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This morning, I have achieved a personal goal for (I think) the first time this year. Last night, when I went to bed, I didn't set my alarm. My first commitment today is to be in Highbury and Islington to go to Crimes Against Pop tonight and even I didn't think I could oversleep to that extent. Accordingly, I slept til I woke up naturally. Hurrah.
Even better, I feel nicely relaxed and awake. Which is good, because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jezzidue ( told me I'd have a hangover ).
leathellin is Designated Hero of the Week for conceiving and organising last night's outing, in particular for managing to get all parties there on time :) I'm sure putting together small, congenial parties of dinner guests is a fine art, and it was managed extraordinarily well. I had a lovely and very entertaining evening.
Yesterday,zotz posted a throwaway comment on my LJ asking if I'd head Waiting For Pete Doherty To Die. The answer was no, but with a title like that you've got to go looking, haven't you ?
A swift google found The Indelicates - Waiting For Pete Doherty To Die (that's a legit download from the band's own site). Which wasn't at all what I was expecting. I had thought it would be a parody (for some reason) and a pisstake, in a way which it more sort of isn't.
However, the song did inspire me to go hunting for The Indelicates' website (http://www.indelicates.com/, so not a challengeful quest) which even has a large and funky "MP3s" button on the front page. After rapaciously downloading all they had to offer, I'm really rather impressed.
I'd recommend The Indelicates - New Art For The People in particular, which combines a monumental cynicism with a Sarah Nixey-esque self-conscious female vocal, but somehow avoids sounding like Black Box Recorder. I've detected whiffs of The Jam and Saint Etienne in their other songs too - and an ironic Joy Division reference - but all in all I'm really very taken with them.
See, bands, putting mp3s on your page for download is a good thing.
Mind you, I am a bit distressed by the Rolling Stone quotation they display - it begins "Neo-Brecht/Weill theatricality ? Check." Now, when the Dresden Dolls described themselves as "Brechtian Punk Cabaret" I was impressed, but really... two bands with Brechtian influences ? Should we be expecting a New Wave Of Brechtian Inspired Music ? Are my A-level German syllabuses coming back to haunt me ?
NWoBIM - you heard it here first.
Zotz would be DHW for bringing The Indelicates to my attention, but I'm afaid he got pipped at the post by Leathellin (see above).
Even better, I feel nicely relaxed and awake. Which is good, because
jezzidue ( told me I'd have a hangover ).leathellin is Designated Hero of the Week for conceiving and organising last night's outing, in particular for managing to get all parties there on time :) I'm sure putting together small, congenial parties of dinner guests is a fine art, and it was managed extraordinarily well. I had a lovely and very entertaining evening.Yesterday,
zotz posted a throwaway comment on my LJ asking if I'd head Waiting For Pete Doherty To Die. The answer was no, but with a title like that you've got to go looking, haven't you ?A swift google found The Indelicates - Waiting For Pete Doherty To Die (that's a legit download from the band's own site). Which wasn't at all what I was expecting. I had thought it would be a parody (for some reason) and a pisstake, in a way which it more sort of isn't.
However, the song did inspire me to go hunting for The Indelicates' website (http://www.indelicates.com/, so not a challengeful quest) which even has a large and funky "MP3s" button on the front page. After rapaciously downloading all they had to offer, I'm really rather impressed.
I'd recommend The Indelicates - New Art For The People in particular, which combines a monumental cynicism with a Sarah Nixey-esque self-conscious female vocal, but somehow avoids sounding like Black Box Recorder. I've detected whiffs of The Jam and Saint Etienne in their other songs too - and an ironic Joy Division reference - but all in all I'm really very taken with them.
See, bands, putting mp3s on your page for download is a good thing.
Mind you, I am a bit distressed by the Rolling Stone quotation they display - it begins "Neo-Brecht/Weill theatricality ? Check." Now, when the Dresden Dolls described themselves as "Brechtian Punk Cabaret" I was impressed, but really... two bands with Brechtian influences ? Should we be expecting a New Wave Of Brechtian Inspired Music ? Are my A-level German syllabuses coming back to haunt me ?
NWoBIM - you heard it here first.
Zotz would be DHW for bringing The Indelicates to my attention, but I'm afaid he got pipped at the post by Leathellin (see above).
