Category Archives: last.fm

50,000

50,000 little piggies!originally uploaded by Mr. Mark I had decided that my 50,000th track played on last.fm would be carefully chosen and played (just for myself obviously) with a little bit of a celebration. Today I noticed that the Billy … Continue reading

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Coming back into the fold

Six months ago my last.fm subscription ran out just after they had stopped being a feisty London-based indie start-up and jumped into the pocket of media giant CBS. My concerns then had a lot to do with the rather depressing … Continue reading

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Just dug this one out: #10 – The Doors

I often wake up with music in my head and no real understanding how it got there, more often than not it’ll be Bohemian Rhapsody or the theme from Terry and June. Today it was The Doors. I haven’t listened … Continue reading

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My Top 6…gigs at the Royal Albert Hall

(originally uploaded by the_moog) Between acts at the Albert Hall last week I started looking around the venue thinking of all the different places I’d sat and I suddenly realised that I’d been to quite a few shows so here’s … Continue reading

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Corporate rock sucks #18: Radiohead try another way…

I have very vivid memories of standing in Beggars Banquet in Kingston and NOT BUYING the first Radiohead EP Drill because they were on a major label – and I was very suspicious of major labels even back then (1992) … Continue reading

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Joanna Newsom & Roy Harper @ The Royal Albert Hall

(originally uploaded by Schrollum) Recently I’ve found it hard to enjoy music in big sit down venues so despite the long wait (I’ve had the tickets for six months!) I was a little apprehensive about seeing Joanna Newsom at the … Continue reading

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Finally…a “real” Blanket album

The very very lovely Blanket finally have a real album out. Blankit is out now on Try Harder and can be bought from there or directly from the band As much as I’ve loved all the downloads and the lovingly … Continue reading

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A history of Decomposing…free album to download!

Sometime in the Autumn of 2004 I put forward the idea of a tribute album to the members of the Galaxie 500 Mailing List and a bunch of excellent contributions trickled in over the next few months…the plan was to … Continue reading

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My Top 6…songs from our holiday

We just spent an exhausting week in Scotland visiting family so I loaded up my MuVo with as much as it could take and these were the six songs that I kept on coming back to over the course of … Continue reading

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Sweet Watoo Watoo

Just came across some sweet videos of the very lovely Watoo Watoo on YouTube…they make me smile…here’s the one in English (The Golden Castle) as it’s (sadly) the only language I speak! Maybe if we all rush out and buy … Continue reading

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