Death to Meursault – so long it’s been good to know you
I’m still not sure how to deal with this news and I don’t really know what to say but I do really want to be self-indulgent and tell this story. After being around...
Category: Blog
Blog: Thoughts on T in the Park and other big festivals
Working in Music IT it’s become clear that at least 99% of music is shit. People contributing 50 minutes of 808 kick drum as art or readings of religious text in twenty different...
GLASTONBURY : Why Haim are better than the Spice Girls
Friday afternoon, day 1 of Glastonbury 2014 saw L.A. three-piece Haim take to the Other Stage. Before the show started I expected great things from these ladies but I didn’t expect to come away...
Maybe it’s time to move on from You, Tube…
It seems to go hand-in-hand with discovering music on the internet. Though other services exist online that offer the streaming experience, YouTube has for whatever reason become the main browser-based reference point for searching...
Awards…
Are Stupid
Save for a few awards such as The Mercury and Polaris prizes which contribute a lot to the promotion of deserving albums and sports awards based partially on statistics like the Balloon d’Or and...
Primavera Sound 2014
This weekend myself, Rachel, Ruari, Emmett and Tess went to Barcelona for this year’s Primavera Sound. I could discuss at length who I thought was best but the weekend was so eclectic and everything...
Fuck you, Kelly Jones.
But I suppose I’ll live, maybe. (edit: I did) Whenever you wrote a line that probably meant nothing to you and stuck it on a shitty album called Performance and Cocktails it changed my...
Edinburgh Oxjam Takeover 2014 Launch
So you may have already discovered that after doing production in 2011 I’m managing this year’s Oxjam Takeover. This morning we announced our launch gig at Sneaky Pete’s on the 8th June with Algernon...
Oh shit, it’s less than a week until Neutral Milk Hotel
Perhaps it’s because I’m focused on Primavera and it’s associated anxieties due to flying but the fact I’m seeing Neutral Milk Hotel (or Jeff Mangum in any form for that matter) for the first...
Flat gig round mine
A couple of weeks ago Simon Herron was up from Liverpool so instead of letting him forget about music for the weekend we made him play some of his music in my living room...
