Tuesday, June 24, 2008

One of those ones / Glasto


It's a sit in the toilet sort of day. I properly can't be arsed. Dunno what it is, I haven't got a hangover, but I'm muchos underwhelmed with this whole work thing today. Still, that means I'm updating this thing, which makes a change.

Is anyone going to Glastonbury this year? The best they can do with the weather report is that 'it won't be as bad as last year' ?! Fook me, they'd have to cancel it if it was looking like it might be, no? Which raises an interesting question – when would it be? Personally it'd be when the Kaiser Chiefs were headlining and The Fratellis were on just before them. The Fratellis are playing here in August and there's a lot of chatter and excitement about said gigs. Yep, they still like their rock very uncomplicated here, mind you when I went to see them at Brixton Academy last year, at the start of a three night sell-out run (free tickets, the worst gig I'd seen in a very long time), the crowd there were going bananas an'all, so there y'are.

I'm much more into the new one from The Music. Took me a couple of listens, and I thought it was a bit straight ahead and electronic to begin with, which it is compared to the old stuff, but it's a grower and there's some cracking tunes on it. My favourite at the moment is 'The Price', which is an extra track on the digipak/special edition. I've only read recently about his drug and booze grief, and his stint in rehab, though with tunes called 'the spike' and 'drugs' it's not too subtle.
You know his problem of course? He's never done a propers days work in his life. A few weeks down ADL makes men of us all. Or stick him in an office for years and let him flirt with the ecstacy that it reading the Metro in the shitter.

Did anyone go to the Isle Of White festival? Apart from the obvious examples (Ian Brown), I thought the line up for that was a total shocker an'all. Are festivals trying to discourage people these days?

Heard the new Verve track? Pish. It's the soundtrack to buying a well designed yet reasonably priced Swedish coffee table.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

How're the Euros going?

How's the football going? I'm reading about the results online, and I saw the Holland goals the other night, but apart from that, I've seen nowt. The games are on normal telly here, but they're slap bang in the middle of the night, where a late night or an early rise are no use. In a piece of scheduling genius that I can only put down to some dark commercial pact I'm unaware of, the highlights package on terrestial channel SBS is on at 5.30pm every night, surely the exact time when most normal people are right in the middle of their commute. The swines. It finishes at half six, which is normally when I walk through the door.
I could Sky+ it (Foxtel IQ it) if I had Sky+, but in a move that'll shock you, the fuckers are as bad out here as they are back home and we've been trying to get them to come and install it for weeks. They came wih the wrong stuff the first time, didn't tell us they were coming the second, and trying to book a third that suits all parties is... well, you know the drill.

The big sporting news here tonight is that Queensland pulled their socks up from the first best-of-three State Of Origin clash and murdered NSW in the second. All to play for in the decider on July 2nd.

Saturday, June 7, 2008