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Monday 29th December 2008 - Comments (0) - Add A Comment
New Year. Same story

Wednesday 17th December 2008 - Comments (0) - Add A Comment
The day after a Christmas Party



The older I get, the uncooler drinking gets.  Or so I thought, until I saw this guy...

Tuesday 16th December 2008 - Comments (0) - Add A Comment
Top

I know the four readers of Sound Theory are regular visitors to chimpomatic, who are currently doing a rundownof the Best ofs of 2008. So in the spirit of an exclusive to Sound Theory, here are some of my tops, yet to be published in chimpland:

Damien Jurado - Caught in the Trees: Not convinced at first, but grew and grew and grew. Lovely stuff.

Ladyhawk - Shots: Dirty rock n roll. Brains, booze and plenty of heart

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes: Yes!

Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight: An early release and still on heavy rotation. How can someone so miserable write such catchy and rocking tunes. Some great lyrics too.



Shows:

My Morning jacket - The Forum: as reliable as ever when playing live

Frightened Rabbit - Madame Jojos/Sala Sol: Poor in a poor venue in London. Much better and relaxed in front of about 30 people in Madrid

Damien Jurado - Moby Dick (madrid): Warm and Intimate as Winter approached

Foals - Mynt (madrid): From the rousing drum intro. Through to the guitarist playing whilst walking along the bar. The tunes rocked and they gave it their all.

TV:

The Wire - the best this year and many years to comeI imagine

Story:

Dislocated Knees - Muxloe: "Jush fur Boyfrench"

Footballer:

Lionel Messi - a one man crusade to keep modern top-level football enjoyable

Saturday 13th December 2008 - Comments (2) - Add A Comment
of the month



I know this place is becoming a bit band heavy, I'm not sure what else to post at the moment.  I bought a nice coat the other day - very warm. On thursday I made a great beer stew.  Today I'm going to watch the biggest football match in the world ever, Liverpool v Hull (followed by Madrid v Barcelona). Errr, see...pretty dull. So, in music news, the above review is from the 'Myspace of the month' section of a spanish musicmagazine 'Arto'. To summarise, it starts with 'My God!My God!' and ends with 'spectacular'.  Happy Christmas.

Sunday 7th December 2008 - Comments (1) - Add A Comment
Band of Small Horses



Here's a photo of me chatting with my new celebrity pal Jack Bevan, talented drummer of Foals (who appears to have lost his shoes.)

Tuesday 2nd December 2008 - Comments (0) - Add A Comment
Foals



Well we enjoyed it.  Despite the electricity shorting halfway through song four, cutting shot the set and blgpinion being varied as to how we sounded, last sundays gig with Foals was a definite year high point.  foals were absolutely awesome.