No strings attached – as far as I can see:  La Roux’s first (and so far only) album has had the remix treatment by Major Lazer and can be downloaded for free here. Get it while you can! La Roux is the one with all the chart success, but I think Major Lazer is […]
Entries from May 26th, 2010
It must be a World Cup year
May 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on It must be a World Cup year · Music
All the signs are there: feature-length adverts for Nike, a collective knot in the stomach, St George’s flags flying from every white van, tenuous football-related marketing for a range of diverse products… and a new Spizzenergi song! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s a tradition or an old […]
You Don’t Have to be Mad
May 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Music
A bit more news about Gang of Four hit my inbox the other day. First of all a brand new track is available to listen to here and it sounds pretty damn good to me. Secondly, a mesage from the band:
Tags: Gang of Four
Tell me something I don’t know
May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on Tell me something I don’t know · Life
Yesterday was Vine day. I like Vine days. For the benefit of anybody who has not been paying attention, Vine is a scheme that Amazon run whereby they send free stuff to people and those people then write reviews of the products they receive. If you don’t write reviews you stop getting the chance to […]
Pink Panthers
May 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
Watching the cats playing in the garden today finally made me realise something. Diego was investigating a bit of grass and Chiquita had sneaked up behind him, was about a metre away and doing that low-slung bum-wiggling that cats do when they are winding up to pounce. He spotted her and she chased him. It […]
Clinging on to power
May 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Politics
According to the Guardian Gordon Brown wanted to announce his resignation before the recent election. I’m glad that he didn’t. OK it might have got us a few more votes, maybe even a few more seats, but it was a disaster when Tony Blair did that – everything he did as PM after the 2005 […]
Tags: Elections·Labour Party
The daily kitteh
May 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on The daily kitteh · Life
Maybe my plans for world domination fell at the first hurdle but that hasn’t stopped young Diego from becoming a superstar. Last week I got a Flickr mail from somebody asking if they could use my photos on their website, and yesterday Diego was kitteh of the day on The Daily Kitten. He celebrated in […]
Lock, Stock & Smoking Pipe
May 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Lock, Stock & Smoking Pipe · Life
Jayne bought the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes film on DVD today in an attempt to wipe out the memory of the appalling mockbuster version we watched last week. The attempt was only partially successful, not through any great failing of the Ritchie film but because the other one was so memorably bad. Looking at the […]
Tags: DVD·Films·Sherlock Holmes
Gang of Four
May 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Music
I have been told about two events involving Gang of Four next month. ((Thanks for the tip-off Peter!)) Both sound good, but would involve travelling up to London midweek, and spending more than I would be willing to spend for such things.
Tags: Concerts
The Crawley News
May 14th, 2010 · Comments Off on The Crawley News · Life, Politics
A little surprised to find myself not only mentioned a couple of times in this week’s Crawley News but also to be quoted. I didn’t really think that , being an ex-councillor in Crawley they might be interested in what I have been up to. Must remember that. They harvested a quote from this blog […]
Tags: Elections·Local Papers
