Category Archives: Music
Love You Better: an essay
Love You Better or Why losing The Maccabees is a massive blow to the music scene and to me, Paul Schiernecker. When I was seventeen, indie was king. I can remember working a Sunday morning in Sainsburys at Rayleigh Weir, feeling like absolute shit because I was fronting up Babybels on three hours sleep. The […]
Age Of The Understatement.
Last night I got to see The Last Shadow Puppets at the Ally Pally. Here’s a wee cover of one of my favourites of theirs… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu5kzqrVVBA
Platform Farewells
P.S. I Love You
Chateau Lobby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nciDboFTKRc If you’re not familiar with Father John Misty then you should be, this is Chateau Lobby from I Love You, Honeybear.
Kooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtX5_ROX_jE When I was a kid we used to go on holidays that involved dangerously long road trips through Europe. One of the best things about them was being able to listen to a league of incredible music that my parents chose to expose us to. The best of this mix was David Bowie’s Hunky […]
An open letter to your next transition.
Dear David Robert Jones, The Man Who Sold The World, The Man Who Stole My Heart, The artist, the musician, the icon, the hero, the mime, the alien, the heathen, I didn’t know you. I would like to think I did but how well can two people who never knew each other know each other? […]
Salford Lads’ Club.
…and with a day to spare in Manchester I found myself setting out on another of my little musical pilgrimages. I once visited Paris to visit Jim Morrison’s grave. I took freelance jobs in Liverpool and London so I could chase the ghost of The Beatles around their hometown and their Studio 2. This time […]
Obersting at the seams.
In the summer of 2006 I was in my friend’s car. It was the kind of warm that in retrospect you can never recall surviving through. He put on an album that he told me I was wrong. It opened a door that it was impossible to close. That album was I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning […]
