For all the hype and fuss about downloads and streaming, and with HMV just calling in the receivers it feels a whole lot like the future where we put aside all the old ways of discovering, listening to, and buying music. And yet the radio still has its place doesn’t it? I listening to the [...]
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Wilko
January 10th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Music
A very sad announcement on Wilko Johnson’s Facebook page today: WILKO JOHNSON – IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT I am very sad to announce that Wilko has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas. He has chosen not to receive any chemotherapy. He is currently in good spirits, is not yet suffering any physical effects and [...]
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2012 and all that
January 8th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
I thought I would end my un-noticed and un-remarked blogging hiatus with a few belated comments about 2012. On the whole I didn’t like it much. There were plenty of individual things I enjoyed but the overall experience was not great and that is partly because I spend a lot of my time at work [...]
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House party
September 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Music
A couple of weeks ago Channel 4 had a programme called House Party, which was quite remarkable for several reasons, not least because hardly anybody I know has remarked on it at all. What they did was, they had a DJ booth in a studio and 6 DJs played one-hour sets, one after the other [...]
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Brothers gonna sort it out
September 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Music
The Chemical Brothers’ concert film Don’t Think has been on my Amazon wish list for a while because all the reviews of it in magazines and newspapers said that it was awesome and the closest you will get to actually being at a show without actually being at a show. Tonight it was shown on [...]
In praise of the OGWT
May 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
Tonight BBC4 showed an edition of the Old Grey Whistle Test in its entirety. Presumably it was there to tie in with the John Cooper Clark documentary that was on immediately beforehand and doesn’t, unfortunately, mean they are going to do what they are doing with TOTP and show them all again in order. It [...]
70s Mania
April 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music, Politics
For all its faults, I enjoyed the first part of Dominic Sandbrook’s series on the 70s. So many memories, even though I was only between 8 and 10 during the time covered in that episode, and I’m really looking forward to the rest. If anybody else is similarly hooked I can recommend Sanbrook’s book State [...]
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Anthem
April 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Music
Isn’t internet brilliant for eating up your time? The ‘what’s new’ section of Spotify keeps displaying an album called Anthem by somebody called Desolation Angels, with a strangely familiar cover. It reminded me of something. The name ‘Desolation Angels’ and fantasy artwork made me think that maybe it was some variety of metal, so I [...]
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Reasons to be cheerful – part two
February 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Music
A couple of other little things made this weekend a little bit special. Firstly a few CDs arrived on Saturday morning. Last weekend was Kraftwerk weekend on 6 Music, and after that I was moaning on an online forum about how listening to a few shows on iPlayer I tried to track down the first [...]
The Man Machine speaks
February 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Music
Right now I am listening to an interview from 2003 on the BBC iPlayer – an interview with Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk. Really. Somebody from the band that famously don’t do interviews and don’t even have a telephone in their studio, doing an interview on the BBC. It is all part of 6 Music’s Kraftwerk [...]
