Congratulations are in order. Sweet Baboo is fantastic. He’s just done a third album and it’s one of the most addictive things since DoodleJump was released for the iPhone and I spent thirty hours playing it over Christmas.
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I promoted a show by Rangda at the Norwegian Church at the start of June. To see any of Rangda play in their own solo or group acts is always compelling. Together, they were extraordinary.
So it’s the summer, and if you like music even a tiny little bit, you will probably have been to or will be going to a festival at some point between May and September.
In which we learn that to move to London, you have to move to London.
I’ve tried my best to answer my top ten. It is more a reflection of my top ten this cloudy Monday morning than an ultimate top ten ever ever. If you had asked me on a sunny Saturday the list would probably have been very different!
I won’t lie to you: I hate militant feminism. It’s not the ideas; it’s the rage that accompanies them. You know exactly how this feels because you have been there too.
Meet Tom, a 20 something marketing executive from the city with salary close to the size of his ego and wants the chance to get cultured. What could be more fantastic than a trip to an artisanal circus?
Cardiff’s Ash Cooke, otherwise known as Pulco, has a four-track. And he’s not afraid to use it. His third album under the pseudonym was apparently recorded in snatches in a wardrobe and beneath his work desk, and is all the more charming for it.
Somewhere around the late 1950s, America became electrified. Literally. People started plugging guitars into walls and translating old musical forms such as filthy, soulful Delta blues into awful amorphous messes such as Chicago blues (Sorry B.B.) Common Prayer’s latest album returns to a beautiful time.
I’ve tried my best to answer my top ten. It is more a reflection of my top ten this cloudy Monday morning than an ultimate top ten ever ever. If you had asked me on a sunny Saturday the list would probably have been very different!
Spencer McGarry is probably one of the most interesting people that I’ve ever met. He is incredibly well read, but claims he’s a Wikipedia skim-reader. Here are his Everyday iPod selections.
