Category Archives: music

I Beg Your Pardon…

Monday’s mantra: Smile for a while and let’s be jolly, Love shouldn’t be so melancholy, Come along and share the good times while we can. I’m not quite sure what invoked this earlier today, but something did and so I’m sharing it here. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video [...]

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HMV

And lo, as had been widely predicted, HMV was placed into administration yesterday. I spent many a happy afternoon (and many a hard earned pound) in HMV stores, most especially Pinstone Street in Sheffield, Northumberland Street Newcastle, Cornmarket Street in Oxford (who could forget their midnight release of Radiohead’s OK Computer in 1997?) and, of course, [...]

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Let Us Move On

Driving back from the Bafana Bafana game on Tuesday evening, annoyed, tired and annoyed, I heard this track Let Us Move On and, in the context of the appalling football display that I’d just witnessed, it didn’t seem like a bad idea. At the time, I thought it sounded a bit like Dido (the artist [...]

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Alibi

I was out enjoying some decent, if unremarkable, sushi at Rock in Newlands this evening, so I’m unloading this from David Gray, which has been on my mind for the last few days. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Still his best song, I feel. Enjoy.

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Stop Right Now

Thank you very much. The Telegraph’s Tim Walker needs somebody with a human touch. In a theatre review brought across in the telegraph which accompanied my parents from Blighty, there’s a review of the new Spice Girls musical. And it’s not ever so complimentary: When one is up against the tsunami of hype that the [...]

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