Archive For March, 2010
Here comes another video clip from the Shelf Life archive, this time a 2006 cover of The Beatles ‘Oh! Darling’, from ‘Abbey Road’. The quality is similar to the other archive clips I’ve been posting, but should be enough to hear how we did.We only play…
This is not a ‘how to twitter’ post, because I’m still learning and there are so many out there already. It’s just a few personal observations from a former Twitter sceptic. You might find them useful if you’ve been told ‘you should be on Twitter’, but aren’t quite sure why. I’ve never been one for [...]
Building on last year’s gathering, next weekend sees the 2010 ‘Spring Love’ event (‘Harukaze’, in Japanese) in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park.Last year saw around 40,000 people gathered together for music, dance, talks and discussions about peace, plus healthy f…
One of the dafter things they teach in physics classes is that because humans only have two ears, we can only hear location by comparing the loudnesses of a sound in both ears, and that because of this we can only hear “lefty-rightiness”, unless we …
One of the dafter things they teach in physics classes is that because humans only have two ears, we can only hear location by comparing the loudnesses of a sound in both ears, and that because of this we can only hear “lefty-rightiness”, unless we…
The RSPCA at Potters Bar run the most fantastic animal rescue facility, Southridge Animal Centre , where they look after over 250 animals including cats, dogs, hens, donkeys and more. It was an eye opener, visiting this place last week because the level of care is extraordinary. Cats are kept in individual pens with an [...]
Cabaret Voltaire in their so called commercial period, produced two albums of scintillating brilliance, this was the second and spawned two near identical near hits, ‘Sensoria‘ and ‘Do Right‘. This music stands alone in the annals of electropop in combining minimalist electro beats with a genuine feel for the funk. There is a swing to 
Labouring under the mantle of ‘intelligent dance music’, Autechre have studiously built a reputation as innovators, continuing a line which includes Tuxedo Moon, Cabaret Voltaire and Shriekback as much as it does Amon Tobin and Boards of Canada. This album is considerably more subdued than some, containing interludes of almost ambient quality, but it still 
We just loved the eighties at Chimera Mansions and Goldfrapp’s sly appropriation of the riff from Van Halen’s mighty ‘Jump’ just makes us, well, jump for joy. If the pastoral interlude of ‘Seventh Tree’ served notice that, in case we had forgotten the majestic ‘Felt Mountain’, Goldfrapp are not just a run of the mill 
This is not a story for the faint hearted. On Monday night, Patience, a charming, affectionate and much loved cat, suffered a fatal heart attack. I held his head in my hand as he died. After about thirty seconds, as I peered stunned into his sightless eyes, he coughed and convulsed a second and final [...]
