Shake Shake Shake Shake

A rainy night in Islington, North London. The same night that made millions of Englishmen miserable as our decrepit football team tamely missed out on a place at Euro 2008. Thankfully, inside the cosy Academy strangely located in Islington’s N1 shopping centre, two groups of Scots and one Welsh trio are keeping scores of punters [...]

Best Live Show Today - Wednesday 21st November

One choice tonight: and thats because I’m going! It’s Sons & Daughters playing at the Islington Academy. It’s this superb quartet’s second appearance as ‘Best Live Show Toady’ in just three weeks! Should be great and judging by the reaction my ‘Gilt Complex‘ mp3 has had, a lot of you share my views! They are [...]

Best Live Show Today…Monday 19th November

Today’s Best Live Show is surely the comeback of all comebacks in the form of former Orange Juice frontman Mr Edwyn Collins. The owner of one of the most easily-identifiable voices in all popular music, Collins suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 2005. The record he was finishing before his illness has been recently released, entitled Home [...]

Best Live Show Today…Sunday 18th November

Today is a Sunday, so London can be forgiven for being thin on the ground gig-wise today. The big kahuna is Arcade Fire / Clinic up at Alexandra Palace. Everyone knows everything about Arcade Fire so I will instead focus on their Liverpudlian nutcase support act Clinic. They have four albums under their belt, but [...]

Vauxhall And I

This little bit of guerilla origami caught my eye this week on the way from work. I returned the next day with a camera, and fortunately they were still serenely floating.
Post composed to ‘Lust‘ a belting track from the new Raveonettes album Lust, Lust, Lust.
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