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Spacemen 3 to Spiritualized

2008-07-16T14:54:00.002+01:00

Jason Pierce is as much a survivor as he is a visionary. From his time in the influential yet self-destructive Spacemen 3 with his one-time friend Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember, to the last 18 years as the driving force and only permanent member of the gospel-leaning space rock force that is Spiritualized, the man they call Spaceman — whose lyrics time and again consist of love, death, redemption, rock’n’roll, and of course, spirituality — has experienced everything he sings about first hand. And that includes death. Twice. After being stricken with near-fatal double pneumonia in 2005, Pierce made what can only be described as a miraculous comeback. While it was enough trauma to force any artist into retirement, Jason used his brush with death as inspiration for the sixth Spiritualized album, the self-explanatory Songs in A & E. His best work in 11 years, the album is not only the document of his survival but also the digest of all his musical styles to date, encapsulated with the interstellar flourishes J Spaceman has built his songbook around. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s float into space…

The past:

The present:

Garden Transformation

2007-12-02T11:03:00.000Z

In Rainbows

2007-10-13T17:19:00.000+01:00

"How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I went wrong
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out when and you cut the string."

15 Steps

Available at time of writing purely as a download; though a cd, 2 x vinyl record plus extra disc of rarities will be available at start of December (all packaged in a box and retailing at £40.) The download costs as much as you see fit to pay for it.

The music is stylistically in a similar groove to that found on Kid A and Amnesiac. We open with the machine beats of 15 steps sounding like Idioteque Mk 2 and that sense of unease and anxiety shows all is still unwell in Radiohead's world.

"Videotape" has already spawned a rather fine mix available here
and the Roy Budd nods on "All I need" send the mind heading towards train journeys into the heart of something unpalatable.

Top Ten outside UK and Ireland

2007-08-26T17:18:00.001+01:00

Young Galaxy - The Alchemy between us
Bjork - Volta
Thurston Moore - Trees outside the Academy
The Changes - Today is Tonight
The Stars - In Our bedroom after the war
Little Dragon -Little Dragon
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
Trentemoller - The Last Resort

Anthony H Wilson

2007-08-11T08:12:00.000+01:00

Joy Division, The Wendys, Railway Children, Happy Mondays, Cath Carrol, New Order, Revenge, Electronic, Northside, Durutti Column, The Wake, James, Steve Martland

Tony Wilson 1950-2007

My Mercury Prize list

2007-07-18T11:21:00.000+01:00

"It's the blandness, pure and simple."

Julian Cope - You gotta problem with me
Johnny Boy - Johnny Boy
Soweto Kinch - A life in the day of B19
Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts
Long Blondes - Someone to drive you home
The Tuss - The Tuss
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Plastic Operator - Different Places
Maps - We can create
The Aliens - Astronomy for dogs
Pop Levi - The return to form Black Magick Party
Fields - Everything last winter

though on the "real" list I have listened to and enjoyed Bat for Lashes, Amy Winehouse, Basquiat Strings - they would not knock out any of the above.

Click here for the real list.

New music

2007-07-15T09:52:00.001+01:00

Maps – We can Create

http://www.myspace.com/mapsmusic
Reviews namechecked the likes of Spiritualized, MBV, The Chills – I can see what they meant. Dreamlike bedroom symphonies out of Northampton.

The Tuss

http://www.myspace.com/thetussmusic
Is it the Aphex or is it not? The evidence gathered by the press and the hardcore fans would suggest that it is. Brian Tregaskin or Karen Tregaskin or Richard D James? Squelchiness abounds with pumping bass. I see Brian has his own myspace page now too.

http://www.myspace.com/briantregaskin

Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts

http://www.myspace.com/siobhandonaghyparlophone

First member of the Suagababes to jump ship. This is her second solo album which has been a critical success and seemingly a commercial flop (number 98 in album charts). Great pop songs displaying a wider pop awareness of the likes of the Cocteaus, Massive and Kate Bush (see Medevac).

Arthur and Yu

http://www.myspace.com/arthurandyu
Only been listening to this lot on their myspace page. Reminds me of the Velvets in the way Mazzy Star used to back in the early 90s. Boy/girl singing gets me every time. Has a bit of a folk thing going on too. I think I am going to really like this lot.

Cycle on Lagan Towpath

2007-04-15T15:06:00.000+01:00

Bought new bicycle rack this week.

Started cycle here

Ended up here
Took some photos on the way with camera phone.

Photostream - 52in52

2007-03-10T09:43:00.000Z

www.flickr.com

52in52photostream's Patrick December 2006 - Feb 2007 photoset

Reading and listening

2007-02-03T18:08:00.000Z

Just finished:

David Lodge - The Art of Fiction

A collected edition of the articles David Lodge wrote for the Independent and Washington Post in the early 90s focusing on different aspects of the "art of fiction". He examines subjects like the use of magic realism, time shift, point of view and the intrusive author in great depth. Well illustrated with a range of examples from a variety of novels which would be familiar to the average reader. An engaging book that was a treat to read.

Louis MacNeice - Collected Poems

"World is crazier and more of it than we think,
incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
a tangerine and spit the pips and feel
the drunkenness of things being various."

Snow

When I was at Primary School we used to visit Louis MacNeice's grave and tidy away the older flowers and tufts of grass. Once a meeting place of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley in the 1960s, MacNeice was a prolific poet deserving of an updated edition of his poetry. This edition has been edited by Peter McDonald and over the first few decades it certainly retains the spirit of the collections published in MacNeice's lifetime with a few surprising inclusions. I find MacNeice to be an accessible poet and in this the year of his centenary, a poet that should be celebrated as a true Northern Irish talent.

Aluminium - Aluminium

Developed by Joey Talbot from an idea by Richard Russel based on the Andrew Loog Oldham "Rolling Stone Songbook" (used to great effect on Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve). Their starting point was the songs of The White Strips, a band who I have never been especially fussed about. However the idea of orchestrating these songs offers a cleaner and more interesting dynamic to the sound. The songs sit well within this setting of harps, strings, woodwind and the rest.

