Leaves - The Angela Test: I discovered this after a small blizzard of reviews in the Sundays whilst I was away on holiday, most of them threw up comparisons with Sigur Ros (its a idle reviewer that compares them because they both come from Iceland) and so I needed to hunt down and check out [...]

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This is very cool, I just found out you can get Elbow’s ‘Leaders Of The Free World’ available a week before the official release date! Its a cracking album, which I managed to get a listen to some time ago - I blogged about it here. I’m going to see them at Koko next week….I’ll [...]

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Had a weeks holiday, some pictures up on Flickr…so I’m catching up with new music, books and movies…some reviews coming up shortly.

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This was released in 2004 - and completely slipped under my radar, despite being absolutely fantastic. I was browsing an HMV recently, and saw the cover - with snippets of reviews from Elbow, Athlete and Snow Patrol, as those are bands I like, I guess I picked it up on the strength of those. [...]

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Takk means ‘thanks’ in Icelandic apparently, although personally I think that the thanks should be going in the opposite direction - because this is the best thing that Sigur Ros have given us so far. I managed to get two complete listens to this yesterday, and it truly is a stupendous album. They haven’t taken [...]

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I don’t usually do drum and bass, but after hearing two tracks by these guys on the excellent Fabio & Grooverider show on Radio 1 (when coming home from the club) - I had to check out the full album. This is drum and bass at its most fun loving…14 tracks of some of the [...]

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Shuttle Columbia is back - everyone interested in space travel (however marginally) can now breathe a sigh of relief. Welcome Home.

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One of my all time heroes is Banksy - a london based graffiti artist who creates some of the most thought provoking and clever statements through his graffiti. I understand his background was in tagging - but he made the move to more stencil based art (to ensure he was quicker). One of his most [...]

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…we can break waterfalls. Today - a story, when I was 11 I was taken to my first ever concert - Gary Numan at Hammersmith Odeon in 1980. I was lucky, they released it on vinyl later - and called it Living Ornaments 80, I had it in some kind of box set - and [...]

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