Here I am, sat in a pub writing my own obituary.
Kind of morbid, kind of kinky.
Point is that I haven't got the internet at home and for the foreseeable future don't intend on getting it. Be it for financial reasons or just a will to live in an "ascetic" environment, this makes writing my interweb blog well hard. So I've come to the hard decision of taking a break. Like a proper break. Concentrating on like other stuff. Don't know what other stuff. Maybe music in a not third-person "ooh I like this, and I like that" kind of way.
So this is it.
Maybe I'll start up later sometime. Who knows.
Anyhows.
Thanks and toodles
T-Bone the king of AndygoesdowntoChinatown-land
Saturday, 28 August 2010
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
More Dinosaurs (Dinosauruxia)
Ok so once upon a time there was Flow Festival right.
On the sunday, if you'd gone through all the trouble of waking up early aka. noon-ish you had the option of seeing two finnish artists that I'd been quietly anticipating.
Yona & Liikkuvat Pilvet or Dinosaruxia
Seeing as it was more of a laid back "family" day we opted for sitting outside in the sunshine and listening to Yona and her sort of Iskelmä-folk.
So yeah. We missed out on Dinosauruxia, who not only have a well cool name but also some cool tunes to go with the name.
Now the girls have got their 7" single Safe out in shops and the likes.
Sounds a wee bit Zola Jesus-ey
Oh and on Spotify too
The single has the MISF*TS remix on it too.
"Eerie"
On the sunday, if you'd gone through all the trouble of waking up early aka. noon-ish you had the option of seeing two finnish artists that I'd been quietly anticipating.
Yona & Liikkuvat Pilvet or Dinosaruxia
Seeing as it was more of a laid back "family" day we opted for sitting outside in the sunshine and listening to Yona and her sort of Iskelmä-folk.
So yeah. We missed out on Dinosauruxia, who not only have a well cool name but also some cool tunes to go with the name.
Now the girls have got their 7" single Safe out in shops and the likes.
Sounds a wee bit Zola Jesus-ey
Oh and on Spotify too
The single has the MISF*TS remix on it too.
"Eerie"
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are (were) amazing.
When I was a young boy I could literally name every dinosaur species that had ever existed, thanks to numerous weekly, fortnightly, monthly and annually arriving dinosaur publications.
In fact, dinosaurs were the reason I learned to read. Pictures of dinosaurs were all nice and that, but they weren't worth anything if I didn't know what was being said about the dinosaurs.
A while back. Maybe 2008. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEET for short) released a brilliant Go-Team-esque track called Bournemouth.
A friend of mine once laughed and exclaimed that he found it hard to believe "banging" could ever be used to describe anything about Bournemouth.
TEET released a new EP earlier this year. All In Two Sixty Dancehalls.
Here's some tunes from it.
Here's the EP on Spotify
When I was a young boy I could literally name every dinosaur species that had ever existed, thanks to numerous weekly, fortnightly, monthly and annually arriving dinosaur publications.
In fact, dinosaurs were the reason I learned to read. Pictures of dinosaurs were all nice and that, but they weren't worth anything if I didn't know what was being said about the dinosaurs.
A while back. Maybe 2008. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEET for short) released a brilliant Go-Team-esque track called Bournemouth.
A friend of mine once laughed and exclaimed that he found it hard to believe "banging" could ever be used to describe anything about Bournemouth.
TEET released a new EP earlier this year. All In Two Sixty Dancehalls.
Here's some tunes from it.
Here's the EP on Spotify
Thursday, 19 August 2010
How T-Bone moves on
Life is hard when you haven't got the internet.
Damn it. I just want to post some arbitrary posts about how my day's been or how my flowers are growing. Maybe even tell you my Wii Fit age.
Damn it, I can't do any of these things. So what I've been doing is listening to quite a bit of Four Tet and remembering how I "tore up" the dancefloor at his set last friday.
Brilliant.
Yes the weekend was good. But come on people, we gotta' move on!
The way I tend to move on is by attending auctions with my mum.
Oh yeah. We got there, ready to fend off the onslaught of granny bids and rightfully claim what was ours.
And you know what? We bid the shit out of the place.
Grannies had nothing to say after the authority of our bidding tones.
3 EURO! Wham-bam-thank-you-old-mam.
So now I've moved on. Thanks to a 3 euro battered-to-pieces violin.
I'll try to keep from talking about Flow Festival 2011 for the forseable future
laters
ps. got this today. It's a neighbour-friendly album from earlier on in the year, and a quite a good one at that.
Damn it. I just want to post some arbitrary posts about how my day's been or how my flowers are growing. Maybe even tell you my Wii Fit age.
Damn it, I can't do any of these things. So what I've been doing is listening to quite a bit of Four Tet and remembering how I "tore up" the dancefloor at his set last friday.
Brilliant.
Yes the weekend was good. But come on people, we gotta' move on!
The way I tend to move on is by attending auctions with my mum.
Oh yeah. We got there, ready to fend off the onslaught of granny bids and rightfully claim what was ours.
And you know what? We bid the shit out of the place.
Grannies had nothing to say after the authority of our bidding tones.
