How Lucky Jim is not a household name by now is beyond me. I can't fathom it all. Having wrote about him here 3 years ago and interviewing him for his outstanding album True North , i was convinced that his time had finally arrived. In fairness it should have been with his previous releases when he was signed to Skint records that he became a household name but for whatever reasons it just didn't happen regardless of those albums receiving great reviews across the music press. He has now bettered all those albums in my opinion [...]
Welcome to this week's Friday Fives, when we all choose the winners of the Communion Compilation Competition. Those of you interested in this sort of thing will know that this competition is to win a copy of this lovely album , featuring all sorts of alt-folk (or whatever) royalty who have performed at the eponymous London club night run by a Mumford and a Cherbourg. So, simple, please just list your favourite hipster photo from the following five examples, which I have chosen as being the best of all the submissions I received. The top three will [...]
I recorded this podcast marooned in the middle of France at my parents' house, with no more musical resources than the compilation CDs I've been taking them constantly since I left home. It was quite weird to poke through all the old songs I've sent home over the years, actually. There's something unavoidably honest about the mixes you make for other people. Look back on the year or the decade yourself and you apply hindsight, selective memory and all sorts, but if you look at the stuff you send to other people then you don't get [...]
Mit diesem Post haben wir auch schon die Halbzeit unseres Jahrzehnt-Rückblicks erreicht. Und apropos Halbzeit: 2004 war auch das Jahr von "Nipplegate". Falls ihr euch nicht mehr erinnert: Justin Timberlake riss Janet Jackson in der Halbzeitshow des Super Bowl versehentlich (?) ein Teil ihres Outfits vom Leib, sodass für wenige Sekunde ihre rechte Brust zu sehen war. Und das unter den Augen der gesamten Nation, die sich auch gleich eifrig echauffierte. Viel kranker gehts nicht. Was war sonst noch los im Jahr 2004? Immer noch Krieg, und nach seiner Wiederwahl 1 immer [...]
Bugger me it's a busy week in gigs this week, starting this very evening, which is annoying in a sense as I'd rather hoped to have a relaxing week. Fat chance, it seems. Sorry for the lack of chat, but there's a fuck of a lot to list here and I have to get this done before the end of my lunch break. Consequently these previews are going to be the shortest I've ever written. It might seem slightly insulting to the bands involved, but huge apologies if it is, but I am really, really rushed this morning. [...]
I little while ago Olly, my fellow friend and blogging maestro sent me an email asking if i owned any Lucky Jim albums. When I replied I had pretty much everything by him he asked why I had been keeping him a secret? Well I wasn't really but the reason I never blogged about him was because I presumed he was an extremely well known artist and probably didn't need a little blog like ours promoting him. I don't keep any eye on the charts but when you hear music this good it's easy to presume that it's [...]
The original MOKB Covers Project post of Hallelujah has been dead for many moons, but it is still one of the most commented on, linked up and talked about posts we've put together here at MOKB. I've promised many a reader that I would one day re-host all the files for everyone to enjoy. We revisited the song and found a plethora of new versions since last we posted it. There are even more we saw but couldn't find. As always , if you have a [...]
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