Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Coldplay & The Brits : The Day The Music Died

Posted: 21st February 2012 by Harry in BLOG, MUSIC
Tags: Coldplay, , The Brit Awards
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Dear God. Good grief. For feck’s sake. Christ Almighty. Coldplay best British band?! Let us be clear; Coldplay is the band of choice for those who don’t actually like music. Whiney, bland, soulless, corporate mogadon. Scared music might actually make you feel something? Have no fear, Coldplay are here. Their fans are middle-class Tarquins and [...]

“Without music, life would be a mistake”

Posted: 24th September 2011 by Harry in BLOG, MUSIC
Tags: Bach, Dance, Disco, Mahler, , , Nietzsche, , Trance
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So wrote Nietzsche but it started with Eddie Truman having a Bruce Springsteen Day. You know how that goes: you just have a yen, an itch that needs to be scratched and only total immersion in your music of choice can relieve that nagging thing you ache to express. It’s never something you can actually [...]

Facebook : The Rules

Posted: 16th July 2011 by Harry in BLOG, CULTURE, LIFE
Tags: Daily Mail, , ,
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Funny old game this Facebook malarkey, isn’t it? Social networking, and all the gubbins that goes with it, seems to have an unwritten but rigid set of rules and a peculiar etiquette. Foolishly, I suppose, I continue to make the mistake of interacting with people on Facebook as I would in real life. I speak [...]

Satan’s Lullaby : Isolysis unveil new material

Posted: 25th February 2011 by Harry in MUSIC
Tags: , Daniel Hayes, , , , , ,
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Photographs reproduced by kind permission of Sue Paterson Photography © All rights reserved. The Brit Awards, The X Factor and all the other extravagant and expensive spectacles the music industry continues to churn out cannot disguise several obvious truths; real talent, real musical ability, imaginative song writing and passionate and thrilling live performances are a [...]

Here’s to you, Dr.Frankenstein

Posted: 22nd January 2011 by Harry in BLOG
Tags: , , writing
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I shared an exchange, recently, with a very famous (infamous?) music journalist, author and broadcaster (and no; it fecking well wasn’tPaul ‘Rock Is Dead’ Gambaccini). The scribe in question has been a long-standing hero of mine and source of inspiration for decades. It’s not just the excellence of his writing, though, that appeals. It’s also the [...]

Dyonisis : Intoxicated

Posted: 27th September 2010 by Harry in MUSIC
Tags: Ambient, Dyonisis, , ,
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First published in Moonshine Magazine, September 2010. www.mickmoonshine.co.uk This, the second, self-financed album from Dyonisis, might more accurately be titled ‘Sedated’, given the utter lack of variety and sheer, grinding monotony on offer. Hold on, though; my personal brief is to help and promote unsigned acts and I work on the premise that if I [...]