I’m going to do an A to Z of 06 when I get chance, possibly tomorrow to cure the inevitable hangover but in the meantime…
MUSICBo DiddleyGroundhogsPeter Green’s Fleetwood MacLoren (MazzaCane) ConnorsMarc RibotMonorchidSkull KontrolWrangler BrutesComets On FireErase ErrataDaniel Higgs / LungfishBilge PumpSailorsGeriatric UnitNels Cline
LIVESpiritual Unity at the Festival HallBrotzmann/Bennik at ATPStooges at ATPWhiteout w/Nels Cline at […]

Good call.
MUSICRaccoo-oo-oonMeneguarWoodsLordsThe GoslingsChurch of MiseryElectric WizardGrowingMouthusProlapseOmExcepterIron MonkeyAnimal CollectiveComets on Fire
LIVESunburned Hand of the Man in Cambridge [March]Boredoms at PrimaveraNo-Neck Blues Band at PrimaveraLords and Hey Colossus in CambridgeBilge Pump in CambridgeLightning Bolt in NottinghamDinosaur Jr at PrimaveraThe Flaming Lips at PrimaveraLigament in LondonComets on Fire in Nottingham
FILMWatched so many films in the last 2 months […]

You may have noticed that our annual Favourite Albums and Films of 2006 articles are now online. Go enjoy.
While doing the above, people complained that they couldn’t vote for stuff that didn’t come out this year or for gigs so I promised we would do it on the blog. We used to do this on […]

Things will inevitably be quieter for the next couple of weeks though, with our recent level of activity, I doubt anyone will notice much of a difference. Our annual best albums and films of the year articles are almost done and will hopefully be up sometime next week.
I’d like to take this opportunity to name […]

Where does the time go? It’s practically Christmas and I still have a million things to do. And, as I’m working through the festive period, very little time to relax and do all those things I never have time to do. I’ve been making big efforts to make presents and buy handmade giftss and it’s […]

My building has a free wireless network, so last night I peeked and saw that my neighbor’s iTunes had a few Peter Bjorn and John songs from their new album Writer’s Block. She had a bunch of Cat Power and Joanna Newsom and a couple newer things like New Young Pony Club. But Peter Bjorn […]

The Good
The new site at Butlins in Minehead features clean, well appointed chalets with widescreen-TVs and DVD players. You didn’t see that at Camber Sands.
Meeting fellow Diskanteers who had previously just been names at the bottom of reviews.
Alexander Tucker’s wonderful folky-melodies, which are looped and layered and looped again until building to a wonderful […]

“Tell Me Something You Do Like” sings Mr. Hibbett in the opening song of this prettily packaged album.
Well, OK Mr. Hibbett, I like your new album.
I’ve been listening to it now for a good two months and you seem to have been stalking me for the last 20 years watching me go to gigs, nearly […]

‘Keeping Up Appearances’ steams in with a certain amount of choppy-guitar riff rock power before quickly striking up a ska-punk vibe that makes me think of grown men with carefully-fashioned mohicans, jumping in V-shapes with baggy shorts whilst a thousand teenagers nod along during a four-hour long Tony Hawk PlayStation session. It’s hard to deny […]

Any band with pretensions of making it ‘big’ needs at least one killer track in its musical arsenal. You know the one, the track that jerks you from your sonic dogmatic slumber and makes you believe in the power of song again. It makes you say to yourself, “Now that is a blinding […]