Category: Music

It seems to have taken me the better part of a week to get over it, but it does take a lot out of me! Spent much of the weekend in the suprisingly dry, and indeed sunny, Hylands Park near Chelmsford, video and photographing my colleagues. Live performances in the tent saw highlight performances by…

I just need to let of some steam…. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH Thanks. Sorry about that. For reasons that I can’t really go into, but mainly down to the fact that I volunteered to write a database, I seem to have been lumbered with overall responsibility for our company’s guest tickets to the V Festival in Chelmsford this…

Another night, another Prom. I always enjoy the visits of Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (last seen 18 months ago at the Barbican), so I’d been looking forward to this Prom for a while. I showed up quite early, but not early enough it seemed. Instead of joining the Arena queue, I was…

I must be getting addicted. It’s a few years since I last went to a Prom and now I’ve been twice in two days. Even on the day of rush hour tube chaos. OK, so I took the bus and listened to the conductor’s story of woe – Routemasters are being phased out this year,…

I paid my first visit to the Proms for a while today, seeing the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing various pieces including Elgar’s Enigma Variations. I’d entirely forgotten that the opening variation, C.A.E. (which is actually a portrait of the composer’s wife) was lifted lock stock into the soundtrack of the first Matrix film.…

I spent several hours yesterday, in Finsbury Park getting very wet. I enjoyed myself, nonetheless. The Fleadh is one of those festivals that’s quite small, and I suppose gets smothered, coming on the weekend between the Isle of Wight Festival and Glastonbury. Still, not a bad line-up. I’d not seen Billy Bragg live before, but…

Observer Music Monthly published their list of the hundred greatest British Albums of all time yesterday. The list was compiled by critics, industry figures and pop stars. The Stone Roses came out top, although I’d argue that this was really down to the age of the average rock/pop journalist and/or pop stars. The list of…

Well, more like, I’ve lost my faith in Faithless. I really like the current single, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the new album was out on Monday. BUT… it’s got “Copy Control” on it, so it’s not a real CD. I won’t be able to easily copy it across to my minidisc. The disc will…

My Canadian music week continued earlier this evening with the brilliant Barenaked Ladies. They are quite simply one of the most fun groups around. And don’t think they’re not talented either; from drummer to bass to keyboards/accordian, they’re exceptional musicians. The one track that just about everyone knows is the radio friendly “One Week”, but…

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The Cowboy Junkies have a new album out at the end of next month, and are on a brief tour in the UK and Europe before heading back off to North America for a larger tour. I’m a massive Junkies fan, and one thing I was always sure of. A band like that would never…

Ash came in to do a Virgin Superstars session on Wednesday, which I sat in on. These things take the form of an interview in front of a live audience, interspersed with songs, a couple of old ones (Girl From Mars and Burn Baby Burn) and a couple of new ones. All acoustic and all…

Soggy Bottom Boys Remixed – via Boing Boing. Music to pass the time of day by until you get your copy of O Mickey, Where Art Thou (heard the bluegrass version of Supercalifragilisticexpialdocious last night on Radio 2, but I want to hear The Bare Necessities – even though I hate Disney for reasons not…