There was a great plan this year to publish George Orwell’s diaries, 50 years after the event, as a blog. We don’t learn a lot about the inner thoughts of the great man, but we do know just how well his chickens were getting on:
Category Archives: music
The International – you can find anything on the interweb
24 September 2008 – 2:56 pm
I was just looking a website for an unsigned bands competition (Festibull), which got me thinking about bands I’ve been in. The longest running and most interesting was ‘The International’ — we didn’t gig much, but we were completely out-of-time modish art-rock. We used to have a practise room next to Mistress (very metal) and [...]
gaol baby
5 April 2008 – 12:11 am
Desperate for your offspring to have that 50s American jailbird look? With a bit of country cool thrown in? You need the Johnny Cash babygrow. (via)
windows the musical
28 March 2008 – 12:08 pm
code code code is a heart-wrenching paean to lost love, lyrics mostly written in basic.
the age of the understatement
19 March 2008 – 1:59 pm
Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Tuner and Miles Kane of The Rascals are The Last Shadow Puppets – this is the video for their first single. The video is smart, the song epic, swooshing, beat-y and wonderful – can’t wait for the album. Link (Via)
I’m going to spend my Christmas with a Dalek
24 December 2007 – 10:22 am
One with a cold, it seems when you listen to this frankly awful, but somehow wonderful Christmas single. Daleks’ voices are done electronically (I hope I’m not spoiling the magic there) – not here it seems.
