Top 10 albums of 2008
Looking back over my records at the end of the year as usual, I was pleased to see that I had bought/been exposed to loads of new stuff this year, which makes a top ten worth bothering with. I also noticed that there was loads of stuff from this year that I keep meaning to [...]
Listening habits in 2008, apparently
As I was idly compiling a top ten records of the year (more to come), I was thinking about how my music taste might have changed over the past year, so I logged onto last.fm to see what it had to say about my listening habits. The answer seems to be ‘not much’. If you [...]
American Music Club and Metallica: a spurious comparison
There are certain joys you can only get from music if a) you’re a pathetic fanboy on a truly tragic scale and b) the band you’re a fan of indulges their obsessives with wave after wave of rarities/outtakes CDs. In this particular instance, I have to thank American Music Club for repeatedly putting out CDs [...]
American Music Club UK tour photos
Photos from The Musician, Leicester, 10 September 2008 and Bush Hall, London, 11 September 2008. The Invisible Blog has more posts from the tour.
American Music Club tour blog – day three
American Music Club’s crowds must win some kind of ‘Most Heartbroken-Looking Audience’. Look behind their rapt expressions of adulation for this band and you can just tell that to a man (and woman), they’ve all had their hearts STAMPED ON at some point. Which is probably why they’re here to see the man who wrote [...]
American Music Club tour blog – day two
Drove up to Leicester last night to see American Music Club at The Musician – it’s a tiny venue, probably holding about 200 people, and covered in country/blues photos and paraphernalia. A really nice, atmospheric little venue bizarrely located in the middle of an industrial estate in a slightly nasty part of Leicester city centre [...]
