Category Archives: music

Blunt from Beyond

An utterly brilliant response from James Blunt on Facebook as he found out that er… James Blunt had died. I mentioned previously that his sense of humour was impressive. And now he’s missed out on the 27 Club, there’s really nothing to die for anyway, is there?

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Rejoice!

Much rejoicing Chez 6000 as it appears that after my only partially successful repair of iTunes last week, I have managed to find another 1788 tracks that were “missing”. I’m still not 100% sure that I will be able to get them onto iTunes, but at least they’re safely somewhere on a hard drive. The [...]

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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.

More music? Yes, more music. There was a bizarre route to my discovering this band – the brainchild of Sam Duckworth –  but we can leave the sordid details behind, because the new album “Maps” is out on Monday and I’m going to go (to my computer) and buy it. Here’s The Real McCoy from [...]

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Dans, Dans, [censored] Dans.

Much amusement in Newcastle (no, not that one) OVER the weekend as Afrikaans rapper JACK Parow was escorted off stage halfway through his performance, in order to protect him from a small number of the audience who labelled him “satan slang” (devil snake) and a “disgrace to the Afrikaans language” after he swore on STAGE. [...]

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Toxicity

Loving this, which I spotted through… someone… on twitter earlier. System Of A Down’s Toxicity on Electric Violins (and drums):   Not many people know this, but I can play the violin, although I don’t get much as chance to fiddle since I got married. Also, my legs are easily as good as either of [...]

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