Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

As a result of having bought some concert tickets online in the past I now get all sorts of regular e-mails from ticket agencies and venues and I’m used to seeing old names in the forthcoming attractions and thinking “are they still going?”.  This week I got something from the Carling group about whats coming […]

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There is no full line-up for this year’s Croydon World Party yet, but the headliners on July 12th have been announced as the Stereo MCs.  On the following day there is a mela.  Not so far to go for anyone who is going to miss the Crawley Mela this year.

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I must be getting more broad-minded and tolerant or something.  A few years back I would have gladly filled my ears with molten lead to avoid listening to an entire Celine Dion concert, but the other night that is exactly what I did.1
Watch the concert. Not fill my ears with molten lead [↩]

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Two free musical events of differing scales are on the horizon.
First there is the Love Music Hate Racism carnival on April 27th.  Its well-publicised and guaranteed to be big and fun.  On a smaller scale is the free ‘Summer in the Greenhouse’ festival at Filthy McNasty’s in Islington on May 24th

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Last week the Foo Fighters were playing in Toronto.  At the end of the obligatory drum solo by Taylor Hawkins, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson from Rush wandered onto the stage with their instruments and launched into YYZ with Hawkins playing drums for them. The world is divided into those to whom this means nothing […]

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I was a little tempted to buy the Mail on Sunday today for the free CD of Oxygene because I thought I only had it on an old cassette.

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Watching Primeval yesterday I thought I recognised the music on the soundtrack when they were in the server room.   It sounded like an obscure Spizzenergi track called Mega City 3, but it couldn’t be could it? Oh yes it could!

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More YouTube goodness, this time from Spizzenergi rehearsing for this weekend’s show.

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I got a slightly miffed e-mail from Spizz today.  He tried to leave a comment here but it kept being rejected as spam.  I'm guessing it was because of all the links in it - anything with more than 2 links is assumed to be spam.
Rather than turning off security for a while I though […]

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How many times have you seen in an interview with a band or musician somebody saying something like "our music does not fit neatly into any category?   All these classifications, categories and labels exist like punk, rock, reggae, soul and no musician will ever admit to fitting into any of them.
You can see why they […]

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