A sprawling behemoth of an album, taking chillout into wild and uncharted territories decorated by surf guitars, live drums, pulsing techno and cinematically immense production. Influence spotting, as ever is the game to play and the likes of Sergio Leone, Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Bill Laswell, and Cheb i Sabbah jostle for attention in...
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On this date, two years ago I got this job, much to my surprise and delight. In this uncertain time, I am going to take this realisation as a good omen, and a sign that things are going to be okay for me, two years on, in the here and now. I can’t jinx or...
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... make sure you have a good friend and chocolate cake nearby!Today I had something exciting in the post, or so I thought. There was a slip from the post on the door mat, telling me I had to pick up a letter and pay for it as the sender had not put...
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Concocted by Serge Gainsbourg, the most exalted potentate of lust, this bizarre fantasy detailing a (the?) middle aged lothario’s affair with a teenager oozes priapic zeal, laced with a sense of humour that can only be described as goblinesque. Unusually for a concept album from this era the music has dated astonishingly well; produced...
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I’ve been to two other ‘proper’ weddings in my life. One was a grandish church affair where the Bride walked down the aisle to Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’, which for some reason or other repelled me from that song for a long time. And the other was an elaborately over-the-top half an hour in a...
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I have brilliant friends. I have friends who know exactly where they are going in life, and I have friends who are wonderfully accomplished even if they don’t have it all planned out yet. I have young, gorgeous friends who are making mistakes before my eyes, but are making the very same mistakes I...
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It seems I have my very own Wedding Planner! I am not entirely sure what it is that Anthony-Lite (do you see what I did there, SATC fans?) will do, but we have established just one vital thing so far – I do not want to go overboard. I think, for the purposes of...
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It’s always nice when the teenage heart throb you work with says to you: “I know you’re losing all this weight, Groupie – but don’t you dare lose that booty. It’s the best one I’ve ever seen!” You what now? Deal! In other news, Steve’s comment on spying my shopping list, left on the...
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This year has provided, as the chinese say, interesting times so far and it is with a sense of some relief that I turn my attention away from fulminating against the dumbing down of television, the sheer existential horror of living in a country governed by a thin lipped Etonian with a letterbox mouth...
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