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King Creosote

2011-11-28T03:05:00.000-08:00

Saw the wondrous King Creosote last night as part of the MENCAP Little Noise Sessions. Venue was St John-at-Hackney. Crowd were respectfully quiet and needed to be as the acoustics in the place seem to throw sound from the periphery back into the audience meaning voices at the bars can seem louder than they probably are.

Jon Hopkins added some accordion and piano complements. It's at least the third time I've seen King Creosote this year and I could see him more. His familiarity with his songs is such that they can be changed at each gig and often bleed into each other live. He is a true talent.

Bad Times

2009-05-22T04:25:00.000-07:00

Check this out, a totally fantastic idea for keeping those blues away. I have, of course, no interest to declare in spreading the word about this project...no, none. There is more info here.

On a totally unrelated note, Seldom Records bashed heads recently and got some projects bubbling away for future dissemination. They will be nice.

Seriously, what is the point?

2009-01-05T05:06:00.000-08:00

Occasionally, I just do not *get* certain areas of Modern Art or whatever it is this may be classified as.

The changing sound of music

2008-10-29T06:28:00.000-07:00

Interesting discussion and links regarding varying sound quality of releases:
http://www.bandfandango.com/motherboard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3126&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15

2008-10-26T02:14:00.000-07:00

OKJunior's flashmob video to All I Need, directed by Michael Travis. Rather fun:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1260853901416089745&ei=YXikSKDkD4yUjQLOopW2CA&q=okjunior

2008-10-09T05:37:00.001-07:00

RIP: http://www.stolenwine.co.uk/

Thee Moths album on Stolen Wine was, and still is, an absolute gem.

Video for "All I Need"

2008-08-12T09:40:00.000-07:00

Here is a lovely video for OKJunior's "All I Need" featuring some downright awesome dancing. These are the sort of moves I dream of pulling off on a dancefloor.

The Bac were Mac...

2008-08-08T02:01:00.001-07:00

Last Saturday, 2nd August, was the Village Fete at Fawley House Stud - Fleetwood Bac played and it was a rather raucous awesome evening. My slightly shoddy recording of the band in action is here.

numero uno

2008-08-08T01:46:00.000-07:00

Well, this is my first ever blog and how incredibly exciting it is too. I have been stuck in hospital for 4 days and it has been stupendously dull. However, I have been listening to a lot of Engine 7. I'm not normally a fan of minimalist electronic music but this - aside from not being too minimalist - just grabs me. There's a live MP3 you can download which is amazing and to my hears makes it sounds like this guy is probably very captivating when playing live.

Engine 7 is some Scottish guy and his new album is vaguely concept-esque, based as it is around a day with his child who, as the name of the album suggests is him, "but perfect".

In other very cool news, Seldom Records is about to get a re-styling. Courtesy of Make It Nice. Here's a little taster of how ridiculously rad we are about to become...