The Hold Steady, The Roundhouse, December 17th 2008 [19 Dec 2008|10:28am] Hornets! Hornets! Constructive Summer Don't Let Me Explode Sequestered in Memphis You Can Make Him Like You Magazines Chips Ahoy! The Swish Massive Nights Cheyenne Sunrise Party Pit Lord I'm Discouraged Stevie Nix One for the Cutters Navy Sheets Your Little Hoodrat Friend Cattle & The Creeping Things Slapped Actress Certain Songs Stay Positive Stuck Between Stations First Night The order in the middle of this setlist is pretty messed up. They were amazing again, as expected. post comment

Leonard Cohen, Royal Albert Hall, Tuesday 18th November [21 Nov 2008|11:15am] First Set Dance Me To The End Of Love The Future Ain't No Cure For Love Bird On The Wire Everybody Knows In My Secret Life Who By Fire Chelsea Hotel no 2 Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye Anthem Second Set Tower Of Song Suzanne The Gypsy’s Wife The Partisan Boogie Street Hallelujah I'm Your Man A Thousand Kisses Deep (recitation) Take This Waltz Encore 1 So Long Marianne First We Take Manhattan Encore 2 Famous Blue Raincoat If It Be Your Will Democracy Encore 3 I Tried To Leave You Whither Thou Goest Incredible. 3 comments|post comment

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hammersmith Apollo, 7th May 2008 [09 May 2008|10:52am] Night of the Lotus Eaters Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Tupelo Today's Lesson Red Right Hand Midnight Man I Let Love In Jesus of the Moon The Ship Song We Call Upon The Author Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl) Deanna Papa Won't Leave You, Henry More News From Nowhere ------------------ Get Ready For Love The Lyre of Orpheus Hard On For Love Stagger Lee ----------------- Into My Arms Wanted Man This doesn't seem quite right to me, but I can't work out quite what the errors are in the ordering. He gyrated quite disturbingly, but it was a good show. post comment

The Hold Steady, Koko, Wednesday Feb 27th 2008 [28 Feb 2008|04:29pm] Hot Soft Light Stuck Between Stations The Swish Chips Ahoy! Stay Positive Party Pit Massive Nights Barfruit Blues Constructive Summer Same Kooks Multitude of Casualties Stevie Nix You Can Make Him Like You Your Little Hoodrat Friend How A Resurrection Really Feels First Night Southtown Girls Killer Parties Slightly less amazing than last time, but only because I knew what to expect. post comment

Decemberists, RFH, October 2nd [04 Oct 2007|08:17pm] The Tain Apology Song Yankee Bayonet Crane Wife 1 Culling of the Fold Perfect Crime #2 O, Valencia! The Island After the Bombs Kingdom of Spain Mariner's Revenge Song post comment

The Hold Steady, Electric Ballroom, August 30th 2007 [31 Aug 2007|09:36am] 1. Hot Soft Light 2. Banging Camp 3. Chips Ahoy 4. Stuck Between Stations 5. Cattle and the Creeping Things 6. Massive Nights 7. Party Pit 8. You Can Make Him Like You 9. Stevie Nix 10. Chillout Tent 11. Positive Jam 12. Your Little Hoodrat Friend 13. Southtown Girls 14. How A Resurrection Really Feels ________________________________ 15. Certain Songs 16. First Night 17. Most People Are DJs 18. Killer Parties Transcendent. post comment

Prince, August 28th 2007 [31 Aug 2007|09:32am] Let's Go Crazy 1999 Take Me With U 7 Come Together (The Beatles) Cream U Got The Look Musicology incl I Feel Alright (James Brown) What A Wonderful World interlude (Louis Armstrong) Piano set: Diamonds & Pearls - The Beautiful Ones - Little Red Corvette - Raspberry Beret Full Band: Lolita Black Sweat Kiss Synth set: Sign O The Times - Alphabet Street - Erotic City (sample) - When Doves Cry - Nasty Girl (sample) - I Wanna Be Your Lover Purple Rain Encore: I Feel 4 U Controversy Encore: Nothing Compares 2 U 1 comment|post comment

Tori Amos, Hammersmith Apollo, July 3rd 2007 [05 Jul 2007|01:36pm] Act I (Santa) Body And Soul God My Posse Can Do Dragon Secret Spell You Can Bring Your Dog Costume Change Act II (Tori) Big Wheel Crucify Siren Cornflake Girl Bells For Her “independence eve” improv Spring Haze (yeah, with the band) Solo China Cool On Your Island Yes Anastasia Band Returns Putting The Damage On Black Dove (partial) > Brain Fart improv segue > Bliss Code Red First Encore Precious Things Bouncing Off Clouds Second Encore Tear In Your Hand Hey Jupiter post comment

This... [20 Apr 2007|02:47pm] ...has probably not been thought through enough. US builds Baghdad wall to keep Sunnis and Shias apart Cos building big walls in the middle of cities... that works, that has no associations... post comment

