Happy news today! After wondering if Universal would ever get around to releasing a deluxe edition of ABBA’s debut album, Ring Ring, along comes news via the official ABBA website, abbasite.com, that just a version will be released on October 14 this year. It’s 40 years since the album Continue Reading
Music
Now this is music #9: My 5 favourite songs right now – Grouplove, The High Wire, Laura Welsh, Hot Chip, Icona Pop
Hark! What’s that’s sound? Why it’s five new gloriously good songs that I have come across recently on my travels through the virtual highways and byways of the internet, five songs that have lodged themselves in my earworm and refuse to be dislodged. So I am letting them stay Continue Reading
Prance around with John Mayer’s clip for new single “Paper Doll”
I don’t usually devote an entire post to just one music clip but as soon as I saw the video for John Mayer’s new single “Paper Doll” – which some sites such as Spin are speculating could be his response to two songs by ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s songs “22” Continue Reading
Music review: “Ice on the Dune” – Empire of the Sun
Oh the glorious sounds of shiny, happy, synth-washed musical excess. Sounding like the aural equivalent of a deep dive into a candy shop full of bright stripy candy canes, sugar0dusted jubes, and luminously colourful boiled lollies, Empire of the Sun’s Ice on the Dune summons the kind of joyful Continue Reading
Now this is music #8 – My 5 fave songs right now: Natasha Kmeto, Still Parade, Little Children, Zemmy, Röyksopp
It’s time for more amazing, stirring, captivating music! And this week we have chosen from a range of established artists and some artists just beginning to make their presence felt, and they’re all, naturally enough, iPod-worthy and then some! So slip on the headphones, power up the listening device Continue Reading
Now this is music #7: My 5 favourite songs of the week – Lindsey Stirling, Godwolf, Jagwar Ma, Emma Louise, Haerts
Much as I have loved my time in Eurovision-land, it is time to dive right back into the gloriously unceasing flow of music cascading past my ears on a daily basis. Some might all that new music a little overwhelming; I find it ridiculously exciting. a chance to discover new Continue Reading
That’s a wrap! A review of the Eurovision 2013 Grand Final
I seem to have lost something. I had it for years, it served me well, and unerringly came to my aid when I need it the most, usually in May every year. What is this mysterious something? (And no, it is not Andrius Pojavis from Lithuania thanks for asking.) Continue Reading
Done and dusted: Eurovision 2013 Semi-Final #2 review
This was a night for great surprises. Great big shiny, gaudy, oddly-sung prizes in Dracula-esque outfits no less. And frankly I was wholly unprepared for them. That may sound like an odd thing to say when I have spent week upon glitter-saturated week listening to, thinking about and pontificating Continue Reading
Done and dusted: Eurovision 2013 Semi-Final #1 review
This was the year that the gulf between what happens in the studio, and what happens under the bright lights, wind machines and pyrotechnic curtains of the main Eurovision stage, grew to abyss-like proportions (an abyss albeit decked out in shiny LED screens and surrounding by thousands of glowing Continue Reading
It’s official! Australia loves Eurovision
It’s hard to say if it is due to Australia’s welcome embrace of all the nationalities that make up the countries competing in The Eurovision Song Contest or simply our love of the quirky or the unusual, but something about this event has captured Australia’s attention, and quite possibly Continue Reading