The Robsons

Black Gold are a 4-piece band from Brooklyn, and played a not unpleasant set of poppy songs.  Not that I can remember any of them by today, mind you.  Still, far better than that horrible oog thing from last week!

Neko, on the other hand, was more than memorable.  She’s been one of my favourite artists [...]

Animals In The Dark – William Elliott Whitmore

Last Friday we went to see William Elliott Whitmore at South Street in Reading.  This was a bit of a random gig, that I’d spotted on the Reading Arts email, but it sounded like the sort of thing I’d like, and it most certainly was. I’d downloaded [...]

No, no, no, god, no:

"Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue”

You can find this travesty here.

Actually, it’s kind of interesting to hear the previews, but I don’t think I could listen to a whole one.

As if to make up for Scarlett Johansson’s Waitsian waste of space, Zooey Deschanel’s album with M. Ward under the name She & Him is an absolute delight of summery pop. I’ve been listening to Volume 1 quite a lot recently, and I’m even happier to find that Aqarium Drunkard has a live set [...]

Calexico’s new album Carried To Dust is due on September 9th on Touch and Go records.  A taster can be found here: Two Silver Trees

From what I’ve read so far, and listening to this track, it’s sounding good, and a move back to something more like their core sound than Garden [...]

Two different bands, two different sets, two very different atmospheres…

On Friday night V and I, and a couple of our friends, went to see Bon Jovi at Twickenham Stadium.  As you’d hope, it was very much a greatest hits set, kicking off with Living on a Prayer, and containing almost everything from [...]

I’ve found a torrent of the show I was at on Dime (now I’ve managed to get my login back!) here.

On Wednesday V and I went to see The Feeling at Shepherds Bush Empire – one of my favourite venues in London.  Let’s be honest: given my music preferences (Neil, Tom, and so on), this was more for V than for me (q.v. Bon Jovi @ Twickenham later this year!).  However, I must admit to [...]

It’s a real pity I let my login for Dime lapse, as there are a bunch of boots of Neil’s shows available at the moment.  There’s a list at Rust Radio.  I’ve found a download link for the 2008-03-05 show in MegaUpload here, but I really want to get the show I was at!  If [...]

Well, that was good.  Interesting set – shame he didn’t play Cinnamon Girl, Cortez, or Rocking In The Free World – but wow, what a show.  I’d like to give a good kicking to whoever it was thought that clapping along (out of time) to Old King was a good idea..!

It felt [...]