Bob Dylan, April 16th 2007 [17 Apr 2007|07:26pm] Setlist, with album the songs played first appeared on: 1. Cat's In The Well – Under The Red Sky 2. Don't Think Twice, It’s All Right – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 3. Watching The River Flow – Greatest Hits Vol. 2 4. It's Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) – Bring It All Back Home 5. The Levee's Gonna Break – Modern Times 6. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll – The Times They Are A-Changin' 7. Rollin' And Tumblin' – Modern Times 8. Spirit On The Water – Modern Times 9. Highway 61 Revisited – Highway 61 Revisited 10. John Brown - Unplugged 11. When The Deal Goes Down - Modern Times 12. Most Likely You Go Your Way ( And I’ll Go Mine) - Blonde On Blonde 13. Ain't Talkin' – Modern Times 14. Summer Days – Love And Theft 15. Like A Rolling Stone – Highway 61 Revisited 16. Thunder On The Mountain – Modern Times 17. All Along The Watchtower – John Wesley Harding It was really great. I'm a quarter of a century old. I need to get on with something. 5 comments|post comment

Arcade Fire - Wednesday 14th March [16 Mar 2007|10:10am] Keep The Car Running No Cars Go Haiti Black Mirror Ocean Of Noise Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) The Well & The Lighthouse Neighbourhood #2 (Laika) Black Wave Cold Wind Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) Rebellion (Lies) Intervention -------------- Antichrist TV Blues Wake Up Was mega-awesome. Converted me to the new album. And plenty of Funeral tracks too. Only disappointment was no 'Crown of Love'. Ah, well. They're strongly rumoured to headline Latitude. Maybe they'll play it there. post comment

NIN, Brixton 07/03/07 [11 Mar 2007|04:08pm] Somewhat Damaged Last Heresy March of the Pigs Piggy Ruiner Closer (w/ The Only Time breakdown) Burn Gave Up Help Me I Am In Hell Eraser Wish The Big Comedown Survivalism Suck Only < not sure about the order where this one went in The Day the World Went Away Hurt The Hand That Feeds Head Like a Hole post comment

Hmm... [12 Feb 2007|05:20pm] The new Smashing Pumpkins album is going to be called Zeitgeist. I cannot even begin to express the number of ways in which this is wrong. 4 comments|post comment

OK, this isn't so merry... [25 Dec 2006|03:30pm] It hardly seems fair that James Brown should die on Christmas Day. post comment

[04 Dec 2006|03:00pm] The Philosophy of Zombies. post comment

[04 Dec 2006|02:32pm] Today's weird busker at Westminster was a large guy in a lumberjack shirt... bustin' out the Mikado's song from... well, The Mikado. The only thing better would have been if it was John Reid. post comment

[16 Nov 2006|04:21pm] Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, recorded Summer 2002 for The Fellowship of the Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition). Zinn: All the borders in this film are constantly being destroyed, or overrun, or eliminated, or sealed. It's all about fear — fearing the other. Notice, too, that the Elf Legolas jumps across the ruined bridge first. Chomsky: They'll cross this bridge and the bridge will collapse, and they'll never be able to communicate with the Balrog again, or with the Orcs inside. In fact, they're sealing off the Orcs from ever escaping. They're leaving the Orcs in the cave with this big Balrog. Now, again, surely, among these Moria Orcs were some Orc radicals — aggressive, angry, militant radicals. We shouldn't understate that. Zinn: Well, look how the Orcs grow up. What do you expect? Chomsky: I mean, what other options have they? Zinn: I dare say that, were I an Orc, I might possibly be one of those terrorist Orcs, shooting arrows at the Fellowship myself. Chomsky: Here comes the Balrog. Notice Gandalf's unilateral action. "Quick, get away, I have to fight this thing alone!" Zinn: Once again you see a creature that's on fire being demonized in this movie: the flaming eye, the flaming Balrog. As though being on fire is this terrible affliction to have. Chomsky: As though they can help it if they're on fire. I wanted to quote most of this, but that last line is so perfect... You really should go read this. post comment

... [23 Oct 2006|01:13pm] Yes, I know I haven't posted for ages. I will sometime. But not today. Today I am busy because on Wednesday I am off to Armenia. Which should be good, but will put me out of contact for ten days. I'll reply to emails the Monday I get back, two weeks today. Just hope this cold lifts by Wednesday... 1 comment|post comment

The cricketing weekend in Cambridge [13 Aug 2006|10:46pm] The nicest weekend I've spent in a very long time. 2 comments|post comment

Some events that have occurred over the past few days [26 Jun 2006|04:09pm] -> The reading of Lovecraft -> 'orrible summer weather -> Death And The Penguin -> A resurgent interest in comics -> The visit to London of Messrs. Dexter, James and Mills ---> Tapas was eaten ---> Darts was played ---> Wine was drunk ---> Avenue Q was sold out ---> Titus Andronicus at the Globe was seen. Much blood. Humour. Crowd fainting. -> The brilliance of Low's The Great Destroyer -> The obtuseness of Illinoise -> eBay -> Burgundy -> A visit to the bridge o'er the Cam ---> A marvelous engagement party ---> A Porn-Off, won by the defending champion ---> Many fine meals ---> The refinement of the Serbian Homebrew Schnapps version of chess -> The reading of the Observer -> Piano -> Enjoyment of number9dream thus far -> Lethargy -> Rain 3 comments|post comment

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