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It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.
Noel Gallagher: August 28th, 2009
Well, that’s that then. The band who burst on to the scene back in 1994 and [...]

During a break in a meeting today, my colleague Jon kept us entertained with some carefully selected tunes. One of these was a Grand Puba track (I’m not sure exactly which one) which made me realised I really don’t own enough stuff by this masterful rapper. And whilst digging around on YouTube I stumbled across [...]

A while back I got an email from a company called canvasRus asking me if I would like a free canvas in exhance for writing about it. After recovering from the shock caused by the fact that anyone honestly cared what I thought, I politely declined: at the time I had no need of such [...]

I was recently tagged on a Facbook meme which asks you to note which of the 100 Greatest Albums Ever, as decided by Rolling Stone, you own. Because I know a lot of people don’t like being tagged in these sort of things, I thought I’d bring it out on to the open web, and [...]

For the last few weeks the ad on Channel 4 promoting their coverage of the V Festival has been haunting me. The ad shows a bunch of friends at a festival, running around, sitting in the sub, eating strange looking food, jumping up & down & generally doing everything that makes festivals so much bloody [...]

A very quick post, like the last one was meant to be.
Via Tom Critchlow I found Kind of Bloop: it’s a project where musicians who make music with Nintendos and similar equipment have recorded a track by track tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.
I only wrote about Kind of Blue’s opening track, So What, [...]

Browsing through Twitter earlier I came across the rather splendid Apple Store Kid, otherwise known as Nicholi White or nicholifavs. It seems that he wanders into the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York and lip syncs to hip hop & R&B tracks, all the while looking pretty cool and then uploads them to [...]

A very quick post this evening, a live rendition of So What by Miles Davis. Taken from Kind Of Blue, arguably the greatest jazz album of all time, it not only features the magical trumpet of Miles Davis but sax courtesy of John Coltrane, who was in Davis’ band at the time.
Class, pure & simple [...]

I’ve just been sent the rather hilarious image above in an email (it seems to have started here). By now, you’ve probably been sent it too. The reason I’m posting it, other than so that those who haven’t been sent it can have a laugh at the sheer idiocy of the actions depicted, is because [...]

Because time flies my friends, time really f**king flies.
Marvin image by dbking on flickr