I've been listening to lots of inspiring new music, whether its the superb 'Intimacy', the transcendent 'Only By The Night' or my new favourite album, 'Playlist: The very best of Cypress Hill' which has moments of absolute genius that a fan of any music can relate to, hippety hop fan or not (and im not).
So it's not like I haven't had good music to talk about or opinions to offer on anything. To be honest, I've just found it quite difficult to get some time to sit down, listen to an album and write about it. I listen to albums on the train or whilst conquering the new NHL game. That's pretty much it. It's not like the old days where I sat in front of my computer listening to music instead of doing essays, sadly those days are gone. Now I listen to nothing while I collate press releases, artist contacts, deal with booking agents unsuccessfully and host quizzes. Life changes. However, my wrecking ball-esque opinions on music are still there, swinging violently from "I hate this album, they've got it all wrong" to "I love this album, never written a bad song". You know me, that's what I do.
It's been quite a hectic month, as some of you will understand more than others. I won't go into every detail, simply because it'll take me another month to describe all that's happened this month and then I'll have got nowhere with this blog. AGAIN. So let's just say that there have been:
Highs including:
-DJing at Planet which was ridiculously good fun, if this promoter stuff goes tits up, Im gonna be on the heels of Fatboy Slim in no time. Kudos to Anna Davison for the photo.
-A wonderful day out in London with a beautiful girl, Natural History Museum (cool dinosaurs, disappointing spiders), a good film and lovely chinese food
-Being in charge of a night at work that involved looking after 6 bands, making sure they all hit stage on time, looking after security, promoters, sound and light crew, trying to control 600 people in a 140 capacity room, trying to control 800 people in a 600 capacity room and realising that Air Traffic are quite good live, as was Fionn Regan.
Lows including:
-Having the new NHL game delayed by 2 WEEKS just because I own a superior console to everyone else. Or so Sony keep telling me. Idiots.
-Working a lot of late nights or doing crappy jobs that I don't really enjoy. Don't get me wrong, I know life isn't always a dream and everyone has to pitch in but that doesn't mean I can't moan about it anyway.
So. This being a music blog, I will talk about music. Soon. I promise you. But I'm at work at the moment so it's difficult to review an album that I can't listen to. A few nuggets to keep you going however.
Kings of Leon track Closer is FAR FAR FAR better than that ridiculous Neyo song but for some reason, that gets more plays. Eventually, someone will realise and I hope this great wrong will be righted.
The new Bloc party album is actually pretty good. Now there's a surprise, I like a load more songs by Bloc Party. But I don't mean it like that. For once, it isn't me just bumming my favourite band, the lyrics are quite hit and miss for me, some of the songs I get and some fly right past me, as was the case on AWITC. However, it is the instrumentation, the ingenuity and the creative wrestling match that takes place on the album between not only the separate instruments but the two producers with their different styles, battling to make their mark on each track that really propels this album. It's got stupidly overdriven, electronic bass that was evident on Flux but the guitars can sound as good as any Always New Depths.
A full review to come I promise.
So Burial didn't win the Mercury, which was a shock but only because I thought he deserved it more than anyone else. I'll admit, I don't really get Elbow, so once I've listened to them, I'll maybe rethink this, but at the moment, this is a mistake of Belle and Sebastian proportions (those of you that know their musical history will know what that means)
I'm going to a few gigs in the next couple of months, including Lykke Li tonight, The Music at the Roundhouse at the end of October and Bloc Party way away in April next year at the ridiculously large Olympia. I'll also be taking my first trip to Matter for the Moshi Moshi 10th Birthday party to see - Kate Nash, Wave Pictures (amazing), James Yuill (amazing), Slow Club, Florence and the Machine with Hot Chip announced as headliners. Gonna be quite a night so I'll let you know how that goes down.
So, apologies for the long post, expect my full breakdown of Intimacy soon and hopefully, normal service will now be resumed. Thank you for your patience.
-Being in charge of a night at work that involved looking after 6 bands, making sure they all hit stage on time, looking after security, promoters, sound and light crew, trying to control 600 people in a 140 capacity room, trying to control 800 people in a 600 capacity room and realising that Air Traffic are quite good live, as was Fionn Regan.
Lows including:
-Having the new NHL game delayed by 2 WEEKS just because I own a superior console to everyone else. Or so Sony keep telling me. Idiots.
-Working a lot of late nights or doing crappy jobs that I don't really enjoy. Don't get me wrong, I know life isn't always a dream and everyone has to pitch in but that doesn't mean I can't moan about it anyway.
So. This being a music blog, I will talk about music. Soon. I promise you. But I'm at work at the moment so it's difficult to review an album that I can't listen to. A few nuggets to keep you going however.
Kings of Leon track Closer is FAR FAR FAR better than that ridiculous Neyo song but for some reason, that gets more plays. Eventually, someone will realise and I hope this great wrong will be righted.
The new Bloc party album is actually pretty good. Now there's a surprise, I like a load more songs by Bloc Party. But I don't mean it like that. For once, it isn't me just bumming my favourite band, the lyrics are quite hit and miss for me, some of the songs I get and some fly right past me, as was the case on AWITC. However, it is the instrumentation, the ingenuity and the creative wrestling match that takes place on the album between not only the separate instruments but the two producers with their different styles, battling to make their mark on each track that really propels this album. It's got stupidly overdriven, electronic bass that was evident on Flux but the guitars can sound as good as any Always New Depths.
A full review to come I promise.
So Burial didn't win the Mercury, which was a shock but only because I thought he deserved it more than anyone else. I'll admit, I don't really get Elbow, so once I've listened to them, I'll maybe rethink this, but at the moment, this is a mistake of Belle and Sebastian proportions (those of you that know their musical history will know what that means)
I'm going to a few gigs in the next couple of months, including Lykke Li tonight, The Music at the Roundhouse at the end of October and Bloc Party way away in April next year at the ridiculously large Olympia. I'll also be taking my first trip to Matter for the Moshi Moshi 10th Birthday party to see - Kate Nash, Wave Pictures (amazing), James Yuill (amazing), Slow Club, Florence and the Machine with Hot Chip announced as headliners. Gonna be quite a night so I'll let you know how that goes down.
So, apologies for the long post, expect my full breakdown of Intimacy soon and hopefully, normal service will now be resumed. Thank you for your patience.
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