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Arcade Fire – Wake Up (Reading 2010)
update: unfortunately embedding has now been disabled for these videos The hair stood up on the back of my neck watching Arcade Fire play Reading on BBC 3 the other night. The band has uploaded the entire show to YouTube.
Efterklang, Tortoise and Liars at Analog Festival
Efterklang , originally uploaded by Caroline. My guest pass for the Rogue’s Gallery festival also gave me access to the second day of the Analog Festival. Three bands I’d never heard of before were on the bill. The concert started … Continue reading
The Church: still soldiering on
Where do rockbands go when they grow old? The small room upstairs at the Paradiso. It’s unfair perhaps and it must smart, but The Church soldiers on. All the good bands do. Whether you perform in front of thousands or … Continue reading
Arcade Fire – Intervention (KCRW)
In celebration of the new Arcade Fire album ‘Neon Bible‘ (leaked this week), here’s one of its songs played live in the KCRW studios. I could not resist ordering the ‘deluxe edition’ and am currently hunting down tickets for their … Continue reading
Une annee sans lumières
2005 goes down in my books as the year I stopped buying CDs. My budget had to give somewhere and rather than be a scrooge on food, I cut down from my usual 80 CDs a year to virtually none … Continue reading
Everybody’s doing it, why not me
Best of my 2004 (records I played the most, no rationale involved) * Declan O’Rourke – Since Kyabram * U2 – How to dismantle an atomic bomb * The Killers – Hot Fuss * Robi Draco Rosa – Mad Love … Continue reading
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