Category Archives: Music

Just dug this one out #32: Wishing Like a Mountain… by Poi Dog Pondering

There was a short period in time when I thought Poi Dog Pondering were great. I remember playing Wishing Like a Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea a lot… and awful lot. I bought the follow up album (Volo Volo) … Continue reading

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I love living in the future #3 : Mogwai – Burning – A shared experience

I love living in the future – I've just watched the new Mogwai film streamed live over the Internet and watched it with 2000 other people… reading what they thought on Twitter and saying what I thought. The stream struggled … Continue reading

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Kristin Hersh @ ‘Round Midnight

I was very tempted not to go – I love Kristin Hersh to pieces and I've been seeing her live for twenty years now – and she's still right there at the very top of her game… but I'm old, … Continue reading

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MP3: Robert Forster (and Grant McLennan) in 1991

OK – I'll put the whole of this show on Mediafire tomorrow but until then here are a couple of tracks. The show was shortly after The Go-Betweens had split in early 1991. Robert came to town with a band … Continue reading

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MP3: Kristin Hersh at The Borderline in 1992

I just came across this recording I made of a solo Kristin Hersh show from 1992. I went with Jackie (not sure why Hazel didn't come) and we saw a celeb in the bar beforehand – although I can't remember … Continue reading

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I love living in the future – #2 – vinyl on YouTube

I love living in the future – I love that I can get music instantly delivered to my ears without leaving my seat… but I also have a fondness for vinyl not for any reasons of quality or snobbishness but … Continue reading

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The saving of BBC 6 Music

When 6Music was under fire I wrote this…Growing up there was very little for me on the radio. I didn't listen to chart music or "pop music" and the radio was just something that my parents had on, filling up … Continue reading

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My Top 6… very silly songs…

Bohemian Rhapsody – QueenI'd say that Bohemian Rhapsody will pop into my head unannounced at least four or five times a week – if I scrobbled my mind this would be so far away at the top of my chart! … Continue reading

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Whatever happened to… National Park

I just came across a VCD that John of National Park must've sent me when I bought a single of theirs four or five years back. I couldn't get the damn thing to work but I guess that this is … Continue reading

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Should Dean play Galaxie 500?

A discussion has struck up on the Galaxie 500 Mailing List about whether Dean should be doing these "…plays Galaxie 500 shows" or getting on with new material – here's my defence of the Galaxie 500 shows (as posted to … Continue reading

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