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Comment on Album of the year contender #9: Joanna Newsom – Ys by Album of the decade contenders #1: The Decemberists & Joanna Newsom | Everything's Swirling

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:05:17 +0000

[...] listen to it that often because it takes requires a commitment that I don’t often have. All the things I said before still apply. It is an album so far removed from anything else that it really requires a list of its own. So [...]

Comment on Dean & Britta cover Snowstorm – a sacrilegious opinion by Review: Dean & Britta @ St Giles in the Fields, London | A Head Full of Wishes

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:20 +0000

[...] are not Galaxie 500, then Hearing Voices was lovely and even Snowstorm (which was previously on the receiving end of a sacrilegious rant) was beautiful. The keyboards were less intrusive and the drums seemed better [...]

Comment on Pastels/Tenniscoats @ The Bush Hall by Nigel

Nigel — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:03:55 +0000

Nice photos! Although I enjoyed the gig, I find The Pastels sound a bit too “mature” these days. “Baby Honey” was great though, it would have been nice to have had a bit more like that.

Comment on Songs with SFX #1: Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath by Songs with SFX #2: XTC – Senses Working Overtime | Everything's Swirling

Songs with SFX #2: XTC – Senses Working Overtime | Everything's Swirling — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:38:01 +0000

[...] the first entry in this series was brutally unsubtle in it’s raiding of the sound effects library, XTC’s Senses [...]

Comment on My top 6… songs with SFX by Songs with SFX #1: Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath | Everything's Swirling

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:29:11 +0000

[...] threw together a post last week of “my top 6″ songs with sound effects but it seemed a bit wasteful to just bundle together a few songs with SFX off the top of my head [...]

Comment on My Top 6…Dean Wareham moments… by A Head Full of Wishes » Blog Archive » Mp3: Lost tracks #6 – Luna – Dear Paulina

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:21:43 +0000

[...] but it was the ice-breaker. Later that week he called and left a phone message for me (see Dean Wareham moment #2) and that lit the fire under my plans again… after all… we were mates [...]

Comment on My top 7…albums by Patti Smith @ The Royal Festival Hall | Everything's Swirling

Patti Smith @ The Royal Festival Hall | Everything's Swirling — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:32:53 +0000

[...] in one of those Facebook memes when asked to name my top seven albums I put Patti Smith’s Horses on that list. Obviously lists like that change like the weather [...]

Comment on On reaching 40 by On reaching 45… | Everything's Swirling

On reaching 45… | Everything's Swirling — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:41:51 +0000

[...] I wrote when I reached 40 still applies – I don’t feel older, maybe a bit more lethargic… or comfortable… [...]

Comment on NaNoWriMo 2006 by Just dug this one out #30: English Settlement by XTC | Everything's Swirling

Fri, 08 May 2009 13:43:45 +0000

[...] last time I gave English Settlement a listen was in 2006 when I took my first (and only) shot at NaNoWriMo. My awful (I mean really awful) novel, Plan 4, featured a chapter where the three protagonists [...]

Comment on Just dug this one out #29: Space Ritual by Hawkwind by Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:26:23 +0000

Lovely Barney Bubbles cover too, there is a great book of Bubbles work – Hawkwind, Stiff, Damned, Costello etc etc – out now. Genius.
I first saw Hawkwind live on the “Levitation” tour, that show wasn’t too bad except for the Ginger Baker contractual obligation drum solo, but is was very diminishing returns after that for the Sonic Attack / Masques tours, that was quite enough Hawkwind thank you.