It Ended On An Oily Stage

After some careful consideration I think I'm going to shut the blog down. I really don't feel I can give it the time and effort I would like to (as has probably become apparent recently). It's also the fact that hardly anybody reads it and I really have no idea as to how to change this.

I don't think I'll delete it, as I can't quite bring myself to throw away all the work I did put into it, but consider this goodbye unless I have a sudden change of heart.

Thanks.

Recent Purchases

The other day I bought 2 albums from the Oxfam across the road for a grand total of £6.50. Hooray for charity shops!

They were:

stellastarr* - stellastarr*

Wanted this one for a while, but never really got around to it. Still, probably wouldn't have got it if it wasn't £1.50. Really like the three singles (Somewhere Across Forever, Jenny, My Coco). Hilariously I once saw them live and turned up halfway through the set. Luckily the first half seemed to have consisted of mostly tracks from the less-good second album.
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

I bought this so I coul see what all the fuss was about (even non-Manics fans seem to consider it the only decent album they've) and also, as a friend excellently put it (hi Pat), so that I can better argue with Manics fans (I'm not generally a fan of them), who will probably say I don't "know them" if I haven't heard The Holy Bible. From the couple of tracks I've heard it seems pretty good. Time will tell.


A week or so before then I bought "Live At The Witch Trials" by The Fall (absolutely great, I'll post about my love of The Fall soon) and "Floodland" by Sisters of Mercy, which I've been after for a while. Hilariously the wrong album was in the case so I had to return it. However I copied the other album onto my computer first, so I got them both. Haha! I win!

I've also got the new Magnetic Fields and British Sea Power albums on order, so I'll review them when they arrive.

Music Is My Boyfriend - Providing you with irrelevant comment intermittently since 2007.

Happy Nude Year!

I've listened to exactly 666 different songs on my iTunes. Spoooooooky!

Sorry for the massive, massive gap in posting recently. Now I've decided not to delete it after all and maybe to revamp it to breathe some life into it there will be much more of the self-depreciating humour and nerdish enthusiasm that all 4 of you know and love so much.

Here's to a blogtastic 2008!

Horatio