Category Archives: music

This too shall pass

By 6000 | 6000 | March 4, 2010

I recognise that this is going to be blogged ad nauseum over the next month, but I’m still going to throw a post up (geddit?) on here because I think it’s brilliant. Remember OK GO and their song Here It Goes Again back in 2006? No? How about if I ask whether you remember the [...]

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One way

By 6000 | 6000 | February 6, 2010

This was the song that graced most of my time at University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I still get shivers down my spine when I hear it. If I had ever managed to compile a Top 10 of my favourite songs ever, this would probably be one of only three songs that would be a shoo-in. I [...]

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Here is the answer

By 6000 | 6000 | January 21, 2010

I debated long and hard about this post, but then I decided that although it goes against a lot of the rules that I have set on 6000 miles… , they were my rules anyway and it would be fine to bend them a little. If you’re me. This approach has worked for monarchies and [...]

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Shadowside

By 6000 | 6000 | January 16, 2010

I’m off to Oslo in December and this is one of the tracks that I can’t wait to see live: No-one does melancholy with as much clarity as Morten does melacholy.

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Ashtray Electric’s Dark Bus Trip

By 6000 | 6000 | January 12, 2010

Here on 6000 miles… you know that we are always happy to promote the latest musical offerings from South Africa – especially for our overseas reader(s). To that end, please find below the video from Cape Town band Ashtray Electric for their single When Sex Becomes A Sport. Great song, wonderfully dark video. I’m getting elements [...]

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