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Wow. For anyone actually there, this performance of One Day Like This by Elbow at Glastonbury must have been an absolute highlight, up there with The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony & Jay Z’s set. Again, wow.
And this is now my favourite lyric in a long time:
One day like this a year will see me right

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Right, one last post before I go & fall asleep in front of the Glastonbury coverage. Tuomo is the Finnish soul singer that you’ve probably never heard of but, if there were any justice in the world, would be as big as Jay-Z. His interpretations of classic soul aren’t amazingly inventive but he does them […]

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The fuss surrounding Jay-Z’s performance at Glastonbury always seemed strange to me. For me the festival should be about seeing acts you wouldn’t expect to, about bands doing something different, about the weird & wonderful things that make music so fantastic.
Noel Gallagher’s comment that hip-hop was ‘wrong’ for Glastonbury pissed me off. I saw Public […]

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Another gold star to YouTube’s recommendation service, which pointed me to Rapper’s Delight by The Sugrahill gang, which lead me to The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, from where I clicked on over to this remix of Ice Cube’s early 90s hip hop classic Check Yo Self, which samples The Message. Check […]

In the spirit of openness which blogging is built on, I thought it only right that I mention the fact I’ve just signed up to Amazon & iTunes’ respective affiliate programs. This means that when I link to a song or album on Amazon or iTunes, if you then buy the CD or download the […]

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The way things are going I’m going to have to start paying the guy behind the mixed moods podcasts a commission (if this site made me any money) due to the number of amazing new tracks I’m finding by listening to him, such as Solique’s Let’s Stay Running. The latest track that has joined the […]

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I know that I said that I should be outside rather than blogging, so I am - outside, blogging (ahh, the joys of wifi). Anyway, whilst I was preparing my lunch I was listening to Liz Kershaw on 6Music and she paid this rather wonderful slice of post-punk style indie pop. It’s called Hummingbird, is […]

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It’s such a lovely day that I really ought to be outside, but as I’ve stepped inside to knock up a French lunch (pate, bread, ham, olives, cheese - nom nom nom!) I thought that I’d knock out a quick post as well. Stopping in at YouTube to find something suitably summery, I was presented […]

This will be a very short post as it kind of does what it says on the tin.
Whilst digging back through some of the Mixed Moods podcasts I’ve missed I stumbled across Let’s Stay Runnin’ by Solique (it’s on this podcast). It’s basically a mash up which sees the vocals for The Pharcyde’s classic hip […]

Ages ago I wrote about Mixed Moods, which is a great site publishing amazing podcasts out of Berlin; it’s kind of like Gilles Peterson with a German accent.
Well, I was looking for something to help this afternoon drift along nicely and thought that I’d give Mixed Moods a look as, last time I checked, it […]