A Head Full of Wishes

I had a nice full year for A Head Full of Wishes so here’s a short summary just because I feel like it. Obviously this is from a very personal perspective… feel free to comment on your own AHFoW related ‘09 highs…

January…Damon & Naomi were in London for the second time in three months, this [...]

Another A Head Full of Wishes survey comes to an end, and comes to an end with precious few surprises. It looked for a while as if an upset was on the cards for favourite Luna track but a flurry of last minute votes restored the status quo.
So here are some highlights, head over to [...]

Dean & Britta are not Galaxie 500, just like Luna were not Galaxie 500 and sometimes that makes it hard for me to be rational. Nothing is better than Galaxie 500 were and if I try and measure anyone up against that yardstick they’re all going to come up a bit short. I just need [...]

I arrived at Cafe OTO shortly before opening act Amor de Dias took to the stage. The venue was already fairly crowded so I shuffled in and found a spot near the front but tucked in behind a pillar. Most of the folk around me were sitting so I felt a bit conspicuous but held [...]

Quick post to wish a Happy Birthday to Dean Wareham, who reaches 46 today. Anyone in the area can spend the day celebrating with Dean at the Celebrate Brooklyn festival in Prospect Park from 7:30 or at The Bell House in NYC from 10:30. If not… you can grab a bottle of coke and drink [...]

Hazel and I arrived in Dunfermline for last night’s 13 Most Beautiful in plenty of time. We headed up to The Carnegie Hall and milled around for a few minutes hoping to bump into Dean & Britta – because I can do “bumping into” I’m just no good at “hunting down”. Having failed to [...]

An impressive number of entries to this year’s competition – TWO … compared to last year’s NONE – made it tricky to pick a winner. Except… as there was always likely to be more than one winner it was actually pretty easy and the only tricky bit was inventing the categories in which they had [...]

Almost a year ago a friend of mine put me in touch with Ian Hogarth one of the founders of gig tracking site Songkick. Ian told me that they were planning a new version of the site and was interested in meeting up to talk me through what they were planning and how I, or [...]

It’s all over. The 2008 survey results are now up for your perusal. The lucky winner of the draw has been notified by email, if you haven’t heard anything then sadly you missed out…better luck next year.
A quick summary for those of you who just want headlines…

Galaxie 500 album: On Fire
Galaxie 500 track: Tugboat
Luna album: [...]

The excellent blog The Sound of Indie recenly posted a lovely sounding track from Dean & Britta’s “Galaxie 500 show” from a few weeks back (see previous post), I was among a number of people who pleaded for an opportunity to hear the whole show. Sadly Howard Wolfson a pundit for the vile “media” outlet [...]