When Ride first reformed a couple of years ago, Mark Gardener was never seen without a hat. Could it be that the man who had once possessed the finest fringe in all of shoegaze – and whose look I desperately […]

I saw Duke Special do an early morning set in Glasgow about ten years ago. He played a regular gig on the Saturday night and sold tickets afterwards for the Sunday morning – he was raising money for some friends […]

Me too. I was 13 when Today Forever came out and I was obsessed. But I was so disappointed when I heard Birdman. Overnight I went from someone who bought everything they released on every format to not getting it […]

Looking forward to this one. It was this Resident Advisor video that grabbed me – they look like a great live act, but they’re not coming anywhere near me either!

Here we go, @locust:

1. Whitemaa by Erland Cooper (from one of my favourite albums of last year, Solan Goose. All the tracks are named after Orcadian birds.)

2. Apocalypso by Mew (“white is the […]

Cheers @locust! I’m off to check out the McGarrigles, Kasai Allstars, Les Big Byrd and Andrew Bird. I’ll post my track list shortly.

Doesn’t Nicest Man in Rock (TM) Dave Grohl play one? And the bloke from Faith No More.

I always assumed the auto-complete suggestions on my phone were based on commonly used words and phrases, or words that I’ve previously typed, but just this morning as I typed T, E, into a message I got the s […]

E from Eels was in this too, although he didn’t make the final cut:

I played drums in a band with two drummers for a bit. One of us generally played a more basic beat on the hi-hat/bass/snare while the other played something more rhythmic on the toms. We generally knew where the […]

I don’t think it was her motivation, just a possible outcome. I reckon whoever ends up on the Iron Throne, there will still be a couple of survivors with a claim on it…

Maybe Arya will survive with a Baratheon bun in the oven?

Finally getting round to reviewing @mrsmoseleymoles‘ CD. My phone is misbehaving so I had trouble uploading this, so it was mostly listened on the CD player in the car while driving – fine for listening to the […]

I only found recently that Bill Drummond designed the sets for that production of the Illuminatus, and that Ken Campbell (and the Iluminatus) was a big influence on the KLF.

Different Trains by Steve Reich is the first thing to come to mind:

Excellent. Totally new name to me when it came out, too – must check out their other albums.

The new (excellent) Teeth of the Sea album has tons of trumpet, in amongst the electronics and guitars and noise. Sounds at points like Kid A-era Radiohead, at others like a Morricone soundtrack, usually […]

Nice review, Dr V! Looking forward to this, Field of Reeds got played to death here too.

You don’t even need to wait for the back announcement- my DAB radio tells me what’s playing, or you can Shazam it. I recently went looking for a song playing on the radio in the background of a video I’d taken […]

There’s some crossover here with the Midlake thread: https://theafterword.co.uk/midlake-and-the-economics-of-rock-n-roll/

I’ve just remembered this interview with Hookworms from last year – before the singer […]