Snow! Lots of snow! I looked out my bedroom window, and the snow had piled up to the sill on the roof outside the window. It’s pretty. There’s a quote from Lance Parkin’s Father Time I sometimes use as an e-mail sig, and it sums up how I feel on days like today: There comesContinue reading “On Silly Thoughts on a Snowy Day”
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On Elbow’s Abbey Road Concert
If only I lived in the UK, I could have watched this — Elbow performed the entirety of The Seldom Seen Kid live with the BBC orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. Fortunate, then, that I’ve learned that the concert will be released as a limited edition CD/DVD package through the band’s website in March. I’veContinue reading “On Elbow’s Abbey Road Concert”
On Elbow and The Seldom Seen Kid
It must have been a review in either MOJO or Q. It must have been. Because, otherwise, how would I have ever heard of Elbow? Early 2004 I bought their second album, Cast of Thousands. And it was amazing. It was dark and moody Britpop, what Coldplay and Radiohead aspired to but could never quiteContinue reading “On Elbow and The Seldom Seen Kid”
On Songs I’m Grooving
As snurched from Keith: Music meme: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. “Fugitive Motel,”Continue reading “On Songs I’m Grooving”