Blog: I shook the royal throne

I'm escaping this gawd-forsaken county at last! WOOOO. My stay at Goldsmiths begins on Saturday and I really, really cannot wait. But it's not as though I'm going to miss some things. I'm going to miss being bored wandering around Scunthorpe every Saturday for some reason. I'm going to miss ...

Trying to write things is distracting when you have the telly on. For instance, MTV2 just played Múm's latest video 'They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded'. I remember múm being too out-there for my tastes but the last time I remember them having new material I liked Hard-Fi at ...

In early August I went down to London and went to a few good gigs, a boring in-store performance and a nice festival that was marred by slightly rubbish organisation. I've got a fair bit of media and thoughts about all of them and I'll make some very late judgements ...

So I've got little over three weeks left up here before my dashing escape via Doncaster, and my bank balance is looking painful. I guessed, then, that the best way to procrastinate was to watch anime and listen to Sunn O))). The former means that I can actually say that ...

This blog has laid dormant for four entire months. Ah fuck. This month is very exciting for me. Reason being, I get to finally escape Lincolnshire and head for greener pastures. I say greener; I'm going to London. I am both thrilled and shitting bricks. I'll be doing Media and Communications ...

How to make a band interesting again: make them record a cover of the best track from one of the best albums of the year. In this case, Franz Ferdinand have re-recorded the sumptous 'All My Friends', LCD Soundsystem's new single, and have given it a Gang Of Four-esque sheen, ...

Today, another example of how North American alternative rock 'n' roll seems to be rolling along nicely while what's left of British indie falls deeper into a tarry pit of hideous Nathan Barley caricatures and half-arsed anthems aimed at football hooligans: The White Stripes have made a video for their ...

I'm not very hardcore. Granted, it's a good genre. I mean, it's a good genre live. On record, a lot of hardcore punk does sound exactly the same to the point where it becomes repetitive and dare I say it boring after just a few minutes. It's a shame, because when ...

Queens Of The Stone Age are back, it seems. Caught me out my surprise, which after remembering that they're playing Wireless in Leeds next month, is a bit strange. The new record's called Era Vulgaris, fresh with artwork that reminds me of those slogan posters from the 1950s, except they ...