So it’s official. The rumours were true. The BBC wants to kill 6 Music. No surprise after last Friday’s leaked story, but it’s been interesting to actually see the report that recommends the closure, and infuriating to see Mark Thomson trying to justify it on TV today. The problem with the report and what Thompson [...]
I’ve not been very busy on here recently. Some of you may even have wondered where I’ve been. The picture above may provide some clues. I had so much stuff to post last week, but it never happened. But I make no apologies for further absence, I’m happy with the way things are just now. [...]
Hello again and Happy New Year. Hope you’re enjoying the nice cold weather. Before I begin in earnest, I’ve got some unfinished business. A combination of apathy then some unexpected stuff happening last week meant that I never got round to posting my top tracks of 2009. So at the risk of being too retrograde [...]
OK, so it’s December. End of the year. And in blog-land time for LISTS. If you care about such things, I’ll be starting mine next week, probably. Albums first, then gigs and songs. And of course it being the end of the decade, I’m going to have to do something for that. A list of [...]
Stories are a big part of my life these days. Bedtime stories mainly, but stories at any part of the day really, as Growl Junior whets her vast appetite for books. So with two years of being softened up by children’s stories, it’s perhaps no surprise that I love the the b-side to Aidan Moffat’s [...]
I’ve been on holiday, away somewhere with no email, no mobile network coverage and not a whole lot going on. Which is exactly what we wanted. There was music though. One particularly sweet moment was driving back to the cottage, by the sea with the late evening sun casting long shadows across the Moray Firth; [...]
There’s a lot of love at Daily Growl Towers for The Leaf Label. The Leeds-based record company has put out a lot of excellent stuff over the last few years. Its earlier days were spent as a purveyor of quality leftfield electronica, and although they still do that, they’ve expanded their portfolio to include the [...]
I’m a day late this year with the haggis, neeps and tatties and whisky, but better late than never. There’s too much going on at the moment, and add to that the happy new Ox year celebrations too, I’m all celebratory-mealed-out now. Still, as is customary in our house, in addition to the food and [...]
Today is the last day of the Astoria. Tonight was meant to be the closing night, hosted by Ibiza superclub Manumission, but that’s been cancelled, so last night’s ‘Destruction Ball’, oranised by Sam Duckworth of Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly and featuring himself, Frank Turner, The King Blues, …The Trail of Dead and VV Brown [...]
The holidays are over. Dead Christmas trees litter the streets. The dickheaded dog-owners of Bow have seen fit to carpet the pavements of E3 with some fresh dogshit. And we’ve got snow - only not the winter wonderland-type stuff. More the crappy wet London variety which never lies and only succeeds in making the ground [...]
