Category Archives: music

Stuff I’m not doing

Have some South African music – there’s a lot of good stuff around at the moment which deserves more exposure than it’s probably getting outside these borders. I can like to help with that a bit. This is Goodluck from Cape Town with their catchy tune Taking It Easy: and that’s exactly what I wish [...]

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Fire

Quota video time and since there’s no decent football on tonight due to the plethora of international friendlies tomorrow, I thought that I would remind myself of the Premiership by giving you the theme tune of the international feed for that league, Kasabian’s Fire. There’s a South African link as well, since the video was [...]

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Take The Long Road And Walk It

Ah – The Music. This’ll wake you up on a Monday morning (which – according to my rudimentary calculations – is when most of you will be reading this post). I stumbled across the music of The Music back in 2001 when, somehow having some spare cash, I puchased a hazy escape from real life [...]

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We’ll Live and Die in These Towns

Quota music video time and a favourite of mine from Coventry band The Enemy. This is We’ll Live and Die in These Towns from 2007. Lead singer Tom Clarke admits that they were heavily influenced by The Clash, which won’t surprise anyone listening to this who has heard The Clash. He doesn’t admit to being [...]

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Going Through Hell

Good advice from The Streets with the first single off their fifth and final studio album computers and blues: If you’re going through hell – keep going Even as a fan of Mike Skinner and The Streets, I have to admit that their last offering, Everything is Borrowed left me a little cold. It was [...]

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