Johnny Boy - Johnny Boy

Sounding like a Phil Spector production with their well written and really catchy pop tunes, this is the sound of melodic twists and turns pulling at you. Lifting you up and throwing you about, this is one of the strongest releases of the year so far and is well worth seeking out.

Also mentioned: Good, the bad and the Queen, Fujiya Miyagi - Transparent Things, Tap Tap - Lanzafame

Bruce's top fives of 2006

2007-01-03T13:34:00.001Z

Albums
Madonna - Confessions
Thom Yorke - Eraser
The Strokes - First Impressions
Morrissey - Ringleader
Crazy Frog - Crazy Frog present more Crazy Hits

Re-issues
I buy tonnes of these!

Books
Didn't buy any books published in 2006

Songs/Singles/Downloads (for those who indulge in that sort of thing)
Or these

Tv Programmes
Arrested Development
Dragons Den
Ryder Cup (if I hadn't been at it in person ;-) )

Films/Dvds
No particular Order
Casino Royale
Inside Man
The Departed
Superman Returns
Borat

Eddie's Top Fives of 2006

2007-01-03T13:30:00.000Z

Albums

I’ve lost most of my interest in modern music, if people say listen to so and so, its like Nick Drake, I end up thinking why not just listen to Nick Drake? So generally buy stuff from people I have a history of liking although I didn’t bother to buy the new divine comedy or Ben folds as I would have previously done (although now think I’ll get the Ben Folds!)

I’m generally being a pompous fool and getting opera recordings, although I appreciate the fact that my current level of understanding means my taste is plebeian and I probably like the Opera equivalent of Robbie Williams, although this does not mean Il Divo (Byran Adams songs sung it Italian-jeepers!)-rather ‘big’ productions of well known Italian operas

1.Mozza-Ringleader of the Tormentors—I had expected it to be poor, as there were several bad tracks on ‘you are the quarry’ but really enjoy it my 2nd favourite after ‘Vauxhall and I’ Daryn reckons recent single b-side ‘sweetie pie’ is the worst thing he’s every recorded, which actually makes we want to hear it

2.Lloyd Cole---antidepressant Lloyd has remembered the tunes which he left out last time.

3. The Lemonheads The lemonheads-could have been recorded 10 years ago, so no suprises but very good,

4. Bob dylan. Good but not as good as they say

That is all the 2006 stuff I bought, but this has reminded me to go and buy the new Andy White album on amazon tried to get in Belfast but no one had it. Wendy has the muse album in the car, which I quite like.

Reissues

REM the IRS years—brilliant stuff.

That’s the only reissue

Books

Again only a couple of recent books

1. Brideshead Revisited Waugh. I’d read all the Waugh comedies as a teenager but avoided the BR TV series years ago as I thought it would be poncy rubbish, but I loved this, just bought the sword of honour trilogy to read over crimbo.
2. A dance to the music of Time. Powell (12 volume series-similar to Waugh but without the catholic themes)
3. Anna Karenina. Tolstoy. Everyone raves about this being better than War and Peace, and most of it was excellent but the divorce dithering was dull (albeit the point on which the whole book hinges) nearly as dull as the ramblings about predestination in W&P. Well worth time and effort though
4. The Sea. Banville. Slight but excellent.
5. A bag of boiled sweets. Julian Critchley. funny memoir from high living Troy wet MP now dead.
6. The world turned upside down. Christopher Hill. History about religious/societal thought and sects during the 17th century –diggers, muggletonians, ranters, levers etc.
7. The master and Margaria Bulgakov-fablely kind of things not normally not for me but I enjoyed this.
8. Saturday Ian McEwan
9. Lapsed Protestant Glen Patterson
10. I was a teenage catholic Malachi O’Doherty

TV programmes

Don’t watch much proper TV—just shit. But I liked

Ramsay’s kitchen nightmares

I’m a celebrity

Big brother

Monarchy-David Starkey

Coronation street (eek!)

Films

Only went to the cinema three times, saw you me and Dupree which was wonderful and Hills have eyes and the fog (remake) both awful. Enjoyed the following DVDS:

Caddyshack

39 steps

Dodgeball

3rd man

Disappointments/overhyped nonsense

Liverpool—overhyped by the F man I believe
Belfast festival at QUB ---ended up too busy to go to any shows although we had planned a few, but in general it appeared to be a shit programme of lowbrow crap. 15-20 years ago it was very good.
The reopening of the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin . Reproducing Francis Bacon’s studio is still just a crap idea-it is reminiscent of how I used to ‘keep’ Ashmount Park-empty bottles/ fag packets etc. Would the Tate ‘preserve’ the studio of an artist solely because they were born in England ? answer no. Do I sound like a reactionary old buffer?answer Yes
As I read somewhere: lilly allen’ I never thought I’d refer to someone as the poor man’s ‘the streets’
Bob Dylan album good but overhyped
Much of the England cricket team, esp Fletcher-if ever he comes into the Point in Ballyhack he’s in for a kickin’!
Ulster’s probable lack of progress in the Heineken cup

Cultural events of the year

1. Museum of Romanesque murals from small churches in northern spain in Barcelona , sounds dull but best thing I’ve gone to in years. Aware this sounds pretentious nonsense but its excellent.

2. Mozza concerts best of three was the second Dublin show

3. Rigoletto at the Waterfront hall-top stuff

2007-01-03T13:27:00.000Z

Top Fives of 2006 - Daryn

Albums

Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors - the sumptuous follow up to the unfinished sounding You are the Quarry. Not a bad song on it and all sounded great as part of the live set.
Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental - First Trevor Horn production in my top five. This the ninth Pet Shop Boys albums was political, humourous, full of great orchestral hooks. A joy to listen to repeatedly.
Espers - Espers II - were the Velvets ever to meet up with Fairport Convention, this is what they might have sounded like. In a year of great folk albums from the likes of Adem, Joanna Newsom, Vetiver, this really stood out.
Captain - This is Hazelville - produced by Trevor Horn, boy/girl vocals, reminiscent of the might Prefab Sprout, great session on Jonathan Ross show. Brilliant album!!
C.S.S - Cansei de ser Sexy - Disco beats, anti anthems, fun from Brazil

Nearly made it: The Early Years, Brightback Morning Light, Serena Maneesh - for keeping the shoe gazing flame alive (nu-gazing, apparently)
Bob Dylan, Scritti Polittil, Neil Young, Midlake, Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth.

