Sunday, 22 June 2008

What do these artists have in common?


Leonard Cohen
FPI Project
DJ Rodriguez
Snog
Superchumbo
Genesis
Jennifer Warnes
REM
Xscape
Ini Kamoze
Daft Punk
Nichole Nordeman
Joe Cocker
Darren Hayes
matt pond PA
Rahsaan Patterson
The Sounds of Blackness
Madonna
Labi Siffre
Teresa Jennings
Fascinators
Iron Butterfly
Anton Bruhin & Various Trümpi Artists
Hybrid
Storyteller
Kulas
Alex Lauterstein
4 Friends (Bryan Miller, Brenda Silas Moore, Wayne Moore, & Gilmore Rizzo)
Bubba Sparxxx
Spide
Ross Irwin Big Band
DDJ Bass
iNXS
Paul Spicer/Finzi Singers
Winifred Atwell
Westar Music
Para Para ft.Jo
Cleo Laine
Catherine Bott, Joseph Cornwell and The Parley of Instruments
John McCutcheon
Cue
Chad & Jeremy
Lowry Olafson
Tore W.Aas
Elias Rahbani
Tyrell Corp
Honesty 69
Various Artists
Siobhán Forde
Sergey Krivobokov: Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Capella, Moscow Youth Chorus
Ellena Alekseyeva: Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Andy Shaw Band


I've just bought a new toy - a USB cassette deck to convert my old tapes to mp3 format. It's quite clever, it even attempts to identify your music automatically; it tends to be quite good at guessing, correctly identifying relatively obscure artists such as Robert Ward and Adrian Legg.

Occasionally, however, it gets a bit confused - above is a list of suggestions for Richard Thompson's album 'Rumor and Sigh'.

I must go and buy something by Anton Bruhin & Various Trümpi Artists now.

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Allez les Bleus


Not sure if this is genuinely the French team bus but I hope so.

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

I am Kara Crane, but only at the weekends




I have donned a little black dress for the cover of my debut album.

Monday, 2 June 2008

Tube of not very smarties

Admittedly the tube booze ban was an ill-thought out, knee-jerk reaction to a problem which doesn't really exist.

But what's the best way to organise a protest? How can we best demonstrate the fact that drinking on the tube doesn't cause disruption? I know, let's all have a big piss-up and cause as much disruption as possible. Genius.