I don’t play the guitar very well at all. I’ll sometimes say that I play it better than average, but that’s a claim that can only be justified by pointing out that the vast majority of people don’t play guitar at all so anyone who knows two or three chords is already well above average.… Continue reading The Learning Guitar
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Rage Against The X Factor
Well done everyone. We really showed ’em. We showed The Man that he can’t mess with Da Kidz. But, actually, we really just doubled the amount of money that Sony BMG made out of this year’s christmas number one. And, despite clear instructions to the contrary in the song’s lyrics, we did exactly what They… Continue reading Rage Against The X Factor
Twisted Christmas
As I mentioned yesterday, last night I went to the Barbican Centre to see their Twisted Christmas show. The show was definitely a mixed bag. Most of the musical performers were good. I particularly enjoyed Alasdair Roberts’ “The 12 Days of Yule” (On the first day of Yule my druid brought to me a crow… Continue reading Twisted Christmas
A Twitter Story
People often ask me what is the point of Twitter. What do I get out of it. The answer to those questions change from day to day. Here is today’s answer. Tonight I’m going to see the Twisted Christmas show at the Barbican. It features a number of performers taking a slightly different look at… Continue reading A Twitter Story
A Life Well Documented
Recently I realised that two seemingly completely different projects were, in fact, both facets of the same project. They both led me to putting more detail about my history into web sites and (once they are complete) this will mean that my life will become far better documented. The first project started when I dug… Continue reading A Life Well Documented
Hard Rock Calling
On Saturday I was at the Hard Rock Calling festival in Hyde Park. It’s a pretty good idea to have a three-day festival in London over the same period as the Glastonbury festival as it’s easy for the acts to play both festivals over the weekend and those of us whose camping days are long… Continue reading Hard Rock Calling
The War of the Worlds
Last night I was at the O2 Arena to see one of the 30th anniversary performances of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds. For some reason it was a year late – the 30th anniversary was actually last year. I wasn’t entirely sure what I was expecting. I wouldn’t have been surprised if it had… Continue reading The War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds
I’ve always had a massive soft spot for Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds. I think that the album must have originally been released pretty soon after I read the book for the first time. And it must have really struck a chord with me. I borrowed a copy from the… Continue reading War of the Worlds
Rip It Up And Start Again
Yesterday I mentioned that I had recently read Rip It Up And Start Again by Simon Reynolds. It was a really interesting read, but (at least in part) not for the reasons I expected. It was interesting because it was full of bands that I had never listened to and had always meant to. This… Continue reading Rip It Up And Start Again
Buying Digital Music
It looks like 7digital have won the race to be the first web site to sell EMI’s non-DRM MP3 audio files. Or, at least, they’re the first one I’ve heard of that claim to work in any browser on any operating system. I shall be testing this theory tonight and, if it works, then I… Continue reading Buying Digital Music