I’ve been looking forward to this gig for a while now - after picking up his album on impulse about a month ago (review here). Its the first time I’ve been to Kings College Students Union in London, and after the initial shock of having to take a lift 4 floors UP to the club [...]

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I’m no Stones fan….but this is very cool - the new Rolling Stones album is released on Flash Memory. I can see this being quite a collectors item.

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Crash (2004) - Its an awesome mixture of fate and serendipity that draws the characters in this film together - sometimes with tragic and shocking consequences. Its not often you watch a film as dark and foreboding as this - almost an analysis of prejudice and racism. The cast is excellent, Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock [...]

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I sat and read my Sunday paper yesterday, and read a really gushing review of this album - how it was the finest follow up album in memory, and that they clearly hadn’t put a foot wrong in making it. Any review like that is a challenge for me, I’ve got to grab the [...]

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Found on Flickr

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We spent a great couple of hours walking through Burnham Beeches on Saturday, here is a short set of photos I took there.

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Kate Bush is releasing a new album - looking forward to that!

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I’ve long been fascinated with how web services can begin to replace tools that once upon a time would have been firmly located on your home machine. Flickr is a great example of something that is handled online, almost better and more flexibly than it is handled locally, sharing and collaboration is much easier, and [...]

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This is a lovely album, right up my alley of things to listen to. Claudia Brucken was the lead singer with legendary 80’s band Propaganda - and with ZTT label mate Andrew Poppy, they have produced a collection of reinterpreted pop songs, not just covers - but real remakes with subtle and and sometimes [...]

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Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle - You’ve stolen my heart : I listened to this album with a little trepidation, I love Asha Bhosle’s voice…and I like the Kronos Quartet, but I wasn’t convinced how they would go together. It really works - the combination of deep soundscapes by the Kronos Quartet blends nicely with [...]

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