Re-issues

John Philips - The Wolfking of LA - recorded in 1970, sublime country-tinged songs, from one of the key members of the Mamas and Papas
Pavement - Wowee Zowee - yet another expanded, reissue from the amazing Pavement. I loved this album when it was released in the mid 90s, now I can love even more of it. Extra Peel sessions, b sides, live tracks - more more more!
Spiritualized - Friendly Fire - demos from the recording of the first Spiritualized album, released by the then bass player Will Carruthers. The incredible Peel session from 1992 thrown in for good measure. More on the way apparently.
Invictus - Soul Box Set - Holland-Dozier-Holland after they left Motown. 68 tracks of bass heavy soul funk. Unconquered indeed.
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional. 20 years on from the original release, thanks to Franz Ferdinand and the Arctic Monkeys this gets a re-release on the Domino label. An expansive masterpiece from the criminally unheard of Australians.

Nearly made it: Pulp - Different Class, Byrne/Eno - My life...., Denim - Back in Denim

Films

Hard to choose top five films from this year as barely been to cinema - but have been more selective as a result

The Prestige - Christopher Nolan directs another dazzling film bursting with slick period details and focusing on the lives of illusionists.
The Queen - an engaging portrayal of the weeks between Tony Blair's election as Prime Minister and his first meeting with the Queen once parliament has reconvened. Main focus is of course on the events surrounding Diana's funeral, this is a witty and moving attempt to capture what it might have been like to have been involved.
Road to Guantanamo - Michael Winterbottom directs this story of how three youths from Tipton ended up imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. The tone of this film ranges from angry to humourous and is a grand improvement on his last film "A cock and bull story"
Miami Vice - Michael Mann, fast cars/boats, mumbled dialogue, Phil Collins soundtrack (sort of) You shouldn't really like this, but .....
The Constant Gardener - vivid colours, engaging narrative, brilliant performance from Fiennes. A great thriller.

Books

Under the Dam - David Constantine - great collection of short stories from the poet.
Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin - another collection of great short stories - Famous Blue Raincoat really stood out for me in this collection.
That Damn United - David Peace - I love David Peace and this is a great follow up to GB84. Attempting to tell the story of Brian Clough's 44 day reign at the helm of Leed United.
White Bicycles - Joe Boyd - making music in the 1960s featuring a cast of thousands, Eric Clapton, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, INcredible String Band and so on. Great anecdotes.
1599 - James Shapiro. The year of Henry V, Julius Ceasar and As you like it. This book tells the story of Shakespeare throughout this year and the world which he inhabited. Politics, theatre, friendships, love.

New podcast for 52in52

2006-12-09T12:17:00.000Z

Check it out right here!!! Hope you enjoy

http://dj52in52.podbean.com/

Five tracks selected by 52in52 for your listening pleasure (and to get used to the software!!!)

Christmas Special coming up soonish

100 bullets - Croatoa

2006-12-06T17:26:00.000Z

Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso have been writing this monthly comic since the late 90s. They are now up to issue 78 (out of an apparent 100) with their tales of Minutemen, briefcases with untraceable bullets and shadowy characters called Graves and Shepherd linked to an organisation called The Trust. What make this comic such an interesting proposition is the moral dilemnas the writers immerse the characters in. The briefcase is given to a character living on the margins of society and whose life has hit rock bottom. It usually contains 100 bullets and information on a person who has negatively affected the character's life. The character has the opportunity to revenge themselves with the guarantee that as soon as these bullets are investigated, the investigation ceases.

The links to film noir are apparent in the artwork, dialogue and the settings the characters inhabit.

Azzarello has written some fantastic comics over the last number of years with his work on Batman, Daredevil and more recently the Western series "Loveless". This set features his best work and is worth checking out.

New Pictures of Patrick

2006-11-01T12:31:00.000Z

Patrick is now 3 months old. He is almost sleeping throughout the night and has started to make sounds that are resembling speech patterns. So he has progressed a stage further than his father has already!! Have a look at the pictures and see if you can spot how he has changed. Apologies to anyone offended by the Devil suit, I begged Lisa not to enlist him in to the local Satanic Order. She insisted that he must join otherwise the neighbours might "talk"!!

New music to listen to!!!

2006-10-08T19:26:00.001+01:00

Songs in the key of Fife indeed, Lone Pigeon and The Beta Band collide and create the best new band of 2006!! The Aliens!!!!

Other great new music to quite simply rock your world:

1) Charlotte Gainsborough - 5.55 - Lyrics from Jarvis and Neil Hannon, music from Air, singing from Charlotte. Bright, airy and reminiscent stylistically of Saint Etienne and Mick Harvey/Anita lane
2) I'm from Barcelona - Let me introduce my friends - Swedish band of similar size to Polyphonic Spree, though thankfully not as irritating. Named in tribute to Manuel and playing Belfast soon (I think)

Last FM Charts

2006-10-08T15:52:00.000+01:00

Patrick Maginnis

2006-08-15T07:52:00.000+01:00

More pictures of Patrick (taken by Bruce)

2006-08-09T09:54:00.000+01:00

First pictures of Patrick!!

2006-08-07T22:36:00.000+01:00

Arthur Lee 1945-2006

2006-08-04T12:19:00.000+01:00

Arthur Lee

Morrissey at PinkPop Festival

2006-07-16T09:43:00.000+01:00


Morrissey and the lads give an hour-long performance at PinkPop.

Five reasons why Syd mattered

2006-07-12T15:20:00.000+01:00

He founded Pink Floyd.

