I’ve been putting off writing about this album for ages. There’s such a gargantuan collision of styles on display here that it’s hard to know where to begin. Over the course of ten tracks, Capillary Action display elements of King Crimson’s kooky song structures, the Fucking Champs’ NWOBHM-drenched metallic gleam, Lightning Bolt’s clattering chaos and […]

Leaving aside the related gig disaster as previous post, I was excited about this, the idea of wandering around the back streets of Glasgow and discovering light installations and disused buildings that have temporarily been given a purpose again.
With Alasdair on map reading and Glasgow knowledge duty we began by meandering our way round […]

After reading Ollie’s post last week about this new Bill Drummond / Mark Manning book, i immediately went onto Amazon to order a copy - turned up yesterday..
I couldn’t wait to get home, or even onto the train, just away from work to lose myself in it!
First impressions tho, I love the Bill Drummond […]

This record is a totally huge, flaming meteor, an exhausting, exhilarating trip into a living, breathing entity in all its focus and purity. Recorded at a show in San Fransico 8 months after Davis had recorded Bitches Brew, and the same players here both do justice and even surpass that record, if only cos these […]

Following on from my previous post:
Worth looking forward to: SNOW
We got snow sooner than expected, on Thursday. The light that morning was eerie, amazingly clear and so beautiful. I even noticed entire buildings I never noticed in six months of walking up Queen Margaret Drive daily. As I stared around in wonder, clouds of doom […]

…is mostly due to losing access to the internet at work. My world has stopped appropriately. So I’ve been busying myself by
Listening to:Pumice’s “Raft”the Thai Elephant OrchestraAphex Twin’s “Select Ambient Works Vol.2″Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” & “Born in the USA”Quack Quack (review coming soon)Renato Rinaldi’s “Hoarse Frenzy”The Deserted Village OrchestraThe Inecto SchoolDevoHarvey MilkCharles Mingus’ “Oh Yeah”Malcolm […]

Listening to- Stephen Malkmus, Gastr Del Sol, Tortoise, Birthday Pary, Mercury Rev, Eels ‘Electro Shock Blues’, Go Betweens, Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks, Detroit Cobras, Meat Puppets.
Reading- just been B.S. Johson biography, now Samuel Beckett ‘Ill Seen Ill Said’, next ‘Voice Imitator’ Thomas Bernhard.
Working on- stripping/plastering/painting house, thinking hard about […]

Listening to:
Broken Flowers soundtrackDigable Planets second album (Blowout Comb?)Deerhoof - The Runners whateverKanye West - Late RegistrationKostars - Klassics With A KBPP ACCA 3.5 Strategic Business Planning And Development revision discBPP ACCA 3.6 Advanced Financial Reporting revision discBPP ACCA 3.7 Strategic Financial Management revision disc
Reading:
BPP ACCA 3.5 Strategic Business Planning And Development textbookBPP ACCA 3.6 […]

Recent Activity
Listening To:Stars Of The Lid - The Ballasted OrchestraOtha Turner’s Afro-Mississippi songsThe GossipBilly Bragg
Reading:A Clockwork OrangeBonjour TristesseLots of Literary Theory that I thought I’d never have to read againLots of student essays.
Working on:Marking those essaysA proper structure for my PhDGetting a haircutMaking music by myself
Doing:Watching The Larry Sanders Show, Daily Show and CYE on […]

Listening To: Part Chimp - I Am Come, I’m Being Good - early 7″s, Animal Collective - Feels (about 3 times daily), first three Mercury Rev albums, Deerhoof - Green Cosmos, The Auteurs - How I Learned to Love the Bootboys, Espers - The Weed Tree, Eyes and Arms of Smoke - A Religion of […]