Bad Review

18Nov08

There may of course be nothing better in life than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro (on a Saturday instead of going to the pub), however Wednesday nights aren’t as straightforward so we went out instead – and given that we were in travelling distance of Norwich and well over 14 [...]

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Tags: Andrew Harrison, Half Man Half Biscuit, Word Magazine

Call Me Tundra Boy

09Nov08

Since being introduced to Max Tundra at the recent Hot Chip gig in Cambridge I’ve become moderately obsessed with him. When I mentioned him earlier in the week I described his music as “a baffling (in a good way) set of multi-instrument electronica” which I think will do just fine as [...]

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Tags: Chicken Soup, Hot Chip, Max Tundra, Parallax Error Beheads You

Crunchy Vs Smooth

09Nov08

I’m not a technical boy at all, well technically I am but I think you know where I am on this. Anyways for some unknown reason when I’ve uploaded pictures onto here they appear slightly pixelated (despite the size I upload them in). However I’ve just noticed that if I use Google Chrome the pictures [...]

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Tags: Google Chrome, Photographs

Still Trying

09Nov08

Nice piece in the The Times about the this, War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication, and featuring the increasingly well known “Keep Calm And Carry On”. I got mine a few years ago from the mighty Barter Books (although it seems to be available from various places now) and it sits above the stairs, so [...]

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Tags: Barter Books, Keep Calm And Carry On, Posters, War Posters, Weapons of Mass Communication

Fingers Crossed

04Nov08

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Tags: American Election, Barack Obama, Obama

Bubbles They Bounce

01Nov08

A long awaited trip to see the mighty mighty Hot Chip at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. I was  expecting great things having seen them last year and thankfully I was disappointed.
The evening started off with a set from Max Tundra who divided the early arrivers with his baffling (in a good way) set of multi-instrument [...]

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Tags: Cambridge Corn Exchange, Farewell, Hot Chip, In The Privacy Of Our Love, Max Tundra, Nothing Compares 2 U, Over & Over, Playboy, So Long, What Time Is Love