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I love long car journeys (to pleasant destinations at least!) and a highlight of my childhood was definitely our annual family trip to Austria, as it involved driving over a thousand miles across Europe. Given that Britain’s only about 870 miles long tip to tip, you can see why it feels impressive, but I guess [...]

…recently. A slight cheat as the tag from RT at Untwisted Vortex is ‘today’, but I’m one of those boring people that still listens to one album at a time, all the way through, which would make for a rather dull post.
Here are ‘ze rules’ from RT:
The person tagged is supposed to repost my 10 [...]

It’s meme-tabulous time again, as I have been tagged by Amiswere Waswerebeen to tell you 7 songs/CD’s that I have been listening to recently. If you’re interested, here you go:

Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Both CD’s, the whole double album, pretty much every song.  Just some amazing musician-ship, and beautiful songs.
Demon Days [...]

My blogging for the last couple of weeks has been accompanied by the excellent Demon Days album from Gorillaz. There’s some great tracks on there, and this is one of my favourites - at least now you can hear (some of) what’s going in my head as I type.

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Who didn’t know who Iggy Pop was. Youngsters today!

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It does for me certainly, things I did 10 years ago seem like ancient history now! But it’s also the title of a very good song by John Frusciante which you can hear by playing the video below. You’ll also get to have a look round his house and at some of his guitars (drool).
If [...]

I’ve procrastinated long enough since Steph tagged me with this, so here they are:
1. Ataxia - The Sides Ataxia is a collaboration between Josh Klinghoffer, Joe Lally and John Frusciante (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers). They have only released one album to date, ‘Automatic Writing’, the whole premise of which was the 3 enormously [...]

I keep telling my wife Steph that she could easily write her own blog, but for now she’s sticking to MySpace. As she’s tagged me with this, I thought I’d put her post up here, and then I’ll reply to it shortly (and criticise some of her musical taste)
Seeing as lists appear to [...]

I can never answer the question ‘Favourite of all time’ as that changes from day to day, but right now I can’t stop playing the Lyre of Orpheus/Abattoir Blues double CD by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

Nick Cave has long been one of may favourite artists-a stunningly gifted composer & musician with no little [...]

I have been tagged by the delightful Erika to come up with a top 5 Christmas songs meme-and after all the help? I gave you as well! I won’t forget this Seeing as the true meaning of Christmas for me is indigestion, and a lingering resentment that everyone elses presents are better than [...]