Music
The sounds, the lyrics, the noise, the quiet, the stadium gigs, the basement gigs, the buskers, the voices, the instruments.
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Period Festivities
We were at the Raymond Gubbay Christmas Concert: Carols by Candlelight, tonight. It was more classical than I thought, but I knew all the pieces. Stand out was, of course, the chorus singing Stille Nacht, a wonderfully soft, harmonised arrangement which I’ve heard before. In fact I was surprised, as was Louise, at how many…
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Charlies Angels: Full Throttle
Charlies Angels: Full Throttle I remember seeing the first Charlies Angels featuring Diaz, Liu, and Barrymore but can’t remember much else about it. I fear that this movie will turn out the same, but don’t let that put you off. Offering no pretence that they are bothering to follow more than a whim of a…
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The Main artery
Firstly, my apologies for the tardiness of my appreciation. Thanks to everyone who wished me well last week. Sorry I took so long to remember to thank you! In other, brief news, my DVD player, sent back to ebuyer.com when it developed a display fault has been found faulty by their service department and a…
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Holiday
Feeling much, much better, and actually having today and tomorrow off anyway, I decided to spend the day wandering round the shops. You know the type of wandering, the type you have to do on your own, because you are the only person who wants to look at the type of things you want to…
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100th Window
Massive Attack’s latest album appears to be, to resort to the vernacular, a ‘grower’ (as Jez suggested). So I will revise my previous opinion, and as Lyle pointed out, it sounds much better when played on a decent system (and not my laptop). I also bow to Stuart’s one-liner “I think it’s about texture, rather…
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Relying
FridayCakes at 10:30, meetings and GMP training, then a 2003 kickoff. A fun packed day! I’m relying on the Kylie calendar on the wall next to me to get me through until 5pm. Update: Also relying on “The Best of Martin Stephenson & the Daintees” which I picked up in FOPP yesterday for £5. Reviving…