It’s 2009. I’m listening to Motown, looking out on a snowy Bristol scene with the dull ache of alcoholism and gluttony inside. A two week sojourner from work is all but over, gone in a festive flash of over-indulgence and...
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Crissy M – Darren Hayman I’m not working. Christmas is coming. It’s cold. Here’s Darren Hayman singing a song about the porn star Crissy M to warm your cockles. Darren was frontman with my favourite band...
It’s Tuesday. It’s time for another one of my favourite songs. Here’s Sister Rosetta Tharpe rocking like nobody’s business. Enjoy. Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Up Above My Head
I hope everyone had a good bonfire night. I spent the evening peering out of the window into a thick smog, feeling the minimal heat from my house escaping out the sash-window as I did so. I should have stopped and pulled the...
Vampire Weekend Academy, Bristol Friday 31st October 2008 It’s Halloween and they’re called VAMPIRE Weekend. Audience and band alike are in ghoulish fancy-dress. There’s a spooky synergy to tonight’s...
Thursday 23rd October 2008 Recession looming. Clocks soon to go back. Winter fast approaching. People too depressed to party? Hell no! Joseph Mount’s Metronomy possess tunes so good that even Gordon Brown would dance his...
More abstract thoughts on the latest Bum Tapes release from Zach Kouns. ZACK KOUNS – Network and Circuitry of Nettles C34 Dark post-modern murder ballads and avant-garde pop are played out in a jumble of bongo-rhythms...
Maths Balance Volumes – Tried To Make A Call C11 Fractured vocal vignettes, broken organ melodies, squelchy stunted phrases and echoey grunted rhythms – Tried to Make a Call is a tonic to a shrinking world where everybody...
Some abstract thoughts on one of several new releases from the mighty Bumtapes. Find it, buy it, love it. Drunjus – Master Tree Finder C52 Tangible and guttural, this narrative of basslines, brown notes, and whispered...
Cool bands playing songs in the back of black cabs in London town. What a fantastic idea – I wish I’d thought of it and had the resources to carry it off. I didn’t. Those lovely people at Black Cab Sessions know...