Category Archives: UK

Music Monday – “Should I stay or should I go?”

Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur & Gorillaz, was led off stage by security after refusing to stop performing after a five-hour set with the Africa Express Project at a music festival in Europe!  

Music Monday – “Uri Gagarin/Flew into the sun/The angels in heaven/Look down where he lay”

I think I posted this in a long ago Music Monday but heard it recently and felt the need to post it again. Such great memories of my undergrad exchange to England during the height of the Britpop/Cool Britannia years with a song that pretty much defines the “Britpop” sounds for me… “Angel Interceptor” – […]

Music Monday – “Wishin’ I had money/Wishin’ for the time to spend it all/Wishin’ I was pretty/Wish that I could twist the world ’round my finger”

Stumbled across this folk/Americana version of “Wish I Was Skinny” by 1990’s Britpop band, Boo Radleys, which makes one of my favourite songs possibly even better! 😉  

How JK Rowling Plotted Harry Potter With A Hand-drawn Spreadsheet

Interesting.

Music Monday – “I’ve had enough of watching scenes/Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas/All I want is the truth now/Just gimme some truth”

“Gimme Some Truth” – John Lennon

/r/Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day

It’s a perfect day to check out what’s being posted on /r/ireland.

Friday Fun Link- A Hard Day’s Night First Chord Solved?

100 Years of Style

Here’s another of those popular “Take yourself through time” videos – this one focused on fashion as much as music or dance or whatever…

Music Monday – Strawberry Fields Forever (Slowed 800%)

Brian Eno would be proud… “Strawberry Fields Forever” – The Beatles (slowed by 800%)

Music Monday – “Line one/Is the time/That you/You first stayed over at mine”

Here’s a set from a reunited Beautiful South at Glastonbury 2014’s “Introducing” stage (I guess being re-united qualified them?) featuring Shea’s and my first dance song at 4:30…