3 EURO! Wham-bam-thank-you-old-mam.
So now I've moved on. Thanks to a 3 euro battered-to-pieces violin.
I'll try to keep from talking about Flow Festival 2011 for the forseable future
laters
ps. got this today. It's a neighbour-friendly album from earlier on in the year, and a quite a good one at that.
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Lillica Libertine
Yesterday I was loathing myself for not going to see LCD Soundsystem and The Chemical Brothers at Flow's pre-festival. Drowning my sorrows by searching for new records to buy.
If there's one thing I've learned from all that Sex and the City that I never watched, it's that women go shopping when they're down. So there I was feeling like a non-fashionista cyber-online music version of Carrie Bradshaw going through various record labels' webpages desperate to find something to sink my teeth into, when BEHOLD! I see that Lillica Libertine had released a 12" EP on Meal Deal Records.
I used to "dig" Lillica Libertine a lot. This was roughly 3 years ago. Then I sort of forgot about him.
Seeing that name pop up again after so many years sparked a frantic search for his Loose Lips Sink Ships track, which I remembered being fucking amazing.
Couldn't find it so I just had to listen to all his other stuff.
I should probably elaborate and tell you that Lillica Libertine is a producer from Nottingham who makes very hard-hitting electro bangers. Not completely unlike the stuff I'd hear coming out of my ex-flatmate K's room when he used to play Bloody Beetroots on repeat.
You should listen to his myspace because the only video I could find to embed was his remix of Snow Patrol's Take Back The City
ROOM SERVICE by Lillica Libertine
ULTRA 10 by Lillica Libertine
Flow Festival starts up tomorrow and that's where you'll find me. If you see me say hello. If you don't see me. Well maybe next year then.
If you have trouble recognizing me, I'm very probably the guy in the front row with a huge grin on my face.
This is T-bone out for the weekend. Have a good one and I'll catch you next week!
If there's one thing I've learned from all that Sex and the City that I never watched, it's that women go shopping when they're down. So there I was feeling like a non-fashionista cyber-online music version of Carrie Bradshaw going through various record labels' webpages desperate to find something to sink my teeth into, when BEHOLD! I see that Lillica Libertine had released a 12" EP on Meal Deal Records.
I used to "dig" Lillica Libertine a lot. This was roughly 3 years ago. Then I sort of forgot about him.
Seeing that name pop up again after so many years sparked a frantic search for his Loose Lips Sink Ships track, which I remembered being fucking amazing.
Couldn't find it so I just had to listen to all his other stuff.
I should probably elaborate and tell you that Lillica Libertine is a producer from Nottingham who makes very hard-hitting electro bangers. Not completely unlike the stuff I'd hear coming out of my ex-flatmate K's room when he used to play Bloody Beetroots on repeat.
You should listen to his myspace because the only video I could find to embed was his remix of Snow Patrol's Take Back The City
ROOM SERVICE by Lillica Libertine
ULTRA 10 by Lillica Libertine
Flow Festival starts up tomorrow and that's where you'll find me. If you see me say hello. If you don't see me. Well maybe next year then.
If you have trouble recognizing me, I'm very probably the guy in the front row with a huge grin on my face.
This is T-bone out for the weekend. Have a good one and I'll catch you next week!
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Forest Swords
The postal service (not the music makers) has yet again excelled and brought me my copy of Forest Swords' Dagger Paths
My missus asked me what kind of music Forest Swords is. I told her Four Tet meets dubstep. That description isn't perhaps entirely correct. What I should have said is Burial goes forwards in time and becomes obsessed with some of the ancient lo-fi recordings of this day and age.
What's present on Dagger Paths is short vocal clips á la Burial, dark, brooding basslines and distant guitar lines forming together to make a haunting post-dubstep record.
Forest Swords aka. Matthew Barnes has also included his take on Aaliyah's If Your Girl Only Knew.
Here's the original if you were wondering how the two versions were different
If you hadn't heard of Forest Swords before and this post (unlikely) got you itching for more, but you're skint and can't buy his stuff then quickly get onto spotify and check out his new single Rattling Cage
Forest Swords - Rattling Cage on Spotify
Here's Glory Gongs to round off this post of amazing experimental folk step/dubtronica/psych-whateveronica
My missus asked me what kind of music Forest Swords is. I told her Four Tet meets dubstep. That description isn't perhaps entirely correct. What I should have said is Burial goes forwards in time and becomes obsessed with some of the ancient lo-fi recordings of this day and age.
What's present on Dagger Paths is short vocal clips á la Burial, dark, brooding basslines and distant guitar lines forming together to make a haunting post-dubstep record.
Forest Swords aka. Matthew Barnes has also included his take on Aaliyah's If Your Girl Only Knew.
Here's the original if you were wondering how the two versions were different
If you hadn't heard of Forest Swords before and this post (unlikely) got you itching for more, but you're skint and can't buy his stuff then quickly get onto spotify and check out his new single Rattling Cage
Forest Swords - Rattling Cage on Spotify
Here's Glory Gongs to round off this post of amazing experimental folk step/dubtronica/psych-whateveronica
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