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Portishead are good, aren’t they. Today I received in the post a vinyl copy of their debut full length album Dummy; you may have heard of it. I got it for a mere tenner, which came as a pleasant surprise to me as I thought new album hype would have worked up the average priceContinue reading

I have bought rather a lot of records recently, by which I mean those slabs of vinyl, as opposed to the synonymising many people use between the term ‘record’ and a full-length recording on any format. So far this year I have taken receipt of one hundred and forty-five records. But while my rate ofContinue reading

Dirty Sexy Money: initial thoughts

So the latest US hit drama to hit our screens comes executively produced by none other than Bryan Singer, the man behind The Usual Suspects (which I love) and X-(Men)2 (which I also love). He is also responsible for House and the American version of Footballers’ Wives, which we shall conveniently gloss over. It firstContinue reading “Dirty Sexy Money: initial thoughts”

smile!

That’s right! It’s a new Boris album. And a proper one too, not just another collaboration. I mean the collabs are good and all, but you can’t beat a good old new Boris album just by them. The last one was, ooh, in late 2005. Americans think Pink was 2006, but they are fools. ThatContinue reading “smile!”