... southern comfort and lemonade; cool t-shirts; colourful stuff; funny friends; drunken texts; silly hats; walking fast; listening to tunes (and forcing my music on to others); getting introduced to new tuneage (it can be life-changing!); architecture; taking photos at every god-given angle (ie, bullying friends with my camera); flat footwear; going to gigs wherever and whenever; making the most of time with friends and family; spending too much money in fopp; Bestival, and maybe Bestival numero deux?; looking forward to holibags in Krakow with Rosiemac and Lou; seeing a bit of the world; chocolate (white chocoate...dreamy); hot chocolate (ok, i've a very sweet tooth); hot choclate and croissants...(hence why my interest in muai thai should really be on the up); ...talented people, and those i admire; .... sleeping - i like that alot, and have been found sleeping in many many places; and of course, nights out in glasgow with my crazy friends...
Music
Well in addition to all the gems I have come across through Your Sound, my favourites include The Frames, Mogwai, Low, Four Tet, Portishead, Kings Of Convenience, Sparklehorse, Elbow, David Kitt, Cinematic Orchestra, Damien Rice, Brian Wilson, Soulwax, Herbaliser, Sigur Ros, Jurrasic 5, The Redneck Manifesto, Mr Scruff, The Reindeer Section, Bonobo, The Evens, Ben Folds Five, Lily Allen, Beta Band, Aerogramme, Fionn Regan, Hot Chip, Goldfrapp, My Latest Novel, Guided By Voices, The Walkmen...as well as Le Reno Amps, North Atlantic Oscillation, Attic Lights, theonewhoflew, Conor Mason, Glasvegas, Just A Word, The Sky At Night, Number One Fan, Jo Mango, The Dykeenies, theoceanfloor, Coriolis, The Kazoo Funk Orchestra, stopstarts, Invisibles, Employee of the Month, sixpeopleaway, Joe Hay, Rick Redbeard, Early Songs, and more....
Movies
Usually, they make me sleepy...I even fell asleep in a 3D version of Sharks recently. They were coming right at me, and I fell asleep. Surely that's not right?
About me:
I've finally got a Your Sound myspace set up at www.myspace.com/yoursoundglasgow ... YOUR SOUND takes place on the first Sunday of every month ... a playlist of unsigned music and independent releases is DJd in King Tuts downstairs bar, to an audience of genuine music lovers and industry insiders.
There's lots of exciting stuff happening right now, even though i'm away...such as the Your Sound bandstand at Connect! Wahey!! The line up is most excellent... go see!
For info on YOUR SOUND, go to www.myspace.com/yoursoundglasgow
Who I'd like to meet: All those people i don't get to see enough of!
The last Phantom Band show of the decade... our festive Yuletide Log Jam, with help from Lord Cut-Glass and Sparrow & The Workshop.
To show our gratitude for a fantastic year, we're giving out some Xmas gifts to the earliest arrivals, which will include unreleased/unheard music and one or two other bits and bobs. Apparently there's also a deal on regarding entry to Death Disco as well.
A
4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
North Atlantic Oscillation's "Hollywood Has Ended", from the forthcoming album Grappling Hooks, is featured in this month's Police Box compilation from TenTracks. It's here:
In case you haven't heard, TenTracks is a new music delivery service where you can buy exclusive 10-track compilations for £1, i.e. a mere 10p per track.
This month NAO are in the illustrious company of the excellent Found, Orkestra Del Sol, Fence Collective luminaries James Yorkston and King Creosote and exactly 5 others. Once again, that's £1 for ALL TEN TRACKS. Not bad, really.
Next gig : Genre Is A Dirty Word, G12, Glasgow, 08/11/08
I'll be playing with Cinephile, Marco Bernardi, Conor Mason & The Lava Experiments. Special guest DJ Mash. Doors 7pm and first act on @ 7. 45 - get there early!
Gig was so good not a very big crowd though, was moved from stereo to sleazys.I was dying to see what the new stero was like for gigs, ah well always next time!The guy supporting was sweet as well, called David Dondero, think you'd like him. I hope you enjoyed Nouvelle Vague! x
Hiya missus! Long time since ben kweller! What you up to? Im in Derry until the summer, getting a tad sick of it now! But back in glasvegas next week for david bazan in the new stereo? xx
Hey how you doing? just wanted to pop by and say thanks for being friends with us on myspace, up to much this week anyways? were in the middle of trying to get some recording done so hopefully should be a productive week :)
anyways drop us a line, we love hearing from all dif kinds of folks :)
Bradley
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Hey Rach, well 'Another run around the sun' is a great album. the song on my page is due to be out on his new album, not sure when the release date for that is. check out his page, oh and if you get a chance to get to his gigs on your travels you should defo go, its always great fun.
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