Blog: shattered satellite

Following their Reading and Leeds performances, Interpol tour their third album, 'Our Love To Admire', in the UK this autumn, including two nights at London's Alexandra Palace. The music press has greeted their major label debut as "a great album… rippling with the metropolis' (New York's) energy" (Paul Stokes, NME) and heralding the band's "jump from postpunk revivalists to mainstream contenders" (Mark Edwards, Sunday Times), yet as an Interpol offering the album is fractured, with dark and delicious fits broken up by dragging, drearier cuts. [...]

Operahouse are a bunch of young lads from Camden who make danceable guitar pop. Had heard bits and bobs about this band after one of my friends at university, Alice, was raving about them, as she went to school with the drummer or something. I noticed they were supporting Tokyo Police Club in Nottingham at the Social so I thought I'd check it out. You can read what I thought of Tokyo here… [...]

• Guardian Unlimited - Music Weekly: 23.08.2007

Modernaire describe themselves as a pop duo in Manchester . This doesn't really scratch the surface. Layers and layers of electro beats and samples, crafted by Oscar Wildstyle, are blended perfectly with the vocals of Cruella de Mill and the 101 Damnations - if you want a vague, completely throwaway, over the top description using other artists as reference points, I'd say it sounds like two Laura Marlings fronting CSS a hundred years ago. Make your own mind up though. [...]

Not entirely sure what I think of blogging. I mean there's a lot out there (respect to fuckingdance and good weather for airstrikes in particular for inspiring me). Some things already will have been said. I'm obsessed with music. So that's what this is going to be about. It could be profiles of artists, new bands, old bands, reviews of gigs I've been to, general issues relating to music and what the future holds or just how a song just relates to a night out or a night in or a day in the park and [...]