The first Pink Floyd record, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, is a psychedelic classic

Syd made two incredible solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. Both Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour took turns producing him solo, and Richard Wright played on Barrett.

One of the best loved Floyd albums is basically a tribute to Barrett. Wish You Were Here featured "Have A Cigar," which detailed the band's first meeting with EMI back in '67, and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," a heartfelt tribute to Barrett.

Influenced by Syd: This Mortal Coil, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Cure, Johnny Marr , My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, Primal Scream, The Libertines, The Beta Band, Julian Cope, Robyn Hitchcock, The Flaming Lips, R.E.M., Mercury Rev, Blur

Syd Barrett 1946 - 2006

2006-07-11T19:10:00.000+01:00

A dozen great records

2006-07-08T17:29:00.000+01:00

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't anything
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Can - Tago Mago
Alexander Spence - Oar
Gene Clark - No other
Beach Boys Holland
David Byrne Brian Eno - My life in the bush of ghosts
Bonnie Prince Billy - I see a darkness
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Spiritualized - Pure Phase
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey

Razorlight, Muse - it's 1978 all over again

2006-07-06T21:27:00.000+01:00

Close your eyes and listen. Has a loop in time opened up again? Has pop really eaten itself? Or have ideas started to run out? Muse are feted at the minute with glowing reviews for a piece of pomp rock that would have embarrassed Freddie and the boys. Let's be honest 78 was not a great year for Queen (Jazz - any takers???), but even they would have stopped short from the laboursome synth arpeggios employed on the new Muse record. Muse have been together for nine years, or so I read the other day. Nine years to get to this point, the sub Thom yelping, the Buckley riffs rifled, Baba O freakin Reilly??? Playing it loud mind you, it does make more sense. It could start to be fun and brash and lots of other things, but the neighbours will complain. So let's not.

Let's try something else, the other great record of 1978, sorry 2006. This is the new one by The Boomtown Razorlight. The one that goes, " In the morning, you know you won't remember a thing" - such a great couplet deserves to be used twice and indeed they do - in two separate songs!!!!! Around their debut album, Jonny Geldof drew comparisons between it and that of Bob Dylan's debut. The vibe seemed to be that this was a songwriting genius to match or even supersede that of Bob (maybe I read this wrongly???) However Dylan's debut aside ( Fixin to die, In my time of Dying), his second album was that one about Freewheelin blah blah blah. Razorlight are better to try and keep up with A tonic for the Troops era Rats or maybe aim for the Police circa Outlandos d'amour. Both of these records were released in, you guessed it, 1978! This time round though Razorlight look beyond their limited references. Now they have been listening to the first three U2 albums as well as the ones they half inched stuff from the last time. Bluster, bluster, bluster. Remember U2 only started with The Unforgettable Fire (the year they met Brian Eno), they didn't really exist before then. All that Red Rocks stuff was just a bad flag waving, pointy booted, mulleted dream.

So if 2006 is 1978, hurrah!! This means I can expect to hear The Man Machine, More songs about building and food, Another Music in a different kitchen and Inflammable Material - in a new updated style of course. It's all good. There is always Clap your hands say yeah, a new Dj kicks compilation from Kieran Hebden or if really hard pressed for something listenable, the new TV on the Radio album will sort you right out.

A new top 100 list - voted for by readers of NME and some other magazine

2006-06-01T14:28:00.000+01:00

Greatest 100 Albums of All Time

1. Definitely Maybe, Oasis
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, The Beatles
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. OK Computer, Radiohead
5. (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, Oasis
6. Nevermind, Nirvana
7. The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses
8. Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd
9. The Queen Is Dead, Smiths
10. The Bends, Radiohead
11. The Joshua Tree, U2
12. London Calling, The Clash
13. The Beatles (The White Album), The Beatles
14. Abbey Road, The Beatles
15. Up The Bracket, The Libertines
16. Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols
17. Four Symbols (Led Zeppelin IV), Led Zeppelin
18. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
19. A Night At The Opera, Queen
20. Is This It, The Strokes
21. Hot Fuss, The Killers
22. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
23. Grace, Jeff Buckley
24. The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers
25. Bat Out Of Hell, MeatLoaf
26. Appetite For Destruction, Guns N' Roses
27. Employment, Kaiser Chiefs
28. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
29. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
30. The Libertines, The Libertines
31. Urban Hymns, The Verve
32. American Idiot, Green Day
33. A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Coldplay
34. Parklife, Blur
35. Thriller, Michael Jackson
36. The Wall, Pink Floyd
37. Automatic For The People, R.E.M.
38. Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand
39. Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield
40. Achtung Baby, U2
41. Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
42. Exile On Main Street, The Rolling Stones
43. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
44. Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
45. Parallel Lines, Blondie
46. Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits
47. Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan
48. Hunky Dory, David Bowie
49. X&Y, Coldplay
50. Who's Next, The Who
51. Hopes And Fears, Keane
52. Parachutes, Coldplay
53. Arrival, Abba
54. Different Class, Pulp
55. The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground
56. Forever Changes, Love
57. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
58. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
59. Elephant, The White Stripes
60. Doolittle, Pixies
61. Absolution, Muse
62. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
63. Sheer Heart Attack, Queen
64. Come On Over, Shania Twain
65. Sign 'o' The Times, Prince
66. Ten, Pearl Jam
67. Kasabian, Kasabian
68. Dookie, Green Day
69. Origin Of Symmetry, Muse
70. Hounds Of Love, Kate Bush
71. Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan
72. All Mod Cons, The Jam
73. Blue, Joni Mitchell
74. White Blood Cells, The White Stripes
75. Dog Man Star, Suede
76. Metallica (the Black Album), Metallica
77. Dare!, Human League
78. Closer, Joy Division
79. In Utero, Nirvana
80. Back In Black, AC/DC
81. Funeral, Arcade Fire
82. Up All Night, Razorlight
83. Ray Of Light, Madonna
84. Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen
85. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
86. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Arctic Monkeys
87. A Day At The Races, Queen
88. The Lexicon Of Love, ABC
89. Spice, Spice Girls
90. Violator, Depeche Mode
91. Final Straw, Snow Patrol
92. Electric Warrior, T. Rex
93. Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette
94. Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division
95. Kid A, Radiohead
96. Out Of The Blue, Electric Light Orchestra
97. The Smiths, The Smiths
98. Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix
99. Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine
100. Hotel California, Eagles

