Archive for March, 2009

I just got pinged on Facebook by the José James page with the news that the first track from his latest album is now up on his MySpace page, and very nice Save Your Love For Me is; a very chilled slice of dinner jazz, but with a more modern, almost R&B style beat behind [...]

Daniel Hannan Has A Short Memory

So, apparently Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP for South East England (and therefore one of my representatives), told the PM what’s what in a display that has people from New York to Norwich proclaiming how amazing he is (I’m not going to do him the favour of putting the video on this site).
Well, perhaps unsurpisingly [...]

In The Loop But Off The Web

This was going to be a very quick post about how I can’t wait to see In The Loop, the British film about the inanity and idiocy of modern politics, from the team that came up with the amazing The Thick Of It.
And now it’s going to be a very short post wondering who the [...]

Via Chungaiz comes Fifty People, One Question. He sums it all up nicely.
Bondi image by Richard Moross on flickr

I was in Dublin last week and I noted that I’d not seen any lost gloves, which contrasted with a great haul on my previous visit. My girlfriend pointed out that this might be due to the fact that spring had sprung and less people were likely to be wearing gloves, let alone wearing them. [...]

Jade Goody & Tasteless AdWords

It really shouldn’t come as a surprise, when you consider just how many leeches have tried to attach themselves to the tragic story of Jade Goody over the last few months, that people have been bidding on her name on Google. But you might think that the people who have been doing this might have [...]

M.O.P. & Busta Rhymes - Ante Up

I’ve just been flicking through the crap that makes up Saturday TV when I came across one of these interminable ‘50 Best (insert genre here)’ shows on 4music. Except that this particular show was being presented by our next Prime minister, Dizzee Rascal, and was made up of the best team-ups. Being Dizzee, it has [...]

I Have No Desire Whatsoever

Well, that’s that then.
Image copyright John Squire.

I’m in Dublin as I write this and it’s St. Patrick’s Day.So, to celebrate I thought that it was only right to post a tune by a bunch of Paddies as plastic as all the other American ones lining the streets for the parade today. The fact that this also means that I get to post Jump Around [...]

Anyone who has read this blog on more than one occasion is likely to have realised that I’m rather fond of Mr José James and just about everything that he does. I’m also, as all like-minded people are, rather partial to a bit of Jazzanova every now and then. So Little Bird, the collaboration between [...]






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