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 […]

Apparently it’s Tom Hanks who provides the voice of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story, not Tim Allen like I thought!

Most of Midlake we’re in BNQT – a kind of super group with members of Grandaddy, Band of Horses, Travis and Franz Ferdinand- who released an album and toured a couple of years ago. And Eric Pulido has a solo a […]

Ah, I have an inkling who 12 is – it’s the whistling, there aren’t too many people who whistle on their records!

Yes, Canadian. (That track has the most tenuous link to the theme, by the way!)