Category Archives: music

Review: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at the Town Hall

Who ever heard of a concert starting at the time stated on the ticket?Originally uploaded by bounder Who ever heard of a concert starting at the time stated on the ticket? This is the view of the uke guys doing Splodgenessabounds’ ‘Two Pint of Lager’ – it’s the last song in the first half and […]

Heavy Trash at The Hare and Hounds

Weeeeeeellllll, I’d like to ask you ladiesungentlemun do you feeel allllright Cenyewrockunroll inthuhareundhoundz? Thankyewvurymuch.

Gwen Stefani at the NIA

Gwen Stefani (yes, I know, not my usual thing, a return of a longstanding agreement from the last time I dragged my other half to watch Belle & Sebastian or somesuch) is not averse to using the odd bit of popular culture – in the first half hour she’s played songs that piggy-back on Topol […]

Loldylan

Bob Dylan invents lolcats You’ll have to click, can’t find where in the source the flashcode is hid. Site is incredibly flaky (and sending only worked on a PC in IE7) but it’s still very cool.

Now I got worry

New Heavy Trash album and a Blues Explosion rarities collection oh, Mr Spencer with this garage rock you are really spoiling us.

Polyphonic Spree at the Glee Club

EncoreOriginally uploaded by bounder The Polyphonic Spree are indie’s worst nightmare, a matching 28-piece army-cult of pure exaltation. The bass player throws rock poses in front of the harpist, the brass section dive out of the crowd for a mosh, the Glee club even take out the seats and relax for once. I wonder if […]

My Off the Top Of My Head 50 albums

Copying an idea here. I deliberately did this quickly, without recourse to my shelves iTunes, or any other electronic means – No particular order, except they are in the order I thought of them. I’m surprised by the absence of The Jam, The Who and any soul – I guess I either couldn’t think of […]

NME Indie Rock Tour at the Academy

quick two-word reviews: Mumm-Ra: Thunder cats *** The Horrors: Crap Dammed * The View: Short Cast ** The Automatic: Windmilling Cowbell ****

KLF’s gonna rock you

with thanks to Pop Justice for the link how good were the KLF? fantastic that’s how good. and Bill Drummond is still up to all sorts of fantastic things – check out the penkiln burn website.