Archive for November, 2006

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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Gang of Four
This week I got hold of some live footage of the Gang of Four’s May 5th 2005 show at San Francisco’s Fillmore Theatre. Enjoy.
1. Intro
2. Gang of Four - Return the Gift from the album Entertainment!.
3. Gang of Four - Not Great Men from the album Entertainment!.
4. Gang of Four - What We [...]

london dawn 2

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

London: 11/10/06 07:15am
Same shot 45 minutes later. Things look better in the dark.

london dawn

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

London: 11/10/06 06:34am
There’s something about not sleeping that sharpens the mind. I read Cormac McCarthy’s new novel, The Road, in two nights flat; as one reviewer put it - “Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife [...]

popdrivel

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Cool site, free MP3’s. PopDrivel.

where do you get the news?

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

“If you look at it race by race, it was close. The cumulative effect, however, was not close. It was a thumping.” - President Bush.
As I read all the news that’s fit to post regarding the election results at 2AM PST on my laptop in London, Frank Rich over at the New York Times said [...]

courtney’s back

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

The folks over at Fugly Is the New Pretty, otherwise known as GoFugYourself kind of hold off on ragging on Courtney Love. You see Courtney is doing the book signing rounds for her new book, Dirty Blonde. Fugly indeed. “There’s something about the way her Punk Mom persona slams right into this new Sexpot Book [...]

phawker goes to cmj

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Blogging travails - Phawker.com out of Philly sends an ‘intern’ to NYC for CMJ.

meanwhile to the west of london, lily allen

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I didn’t just miss Squarepusher; over in Bristol I also missed Lily Allen (funny that, that’s my mum’s name…)
“It takes a lot of effort to appear effortless. Lily Allen’s MySpace assisted rise to becoming 2006’s breakthrough pop act may have had a devil-may-care air of “Oh, am I famous, then? Well, I’m not bovvered either [...]