'cause the rest of us can keep it tight forever...

This is a tremendous video for a great song by a magnificent (and criminally, yes genuinely criminally, underrated) band...

Shed 7 - Disco Down; get in!

Calling...civilisation!

I've been looking sporadically on YouTube for years for the old Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation sketches from Naked Video. Thankfully it doesn't disappoint even after all these years.

Many, many thanks to The Croft for bringing this to my attention. Skip ahead to 2'48 and enjoy.

Hallo, hallo, hallo...

"GLOW and ACFE Uber Alles"

This is very, very clever. That's all I'll say about it.

...and true love will find you in the end...

Obviously, from previous postings, I'm well disposed towards the magnificent Swell Season anyway but this really takes the biscuit. A beautifully shot (16mm cinecam) performance of their plaintive "In These Arms" posted by the band on their Twitter feed earlier today...

In These Arms from banjo bandstand on Vimeo.

Home Mix-taping is Reinvigorating Music?

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Mibbes aye...

I ranted (hey, there's a shocker) about home-taping articles at the start of the month there and then last night I found this great old flyer in my bag...

We need more of this sort of thing in the world, particularly if people move increasingly towards downloads and thereby by-pass cover art and the creativity inherent therein.

I've no idea - yet - what I'll put on the tape that I know I'll send, heck I don't even know if I have a tape to record onto but I know, in High Fidelity stylee, it will be done with love.

No Bonus For RBS

Self explantory really.

Legendary politcal activist and protest singer Billy Bragg....blah,blah,blah...any fan of Bill's will tell you that he's always been more of a real-life chronicler and love-song balladeer than a fist waving, ranting political polemic kinda guy. Though, understandably, ranting tends to attract more attention than singing sweetly...

Anyway, Bill is - rightly - outraged at the potential payment of bonuses to high-flying RBS types in light of the fact that we, the UK taxpayers, own 84% of the bank and, as such, have a right to veto. The web is, at the moment, full of Bill's Campaign (he's even got himself a website all about it) and he's omnipresent in radio and tv interviews.

Fair Play Bill I reckon. I've long thought that the country would be a better place with BB for PM.

Facebook campaign anyone?

And a big shout out!

First time lucky and all that...with my sister visiting for youngest daughter's birthday, we decided to request a shout out from Stuart on the Radcliffe and Maconie show in celebration of the lovely pink sponge being constructed (do you construct cakes?) for said birthday celebrations...

Having started earlier in the day with a selection of glittery-starry-pink-iced cupcakes:

...I felt it only appropriate to mark the creating of the fairy-princess masterpiece with a request on national radio

Radcliffe and Maconie giving a big shout out to Maisie mouse.