Last week I saw Belle & Sebastian at The Roundhouse in London. I can honestly say that it was one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to. First of all it had the factors that all great gigs seem …
Read moreA few follow-ups
Just a quick follow up on some earlier posts: • British sci-fi Primeval, which finished with a cliffhanger and was then cancelled, has been brought back from extinction. It may not be the best programme in the world, but there’s …
Read morePutting The Album on life support
I hadn’t planned to write any more about the decline in album sales, but just when I thought I’d put the subject to bed, I stumbled across this article. The short version of this not-very-long-anyway article is that Apple has …
Read moreCollections: Playlists on steroids
A couple of posts ago I suggested that the agglomeration of audio tracks known as “The Album” is an anachronism in a world where individual tracks can be downloaded at the click of a button. Not wanting to be all …
Read moreIf not albums, then what?
My previous post posited that ‘If the record industry wants “The Album” to survive … they’re going to have to start thinking a bit more creatively’. Yeah, it’s easy to say that, but how about putting forward some actual ideas? …
Read moreFile Sharing Down in the UK
Well, sharing music files at least, according to this article. Funny, isn’t it, how illegal file sharing is going down just around the time that new services (such as Spotify) and new music stores (such as Amazon’s) are finally starting …
Read moreRobert, ask Damon how it’s done
A while back I posted about my disappointment after going to see a gig by The Cure in which they played hardly any of their hits. Yesterday I went to see Blur in Hyde Park, in a concert that really …
Read moreGot a band? Had some hits? Then bloody well play them!
I went to see The Cure on Thursday at the 02 Arena in London (one of my least favourite venues, but that’s another story). It was a sold-out gig, with the stage at one end, which according to that Wikipedia …
Read moreA Ripping Yarn, Pt. 3
Having ripped and converted all my CDs, it was time to play back the mp3 files on my Ubuntu box. What I hadn’t expected, however, was that Amarok would fail to play them.
Read moreA Ripping Yarn, Pt. 2
A couple of months ago I decided that it was finally time to re-rip my CDs. Not only were there numerous discs which hadn’t yet been converted to mp3 at all, but now hard drives were cheap enough for me …
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