Apologies to Simon Wakeman who tagged me with this meme about a month ago. I have some great excuses for the delay including three month old Finn who’s pictured above. Anyway, this one’s doing the rounds on the PR blogging circuit courtesy of Stephen Waddington and aims to provide an insight into our media consumption habits for a week.
What I’ve read
Uncut – in which the geriatric Faces claim they could have been bigger than the Stones if Rod hadn’t gone solo and Woody hadn’t defected. Perhaps the infamous booze intake and comparative lack of hit singles had something to do with it too.
Mac Format – somehow this magazine always ends up costing us an arm and a leg over the cover price but more of that in a later post…
Creative Review – actually I just look at the pictures as the copy is usually self indulgent designer nonsense.
What I’ve listened to
The Go! Team’s fantastic debut ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike’ now part of Zavvi’s two for a tenner deal. A couple of years old now but still an explosive mix of soul samples, hip hop beats and pop chants. Here’s the video for the Ladyflash single.
Sigur Ros ‘Hvarf - Heim’. A double CD of re-recordings and live stuff from the ambient Icelanders and a birthday present from Nicky. Here’s the trailer for the accompanying film Heima.
Daybreaks ‘Here I Am’. Debut single by Mancunian teen three piece and the forthcoming first release on my new label.
What I’ve watched
Moving Wallpaper / Echo Beach – I just loved the outcry in The Guardian over this. It’s actually quite an amusing idea and will do nicely until we get Ugly Betty back.
The Culture Show – Well we don’t do Saturday nights out since Finn arrived. Actually I don’t know why we watch this as it always annoys me particularly film buffoon Mark Kermode and that other patronising guy who’s doing the series on Spanish art at the moment. I suppose Verity Sharp’s OK and they do have some decent music guests every now and again but I just can’t help thinking whose idea of culture this really is.
Ladette to Lady – This 'social experiment' now in its third series takes a bunch of "binge drinking, sexually shameless, anti-social rebels" to a mock finishing school and attempts to teach them the finer things in life in the vain hope they will be transformed Pygmalion–style into debutantes. Really it’s an excuse to encourage bad behaviour and look down refined noses at the oikettes but the people who invariably come across worse are the two head mistress types with faces like slapped arses and permanent expressions of disgust. And as for the C list aristocrats who the wanabee ‘ladies’ are supposed to be impressing, I think the French had the right idea.
What I’ve surfed
A daily fix of broadsheet and tabloid news sites, the completely legal in Russia MP3 Sparks and lots of obscure music blogs. Fire Escape Talking and Junkfood Philosophy are two of the best written.
I'm not tagging anyone as I'm a bit late on this one...