Slogan

2006-05-31T11:24:00.000+01:00

Stanley Kunitz

2006-05-16T18:05:00.000+01:00

Stanley Kunitz 1906-2006

The Quarrel

The word I spoke in anger
weighs less than a parsley seed,
but a road runs through it
that leads to my grave,
that bought-and-paid-for lot
on a salt-sprayed hill in Truro
where the scrub pines
overlook the bay.
Half-way I'm dead enough,
strayed from my own nature
and my fierce hold on life.
If I could cry, I'd cry,
but I'm too old to be
anybody's child.
Liebchen,
with whom should I quarrel
except in the hiss of love,
that harsh, irregular flame?

Last FM

2006-05-14T09:41:00.000+01:00

On the playlist

2006-05-06T18:18:00.000+01:00

Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport 1956

Decent jazz album in HMV Forestside shocker!!! The 1999 reissued version, which unlike the original version was actually recorded in Newport 1956. The original issue featured a re recorded version of the concert recorded in New york a couple of days after the original concert. Worth buying alone for "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" and "Take the A Train", the former featuring Paul Gonsalve's famous tenor sax solo.

The Temptations - Cloud Nine

A massive impact on the likes of Curtis Mayfield and Funkadelic, this album saw the band move away from their traditional sound after their lead singer left the previous year. Produced by Norman Whitfield, this album was the start of Motown's psychedelic soul period and featured the distinctive guitar work of Funk Brother Dennis Coffey. 35 minutes of wah wah funk soul and peerless vocals from Dennis Edwards.

Adem - Love and other planets

A slightly less accessible follow up to the debut "Homesongs" from the one time Fridge member (alongside Kieren Hebden - Four Tet). Acoustic guitars, accordions, glockenspiels and harmonium combine to create a warm and spacious set of twelve songs.

"on a clear night if you look close enough / you can just make out / love and other planets / we are not alone."

Right click and download a stunning music video here (nothing rude don't panic!!)

or watch the same video below

What can a poor boy do?

2006-05-04T22:18:00.000+01:00

Country girl take my hand
Lead me through .......

Oh my soul is unclean
Country girl
Got to keep on keeping on
Country girl
Got to keep on keeping on

Click here for video

Lazer guided Melodies

2006-04-29T11:56:00.000+01:00

Two fantastic new albums of old stuff

Spiritualized - Friendly Fire

1992 saw the release of Spiritualized's first album, Lazer Guided Melodies, a fantastic combination of drone rock, driving guitars and horns that saw Jason Pierce free himself from the constrains of Spacemen 3 and start moving towards the heady heights of 1997's Ladies and Gentlemen album. Recently the bass guitarist on this album, Willie B Carruthers, came into possession of 50 copies of a collection of demos and rehearsals from this period and was selling these online. It is amazing to hear the blueprints for songs such as Smiles, You Know it's true and Run. To hear the steady building pulse present in these songs even at this early stage is incredible. One set of the rehearsals was recorded in the front room of Pierce's flat and yet the guitars still manage to scale those euphoric heights and more than hint at the finished album's sound. Incredibly sad to be getting excited about a collection of rehearsal tapes, but this is a snapshot of a band at the start of their career. A band that only existed in this shape for a couple of years before dissolving acrimoniously. Reissue of the year for me without a doubt!

Saint Etienne - Nice Price

Another collection of demos and unreleased mixes is this by Saint Etienne. This covers their entire career from the early 90s right up to last year. Bob, Sarah and Pete have always strived to recreate the sound in their heads within a groovy classic pop framework. Beginning with the pure pop masterpiece of Nothing can stop us (clear to hear even in this demo form) and moving right up to the pocket symphony of last year's Milk Bottle Symphony where no audio trick is left out. This is an album bursting with sounds. Versions of songs like Hobart Paving and Angel surpass those already available. The demos show that their version of high concept catchy pop music is present from the earliest stage in the process. Only available to fanclub members, see here for more info.

The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics

2006-04-20T16:29:00.000+01:00

I loved them before you did, in fact I loved them before they were even thinking about forming a band, except they weren't very good. They didn't get much better according to these ears until Transmissions from the Satellite Heart was released in 1993 (appearance on Beverly Hills 90210) Even then they were always coming up short in the psych rock stakes against the likes of Mercury Rev, Spiritualized, Verve etc. The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi saw the band push through their ceiling and led to glorious live appearances up and down the country with fake blood, animal suits and megaphones. This new album builds on this and pushes their sounds further more upwards and onwards. The stop starting singalongs of opener the Yeah Yeah Yeah song give way to the falsetto funk of Free Radicals tale of suicide bombing and the journey is well underway. Flashing a multitude of disparate influences including Prince, Beck, prog rock and Neil Young, this is a record that deserves to be listened to like an Lp. Stick on tracks 1-6 a couple of times and then finish off with 7-12. Sure fire winner every time.

Off to see Morrissey in Aberdeen and the BBC Symphony Orchestra the night before (hopefully). Reviews of both on return.

The Charlatans - Simpatico

2006-04-19T12:06:00.000+01:00

Bought this yesterday in HMV and have already listened to it three times from start to finish. The Charlatans are never going to be my favourite band or even in my top 20 favourites, but they never fail to create something worth listening to. Comfort music perhaps, a link back to the summer of 1990 when all you heard from my bedroom window was the loose sounds of Madchester. Since 1995 and their eponymous album, the Charlatans have ploughed a furrow of classic rock/funk referencing the Stones through Gram Parsons and Curtis Mayfield with a bit of well studied Dylan thrown in for good measure. The new album is hardly breaking any new ground though there is a spot of "reggae" on Road to Paradise, not their finest three minutes. A good listen and worth spending a few quid on.

