Category: music

Two days ago I went to see Cold Mountain (nice cinematography, well acted, but ultimately rather dull) and saw a trailer for Tim Burton’s Big Fish. This trailer contains a couple of seconds of “I’ve Seen All Good People” by Yes, which I haven’t heard for far too many years. Yesterday I’m in HMV and… Continue reading Synchonicity

The Glastonbury festival has been given the go-ahead for 2004. The dates will be 25-27 June. I should really think about going back soon. I haven’t been since about 1995.

Tried hard, but couldn’t resist the pun! Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield has died.

I seem to be building up quite a good working relationship with someone called Ken in BMG’s copy control customer support centre. I think he’s grateful that someone is actually giving them intelligent feedback rather than simply swearing at them :) I wrote to them last week pointing out that I was planning on buying… Continue reading Copy Controlled CDs Update

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook’s Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein Ah-oooh… Werewolves of London Warren Zevon dies :-(

People have obviously decided that it’s high time that my musical horizons were broadened. For my birthday yesterday I got three CDs by artists I’ve never listened to before. Some friends in LA sent me an Amazon package containing Us by the Mull Historical Society and Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep… Continue reading New Music

As part of the mass clearout I mentioned earlier, I found three boxes full of cassettes. They haven’t been played in five years so I made the (painful) decision to throw them away. I’m an incredible horder so this was immensely painful. I estimate there were about four hundred of them – prerecorded albums, compilation… Continue reading Cassette Massacre

It’s Friday afternoon and I’ve spent far too much of the morning being pissed about by British Rail[1], so instead of working I’ll tell you a story that I’ve just been reminded of by a discussion on IRC. ([1] Or whatever they want to call themselves these days.)

Usually I’m very impressed by Amazon recommendations, but today I happened to let slip that I own both of the Sugababes albums and now my music recommendations list is full of Christina Aquilera and Atomic Kitten!

Doncha just love serendipity. Earlier in the week I caught a brief glimpse of Transvision Vamp on TV. I’d forgotten how much I liked Transvision Vamp so I decided it was about time to buy some of their stuff on CD. As it happens they released a compilation album called Baby I Don’t Care last… Continue reading Voice of the Beehive