First things first, a massive congratulations to everyone associated with Airwaves on reaching their 20th birthday, and for celebrating it by having gender parity on the line-up. That’s a wonderful, and somehow Icelandic, message to give the music world. This will be my 15th Airwaves birthday and boy do I regret missing those first five! […]
I have the best excuse yet for the woeful update. Mini Iceblah (a very beautiful James) arrived just one month ago, so all my attentions are going that way. And yes, of course, he will soon be subjected to various pieces of Icelandic music and I will report back on those experiments right here. […]
I'm just back from a nice sunny break somewhere on the other side of the equator, and surprisingly happy to find London looking more like Iceland than usual (snow, great hats, no trains whatsoever…). This was a holiday featuring two very long flights and time spent lazing around on beaches – that is to say, […]
Everyone (quite rightly) is making a big deal of The Arcade Fire’s “We Used To Wait” video thingy made with something called HTML 5. It was, I must say, stunning and jaw-dropping, I couldn’t quite believe what I was watching. But here below is another fine thing. It’s an excellent brand new song by long-time […]
So the UK election result will be known in a few hours, and the endlessly repeating conversations of empty possibilities have driven me upstairs to make another attempt to prove I'm not a terrible blogger like Nick Hornby (who is, of course, a wonderful writer in any form). And even though, I still haven't got […]
I'm really in love with music in 2010 – I've heard some fabulous stuff from new discoveries and old favourites – over the next days and weeks I'm going to write a series of short posts under the general theme, "reasons to be cheerful" 🙂 – about the tracks and albums I've loved over the […]
Not that talented. I've had a deluge. I've had 3 whole messages to this blog in the last week – trust me, that's more than usual. They accused me (playfully!) respectively of 1. being in a band (and therefore motivated by self-interest) 2. being in the music industry (and therefore motivated by self-interest) 3. being […]
Happy 2009! Is it the middle of January already? I am back with you (phew!) mainly due to my home internet being fixed. Fixed properly too, it's like magic now… works without wires and everything, I thought such things were impossible. So many thanks to the man that fixed it, I'm ever so grateful. So […]
So I've come up with a list of my favourite singles of the year. Despite it being my game, I'm still confused by the rules – but I think that all of these have been released in the UK as singles. Clearly this rule eliminates a lot of my favourite songs of the year – […]
Live music in 2007 was dominated Prince and his 21 nights in London for me and for the majority of the music press. I guess that the consensus is that the star of the show in 2008 has been Leonard Cohen who was kind of forced back into the live arena by a huge fraud […]