One band who have always seemed to grasp the power of t’internet is Nine Inch Nails. I’ve been a fan of theirs right back to the first album (Which I originally had on cassette, to give an example of timescale) so it’s been great to see that they’ve now launched an official photostream on Flickr.
Among the photos are hi-res images of the photos taken for the cover-art of Downward Spiral, which will make an excellent desktop image as well.
In addition, there’s photos from their concerts, and a bundle of other goodies.
Fantastic!
Damn you, Tom, just as I was doing some work, you land me with a meme that’s actually quite cool…
“List seven songs you’re into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring.”
I’m neck-deep in other stuff at the moment, and wasn’t going to add links to them, but it turned out to be pretty easy to find stuff on so most likely won’t attach links to the songs/videos (unless I can find them easily) but here goes, in no particular order, seven songs currently infecting my head…
- Nick Cave’s “Song of Joy” from the “Murder Ballads” album. A long-time favourite, and now a small part of the inspiration for a short screenplay I’m writing when I get time/chance/opportunity
- Pendulum’s “Propane Nightmares” from “In Silico” (and the most recent single) – there’s just something unidentifiably fantastic about this for me, and I’m a definite fan of the video as well, creepy preacher and all.
- Nine Inch Nail’s “Something I Can Never Have“, a long-time favourite that still just plays into my head at various points.
- Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Jo” – I first heard this way back on a David Holmes Essential Mix for Radio One, and it’s always been a favourite. I downloaded a Bobbie Gentry album recently, and this was on it
- Dead Can Dance’s “Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove” – another favourite that is currently being part of the soundtrack for the short screenplay. It won’t be in the finished product, but it’s in my head now, so there we go.
- Duffy’s “Stepping Stone” – I like a lot of Duffy’s album, but for me this is the one that keeps coming back
and finally
- back to Nick Cave for “The Curse of Millhaven“, again from “Murder Ballads”. I’ve been revisiting this album recently, and the chorus (small as it is) is just too catchy by far. And the lyrics, well, they’re just genius.
Who will I tag with this pain-in-the-ass? Hmm, I think it’ll be
When it was announced that Massive Attack would be the curators of this year’s Meltdown Festival at London’s South Bank Centre, I knew it’d be interesting.
And indeed it was – if I lived closer to London, there were three or four things I’d have liked to go and see. As it is, though, the big thing was that Massive Attack themselves would be doing two shows – one at the start of the festival, and one at the end. (as well as a remixing of the Blade Runner soundtrack with live orchestra, which I would’ve loved to see)
Tickets went on sale at 9am today – at which time I was, as mentioned below, in an interview. I doubt I could’ve got away with saying “Oh, can I start it a bit late, so I can try and get tickets for a concert“, so instead I just had to hope that all would be well.
As it turned out, I’ve been lucky – a ticket to the show at the end of the Festival is now mine! The start-up show is already sold out, but the finale should be a pretty good one too, so I’m happy.
I’m just wondering, how did Mark Ronson get ‘Best British Male’ at the Brits over the other non-entities nominees, Jamie T, Mika, Newton Faulkner, Richard Hawley ?
Now don’t get me wrong, I really like Ronson’s “Version” album for the most part – but he’s still more the producer/creator/rearranger than the performer. All the vocals are done by other singers, rather than by Ronson.
When all’s said and done, Mark Ronson is still “just” a DJ. And because of that, I don’t really understand how he’s “Best British Male”.
But maybe that’s just me.
The other day, I saw that Peter Gabriel was going to be doing a concert at Blickling Hall in Norfolk in July, thought “Great, must remember to get tickets for that when they go on sale”, then completely forgot about it. Typical.
Anyway, I remembered yesterday, and I’ve managed to get tickets still. Woo!
Of course, I’ve seen him live before (once or twice) but still, I’m already looking forward to seeing him again.
Even if it did mean buying tickets through fucking Ticketmaster. *sigh*
On the subject of the drive in this morning, I have to say (yet again) that for me, there’s just nothing like driving along with The The’s Mind Bomb album on the stereo.
I just love it.
You know, I’m beginning to think I’m cursed when it comes to gigs – particularly at Brixton Academy.
Last time I was supposed to go, to see Massive Attack, it snowed, and I didn’t go.
This time, I’m supposed to be going to see Nine Inch Nails next Wednesday, only I haven’t yet received the ticket from cunty fucking Ticketmaster. Yeah, sure, I’ve moved since I ordered the tickets, but I’ve also registered that change of address with the useless bastards, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
Yesterday it took me half an hour just to get to, fill in, and send the form to ask where my tickets are. I still haven’t heard back. Useless fuckers. The site has been ‘improved’ and now lags to chuff, blows up the browser, and is generally now just as broken as Ticketmaster’s ‘service’ in the first place. So I suppose that at least it’s representative…
So far, the odds of me seeing NIN are emphatically not good. I stand to be signally unimpressed…
