Discover: “A public service announcement followed me home the other day”
I can’t remember how it happened. It might be that my friend Su told me about it. It might have been in the Guardian’s ‘Click to Download’ section. But someone somewhere did me a service by turning me on to US National Public Radio (NPR). It’s there that you’ll find Bob Boilen‘s “All Songs Considered” …
LIVE: TOM HICKOX AT ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH, LONDON
Mornington Crescent. That’s basically Camden. A part of London that I haven’t generally had much time for in the 14 years I’ve lived in town. When I have been there I have admittedly generally had a good time but I fucking hate the market. And I have a painful memory of trying to see Rufus …
NEW MUSIC/INTERVIEW: THE TUTS !!!
Last week I was listening to the radio. I liked it. So I wrote about it here on Backseat Mafia (thanks Jim !). One of the bands I told you about in that piece was The Tuts. Before that piece, I had been moaning more and more (mainly to myself, under my breath) that I …
NEW MUSIC: LOW AND NIGHT BEDS
When did listening to music become such a solitary habit for me ? Not since the days of a dreadfully miserable teenager wishing for all his heart to be deemed cool enough to like The Stone Roses and Ride, listening to CNFM103’s indie-heaven-in-a-local-radio-show “Jive Alive” on a black-and-electric-blue double-tape-deck and radio stereo in a darkened room lit only …