Do Bianchi (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Above: Kermit debuted his new album last month in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall, paired with a menu by Alice Waters. It’s a funny thing about the food and wine world: so many of the folks I know who work as food and wine professionals have at some point in their lives played [...]
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The Rutles “A Hard Day’s Rut” Parlourphone Records A Rutles bootleg (if a parody band can have such a thing) Originally created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes as a fictional band to be featured as part of various 1970s television programming, the group evolved into a real band that recorded and toured, debuted in [...]
Diary at the Centre of the Earth (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Quick announcement. Dedalus Books is once more applying for funding. They’re going to use their petition from last year as evidence of support, so please sign it now if you didn’t do so last time: http://is.gd/44qPb *** Sat 11th Oct: With Anna Spivack to see the new play of Prick Up Your Ears. It’s based directly on [...]
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
VOODOO ROOMS, EDINBURGH **
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
It’s the anniversary of the release of the world record beating Hey Jude, and we ask what did Ringo do? Released 41 years ago, Hey Jude is probably one of the greatest songs of all time, and it’s always great to hear it again. What I never knew before was that it held the [...]
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
“LET’S face it I’m not exactly half time at the Super bowl, I haven’t been in the jungle eating maggots so there’s no interest in my story at all,” chortles Neil Innes at his perceived lack of interest in the semi-autobiographical book he is currently writing due to his lack of ‘fame.’
Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
[caption id="attachment_881" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The cover to Please Please Me, from 1963"][/caption]"Their first album, Please Rut Me, was made in twenty minutes. Their second took even longer. Success was only a drum-beat away." - The Rutles Please Please Me is an album that I've only experienced in mono - apart from ...
100+ Movies Beginning With 'W' (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Well we’re back after a long pause while we fought for our entitlement of Arts Council funding. It not what you know it’s who you blow in this game! We can’t guarantee the same level of ‘W’ movie immersion as you’re used to but the occasional ‘W’ will certainly keep the wwwolf from the door. First up in this tranche of ‘W’ wonderment is a...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
What would go on your Beatles mix tape?
Goodnight London (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Brilliant 'tribute' to the end of Oasis here in The Quietus. I'm not exactly sure what they mean in labelling Liam "genetically curious"; in any case, considering that I've not listened to an Oasis record in about twelve years, much less took any interest in them, I've found myself strangely fascinated by the announcement that Noel Gallagher has left the band. The idea that the rest of Oasis...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
If multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbusters can be bought for bargain bin prices within a few years of release - why in the name of Billy Shears has the price point for a set of vintage albums - that in today's money, probably cost tuppence ha'penny to make - been pitched at £200. Per set. Why? Because The Beatles maintain an enduring cross-generational appeal, a tidal pulling power greater...
Page 300 (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Two things I learned last night hanging out at Best Buy while my fiance was buying a wedding dress... 1. The Beatles Rock Band looks absolutely amazing. Like so good you get distracted from actually playing the game. 2. You'd think that being a musician you'd have an advantage, and playing Rock Band would come easy to you. You'd be wrong. I was playing drums (my first instrument), on the easiest song,...
Bedazzled! (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
THE RUTLES HIT AMERICA AND WIPE OUT THE BEATLES FROM THE TOP OF THE CHARTS, originally uploaded by popkrazy.
The Plashing Vole (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Over at the Guardian's Readers Recommend section, it's unlikely cover versions. These are mine - any comments or contributions? Spare Snare - Independent Women. I loved Spare Snare and this was the first jangly indie band does R+B cover I'd heard. Th' Faith Healers - S.O.S. It rocks. It's on the Peel Sessions CD. REM doing Pylon's Superman - much better than the original. Their cover of Wire's There's...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Two of pop’s most studious classicists, Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy) and Thomas Walsh (Pugwash), converge on what could only be considered a monumental summit for UK pop fans, bestowing on the listening public a concept album – about cricket. Not about some girl named Cricket, but the veddy European sport thereof. This could be very [...]
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