Here's one more old gig review. This is the last one. From now on there will be fresh ones as I go to more gigs (doing a Masters Degree takes up valuable portions of my time). I promise. I'm also including the bonus track on the UK release of The Alternative album - the splendid string version of Spit It Out. I wouldn't have thought it would work, but it becomes both ethereal and haunting. The Alternative to Real World Is Just Time For Me and a Fantasy An hour [...]
Forgive me for using older reviews of gigs that I did for my myspace page for my initial posts, but I'm still trying to sort through how I want to set this thing up. And these reviews are no less interesting for being older. People of future generations will hail these reviews as classic. I am the Lester Bangs of the Digital Age. I am John Peel without a radio show. I am also fairly delusional. Anyway, here's a review of the Patrick Wolf gig in Toronto this last October. It was a cracker. [...]
I think it's fairly safe to say my life revolves around music, books, decent films and television (ie: stuff most people don't watch), and travel. I like to write, and I also like to express opinions that people who are not music fans just smile and nod at. Now I have somewhere to put them. The opinions, not the people who are not music fans - although, trapping certain people in a shoddily-designed blog would be fitting. It only seemed appropriate to begin this music blog with my favourite band of all time - the Manic Street Preachers. [...]
Condemned to Rock 'N Roll
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
