…or Not? They’re a curious medium. Almost all of them are irritating, repetitive (by design) and frustrating. They - in me - almost achieve the precise opposite of what they’re trying to do, ie. I’ll actively go out of my way not to buy the product in question. Of course, sometimes their precise aim is irritation, [...]
I’m a big fan of Pink Floyd, and whilst they’re not always the most welcome songs when I’m playing rated iTunes tracks hoping for cheerful background music, there is one song that stands head and shoulders above all their other tracks when it comes to enjoyable and fun. I refer of course to “Bike” from “Piper [...]
I spent much of the morning listening to Beethoven’s 3rd and 9th symphonies whilst working. I’d downloaded them last month, and wonderful it was too: certainly made for difference to my normal music choice. Earlier this evening I caught one of the adverts for the BBC’s Prom season which is underway at the moment. It’s a [...]
REM have struggled to play in the SECC in Glasgow for something like 15 years. Michael Stipes explained this towards the end of last nights superb concert - illnesses from some Georgian bug, a brain aneurism, and of course contracting ‘flu in Sheffield most recently leading to the February cancellation. All these have stopped this [...]
I’ve often been struck that there is a huge repository of classical, and more modern music, that is long past it’s copyright expiration dates. With the growth of wikipedia, I’ve often wondered when enthusiastic musicians might get together to release free versions of such pieces. Enter The BBC. Their podcasting experiment (which I’ve mentioned before on [...]
I put off buying X&Y whilst I hunted out a good price. I neglected to order it from Amazon, instead thinking it would be reasonably priced in the major high-street music shops. When the best price I could find was some £4 higher than Amazon, itself a bit more expensive than iTunes, I couldn’t wait [...]
After the REM Concert was rescheduled, I received a letter in the post asking for the return of the tickets for either a refund or exchange for the new concert. That was 3-4 weeks ago, and I’d not heard anything from the SECC who are dealing with the exchange process. The REM HQ word on the [...]
