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On the shoulders of giants
I’m not very good at the whole “albums of the year” thing. I only intermittently plug myself into current releases, so always miss a lot of gems and find myself playing catch-up at the end of the year. If there’s … Continue reading
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Musicians and dog whistles
When Dirty Loops put out their Adele cover this week, my Facebook feed was full of it. Actually, my Facebook feed is like a Dirty Loops fan convention. Fair enough, they’re pretty amazing: But it’s not hard to spot which … Continue reading
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If you were snowed in… Here be Map gig vids.
Earlier this month, on a dark and snowy night, I found myself back at Map Studio Café for a gig with my quartet. As well as having a grand time playing, we managed to nab some good audio and video … Continue reading
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I was tired of being drunk…
…so, as part of the post-Christmas detox, I’ve recorded this cover of Joanna Newsom’s tune Jackrabbits. It seems somehow apt for New Year. Lend an ear, why don’t you.
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A Song A Day
A couple of years ago, a friend challenged me to write a song every day for a month. I only lasted a week. But one of my efforts was a reflexive and soppy tune called A Song A Day, which found … Continue reading
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Tom/Thom Waits gets Satisfied
Is Tom Waits the new Thom Yorke? (Or the old Thom Yorke?) Another question-to-which-the-answer-is-no, obviously, but this video for Satisfied, from Waits’s new album Bad As Me, has a distinct Lotus Flower flavour: Perhaps Tom saw all the publicity Garth Jennings’s … Continue reading
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Has showbiz ever been fair?
The old joke about questions in headlines is that the answer is almost always “no”. The BBC News website is a wonderful thing, but it does have a knack for churning out aimless and inconclusive feature pieces like this one … Continue reading
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Eeeep! The Zig Zag Birds EP is among us.
It took many hours and many cups of tea. But we’ve finished our EP and it’s up on iTunes, Bandcamp, CD Baby, etc etc. Do yourself a favour and lend an ear, share with your friends and perhaps even buy. … Continue reading
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Saturday. Louis Jordan.
As Friday melts into Saturday with the cyclical inevitability Rebecca Black warned us about, I’m having a little Louis Jordan moment. Specifically, this song. Louis Jordan’s music has been in my life since I was tiny, so perhaps I’m not … Continue reading
Jon Hendricks interview in new Jazzwise
The March 2011 issue of Jazzwise is out today, and I heartily recommend you pick up a copy, not least for the cover feature on Kurt Elling which includes portions of an interview I did with Jon Hendricks back in … Continue reading
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