Category: Music

As a follow up to my previous entry, I couldn’t help but notice that the Norah Jones CDs available in Fopp are different to the one I bought. They don’t mention Copy Control anywhere on the cover. I did read somewhere on the web when I was fuming before, that EMI only use Copy Control…

Can I just say here and now that I think EMI are idiots. Complete buffoons. I foolishly made the mistake of buying the new Norah Jones album on Friday – but despite being a fine collection of music, I really can’t recommend that anyone else should buy it. EMI have been using their Copy Control…

Off to the Annie Liebovitz exhibition at The Hospital for American Music exhibition. Lots of roots American singers having had photos done by Vanity Fair’s no. 1 photographer.

I’ve moved onto Ennio Morricone at the moment – since I finally worked out that the theme music to the hit and miss Nighty Night is from the soundtrack to My Name Is Nobody. Morricone is one of my favourite composers, with the soundtrack album to The Mission being one of my favourite pieces of…

Today, I seem to have been travelling around with a background of Francoise Hardy. What brought this on? Well I was watching the disappointingly poor Sea of Souls on telly last night, and frankly, by the end I was channel surfing. You really know that a supposedly thrilling drama hasn’t grabbed you if you’re seeing…

Today I went to see my first ever ballet. The Nutcracker by Matthew Bourne is something of a different ballet, I’m told, with a non-conformist setting and method of producing the show. The charming people at ING Direct provided the tickets via one of their free offers, and who was I to refuse them. I…

I’ve just been listening to a show on BBC London that I’ve never heard before presented by Sean Rowley (I think). He played a remix of a Belle & Sebastian song that’s soon to be released as a single. It’s an amazing remix with some very African influences. I can’t quite remember the details of…

Apropros of nothing, there’s a thoroughly disturbing video airing on the EMAP music channels just now. It’s a German band called the Boogie Pimps and their crass Euro remake of “Somebody to Love”. However, it’s the video that you really have to wonder about. It features seven very small babies skydiving from a plane in…

I’ve only just learnt that composer Michael Kamen has died at the age of 55. Only a couple of weeks ago, I was transferring my cassette of his soundtrack (with Eric Clapton) for Edge of Darkness from cassette to my PC for burning to CD. He had loads of film credits and recently he did…

Yes it’s bad. But for 70p I got a load of Elvis songs – and one of them is Suspicious Minds – so I had no choice really.

Or just “V Festival” as it should be known. The weather held out, and the Virgin Radio hospitality tent looked better than ever. We didn’t have the problems we’d had before with food, which was handled expertly and efficiently. Coldplay and the Chili Peppers headlined, and I did make out of the Virgin area on…

One way or another, I’ve done quite well out of the BBC today. As well as waking me up earlier today, they also supplied me with free tickets to see the BBC Concert Orchestra playing film music by Michael Nyman at the Royal Festival Hall this evening. Nyman himself was conducting, with a full range…

For the first time ever, we came bottom of Eurovision with nil points. No relegation for us however, since we bankroll the whole thing.