Slieve Meelmore and Bearnagh

2006-04-18T12:51:00.000+01:00

Got up at 7.30 am and headed down to the Trassey car park with the dog. Arrived in car park at 8.45 am and was back in car by 12.30ish. Stopped twice, at top of Meelmore and at top of Bearnagh. Bearnagh from this side is a steep climb though doesn't take that long to do (25 minutes) Best time to go as I was only person at summit of both!! An abundance of people on way down back through the Hare's Gap. All pictures taken with my phone camera.

I put my ipod on shuffle today and this is what I got.......

2006-02-25T16:22:00.000Z

Philip Glass - Subterraneans
BB King - How blue can you get?
Basement Jaxx - Do your thing
David Bowie - Andy Warhol
The Kills - I hate the way you love me pt2
Cat Power - BAck of your head
Franz Ferdinand - You're the reason I'm leaving
Go Betweens - Dive for your memory
The Cure - A Japanese Dream
The Pastels - Worlds of Possibilities

No faking out with cool playlists or skipping embarrassing tracks is allowed

This week I was .......

2006-02-25T14:30:00.000Z

re-reading Charles Bokowski's Ham on Rye - not quite the way I remembered it as a teenager
reading the NME interview with Morrissey - not quite sure why I wasted 2 pounds on this!!! I now know that the NME no longer targets me as a reader
listening to Isobel and Mark (our very own NAncy and Lee) - still stands up as one of the best this year so far
listening to Tom Robinson standing in for Mark Radcliffe - not good, but different
watching The Apprentice - Jo and Syed will surely be the faces who keep me entertained this series
looking for an online calendar and found one at www.calendarhub.com
also looking for an online wordprocessor and found it at writely.com (don't ask!!!)
Also watching Chelsea get beaten by Barcelona in a match ruined by the ref in the first half!!!

Currently reading and listening to

2006-02-10T19:07:00.000Z

Anthony Horowitz - Raven's Gate
James Shapiro - 1599 a year in the life of William Shakepseare

Pulp - Different Class
XTC - Drums and wires
Isobel Campbell - Ballad of the broken seas
Phil's Spectre 2- various artists

Darren B's Top Fives

2005-12-09T11:10:00.000Z

Right, try these (I don't care if some of these weren't actually released '05!)

Albums-
1.Kings of Leon - Aha shake heartbreak.
2. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
3. Beck - Guero
4. Mylo - destroy rock & roll
5. Kasabian - Kasabian

TV-
1. Little Britain ( Just because it's popular, doesn't mean it's crap!)
2. Dr Who
3. David Attenborough - Life in the Undergrowth
4. Scooby Doo (repeated on cartoon network, Sunday morning, from the 70's!)
5. Extras (Gervais is a lot less annoying and more understated)

FILM-
1. Batman Begins (unbelievably great, nice work Chris Nolan)
2. Revenge of the Sith (we almost forgive you for the other two, George)
3. Shaun of the dead
4. The incredibles
5.

BOOKS-
1. Tom Holt - The Portable door ( really funny)
2. Arthur C Clarke - Songs of distant earth ( the man's a genius)
3. Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code (Bollocks really, but enjoyed the rare facts in it)
4. Clive Barker - Weaveworld (when will that be a film?! move over Narnia)
5. Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt (Not a patch on 'the guide' but all Adams is good

REISSUES-
1. Supertramp - Retrospectacle ( I'm 7 again)
2. The Prodigy - Their Law
3. The Muppet Show series 1 ( I'm 7 again, er, again..)
4. Jaws 30th anniversary edition
5. Flash Gordon anniversary edition (Gordon's Alive!!!)

Lisa's list

2005-12-08T14:37:00.000Z

ALBUMS

TFC - like Daryn

likewise SFA - can you tell who dictates listening in our house?

Madonna - confessions on a dancefloor

Franz Ferdinand - you could have it so much better

take that - yes, yes and yes!!

REISSUES - what? I'm not a boy you know!

BOOKS
Ian McEwan Saturday - not his best but I'm hooked anyway

HP and the HB Prince JK Rowling - definitely in for all seven, what will I do when its over??

Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro - typically detached but simultaneously heart rending

fleshmarket close Ian rankin - up close and personal once again with john rebus

FILMS
in no particular order;
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - see this movie!!

Batman Begins

Sin City

Cinderella Man

A very long engagement

TV
Dr Who

Curb your enthusiasm - painful but oh so good

Desperate Housewives

West Wing

Worst week of my life/peep show - can't choose between them

Eddie's Top Fives

2005-12-08T10:08:00.000Z

Top five albums—hard pressed to think of 5 new albums I’ve bough this year

1. Ben Folds—songs for Silverman---hey I like ben folds—whats wrong with that?!
2. TFC-man-made—v good business as usual
3. Goldfrapp—Supernature-good as dancy as I can get
4. Van morrisson---Magic time---pretty good—why did we not have a public funeral for the death of ‘Foggy’little?
5. Morrissey at earls court---NOT very good
6. 050505-simple minds---no only joking, has anybody bought this?

Top 5 reissues-only 1 I know would count as a reissue in 2005

1. Bob Dylan no direction home—excellent---‘ I do not believe you---you are a LIAR’

Remaining favourite old albums I bought this year:

2. Kate bush-- Hounds of Love—not much screeching on this record. fave KB album AND contains a song about people making weather machines and then being abducted by the government—Brian, Im sure this has been a Doctor Who plot?
3. The Cult—Love—rockin’
4. Van Morrisson- Philospohers Stone—lots of good unreleased stuff and alternate takes great version of wonderful remark

Books

1. War and Peace--excellent

2. Simon schama’s history of Britain Vols 1-3—very subjective general history--- really good on history of reform movements/ideas so 2&3 best. good contrast with Cyril Falls history of ulster I read just before, which as you might guess, was not the most liberal book I’ve ever read!

3. Julian Barnes arthur and george. Juilian Barnes writing about conan Doyle? How could I not love it!

4. Clom toibin—the heather Blazing—slight but top stuff

5. Stuart Maconie Cider with roadies---indulgent tales from days when I bought NME every Thursday. Would also recommend Andrew Collin’s Where did it all go right?

