Dive into the archives.
- V Festival - queuing for a square pie
Highlights of yesterday - Foo fighters, the coral, martha wainwright, happy mondays and the ting tings. Highlights so far today - lena rez (pj harveyesque, shades of elysian fields) and passenger. Nearly at front of queue.
- Warmer Than Hell
Spinal Tap are reforming for Live Earth, which makes it slightly more likely that I’ll increase my carbon foorprint by switching on my TV to catch their performance.
- Doo-doo-ron-ron-ron, doo-doo Ronson
Just been listening to the Mark Ronson album ‘Version’, which is basically a bunch of covers done in Ronson’s own funk/hip-hop style. If you’ve heard his excellent reworking of Radiohead’s ‘Just’, then you’ll have an inkling what you’re in for. Unfortunately, most of what’s here it isn’t as good as that track.
It starts strongly, with the [...]
- Jobs puts his money where his mouth is
Apple have announced that they’re going to be selling all tracks from the EMI catalogue DRM-free from May. The DRM-free tracks will be 30 cents more, but be much higher-quality, so it’s not as if you’re just paying for interoperability. In addition, there will be the option to bulk-upgrade your existing FairPlay EMI tracks to the [...]
- A Whisky and a Wry Smile
Went to see Frank Turner at the Borderline last night - I’ve been properly mainlining his ‘Sleep Is For The Week’ album for the last 4 weeks or so and it’s quickly become my new favourite record. I’ve been really looking forward to seeing him live and I was like a little kid last night,with [...]