does anyone else think the free mp3 from subpop's website of boy with a coin sounds a teensie bit like a cross between a hazy shade of winter and, er, get the party started? next time you hear it, try putting pink's lyrics to it and then try telling me i'm wrong.

Just to show I can enjoy concerts and not whinge… Joanna Newsom was awesome at the sage last week. My spine was non-stop tingling. She and the northern sinfonia played ys straight through and then she-and sometimes two accompanying musicians -played a fair chunk of milk eyed mender plus a Scottish folk tune and a new song. The observer newspaper covered the concert and claimed the new song's called 'Shreddy' but the lyrics seemed to be about a woman being captured and taken to a land where every woman's called 'Colleen' so I'm calling it Colleen. (Unfortunately the name made…

I am this )( close to giving up going to indie gigs.
I went to the Sodastream gig last night at the head of steam in Newcastle and, whilst they were wonderful, I barely got to see them being wonderful for half an hour. Half. An. Hour. They didn't come on til gone 10.25. I think that's RUBBISH. The only time a band's been so late on was when teenage fanclub didn't bother coming on-stage til the end of the Champions' League Final that Liverpool won. That was just rude.

In this case it probably wasn't the fault of sodastream.…

I'm going to buy an album or two by bridget st. john for my dad for Christmas but I don't know which one(s) to get. Any fans here who could advise on the best or better of the three?

Thought I'd post a little update, partly as a postscript to my previous whinge and partly to have a new whinge.

Firstly thanks to the Minotaurs (I'm not going to link them, as I'm embarrassed about being the only person whose journal entries appear on their front page) who have taken the time out to explain to me why they couldn't play at their Oxjam gig (see previous post). They are lovely people as well as great songwriters and you should all buy their new single. 'Anyone who had a heart' is out on Grand Transmission on the 4th of…

Humph. We went to see the minotaurs in Newcastle last night and they didn't show up. There wasn't even a sign up warning us: the first act was the one to break the news. It was an Oxjam event so we couldn't even contemplate asking for a refund. We'd've looked like Ricky Gervais's even ruder children.

We were slightly mollified by the appearance of Johnny X, formerly of Kenickie, aka Peter Gofton, on marimba for some other band (possibly Peter from field music's side project, but he didn't make that clear) (Does anyone else always say field…

I swear to God I have never heard the first minute of if you find yourself caught in love before. It's the best bit of the song! Why did no-one else tell me about it?
It's funny what you hear at 11.45 on a Monday night when you're sat on your own writing your thesis….

irrelevant, but i remebered as i re-listened to was it worth it? that i happened to hear neil tennant on 6music the other day and he went up massivley in my estimation for his discussion of imagine. he said it was a great track but not a great song. he went on to explain this as being that it has good production for its time, but is essentially quite a dull song.
one good thing is, i agree with him about the song - it really doesn't 'get me' anywhere, like i suspect it thinks it ought to, though…

So the 'U' section of my ipod's contents passed very quickly (though not as quickly as the X section will - there's only one song in there) and I was led to the conclusion that there are two types of "U" song: really good ones like
under the rotunda
underwear
unloveable
up against the wall
up the bracket
up the junction
up the wolves

and then the "untitleds": songs by lazy people including
architecture in helsinki
the cure
interpol
low
neutral milk hotel
R.E.M.
who can't be arsed to give a song a name. Ooh it bugs me.

What also…

In contrast to my last post where I bemoaned the lack of joie-de-vivre of my "smiley" songs, I've just gone past three songs nominally about spitting which were all pretty nice and/or bouncy. Maybe I'm not familiar enough with the words but
spit it out
spit on a stranger
and
spitting games
all made me smile.

Most pleasant segue of the day:
southermost
southern anthem

Discovery of the day:
sorrow
- I'm not usually much of a Bowie fan, I have to say but this was both good and unfamiliar. I get annoyed by his really familiar ones.
sparrow
I…