Archive for the 'music' Category

Thoughts on Music

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Steve Jobs has recently posted his “Thoughts on Music”.
Its very well worded; mainly, I think, to try to push any responsibility for DRM onto the big four (Universal, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner). Still it is interesting to note that Steve, and hence Apple inc., would drop DRM in a heartbeat if they didn’t […]

You know what they say?…

Monday, May 15th, 2006

…When the wolves come out of the walls then it’s all over.
If you want to know what’s all over, and who ‘they’ are, then you should find yourself a copy of Neil Gaiman’s “The Wolves in the Walls”. It is obviously a childrens story, but as with all Neil’s work, and the work of […]

Ninja Vids

Monday, October 11th, 2004

Why have I never stumbled on this before? Its a collection of videos from the Ninja Tune label (and Ntone and Big Dada), including Coldcut and Hexstatic’s amazing Timber. There’s also vids from Mr Scruff, Jaga Jazzist, Wagon Christ, Roots Manuva and some more Hexstatic amongst others.

Flaming Lips

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Last night I was listening to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and realised that I’d forgotten just how good it was. John agreed with me but pointed out that The Soft Bulletin is considered by some to be a better album (I’m not certain where John stands on that one). So there I […]

Morning Morrissey Moment

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Since Jonathan Ross is doing Wogan’s usual slot on Radio 2 breakfast I thought I’d tune in. The first song they introduce is the new Morrissey track, Let Me Kiss You. It turns out that I really quite liked it which came as a bit of a shock; perhaps I’ll have to check […]


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