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!)

Cheers Locust, that’s not too bad!

4. ‘Grunge-goth-indie-pop’ should be a genre, although the rest of this band’s album doesn’t neccesarily fit it!

5. Bingo!

8. This came out in 2005 and the band’s still […]

First up, @locust:

Track 1: ‘starts with something familiar’ says Locust, but it’s not familiar to me! Late 60s/early 70s singer-songwriter stuff, mainly just guitar voice and a bit of bass with some subtl […]

This is me, too. Been meaning to pick up that original albums set for ages…

Glad you got it @locust! My review of yours should be coming in the next few days too. The @mrsmoseleymoles disc arrived the other day so I’ll be getting to that next…

Some great stuff on Dark was the Night, right enough. I keep meaning to get Day of the Dead, the (kind of) follow up.