Thom Yorke Keeps It Real

Some January Tunes.

January is usually crap. Because I enjoyed making my last mix so much i thought I'd make another one. So these particular songs are just to keep everyones head up during January.

Appetite for Distraction

Spent a little time yesterday making a mix loosely based around unemployment. This is for Deano and Brendan, and you of course.

2009

Finally recovered from various ailments from Christmas time (money worries, man flus, hangovers) to wake up and finally feel the magic the beginning of a new year brings. So I turned on RTE Radio 1 and was pleasently greeted by a fantastic lecture series curated by our president about the Ireland of tomorrow. Well worth a listen.

The Sunday Tribune Files.

The Sunday Tribune, are letting me do some images for them, here they are......

Sometimes I Photoshoppe

Music in 2008 & Fight Like Apes rant.

Hi everybody,

For the first 9 or so months I've been listening to music in 2008, I've found that most of it has been shite. Then I heard the new TV on the Radio album, and now my friends are going to have to listen to me going on about it until I put it on the stereo. Much like the way I've been going on about the Fight Like Apes album over the past month or so, it's excellent. Before I heard it wondered how they were going to make an album that would live up all of those great ep's and what not. I just didn't think they were capable of an album, I mean a proper album, not just singles and a few fillers. My oh my how they pulled it off, fantastic stuff.
Also, while I'm at it, I've been looking at a few peoples blogs going on about how they're beginning to be annoyed by FLapes, how "something global" is a real contrived single, and how they preferred the old versions of "Jake Summers" and "Lend me your face" how sad it is that as soon as an Irish band release something genuinely exciting that all the people "who preferred" the ep's go on about the glory days of FLapes circa 2006. Maybe we should just be proud of them because they're from our city and are sound and are absolutley fantastic.
Oh yeah, this year I've also been listening to Neon Neon and British Sea Power and then I listened to the new Cold War Kids album and then I didn't like it much.