Missed out TV:

Nothing stands out bar reality TV shows I like them.

What time is it? Its CHICO time!

Films

Rarely went to the cinema this year and generally can’t remember the names of the films we did see—was Vanity Fair released this year? If so it was a passable attempt at turning a wonderful book into a pop video. But still worth watching.

Did get an Alsitair Sim double DVD and a Will Hay box set this year. Top class!

Bruce's top fives

2005-12-08T10:05:00.001Z

Top albums of 2005

Gorillaz

Sufjan Stevens

Top 5 reissues of 2005

Again, not bought any reissues this year

Top 5 films of 2005

Million Dollar Baby

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith

Batman Begins

Sideways

Sin City

Top 5 TV programmes

The Ashes Cricket

Dragons Den

Property Ladder

Top 5 books

Ian Rankin Rebus Novels

Ian McEwan - Saturday

Ian McEwan - Amsterdam

The Great Gatsby

Writing Secure Code ;-)

CISSP Study Guide

Brian's Top Fives

2005-12-08T10:05:00.000Z

Albums: I think I only bought 5

1. demon days – gorillaz
2. outlaw – Alabama 3
3. Ariel – The Bush
4. lovecraft – SFA
5. guero - beck

Movies: Does the Alabama 3 live DVD count?

TV:

1. Dr Who (naturally)
2. The Apprentice
3. Curb your enthusiasm
4. Lost
5. Hot Tub Ranking or Dragons Den (too close to call)

Books: can rarely get past harry potter these days…That Q pop book was quite good mind u

Re-issues

1. Dr who (or is it a re-imagining?)
2. also rediscovered hounds of love recently funnily enough
3. the eurythmics re-mastered box set (not really)

John L's Top Fives

2005-12-08T10:03:00.000Z

Beck - wonderful return to form
Gorrillaz - geniii
Magic Numbers try it. I think you would actually like it.
Goldfrapp Bless her and she looks like one of the three loves of my life
Arcade Fire
I still want to get the one by Charlotte Hatherly
and I recommend the new Cold Cuts album but I have only seen them live.

American Pastoral Philip Roth
Notes on a scandal Zoe Heller
The Plot Against American Philip Roth
What I loved Siri Huthvedt (only if in recovery period from having been in love with someone with severe mental health problems (OCD, Depression, borderline Psychopathic, split personality all in one rather beautiful head Oh dear)
Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (likewise oh dear)
(next year read my book about it)

Reissues !

TV

Cassanov
Doctor Who But not religiously (my flatmate was dating him)
The documentary on people with OCD
The west wing where he’s ill and in a wheel chair but that is Im sure a repeat
Channel Four news

Flims

Sideways v. good.
I was forced to see Harry Potter the last one. It isn’t that bad but the superficiality of film is surely the appropriate medium rather than as reading matter for any adult
Bet I like Broken Flowers but haven’t seen it yet.
Garden State
The silly one with girls coming of age with unknowns in it. Is it after sunrise?

Daryn's Top Fives

2005-12-08T09:50:00.000Z

Top 5 albums of 2005

Mercury Rev - Secret Migration - American pastoral removed slightly from the psychedelic
"outness" of previous outings, but suffers no less because of this
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - not quite the new Dylan, but better than most
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeny - Superwolf - Chavez meets Palace on this set of sparse
songs honed live during 2004
Teenage Fanclub - ManMade - the greatest power pop band ever show why they're the best kept secret in the world
Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft - singalong choruses, phased guitars and the best performance on TOTP this year

Top 5 reissues of 2005

Morrissey - Live at Earls Court - a great document of a fantastic tour
Sonic Youth - Goo - now with added non major label hissy demos
John Coltrane/Thelonius Monk- Carnegie Hall - a second document of a five month link up
Bob Dylan - No direction home - , fuzzy
bass, Bloomfield's noodly guitars, demos, protest songs, Guthrie
The Fall - The Complete Peel Sessions - time to ditch those hissy c90s recorded in the 80s,
now for the pristine pile driving sound of the "Mighty Fall."

Top 5 films of 2005

Batman Begins - making all the right moves by referencing Frank Miller and Jeph Loeb's
darker interpretation of this character, the best one since 1989's Tim Burton debut (though
that's not exactly an achievement)
Cinderella Man - a great boxing film, engaging narrative, not too schmaltzy
A very long engagement - portraying the French attitude to their soldiers during the First
World War within the context of a story that weaves in elements of romance, war and the
detective story, beautiful to watch
No Direction Home - two masters collide and produce an engaging portrayal of both the time
and the "legend"
Sin City - another Frank Miller adaptation, surely the greatest comic genius (apart from
Alan Moore), where CGI showed how it can be used by a great director

Top 5 TV programmes

Ramsays Kitchen Nighmares - forever changes the way you view the food trade as Ramsay
uncovers a catalogue of ineptitude which delights the viewer but surely must frighten the
diner
Desperate Housewives - refreshing TV, easy to watch, good entertainment
The West Wing - a soap opera dressed up as serious drama, brilliant
Ashes Cricket - Channel 4 show why Sky's gain is our loss
Blackpool - referencing Dennis Potter's use of songs to crystallise the internal thoughts
etc of characters, fantastic fun

Top 5 books

Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park - a return to form after Glamorama, even a downloadable playlist to listen to while reading, his best yet
Nick Laird - To a Fault - Zadie Smith has good taste in ex lawyers turned poets and bad novelists
Johnny Rogan - Van Morrison - years in the making, can almost be forgiven for the severed alliance (sausage appliance)
Richard Yates - Collected short stories - American realist, flows of the page, perfectly weighted short stories
Paul Auster and David Mazzuchelli (art) - City of
glass - turning Paul Auster's "detective story" into a graphical novel offered a unique interpretation of this great novel

