Hello! Welcome to my music blog. Welcome to both you and I. I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about the sort of music I like and what I’m going to be including in this thing.
I, as a listener, like music to be passionate and genuine. I like bands to have something that makes them who they are. Of all the bands I enjoy listening and dancing to, many of them are happy bands who like to clap and use all sorts of different instruments. I saw this great band called Fireworks Night at The Gramophone in East London a month or two ago who had such a wonderful selection of members who spanned age, genre and gender. One of the key members managed to play what looked like a saw using just a violin bow and a grimace. Unfortunately I don’t think they’ll ever get anywhere, their recordings just didn’t add up to the live experience, my knees were shaking.
In this music blog, know your onion!, which I do intend to keep up, I’ll be posting my musings and wafflings on anything I choose to think about music. This includes gig reports, album and single reviews, old songs I’d like you to hear and of course there will be lots of free mp3s and so on. I’ll try not to conform to a norm (which is a fun sentence to say) and keep this a fun piece of media for you to read.
Please leave me lots of nice comments about whatever you like! I do love talking to people.
For now I’ll just leave you with a free download of a .zip of the following playlist which is from my contribution to the mix CD exchange programme on the Blood Red Shoes Forum which should give you some sort of insight into my favourite sort of music.
Click here! (It’s quite big I’m afraid!)
We Are Scientists – Ram It Home
The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster – Mister Mental
Blog Party (vs. Death From Above 1979) – Luno
Biffy Clyro – Glitter and Trauma
Le Tetsuo – Knickers
Metric – Dead Disco
Be Your Own Pet – Damn Damn Leash
Nirvana – Love Buzz
Pixies – Levitate Me
Pink Grease – Ordinary Girl
The Noisettes – Scratch Your Name
Tilly and the Wall – Bad Education
Charlotte Hatherley – Kim Wilde
The Shins – Phantom Limb
The Futureheads – Danger of the Water
Guillemots – Made Up Lovesong #43
Hot Club De Paris – Bonded by Blood (A song for two brothers)
Regina Spektor – On the Radio
Bishop Allen – The News From Your Bed
… and finally the artwork.
