The Last Shadow Puppets

a bit of a dig here: I really dig the Last Shadow Puppets right now. They’ve got a nice big band post punk rock sound, and the melodies are really 60s. Even though I normally don’t like that kind of music at all!
Apparently they’re touring from August. I think I’m going to see them if [...]

The Futureheads: This is Not the World

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The Futureheads’ new album, This is Not The World, is really quite good. It’s been on my iPod for the last week or so and I’m really happy to have found yet another British album that I actually really like. The great thing about bands like The Futureheads and Maximo Park [...]

Maximo Park @ The Fringe 18th August

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Maximo Park are playing on the fringe in August! Great news. It’s what used to be called T on the Fringe (we saw Muse there two years ago and Pixies in 2005). It’s now called The Edge music festival.
At the moment, tickets are still available, but I’ll think they’ll sell out really quickly! [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 11

It’s my last night in Italy tonight. This time tomorrow I’ll be back in London, where I’m staying till Thursday. On Thur it’s back to my beloved Edinburgh and back to wrk on Friday.
Summary of holidays:

I must remember that it’s very relaxing out here - just like some expensive type of therapy. To remind myself [...]

New Job - First Day; Hard-Fi Gig

I was going to talk about my first day, but I’ll leave it till the end of the week so I have a proper and good first impression (I remember anaj blogging very early on in a new job, saying she’s loving it, only to quit a few weeks later ).
Just after the induction [...]

lenina loves Beethoven

I’ve been listening to Beethoven for the last week or two, and really really enjoying it.
I can’t remember what the pieces are called (they’re on my laptop at work and I listen to it while working). One of them is Sonata No. 14, and googling it just now I found a great site where you [...]

Edinburgh T on the Fringe: Razorlight, Editors

When working in my study here in Edinburgh a few hours ago, I heard Razorlight playing rehearsing In the Morning. I didn’t know they were playing at T on the Fringe (which is basically the umbrella term for all cool gigs that take place as part of the festival - last year, we saw Muse, [...]

Facebook: No one from my Uni on it!

When reccying out Facebook the other day, I also used their classmate search to find anyone from my former Uni. And guess what: there were no results, zero, zilch! At first I thought it might be a technical problem with the search function, but then I tried some other Universities, and results were returned.
Curious!
Some of [...]

Prince’s New CD as Free Newspaper Supplement

I had to mention it: Prince’s new album was given away for free here in the UK with Sunday’s The Mail on Sunday. I didn’t buy it of course (I think Prince is overrated), but it’s raised some interesting questions and was in fact on all the major news last night!
The Guardian has a good [...]

Glastonbury Coverage on the Beeb Website

I caught some of the Arctic Monkeys’ set on Friday night on the telly (I think it was BBC2), and went to the BBC website to check when the rest is broadcast (or repeated).
I found out that they put up 40 of the live acts up on the website, and you can watch it up [...]