Category: Audio
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What’s My Motivation?
I’m quite enjoying this week’s Book of the Week on Radio 4 – What’s My Motivation by Michael Simkins, detailing his experiences trying to become an actor. Listen to it via the Radio 4 website.
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Copy Control – Part 2
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…
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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…
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American Music
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.
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Morricone
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…
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Francoise Hardy
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…
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The Sunday Format
I missed the entire first series of The Sunday Format, but thanks to Listen Again, I’m hearing the first episode of series 2 now. How about this excerpt discussing features of their new CD supplement: Computer cookies that track your internet use and help us learn more about you. Best of all, The Moment on…
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The Nutcracker
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…
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Mars and Space Exploration
So what to make of all the excitement we’ve had over the near year period about space exploration? We’ve had the disappointment of the Beagle 2 which does now seem lost. Then the success of NASA’s first Mars lander, including this spectacular Martian landscape. And now the lander has rolled out it’s lander. This is…
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The Avalanches
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…
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Danny Baker and Curb
I meant to write something about this last week. The fourth series of Curb Your Enthusiasm has just started on HBO, and I downloaded it and watched it last week. Why wait for BBC4 when we’ve only just seen the end of series two? The theme of this season is that Larry is offered a…
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Disturbing
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…
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The Mouse That Roared
I don’t talk here much about radio plays, but I intend to make some amends in 2004, since I hope to listen to more plays on my Tungsten E. So let’s start with The Mouse That Roared based on the comic novel by Leonard Wibberley. Better known in its film version with Peter Sellers, it…