A Head Full of Wishes

p>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 [...]

empire state building – bit darkoriginally uploaded by pureguava
Changeoriginally uploaded by JoshuaRaymund

I’m a bit disappointed that there’s no photographic proof on Flickr that the Empire State Building is in fact no bigger than a nickel.
Does anyone in the vicinity fancy taking their camera and a coin out and snapping a picture that proves it [...]

Wake me up when he’s finished…picture from fuzzywuzzy.com
This is a really long and tedious post about managing links and tagging and it exists only as a reference and because I think really ought to document this sort of thing so that my grandchildren will be able to see just how truly, truly sad their granddad [...]

I got my copy (copies!) of Dean & Britta’s Christmas single a couple of days after Christmas but that didn’t stop it getting plenty of spins over the next few days (I’d resisted listening to it on MySpace because waiting a couple of days rather than visiting MySpace is always preferable).
The package is lovely [...]