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He made it!

I was *this* close to putting money on Pete Doherty not showing up for Babyshambles' headline slot at Get Loaded in the park this Sunday...and he did, the bugger. Sadly, by that point I'd had already my fill of showers  of beer raining down on me as well as constantly being approached by drug/drink casualties (must be my face!) and was well on my way home.

Pretty good day all round though,  De la Soul were good ( despite the initally crap sound) as were the Cuban Bros who did an outstanding breakdance /compere set. Lily allen sounded like the album, which aint no bad thing and the Young knives made a wonderful racket whilst being decked-out like Stephen fry. Respect!

and so the award...

for the rock star least likely to end up in the priory...but has...goes to Tom Chaplin of Keane. Yes, the same man you confused with Aled Jones when you first saw him, has gone all 'proper rock' and got himself a drug habit to match. Pete you have too much to answer for! 

You gotta love...

The Kooks. Despite being about 12, they have recorded a rather wonderful debut album which happens to be on the shared itunes-super-network now happening in the office. Whats more, they have a track on there that is *actually* titled 'Jackie big tits'. Beat that, the strokes!.

Don't mess with the Dan!

You gotta read Steely Dan's open letter to Luke Wilson.

Grindie...of course!

Just when you thought music collaborations couldn't get any more unlikely, along comes Grindie; A none-too-subtle blend of Grime and Indie. Yep, Kids who would normally ignore each other like Big issue sellers are getting together and making sweet noise. The main main behind it all appears to be Statik who as well as having the dubious honour of being one of my 'friends' on myspace, seems to think it's a good idea to put The Rakes and Lethal Bizzle in the same room, and you know what?, He's right!

Drum and Bass = Therapeutic

My new way of getting to sleep, other than watching yet another BIg Brother, is listening to Bassdrive. It's a streaming  net radio station, that I access via Itunes. In the past, I've always reached for the softer end of the musical spectrum: chillout, ambient etc as a means of nodding off, but it never seemed to work. Bassdrive, on the other hand crushes your brain to sleep with an excellent mix of hardcore D'nB. None of  the crappy stuff with flutes and annoying vocal snippits but hard, precisely programmed, well engineered tracks that are right up my alley. I guess the kids would call it Techstep.