Category Archives: music

New Apparatjik album in February

By 6000 | 6000 | November 24, 2011

Incoming from the boys of Apparatjik (previously seen here on 6000 miles…) – their new album Square Peg In A Round Hole is due to be released on the 21st February 2012. Which is as good a reason as any to give you another taste of their first album – this is the melancholic desperation [...]

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Best album of the year?

By 6000 | 6000 | November 18, 2011

The 6000 miles… Best Album of the Year 2011 voting is in full swing. I say “voting” because that makes it sound vaguely democratic and democracy is good, mmmkay? In actual fact, I’m using the term “democratic” in the full Zimbabwean tradition – basically, what I say, goes, and if you wish to disagree, I’ll [...]

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Mein Land

By 6000 | 6000 | November 12, 2011

Time to wake up and enjoy some Saturday morning madness with this new video from Rammstein:   Don’t you just love that Baywatch meets Happy Days theme? You’re here in my country. My waves and my beach. My country. sings Til Lindemann, incorrectly, since this video was shot in California, USA – about *cough* 6000 miles… from sein Land.

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Weathervane

By 6000 | 6000 | October 27, 2011

I promised you more a-ha related videos this week and this won’t be the last. This collaboration between a-ha guitarist and songwriter Pal Waaktaar-Savoy and Jimmy Gnecco has understandable echoes of the Norwegian supergroup – especially that minor chord into the chorus. “Weathervane” is the title track from the forthcoming movie Headhunters, based on the book [...]

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Morten: New album, new tour

By 6000 | 6000 | October 25, 2011

After the heartbreak of a-ha going their separate ways and the heartbreak of a million tonnes of snow at Gatwick Airport, some new green shoots are beginning to emerge from the wasteland that my connection to Norwegian music had become. Yes, a new solo album from Morten and a tour to go with it. Sadly, [...]

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