Yo all! Just a quick message here to let you know that I do have some fairly incredible photos of the Mars Volta (from the Mars Volta gig) to post when I get a chance. I also should have some more Neil young ones too… I just have to get around to tweaking them slightly [...]
Following my escapades on Monday night involving an amazing Neil Young concert, here’s some sort of write up/review thingummy. The Edinburgh Playhouse is a pretty good venue for music if it’s the kind where you’re sitting down and well not moshing or dancing in an extreme fashion etc. Unlike many other venues in Scotland it [...]
On Monday evening I was at an absolutely amazing gig – Neil Young playing at Edinburgh Playhouse. He started with an acoustic first half playing some absolute classics – Ambulance Blues; and A Man Needs A Maid; among others. He then came back for the second half with Crazy Horse to play some serious rock/grunge. [...]
Though I am presently unable to update the small album of the week selection at the top right of the page (my Wordpress plug-in writing knowledge does not extend to such heights as writing user interfaces, or at least text boxes where one can insert the name of the album and a link to the picture. So I have to wait till I go home and am able to edit the actual plug-in file. Oh well…), I really do have a few ideas as what the next album of the week may be.
One of my last posts ended with me saying, ‘More on that another time…’
This time, I thought I should actually write more!
To start off, Shure are a brilliant company, I have nothing against them, and they make brilliant products. Not only in the microphone side of things – SM57 and SM58, two classic mics, but also with headphones.
I really really didn’t know what to think about this album when I first got it. Fair enough John Mayer is a superb guitarist, but I had got into him through listening to Continuum and not his earlier more Pop orientated works. In truth, I had got round to buying Heavier Things and Room For Squares, but I got them at the same time as this album so didn’t really give just one my attention. I also find listening to a live album when you don’t really know the artist’s music not great, especially so in this case, as the amount of long intros and extended solo parts, while very good, would not be of much interest to someone just getting into the artist.
Just to put everyone who sees this in a festive mood, I’ve included a picture my advent calendar. Isn’t it just so gratuitously childish!
I’m thinking up some interesting posts on UI and some also on ID (industrial design), I’m finding the design of these things pretty thrilling at the moment!
As the title might slightly suggest, yesterday was a pretty good day. Firstly there was the opening of the first Apple store in Scotland, in Glasgow on Buchanan Street. I was lucky enough to attend this, and wait in the queue and be one of the first to be in the store, obviously I wasn’t the first as I hadn’t been there since last night… but if that floats your boat! It was a pretty cool store though, they’d completely redone the building on the inside so it looked really immense with the glass stairs, granite tiled floor and open stone work on the walls which looked pretty cool!
Hmm, I look at this site when I log into it whenever (and where-ever) I write it and I think, “It would looks so much better if it was remotely consistent in the whole colour scheme of things. In fact, I have started changing the style sheet/theme for the ‘red’ theme as I have aptly named it and it should be appearing sometime in the next week! Oh well, I’ll just have to wait!
While I was away at T in the Park watching various artists, and having a brilliant time, there was Live Earth on in all continents. This also had some amazing artists, including Wolfmother, John Mayer, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (they only played one song though), Jack Johnson and many others. The great thing about this is that you are able to watch the concert online whenever and where-ever you want. This is really quite brilliant, as in my case I was away in the middle of a field, thus unable to watch it live on TV, so I watched all of the music that I thought looked good last night at my own freedom…