Mmmm Chicken, Chorizo and Tea (with UHT milk)!
I love these Virgin Pendolino trains, or is this a Voyager? What’s the difference anyways? On the way back from our brief visit to Manchester where we managed to get a bit of gigging in. The Departure of Northampton fame were playing the Oxford Zodiac Academy Carling thing (does anyone mind if I just refer to it as the Cardiac?) a few weeks ago, and rather than do the easy thing of just going round the corner I decided that it would be easier (and much lazier) to rejig our work, social and rail commitments so that we could see them in Manchester (makes sense right?). The Departure, when we finally did our 500 mile roundtrip to get there, were very good live, playing to a packed (honest) audience of about 40 people they still gave it all they could, even though they were quite obviously perturbed by the slim crowd (probably had something to do with The Editors and Athlete playing concerts round the corner). Playing through a repertoire which I knew very little about, they easily converted me to their brand of eclectically-fast indie goodness.
The Departure - All Mapped Out
The Departure - Lump in My Throat
I recently found a MZ-510 net Mini Disc player on eBay for an absolute bargain of ten whole pounds. People mocked and people laughed but it has been fun coming up with mix-tapes of random bits of my music collection again. People have become lazy with iPods (although I almost converted but we will get into that later) and forget what it is like to sit there and pre-empt what music will suit their day. The days of tapes are long gone, and instead of spending 90 minutes to come up with a single tapes worth of music (that you couldn’t fast forward) we just click and point and our entire collection is in our pocket, its sick. Appearing on the MD this week is The Postal Services awesome This Place is a Prison, which is such a well crafted tune that when the drums kick in (about two mins fifty) I am almost wetting myself. Also on the MD is Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows, I originally had planned to go on about how Radiohead have broken all the barriers of modern music with their controversial release (postlink?), but I think enough people have given their opinion of that and I can’t be bothered. The first track 15 Steps is as close to musical perfection as possible, and when the buzz appeared last week about the album the words I used for this track were “Fucking” and “Sublime!”
Postal Service – This Place is a Prison Dazzlers fave songs
Radiohead – 15 Steps Dazzlers fave songs, two in one sitting!
That said (on the iPod culture), during our time in Manchester I popped into the Apple shop at least 14 times (who was to know that there is an Apple shop in the city centre AND the Trafford Centre!) to drool over the iPod touch. Now I know they are an extravagance to say the very least, with their much smaller capacities to standard iPods and at a half the price again of their memory savvy brothers. But, and this is a big but, they are fucking cool. I just want to be able to sit on the toilet reading the BBC Sport website on my touch screen iPod wirelessly. Surely that five minutes a day I will save on spending my toilet time economically warrants the £279 price tag….might see what the missus says!
Labels: Dazzlers Faves, journey