George Best 1946-2005

2005-12-03T19:51:00.000Z

New York October 2005

2005-11-02T18:03:00.000Z

New York Links

2005-10-15T16:12:00.000+01:00

Weblinks

Guardian New York Guide
New York City Official Site link
Another Official NYC Site
Paperless guide to NY City
New York.com
Yahoo guide to NYC
H2G2 NYC info
One Life guide to NYC
NYC Weather
BBC Holiday NYC Guide
NYC Tourism
New York Metro Newspaper Site
First time in New York
BBC Holiday America

hIDDEN HERE AT THE BOTTOM, SOME REALLY BORING LINKS FOR WORK

Marking ladders
Primary Teacher blog
Primary Resources blog

Listening in and reading about

2005-10-11T21:45:00.000+01:00

Nigel Spivey - Songs on Bronze
Julian Barnes A history of the World in 10 1/2 chapters
Thelonius Monk Quartet with John coltrane - At Carengie Hall
Ian Brown - The Greatest
Stephen Howe - Mad Dogs and Ulsterme n

Some horsey stuff

2005-10-04T17:24:00.000+01:00

A photo of the horses and some useful sites.

http://www.nihorseboard.org/index.php

http://www.horsequest.co.uk/

http://www.irelandsequestrian.co.uk/

http://www.theirishhorse.co.uk/

This week's listening

2005-09-17T11:53:00.000+01:00

Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise

Murlough Bay, Newcastle September 11th 2005

2005-09-11T13:58:00.000+01:00

Another random itunes playlist

2005-09-11T10:19:00.000+01:00

Listening and reading

2005-09-11T10:10:00.000+01:00

Listening and reading:

Mansun Kleptomania
Philip Larkin Required Writing
Daredevil Redemption
Bob Dylan No Direction Home

Slieve Croob Saturday 3rd September

2005-09-04T11:19:00.000+01:00

http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/product.aspx?ProductID=7095

Current listening, viewing and reading

2005-08-20T12:59:00.000+01:00

Listening

The Auteurs - Luke Haines is dead
Dexter Gordon - Go!

Watching

Bob Dylan - No direction home trailer

Reading

Richard Yates - Eleven kinds of loneliness
Philip Larkin - All What Jazz

itunes random playlist

2005-08-20T12:52:00.000+01:00

Randomly generated itunes playlist

Current reading

2005-08-16T11:00:00.000+01:00

Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh

The last days of Christopher (Kit) Marlowe in his own words. A novella, so a quick and engaging read.

Movie this story ties in with? 'Shakespeare in Love'

Also by this author? The Cutting Room

Amazon Link

Murlough Bay 14th August 2005

2005-08-15T09:32:00.000+01:00

Murlough Bay

Jute's Hen Night

2005-08-08T11:17:00.000+01:00

Listening to: Stan Getz and John Coltrane

2005-08-04T13:55:00.000+01:00

Stanley Getz "The Sound" - tenor saxophone

Born Feb 2nd 1927
Died June 6th 1991

Listening to Stan Getz meets Joao and Astrud Gilberto (1964)

'Let's face it. We (tenor saxophonists) would all play like him, if we could.' -John Coltrane on Stan Getz

John Coltrane - September 23rd 1926 - July 17th 1967

Listening to Impressions (1961) with Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet and alto saxophone

"There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state. So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are. But to do that at each stage, we have to keep on cleaning the mirror." - John Coltrane

New York City Trip 2005

2005-08-02T17:40:00.000+01:00

Currently reading

2005-08-01T13:32:00.000+01:00

Fred Vargas - Have Mercy on us all - extract online

Johnny Rogan - Van Morrison - No Surrender - extract online

Scanning the Century - edited by Peter Forbes

The year so far

2005-08-01T09:21:00.000+01:00

Top albums I have bought this year:

Nothing has been proved

2005-07-31T16:58:00.000+01:00



















Download live in 89 version

Mandy's in the papers 'cause she tried to go Spain

She'll soon be in the dock and in the papers once again.
Vicki's got her story about the mirror and the cane

It may be false
it may be true
but nothing has been proved.

Stephen's in his dressin-gown now
breakfasting alone

Too sick to eat
he's on his feet and to the telephone.
The police inspector soothes him with his sympathetic tone

It may be false
it may be true
but nothing has been proved.

In the house a resignation
guilty faces
every one

Christine's fallen out with Lucky
Johnny's got a gun.
Please please me's
number one.
Now Stephen's in the dock for spending money
that was earned by Christine.
And the prosecution says
that money burned a hole in Stephen's pocket
For expensive sins he yearned
-
It may be false
it may be true
but nothing has been proved.

In the news the suicide note
in the court an empty space

Even Mandy's looking worried
Christine's pale and dawn.
Please please me
's number one.

Last night he wrote these words to his friend:
Sorry about the mess,I'm guilty 'til proved innocent in the
public eye and press.
The funeral's very quiet because all his friends have fled

They may be false
they may be true

They've all got better things to do.
They may be false
they may be true

But nothing has been proved
nothing has been proved.

Dylan

2005-07-31T16:43:00.000+01:00

"I made a bargain with it a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end." Asked with whom he had made the bargain, he explained: "With the chief commander. In this earth and in the world we can't see."

Burnt by being hailed in his twenties as a new messiah and hounded by fans who invaded his home - the Woodstock sheriff warned him that if any of the fans camped on his roof fell off, he would be held liable for their injuries - Dylan became a recluse.

His last album, Love and Theft, released four years ago, sold just 7,300 copies until it won a Grammy, when the publicity added another 10,000.

No Direction Home - the Martin Scorcese documentary will be broadcast in Spetember by the BBC. DVD and soundtrack to follow

A compilation of rarities Live at the gaslight 1962 will be available across the counter in Starbuck's coffee shops

Courtney Pine and Kevin Smith

2005-07-31T16:27:00.000+01:00

Sunday afternoon

Listening to Courtney Pine playing live with the Pet Shop Boys in 1989, "Left to my own devices".
Reading about Kevin Smith's daily life at My Boring Ass Life
Checking out pictures of the new Superman film being shot in Australia