What are you listening to?

Cross your fingers - Laura Marling

Tonight there's been a growing crescendo coming through the open window of the sounds of the Vuvuzela.............seems like some bright spark entrepreneur in the Seven Sisters Road is knocking 'em out in the colours of your favourite nation ~ and around here that was always going to spell trouble.

Not unpleasant trouble, but exuberant displays of loyalty for the nations of the World Cup and personally, although I hate the sound of the bloody things;I find it a lovely example of the locality's tolerance of different cultures and of the very FACT that most of the competing nations enjoy a degree of support around these parts. I noticed too that the local Bangladeshi kids are rooting for Brazil AND England ~ if the evidence of them blowing two of the ruddy things at once is anything to go by!

[glow=red,2,300][glow=red,2,300][glow=red,2,300][glow=red,2,300]The Sophtware Slump is one of favourite albums and strangely enough I downloaded the new National album today. Although I've been listening to a new band called Delphic this evening[/glow].[/quote][/glow][/glow][/glow]

Damn this quote facility! Maybe Dave could PM me an idiots guide to quoting people!

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on the new National album. Whilst I am definitely enjoying it, I don't feel it improves on either Boxer or Alligator. Saw them at Koko a few years ago and, poor acoustics aside, loved them. Will check out Delphic.

Back on the Grandaddy subject, I was reading a heartwarming tale over the weekend about a Grandaddy talkscape forum rasing money for the lead singer's sister's cancer treatment.

Basically, she was diagnosed with a walnut sized brain tumor and was very seriously ill. As the family have little income, a fan decided to collate every one of the bands rarities, unrleased music, demo cassetes and all sorts of previously unavailable material.

The object was to turn everything into one big bundle and offer it to fans for a recommended donation. As the campaign went on, more and more fans came forward with little additions to add to the project and 1 year on since its launch, over $4,000 has been raised. Allowing for the fact that other than people's time and goodwill, this has cost nothing to produce, die-hard fans (such as myself, I ordered mine yesterday) have got a fantastic package while helping to raise funds for a very ill 'family member'

I truly belive this shows the power of the online community (like ours here) and I thought it was a touching story worth sharing here.

Jeremy

Yes looking at what you have done it sure is a bit of a mess, you have deleted the opening quote tag and added the glow three times and its only the words that should have got this treatment and not the quote tags as well ;D

I will send a PM later tonight to give you some help on this matter.

Dave

I have to be honest and say that I've never heard the new album or "Boxer" until today. I gave them a whirl on the strength of a mate's recommendation. I listened to the new album first. It's a bit Tindersticks meets Interpol meets a lot of dope and the Red House Painters. I don't mind it but I don't think I appreciate it now at this stage in my life as I would've done in my early twenties when I was miserable and poor. The Boxer album is better as it's just a bit more upbeat and melodic.

You should have seem what he used to be like, he is an angel these days compared to the merse of old, I call it the TFF effect, others have different names for it.