I've been buying a few (!!) Cds lately. Here's most of them.

Kelly Osbourne - Sleeping in the Nothing (It was going cheap and I love her rip-off of Visage, One Word.)
Scott Matthews - Passing Stangers (great album, deserves greater success)
Jackson and His Computer Band
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus does Judy (Not sure about this one. It was a present. I have all his other albums but his voice is beginning to get on my nerves. Its about time I realised, no?!)
Pop Art - Pet Shops Boys greatest hits
Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape (wonderful 80's pop)
Amy MacDonald - This is the life (Bought this on a day when I had money to spend and nothing to buy. Don't like it.)
Razzmatazz 07 - Great compliation of indie rock from Barcelona's finest live music nightspot
Kate Nash - Made of Bricks (I knew I would eventually buy it. Great cover).
La China - De Amor y Muerte (Excellent first album)
Robyn - Haven't made up my mind on this one yet. Seems like a grower.
OK Computer - For once a great free cd with Mojo music magazine.
Depeche Mode - First time around (live in Zeche Bochum 28.11.92) Recorded by someone in the audience (not soundboard) but not bad quality.
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (mix of great new electrodisco and old-fashioned sounding 90's dance music)
kd lang - Watershed (new album. Having read the reviews i was hoping for a more country flavoured album but this sounds just the same as everything she's done since' Barefoot'.)
Depeche Mode - Deluxe version of 'A Broken Frame', classic album, classic over.

Andrew Ridgeley- Red Dress

Allez Allez - African Queen

Decca, limited edition of 300 from 1953

The Dogs - Dogfood

Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick

Paul McCartney & Kylie

Paul McCartney flirting with Kylie Minogue. What a weird but credible match.
Here they are on the best music on TV I saw over the holidays, on Jool's Holland annual Hootenannyon BBC2

Happy 2008.

Blue Christmas

Here's one of my favorite Christmas songs.
Happy Christmas everyone



I actually prefer the Shaky version. Imagine that!

Duran Duran Live 2007

Furan Duran are back with a great new album and a new world tour! Last week I came across a special edition of the new Duran Duran album, CD + DVD, and I sat down last night to watch the 'Making of' the album DVD. Its about 40 minutes long and well worth the few extra euro for the special eidition. It comes with a press access sticker (feels like its the 80's again!) which I'll try and use when I next see them in concert (yeah right you will!).



Here are the Duranies on Jonathon Ross performing their new single plus girls on film. I don't know why they decided to lanuch the album with this as single. For me, its one of the weaker songs on a very good album.




And here they are on the American Music Awards peforming the same single and then 'Hungry Like the Wolf'.

Here's a couple of photos of Simon and Nick taken by a friend of mine when we went to see them play in Razzamatazz in Barcelona in 2005.






The quality isn't great but its interesting to see how their new show is shaping up. Here they are live in New York in November 2007.




And finally, a tribute to Kraftwerk?

Back to Life

Back to life...


I've been busy being a music consumer over the last few months but I haven't found the time or inspiration to write about it. Maybe its because I get the feeling that I'm writing only for myself (who better person to write for?). Anyway, today I bought a couple of CDs for my birthday which is next week. I've agreed with my girlfriend that there will be no birthday presents this year (we're up the walls with other things) so I decided to treat myself to a few CDs. I bought ...


I was gonna buy the Roisin Murphy album from HMV online on vinyl (its a double coloured vinyl edition!!) but its 25 quid sterling, no way! How can you jstify 25 quid for an album. That's nearly 35 euros (plus post and packing of 2 quid extra), when you can buy the CD for 9,99 euros.



The 'La China' album De Amor y Muerte is a real find. I know nothing about her yet, just that she's on Subterfuge Records and she's the singer in the group Cycle (see myspace here) . The CD is really excellent, electro 80's influenced spanish pop. You'll find more info here (in Spanish)

Dolores on the Late Late Show, 2007

I first saw the Cranberries in 1992 (or was it 1991?), playing live in the college bar in UCC, where I was a student at the time. In fact, my brother had an EP on cassette which they had released in Ireland. I think there was a dolphin on the front of it. They were called the Cranberry Saw Us at the time. Anyway, there was 6 people there to see them play live at the college bar in UCC that night. But it was brilliant. Its the only time I've ever seen an almost unknown band play live and know that they were going to be huge.

Pissed off with HMV

I waited for Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' album to come out on vinyl before buying it. When I didn't find it in the local record stores I purchased it online from HMV. When it arrived in the post the cover was torn. Bad luck. I sent it back and asked for a new one. Can you believe it, the second copy they sent me was also torn, even more so than the first one. After about 10 messages of complaint, and them continually saying yes yes yes, no problem, the customer is alright right, etc etc, they still haven't replaced the record for me. Its been about 2 months! They're just fobbing me off in the hope that I'll give up and leave them alone.