really annoyed me for it's disruption of the television shedule. However in this multi-channel digital age a major sporting event taking up two weeks of terrestial tv time doesnt concern me in the slightest.

However what seems to be vexing the papers this morning is the "shock horror probe!" news that Maria Sharapova is going to "dissapoint her legion of male fans" by wearing shorts instead of a skirt. This, on page three of that august journal of record the Daily Express. [it's featured in the Mail as well]

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not going to pretend to be some reconstructed, metrosexual new man here. I'm a red blooded male and I enjoy the sight of a good looking blonde as much as any other bloke, but this is supposed to be about a game of tennis, not how much flesh is on show. I should be so suprised really when the Olympic "sport" of Beach Volleyball has rules on how small the female competitor's uniforms should be. I seem to recall that the Chinese ladies team found themselves punished for having shorts that were too big.

It's Just 40 Days to 40

Not that I'm counting or anything.

KT Tunstall - Delemere Forest

First open air gig of the season in the middle of Delemere Forest - the weather held, it wasn't too cold either. A splendid time was indeed had.

YouTube doesnt hate me anymore so those that can will be linked from there...

Miniature Disasters


Hold On


Funnyman


Ashes


If Only


I Don't Want You Now

Here We Go Again

Bulldog/Pipex are planning on downgrading my Internet connnection, so I figure stuff that, I'll go elsewhere. However, this entails getting a BT phone line [ or going back to a BT phoneline ] This I have done, but so far so too damn easy.

I made the mistake of wanting to know how long the transfer would take and if I could get something resembling a start date. So it was that I entered the all new level of hell that Dante never recorded that is BT Customer Service...

Several phone calls later and I still have no fraking idea when or indeed how long this is going to take. I so badly want to scream at someone but can't as BT are my only option. Only 90 minutes into this splending and worthwhile new relationship and I'm already regreting it.

Bunch of bottom feeding, mouth breathing, spawn of satan's sphincter.

Say What Now?

Overheard conversation of the year.

I'm stood in the gentle Manchester drizzle, as I my want, waiting for yet another gig to start when two women hurry past me and this little nugget drifts over...

"..yeah, well I was giving him a blowjob when I dropped my cigarette and set the table on fire.."

Oh the questions I wanted to ask.

OK So I'm Weak...

So I'm browsing at the forthcoming releases over at Play.com when my eye is caught by this picture...

which just happens to be the album cover pic for "One Cell In The Sea" by a band called A Fine Frenzy

I make no excuses, she's utterly gorgeous* and fortunatly, as it happens, so is the music. A copy of which just happened to fall of the back of a passing interwebs. A legit copy is now on order from His Master's Voice for the princely sum of £7.99 of your earth type pounds.

So wrap this round yer ears and tell me I'm wrong....go on I just dares ya!











*redheads are my kryptonite

And then one day you find...

...ten years have got behind you

Yes folks, 10 whole years @ BMS today or techinically now EDS [who in turn are now an "HP Company" it's all very complicated] Which ever way, I've been driving to Chester for the past decade. I do however have the possible prospect of working in Cheadle to look forward to.

That makes 24 years of gainfull employment and still only 3 jobs. Is that a good or a bad thing? It's also a weird feeling when you are working with folk who weren't even born when you started work at the tender age of 16.