May 2012
8 posts
Self-preservation
On “Alesund,” the opening lyric was inspired by years of people asking me about my guitars at airports. You get tired of sitting on planes, listening to some computer guy talking your ear off about how he used to play guitar, or how his cousin makes dobros. Finally, I just said “No, it’s not my guitar, I’m carrying it for a friend.” You figure these things out over the years, how to...
Bloom
When I done my old job, I wrote this album review what never got used, for a publication which was not the one I worked for. CRYPTIC. Anyway, here it is, for you, for free. I am told it is written in “the old-style Melody Maker way”, which is surely very smart of me as I never was able to read a copy of the Melody Maker. Maybe it is not very good, I was going mad when I wrote it. And...
Three men, three record collections
1. Today, the first dispatch of John Peel’s record collection went online at the very good Space website. Alexis Petridis met Peel’s widow, Sheila, and talked about the project. Tom Ewing also wrote a thoughtful blogpost about the merits and potential oversights of the online archive.
2. Although there have been some complications with the project, thousands of what are supposedly J...
