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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone (Live At Manchester Free Trade Hall)
I’m just browsing around YouTube this afternoon and, via Hendrix, The Beatles & The Rolling Stones, ended up at the amazing live version of Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan that forms the ending of the documentary No Direction…
Damon Albarn: The Best British Musicians Of The Last 30 Years #2
It only seems fitting that as The Olympics draw to a close I should be writing about someone who has added so much to our enjoyment of the games. I’m not talking about any of Britain’s medallists, although they’ve obviously…
Tagged with: bagg, blur, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Graham Coxon, hip hop, indie, opera, shoegazing, The Good The Bad And The Queen
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Credit Crunch: T-Shirt Diary #5
The wonderful people at Airside just made my Friday by emailing about this fantastically timely t-shirt (which I’ve just ordered). What can I say? Buy it, wear it in to the office and scare the shit out of your team.
(Nearly) 20 Years Since The Stone Roses
I was out with some friends the other night and we were chatting about the passing of time. As we reminisced about this & that something came to me which truly made me feel old. I realised that next year…
Tagged with: 1980s, 808 State, baggy, de la soul, Happy Mondays, hip hop, house, indie, Stone Roses
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Death Jazz: T-Shirt Diary #4
A couple of weeks ago I got a t-shirt that I’ve been meaning to blog ever since. It’s produced by Brownswood, Gilles Peterson’s excellent record label, and you can see it here. The rather strange text on the tee, Death…
Paul Weller: The Best British Musicians Of The Last 30 Years #1
I’ve spent the weekend listening to the music of just two British artists, each of whom I think have every right to be thought of as the best of the last 30 years and even to be considered with the…
Tagged with: jazz, new wave, paul weller, punk, rock, soul, The Jam, The Style Council
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Bye Bye Chungaiz
My good friend Chungaiz is leaving our office today to go and work on his favourite brand. But one good thing about him leaving is that we got to find out about his starring role in the Martine McCutcheon song,…
Posted in General
Oasis – Shock Of The Lightning
This morning saw the first official airing of the new single from Oasis, Shock of the Lightning, on Virgin Radio and already some enterprising young soul has slapped a clip of it being played on Radio 1 onto a still…
Swervedriver – Duel
I’ve been having a bit of a play with blip (the musical Twitter) this evening and have continued an early 90s nostalgia trip that started on the train home tonight. Basically I’ve been listening to lots of bands that, rightly…
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