Gang of Four are one of my all time favourite bands, so when I started listening to a cheeky little post-punk playlist this morning it was almost inevitable that something by those cheeky hipsters would pop up. So how relevant that I found that essence rare should randomly shuffle into my ears today, the day [...]
Inspired by Ged and Will, I’ve decided to write a ‘stuff wot makes me smile’ post. I wanted to do this last week, but I was in no mood nor frame of mind for it #miserablebastard. 1. Waking up in the morning and listening to Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones 2. Waking up and [...]
Sally has tagged me (after MUCH pleading, and I’ve not forgiven her for not thinking of me IMMEDIATELY) in her Infinite playlist meme. She was right, I did “squeal like a small kitten with excitement”. I’m like that. You know that. The meme is all about picking your favourite ten songs of all time. Sally [...]
Oh. Jesus. Christ. Watch this EveryDay Looper video, and tell me that you don’t have exactly the above reaction. I told you so. So, and here’s the beauty of this, are you now heading straight to the app store to buy EveryDay Looper? I’m guessing… Yes. Me too. Did it immediately, I didn’t even baulk [...]
So a little humdrum kicked off a few days back regarding Spotify. I’ll give you the spark notes… Loren Feldman of 1938 Media believes that Spotify is a house of cards (the video, in case you missed it), that Spotify is built on an unsustainable business model and that music subscription services don’t work because [...]
Amy R. Johnston asked me to pull together a playlist so she could feast her ears on some new music. She used to find all her new music from Asda adverts. Now, I’m going to be honest, I put some things on the list that I hadn’t heard before. But I am going to pretend [...]
So, here I am, sat behind a lovely little desk in a building in the Lace Market (Lace Market House, genius!) giving people badges and smiles and trying to minimise my sarcasm (some people don’t ‘get’ my sarcasm immediately!). I sat in the first session of the day this morning, Susi O’Neill spoke about how [...]
I’m going to have a go at being topical. Fancy that. I was driving into work this morning thinking about how record labels can try and resurrect their shipwreck, blissfully unaware of the Pirate Bay storm approaching (pun intended). The thoughts had stemmed from a post that Guy had written talking about how The Streets [...]
Sally has tagged me in this bloody awesome meme. New music? Check. Sharing? Check. Getting to tweak a playlist for hours on end? Check. The only way the meme could be improved would be if it came with free beer, and I can’t criticise Sally for that. It’s not her fault the technology doesn’t allow [...]
Some of you may not know this, but I (yes, Jed the non-rock star) used to be on the old wireless. It’s a pretty short story, basically what happened was that I did a few shows then I got booted out for playing Iggy Pop – Raw Power at 6:30pm to a prime time audience. [...]
After Ged Carroll tagged me in his Christmas reading meme and I read each of the books I listed, I’ve realised that I find it more compelling to actually get around to doing something when I’ve written it down either on here or on twitter. I figure that if I put it here, I might [...]
2008 brought with it some wholesale changes for me, so I’ve decided to summarise my media consumption changes!